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Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain

MADRID (AFP) - The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said Thursday.

Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain (AFP)

MADRID (AFP) - The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in

Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain

This undated photo shows an insect enclosed in an amber discovered by scientists of the Universities of Jena and Rostock in 2005. The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have ...

Red Hat Numbers Up

Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11% sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially. Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.

Red Hat Numbers Up

Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11% sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially. Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.

Red Hat Numbers Up

Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11% sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially. Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.

Priceline.com Bookings Up 70 Percent

Priceline.com reported that its gross travel bookings for the 2nd quarter, which refers to the total dollar value, inclusive of all taxes and fees, of all travel services purchased by consumers, rose 70.9 percent year-over-year to $2.1 billion. Priceline.com had GAAP revenues in the 2nd quarter of $514.0 million, a 44.4 percent increase over a year ago. The company's international operations contributed revenues in the 2nd quarter of $164.5 million, an 82.0 percent increase versus a year ago. GAAP gross profit for the 2nd quarter was $253.7 million, a 61.4 percent increase from the prior year. Priceline.com had GAAP net income for the 2nd quarter of $54.1 million or $1.08 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $34.6 million or $0.

Midway Loses $34.8 Million in Q2

Midway Games today announced its second-quarter fiscal results for the period ended June 30. Net revenues fell from $31.8 million last year at this time to $23.4 million, but the total did exceed Midway's prior guidance of $18 million. The publisher suffered a net loss of $34.8 million for the quarter, more than double last year's $14.3 million. Looking at the entire first half, net loss is an even uglier almost $69 million.

Mad Catz Scratches Together $3.2 Million in Annual P

Video game accessories manufacturer Mad Catz today revealed its fourth quarter and full-year earnings for the period ended March 31. Sales in the fourth quarter were up over 13 percent to $21.9 million while net loss amounted to $0.8 million. For the entire year, however, net sales were $87.6 million (down over 12 percent) and Mad Catz posted a net income of $3.2 million, down slightly from the previous year's $3.7 million.

NBTY muscles up Q3 web sales

In the third quarter NBTY’s web sales rose by 35% to $24.7 million from $18.3 million in the prior year. In comparison, same-store sales in North America declined by 6% while total revenue grew by 6.4% to $535 million for the third quarter ended June 30 from $503 million in the prior year. Net income declined to $46 million in the third quarter from $51 million in the prior year.

Two-ton, 500 Million-year-old Fossil Of Stromatolite Discovered In Virginia, U.S.

Virginia Museum of Natural History scientists have confirmed that an approximately 500 million-year-old stromatolite was recently discovered at the Boxley Blue Ridge Quarry near Roanoke, Virginia. This specimen is the first-ever intact stromatolite head found in Virginia, and is one of the largest complete “heads� in the world, at over 5 feet in diameter and weighing over 2 tons.

And finally, 100 million-year-old galactic mystery solved by Hubble

Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Perseus cluster of stars have helped scientists to solve a 100 million-year-old mystery of how giant structures in deep space are prevented from disintegrating. The spectacular pictures show vast, thread-like "filaments" of gas which emerge from the centre of a galaxy known as NGC 1275, situated some 235 million light years away from Earth.

70-million year old fossil found in a rock

The fossilised bones of a tarbosaurus, which lived 70 million years ago, is shown embedded in the rock it was found in. Researchers unveiled the nearly perfectly-preserved fossil in Japan.

Priceline.com Reports Financial Results for 2nd Quarter 2008

Gross travel bookings increase 71% year over year; International gross travel bookings grow 80%, Domestic gross travel bookings grow 59% NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Priceline.com Incorporated(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN) today reported its financial results for the 2nd quarter 2008. Gross travel bookings for the 2nd quarter, which refers to the total dollar value, inclusive of all taxes and fees, of all travel services purchased by consumers, rose 70.9% year-over-year to $2.1 billion. Priceline.com had GAAP revenues in the 2nd quarter of $514.0 million, a 44.4% increase over a year ago. The Company's international operations contributed revenues in the 2nd quarter of $164.5 million, an 82.0% increase versus a year ago. GAAP gross profit for the 2nd quarter was $253.

