WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking for a job? NASA is hiring astronauts. You can even apply online at a giant government jobs website. There is only one hitch: NASA does not have its own spaceship anymore and is sending fewer fliers into orbit right now. "The experience is well worth the wait," promised NASA flight crew operations director Janet Kavandi as the space agency started a public search Tuesda...

Sydney (dpa) - A homesick cat walked 3,000 kilometers from far northern Australia to the other end of the continent to be re-united with her sibling, according to news report Tuesday. That is the barely credible story from Sheree Gale, the owner of transcontinental tabby Jessie, who took 15 months to make the great trek from a farm near Darwin back to a homestead near Adelaide. "I've heard too ...

The small cell concealed in a bombed-out villa is dusty now, has no electricity, and its door and toilet are gone, bound for a US museum. But it once held Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. There is no graffiti on the cell's white walls, no remnants of the once-feared dictator's presence. The narrow concrete platform that held his mattress is empty, and only a few pipes and an outline remain of th...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena dropped out of Sunday's New York City Marathon at the 11-mile mark. Pena entered Sunday's 26.2-mile event again following a difficult year that included a hospitalization in Santiago for psychological problems and reported drug and alcohol issues. He finished the Tokyo Marathon in February, but his recent training had dropped to 45 minutes a day...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ The revolution will be trademarked and put on T-shirts if an increasing number of entrepreneurs succeed in their attempts to profit from the Occupy demonstrations. A few T-shirts began to appear several days after the first protest began on Sept. 17 with a march through the streets of lower Manhattan. Now, T-shirts, coffee mugs and other merchandise emblazoned with Occupy l...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Persons claiming to be with the Mexican arm of "hacktivist" group Anonymous said Friday they were scrapping plans to expose information about the Zetas drug cartel after a kidnap victim was released. Twitter messages from the accounts @anonhispano and @IberoAnon said the Anonymous activist kidnapped in the eastern city of Veracruz was freed ahead of a November 5 deadline set ...