CHICAGO, Jan.

A mysterious blue spiral light that appeared in the skies above Norway was likely the result of a failed test launch of a jinxed new Russian missile.

MOSCOW. Sept 20 (Interfax) - The Russian Natural Resources Ministry can strip Karelia of its right to manage its forest reserves and bring it back under federal jurisdiction.

ARKHANGELSK. Sept 6 (Interfax) - Alexei Barinov, a former governor of Russia's Nenets autonomous district and a former executive of an energy company, received a suspended sentence of three years' imprisonment on Thursday on charges of misuse of public funds and abusing his authority.

By Antcliffe, Jonathan B; Brasier, Martin D Charnia from the Ediacara biota is here examined in terms of its growth and development. The Ediacara biota comes from the critical period of evolution just before the Cambrian Explosion and is key to our understanding of the origin of animal life.