The World

THURSDAY

Researchers at Cornell University slowed down time long enough to hide an event for 40 trillionths of a second. Using beams of light, the researchers flashed a red beam into a green beam for a fraction of a second. But the red beam could not be detected. They said a beam of light 18,600 miles long would be needed to hide a complete second.

Police in Texas shot and killed an eighth-grade boy in the hallway of his middle school after he reportedly refused to lower a pellet gun and respond to police orders. Two officers fired three shots, hitting the boy at least twice.

An Albequerque couple found their $4,500 wedding ring inside the stomach of their 10-month old basset hound, Coraline, who has a penchant for eating rocks.

FRIDAY

Days after Iranian leaders warned the U.S. to keep its ships out of the Persian Gulf, a U.S. navy aircraft carrier rescued an Iranian fishing boat that had been comandeered by Somali pirates.

Royal Dutch Shell resumed production at a 200,000-barrel-a-day oil field after containing a 40,000-barrell spill in its Bonga deep water oil field in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nigeria.

Ole, a Welsh corgi feared dead after he was swept away in a weekend avalnche in Montana, showed up at the Cooke City motel room his owners had stayed the night before going backcountry skiing four miles from the avalanche site.

WEEKEND

The E.P.A. reversed its decision to deliver fresh water to residents of the Pennsylvania village of Dimock, where wells had been tainted by a natural gas drilling operation. Eleven families who sued Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. expected water from the EPA to arrive either Friday or Saturday.

The federal definition of rape was expanded to count men as victims for the first time and drops the requirement that victims must have physically resisted their attackers.

American pop royalty grew as Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed a new baby girl, Blue Ivy Carter, in a New York hospital Saturday night.

A study from Portland State University found Mount Adams’ 12 glaciers have shrunk by nearly half since 1904 and are receding faster than those of nearby sister volcanoes Mount Hood and Mount Rainier.

A Fayette County, Penn., jury cleared 67-year-old Alberta Kelley of drug possession and manufacture charges. Investigators found seven well-cultivated, four-foot marijuana plants behind her home. Kelly said she simply tossed a handful of seeds into her garden after a bearded stranger gave them to her.

A hot air balloon carrying 11 people turned into a fireball after hitting power lines in a rural area of New Zealand, killing everyone aboard and horrifying residents.

MONDAY

While health care spending grew in the U.S. by $8,402 per person in 2010, the year was the first in a decade which saw no growth in health care spending’s percentage of the economy. The $2.6 trillion spent on health care is 17.9 percent of the GDP.

Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop, 30, was in jail in Madison, Wisc., after authorities arrested him for excessive drinking and drug use at a park. Mr. Zopittybop-Bop-Bop changed his name from Jeffrey Drew Wilschke in October.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will close 259 domestic offices and labs in an effort to save $150 million a year.

Behind the five field goals of kickers Jeremy Shelley and Cade Foster, the University of Alabama used a suffocating defense to blank Louisiana State University 21-0 and claim the NCAA football championship.

TSA officials defended workers who confiscated a frosted cupcake from a woman flying out of Las Vegas’ McCarren Airport. The woman carried on the cupcake, which was packed in a jar filled with icing. Icing is considered a gel, material a terrorist could use to make a bomb.

TUESDAY

Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire Republican Presidential primary to back up his win in Iowa last week. Ron Paul posted a strong second place, with Jon Huntsman third.

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter rescued six Iranian mariners from a vessel in distress in the Persian Gulf.

A 21-pound meteorite that landed in Siberia in the 1940s and was recently stolen from the University of New Mexico was located after a Missouri man bought it for $1,700. It’s worth between $20,000 and $40,000. The rock was once part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

A rare Roman cavalry helmet from Emperor Claudius’ invasion of Britain 2,000 years ago was unveiled after a decade of restoration. It was initially thought to be a rusty old bucket when found in the excavation of an Iron Age shrine 10 years ago.

WEDNESDAY

Iranian officials said a bomb stuck to a car by a passing motorcyclist killed one of its top nuclear scientists. The nation blamed Israel for the attack.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.