SAN FRANCISCO - APPLE chief executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital and has 'an excellent prognosis', the hospital that performed the operation confirmed on Tuesday.
PARIS - HUGE geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be fed by a salty sea below its surface, boosting the odds of extraterrestrial life in our own Solar System, according to a study released Wednesday.
PARIS - STONE Age humans may have ripped raw meat from the bone with their teeth but they also played music, according to a study reporting the discovery of a 35,000-year-old flute, the oldest instrument known.
GENEVA - SHARKS, among the most endangered species of fish, are effectively unprotected in the world's oceans, the IUCN environmental organisation said on Thursday.
Its report urges governments to halt shark 'finning,' the slicing of fins from captured sharks which are then tipped back into the sea to die, which it says is a growing industry providing ingredients for the Asian delicacy, shark fin soup.
