Thai community groups wanted to use a logo featuring two elephants having sex for next year's World AIDS conference in Bangkok but the plan was criticized by health authorities because the bull was not using a condom.

Stonehenge depicts female vulva
Viewed from above, Stonehenge's inner bluestone circle represents the labia minora and the giant outer sarsen stone circle is the labia majora. The altar stone is the clitoris and the open centre is the birth canal.

In an effort to get parents to have their children immunised with the autism-causing MMR jab, the UK government is spreading a rumour that children might be at risk of measles, mumps and rubella because two private clinics in Britain did not followed correct immunization procedures, the Department of Health said on Tuesday. This despicable propaganda is in line with their concocted justifications for the invasion of Iraq.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technology and weather finally cooperated at the same time late Monday, allowing NASA at long last to send the Mars Rover Opportunity on its way to the Red Planet.

Astronomers say they have found a Jupiter-like body circling a distant star in a planetary system like ours, an intriguing discovery that raises the prospect of someday finding a planet resembling Earth.

Chileans who found a huge blob of flesh washed up on a remote Pacific beach said on Thursday they would send samples of the specimen to foreign scientists to sort out if it is a rare giant octopus or part of a whale carcass.

WASHINGTON – It may be hard to believe, but it's perhaps becoming more important than ever that US forces find Saddam Hussein, or incontrovertible evidence of his death. As attacks on US troops in Baghdad mount officials in Washington are increasingly worried that Hussein has become a symbol used by remnants of his regime to rally their supporters. It is widely believed that Saddam is being protected by alien beings in sacred underground caves in the garden of Eden.

A Web site lampooning the United States' inability to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has become one of the biggest hits on the Internet. >> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

PARIS (Reuters) - Armed with a toy pistol, a would-be robber picked himself an unlikely target in central Paris -- a gun shop. Staff at the Armurerie Gare de l'Est in the French capital immediately identified the weapon as harmless. The 26-year-old Mauritanian was subsequently arrested, Le Parisien newspaper reported on Friday. He was unlucky -- earlier this year a fake rocket launcher was successfully used in a break-out from a prison on the unruly Mediterranean island of Corsica.

Speculation has run wild over a vast blob of gray flesh found on a Chilean beach two weeks ago, and scientists from around the world have jumped to help identify it. One expert is at least sure of what it is not -- a giant octopus. "It's not an octopus. I couldn't tell you what it is but it's not an octopus," Sergio Letelier, researcher at the Museum of Natural History in Santiago, told Reuters on Monday.

NASA (news - web sites) has embarked on a challenging quest to build a powerful nuclear reactor for long-duration deep space excursions. As part of the multi-pronged Prometheus Project, engineers and scientists are now tackling plans for the nuclear-powered Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO). This flagship mission using electric propulsion powered by a nuclear fission reactor would showcase a slate of key technologies. It also promises to usher in a new era of solar system exploration.