A suburban couple who spent five years trying to conceive has turned to MySpace.com in search of birth parents so they can adopt a child.
Sherry and Karl Dittmar already have a biological son and two adopted sons, but they also want a little girl.
“Dear birthmother,” their MySpace posting begins. “We cannot imagine how difficult making [...]

The warnings are rather chilling. Around 2,000 islands will disappear from Indonesia’s map due to rising sea levels.
All coastal cities, towns and residential areas will be submerged.
Wild animals, particularly endangered ones, will vanish. Floods, landslides, typhoons and tornadoes will become regular events and diseases will plague people around the world.
Most Indonesians, however, seem unaware of [...]

On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. (Go to article.)
1707 The Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.
1786 Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro” premiered in Vienna.
1931 The 102-story Empire State [...]