Syriska rebeller gick i dag till attack mot staden Aleppos centralfängelse, som kontrolleras av regimen.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "If you give a mouse a cookie, you can spend all day following it around the house while it wants to do a bunch of tedious activities. Or, you can trap it in a box, keep feeding it cookies, and then make the outrageous claim that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine. Students at Connecticut College opted for the second option, and the consequences that ensued were much more annoying than making some arts and crafts with a darn mouse. Fox News reported that a 'College study finds Oreo cookies are as addictive as drugs,' Forbes explained 'Why Your Brain Treats Oreos Like a Drug,' and a ton of other sites ran with the story as well. Here's how the experiment, which has not been peer reviewed and has not been presented yet, went down. Mice were placed in a maze, with one end holding an Oreo and the other end holding a rice cake. The mice, without fail, decided to eat the Oreo over the rice cake, proving once and for all that mice like cookies better than tasteless discs with a styrofoamy texture."

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Frankrikes högsta appellationsdomstol har fastställt en dom.

Det nederländska flygbolaget Transavia ställer in sina flygningar under de kommande två veckorna till den populära turistorten Sharm el-Sheikh i Egypten.

En ung man knivskars på en buss i Upplands Väsby norr om Stockholm i kväll.

Krokodilen som hittades i ett växthus i Malmö riskerar nu att avlivas om ingen djurpark kan ta emot den.

Zothecula writes "Explorers have mapped the surface of the iconic Matterhorn painstakingly by foot, by satellite, and now by drone, thanks to a partnership between drone maker senseFly and nonprofit Drone Adventures. Launching a small squadron of eBee minidrones off the summit and sides of the famous Alps mountaintop, the mission tested the navigational abilities of the system and created a staggering data-rich 3D model."

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Nabil Fahmy says Washington was wrong to reduce military aid to Egypt following deadly crackdown on Morsi supporters.

Maltesisk militär räddade i dag 75 migranter från havets vågor efter att deras båt kapsejsat i hårt väder.

En man fastade under en mycket stor och kraftig hangardörr på Midlanda i eftermiddags.

En man smygfilmade en kvinna och hennes son i duschen på en camping i Halland i somras.

mdsolar sends this news from the Associated Press: "The number of safety violations at U.S. nuclear power plants varies dramatically from region to region, pointing to inconsistent enforcement in an industry now operating mostly beyond its original 40-year licenses, according to a congressional study awaiting release. Nuclear Regulatory Commission figures cited in the Government Accountability Office report show that while the West has the fewest reactors, it had the most lower-level violations from 2000 to 2012 — more than 2½ times the Southeast's rate per reactor. The Southeast, with the most reactors of the NRC's four regions, had the fewest such violations, according to the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. The striking variations do not appear to reflect real differences in reactor performance. Instead, the report says, the differences suggest that regulators interpret rules and guidelines differently among regions, perhaps because lower-level violations get limited review."

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