Reuters - KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) -- A heavy-lift Ariane-5 rocket blasted-off from French Guiana late on Friday, putting into orbit three satellites in its fourth mission this year, space officials said.

AP - Scientists say the northern snakehead fish seems to be expanding in the Potomac River, which runs along West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.

Windows Media Player release skips a beat ZDNet - By Ina Fried, CNET News.com. Microsoft had hoped to release the final version of Windows Media Player 11 on Tuesday, but the company said the jukebox software was not quite sounding the right note.