Tandy Leather retail business is fairly solid in July

Tandy Leather Factory Inc reported that sales for the month of July were $4.2 million compared to $4.3 million in July 2007, down 2%. Year to date sales are down 3% at $31.4 million in the current year from $32.3 million last year. Tandy's UK store, which opened in mid-February, reported July sales of $89,000 and $326,000 year-to-date.

Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. Reports July Sales Down 2% Against July 2007

FORT WORTH, Texas (Business Wire) -- Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. (AMEX: TLF) reported today that sales for the month of July were $4.2 million compared to $4.3 million in July 2007, down 2%. Year to date sales are down 3% at $31.4 million in the current year from $32.3 million last year. Tandy's UK store, which opened in mid-February, reported July sales of $89,000 and $326,000 year-to-date.

Antarctica Once Abutted Death Valley

Science News has a story of strange bedfellows. It seems that Antarctica was once adjacent to what is now the American Southwest, some 800 million years ago. Earth's continents then formed a supercontinent called Rodinia, predating Pangaea by some 550 million years. "...the ratios of neodymium isotopes in the ancient sediments in the Transantarctic Mountains are the same as those in what was then Laurentia, says Goodge. Also, the hafnium isotope ratios in the 1.44-billion-year-old zircons found in East Antarctica match those of the zircons found in the distinctive granites now found primarily in North America. Finally, the researchers note, the ratios of various isotopes and elements in a basketball-sized chunk of granite found in East Antarctica — a chunk ripped by a glacier from bedrock now smothered by thick ice, the team speculates

When 22-year-old music student Joanna Brehany joined an after-college choir, little did she know it would lead to singing in front of seven million viewers on national TV. Joanna, whose >

When 22-year-old music student Joanna Brehany joined an after-college choir, little did she know it would lead to singing in front of seven million viewers on national TV.

2.5 Million-Year-Old Mastodon Unearthed in Romania

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Miners in Romania have unearthed the skeleton of a 2.5 million-year-old mastodon, believed to be one of the best preserved in Europe, a local official said Friday.

AMD to take $758 million charge for Q2

Today AMD announced it will take $948 million in charges for Q2, the news has sent AMD's stock below $5. The bulk of the charges ($880 million) came from the continuing decline in goodwill value of their ATI acquisition, more specifically ATI's DTV/handheld unit. If you recall last year AMD took a $1.6 billion dollar hit because of this. An additional $32 million charge is going towards severance packages for employees who were laid off earlier this year, while the final $36 million is associated with a decline in value of securities as well as AMD's Spansion stock.

No run-of-the-mill row of marble heads, the British Museum opens a new exhibition that reveals the colossal statue head of Emperor Hadrian found in Turkey last year and a lesson on todays modern crisis as old as two millennia. Historians and art c

No run-of-the-mill row of marble heads, the British Museum opens a new exhibition that reveals the colossal statue head of Emperor Hadrian found in Turkey last year – and a lesson on today’s modern crisis as old as two millennia. Historians and art critics are hailing the exhibit as the unseen side of Hadrian – a man who changed the world as few men have

75 million year old dinosaur bones found

A team of Canadian palaeontologists has uncovered a site where, maybe 75 million years ago, a Tyrannosaur tucked into a Hadrosaur and lost several teeth in the course of its meal.

61-year-old travels on son's passport

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A 61-year-old man checked in, passed Singapore immigration control and flew to Vietnam on holiday using his 39-year-old son's passport, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Girl, 9, 'robbed at knifepoint by 10-year-old boy trying to steal her games console'

A 10-year-old boy allegedly pulled a knife on a nine-year-old girl after she refused to give up her games console.

Girl, 9, 'robbed at knifepoint by 10-year-old boy trying to steal her games console'

A 10-year-old boy allegedly pulled a knife on a nine-year-old girl after she refused to give up her games console.

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