SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- University of California-Davis professor James Murray knows his experiments with human genes and goats give some people the creeps.

AMSTETTEN, Austria -- The sister-in-law of an Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a dingy dungeon and fathering seven children with her said he treated his family like a "tyrant."

Today is Monday, May 5, the 126th day of 2008. There are 240 days left in the year.

SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA, Bolivia -- While sporadic street battles erupted, voters in this divided country's richest and second most-populous province appeared to approve a controversial measure Sunday that would make them autonomous from the leftist government of President Evo Morales.

DAMASCUS, Ark. -- Smoke rose from burning heaps of wreckage Saturday as residents of rural Arkansas cleaned up what was left of their homes after deadly tornadoes scoured a state that has been plagued by severe weather this year.

CHAITEN, Chile -- The Chaiten volcano spewed light ash on a nearly deserted village Saturday, two days after its first eruption in thousands of years.

BEIJING -- China's Health Ministry ordered heightened efforts to stem the spread of infectious diseases Saturday following an outbreak of a virus that has caused the deaths of 22 children in one city and is spreading.

BAGHDAD -- Rule number 1: No running. Rule number 2: You better gallop. Rule number 3: If you are caught running, you will be penalized.

BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military fired guided missiles into the heart of Baghdad's teeming Sadr City slum on Saturday, leveling a building 55 yards away from a hospital and wounding nearly two dozen people.

JERUSALEM -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday she will ask Israel to remove more physical barriers erected in the West Bank as a bulwark against Palestinian militants.

FAIRPLAY, Colo. -- This is not a place where buffalo are welcome to roam.

JUNEAU, Alaska -- The results of Gov. Sarah Palin's prenatal testing were in, and the doctor's tone was ominous: "You need to come to the office so we can talk about it."