A holidaymaker managed to take a seven-inch knife on board a plane, moments after his 13-year-old daughter had a bottle of fizzy drink confiscated by security staff.
Read more…

LONDON (Reuters) - Europe’s first regular passenger train service powered by bio-fuel set off on its maiden journey across Britain on Thursday with prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown hailing the launch for helping to combat global warming.
Read more…

PARISHEV, Ukraine (AP) - Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching.
Read more…

ATLANTA — A divorced couple is feuding over tickets to see the Atlanta Braves.

Elizabeth King, a psychologist, accuses her ex, Charles Center, a lawyer, of breaking their 2002 divorce agreement to divide the four tickets they had shared behind home plate.
Read more…

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.

The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros ($1.35-$2).
Read more…

BEIJING - Dance classes soon will be mandatory for Chinese elementary and secondary students because of worries about increased obesity, state media reported Tuesday.

The China Daily said in a front-page story that the dance classes - “to suit the physical and psychological characteristics of students at all ages” - will become compulsory from Sept. 1, quoting a notice from the Education Ministry.
Read more…

Brian Conant stood alongside his fellow National Guardsmen during a training session about eight years ago in Hawaii. He was wearing a heavy chemical warfare suit lined with charcoal.

“Any time I expelled gas in the suit, I realized nobody could smell it,” Conant, 48, says. “It was amazing.”
Read more…