AP Interview: Foley breaks silence on sex scandal

Even today, two years after Mark Foley’s very public fall from grace, the former congressman can’t explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages. Sitting in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York this week, the Florida Republican, wearing a yellow tie [...] "eliotcobb.com"

Nasa says its Phoenix lander on the surface of Mars has gone silent and is almost certainly dead. Engineers have not heard from the craft since Sunday 2 November when it made a brief communication with Earth. Phoenix, which landed on the planet’s northern plains in May, had been struggling in the increasing cold and dark of [...] "eliotcobb.com"

One of Dubai’s most popular beach hotels has issued guests with an “etiquette guide” after two Britons were convicted for having sex on the beach near the hotel.The Burj Al Arab Hotel Dubai - with the moated and beachside Madinat Jumeirah hotel behind The etiquette guides, which suggest the hotel’s guests could be arrested for inappropriate [...] "eliotcobb.com"

Many overweight children and teenagers could have severe cardiovascular disease in their 20s and 30s, causing a healthcare crisis. Early identification of the problem is a key.The arteries of many obese children and teenagers are as thick and stiff as those of 45-year-olds, a sign that such children could have severe cardiovascular disease at a [...] "eliotcobb.com"

Iran said it test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface missile on Wednesday and that the Islamic Republic was ready to defend itself against any attacker. Iran’s latest missile test followed persistent speculation in recent months of possible U.S. or Israeli strikes against its nuclear facilities, which the West suspects form part of a covert atomic weapons [...] "eliotcobb.com"

An Israeli soldier got three weeks in the slammer for yawning during a ceremony this week to mark the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, his mother said. The concerned woman said her son yawned “without covering his mouth” while the commander of his air force base in the north of the country was speaking during [...] "eliotcobb.com"