WASHINGTON - ROBERT Furchgott, a Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide helped develop the anti-impotency drug Viagra, has died at the age of 92, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

HONOLULU - VOTING has ended in what is being touted as America's first all-digital election, and city officials say it has been a success.

Some 115,000 voters in Honolulu's neighbourhood council election were able to pick winners entirely online or via telephone. The voting, which started May 6, ended on Friday.

GREENVILLE (Maine) - 'BUDDY' the boa has a new home, after escaping from his cage at Greenville, Maine, High School, then getting away from the police.

The two-foot-(60-centimetre-)long boa constrictor disappeared on May 12, prompting a big search at the school. They even moved everything out of the room where Buddy lived, including an old computer printer.