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The Iraqi newspaper Sada Al Watan says a unit of the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division captured Saddam Hussein, his son Qusay and his secretary Abid Hamid Mahmoud Tikriti in a farmhouse in Tikrit earlier this week, but U.S. Central Command only admits capturing the secretary. The newspaper says they were flown to an unknown destination for interrogation.

The Al Ra Al Aam newspaper in Kuwait quoted a U.S. official as saying that the U.S. wouldn’t have been able to keep Saddam’s capture a secret. Iraqi opposition sources say Saddam’s older son Uday has contacted the U.S. regarding terms of his surrender.
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Sixty descendents of the Hatfield and McCoy families, who waged Appalachia’s most famous feud, have signed a truce. At least a dozen people from both families were killed in over 100 years of fighting.

The whole thing started with an argument over a pig, and got worse during a battle over timber rights in the 1870s. The truce was the idea of Reo Hatfield of Waynesboro, VA. He says, “We’re not saying you don’t have to fight because sometimes you do have to fight. But you don’t have to fight forever.”
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Michael S. James writes for abcnews.com that the scotch you love to drink, your favorite shampoo, that watch you like to wear?all these and many other items you use and own could all be fakes. There are fake versions of almost everything for sale: auto parts, drugs, toys, cosmetics and even vintage wines, artwork and airplane parts. Author David M. Hopkins says, “It’s now possible to fake everything.”

He says, “It’s not just the contents. It’s the ability to fake the packaging. It’s the ability to fake the labels. In some cases, it’s certificates of authenticity. Everything is fake.”
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When you find the oldest tree in the world, what do you do??You clone it, of course. The gnarled and twisted Methuselah bristlecone pine, discovered in the California mountains, isn’t very pretty, but it is almost 5,000 years old, making it the oldest living tree on Earth. Its location is secret, so it doesn’t fall victim to souvenir hunters.
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