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Acupuncturist Claire McManus watches a pair of sea turtles, who are recovering from a stranding, swim at the New England Aquarium's animal car center in Quincy, Mass., Monday May 20, 2013. McManus treated two sea turtles, not the two pictured, who were injured after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a prolonged exposure to cold weather. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)

Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild — from an acupuncturist. Dexter and Fletcher Moon, juvenile Kemp's Ridley sea turtles, remained calm as acupuncturist Claire McManus gently ...

  • Updated: 1:12 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Britain's Prince Charles, center left, and his son Prince William, center right, are shown items made from endangered animals, which had been confiscated by customs officers, during a conference on the illegal wildlife trade, at Clarence House, London, Tuesday May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Winning, Pool)

Prince William joins father in conservation plea

Britain's Prince William has joined his father Prince Charles in urging global action to tackle the illegal poaching of wild animals. William told a conservation conference at London's St. James's Palace that he is calling on his charity, the Royal Foundation, to engage young people in the cause. The conference ...

  • Updated: 8:53 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Kohler ordered to pay $9.6 million in patent suit

The Kohler Co. has been ordered in federal court to pay $9.6 million to a Massachusetts manufacturer for infringing on two of its patents for components that reduce exhaust emissions in marine generators. Jurors in U.S. District Court in Boston last week found Kohler willfully infringed on the patents issued ...

  • Updated: 8:38 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
FOR STORY SLUGGED FRANCE SHRINKING ECONOMY - FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, French Minister for Industrial Recovery Arnaud Montebourg delivers a speech after meeting workers and trade union representatives of ArcelorMittal, in Florange, northeast France. The 50-year old lawyer Montebourg, is the man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest in the country, but according to some analysts he is fast gaining a reputation for doing the opposite, as public spats with international companies, and efforts to block employee layoffs are being seen as the epitome of what is wrong with the French economy. (AP Photo/Mathieu Cugnot, File)

Does France have right plan to revive its economy?

The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite. As the country's first-ever minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg has told the world's largest steelmaker it is not welcome in France; exchanged angry letters with the head ...

  • Updated: 12:12 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

New rice contamination reported in China

Authorities are investigating rice mills in southern China following tests that found almost half of the staple grain in one of the country's largest cities was contaminated with a toxic metal. The mills in Hunan province's Youxian county were ordered to suspend business and recall their products after samples showed ...

  • Updated: 6:02 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Raw: Aussie Zoo Shows Off White Rhino Calf

Raw: Aussie Zoo Shows Off White Rhino Calf

A zoo in Dubbo, Australia has showed off its latest addition - a male white rhino calf, weighing about 110 lbs. Officials say the calf is important to the area's breeding program, especially since poaching is on the rise in Africa. (May 2...

  • 2:40 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild — from an acupuncturist. Dexter and Fletcher Moon, juvenile Kemp's Ridley sea turtles, remained calm as acupuncturist Claire McManus gently ...

  • Updated: 2:17 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy

Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run lodging first be reviewed by National Park Service officials. The report released by the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General found that park ...

  • Updated: 9:11 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013

Judge tosses ex-BP executive's obstruction charge

A federal judge has dismissed a charge that is the backbone of the case against a former BP executive accused of concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil spewing in 2010 from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Defense attorney Reid Weingarten called it a ...

  • Updated: 5:37 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
FILE - This March 4, 2004 file photo shows a Santa Cruz Island fox bred in captivity being held by a wildlife biologist for the National Park Service, on Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park, Calif. More than a thousand tiny island foxes live free on the largest of the Channel Islands off the Southern California coastline where less than a decade ago only a few dozen remained. The rapid turnaround in the population of the fox native to this island, which is also a national park, comes after years of intense intervention from biologists who toiled to stop an unnatural ecological cycle that involved three different species. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Rare island fox rebounds on California islands

A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday. The population of the fox dropped to an all-time low of just 70 animals on Santa Cruz Island in ...

  • Updated: 4:29 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
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