The World - March 11, 2010

THURSDAY

A multi-national study published in the journal Science concluded a 9-mile wide asteroid smashing into Earth at Chicxulub, Mexico, is the only plausible explanation for extinction of the dinosaurs. The asteroid is thought to have hit Earth with a force a billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

An Israeli soldier was “unfriended” by the nation’s army after posting details of an impending West Bank raid on his Facebook page, causing abortion of the mission.

Police in Odessa, Texas, went on a wild 30-minute chase throughout town in search of a lone roaming goat. It...