Reuters - Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet.

AFP - Feelings of loss, worrying about work and generally feeling sluggish? Call it the Olympic Syndrome.

AFP - Malaysian robbers ran off with a bag of cakes instead of 1.9 million ringgit (560,000 dollars) in cash, in a botched heist that left a money changer shot and wounded, reports said Wednesday.

AFP - Campaigners in Poland, a staunch ally of Georgia, Tuesday urged their compatriots to glug down Georgian wine and mineral water to show their support for Tbilisi in its conflict with Russia.

Reuters - Grazing cattle and sleeping deer tend to align their bodies along the North-South axis of the Earth's magnetic field, European researchers said on Monday, giving new meaning to the phrase animal magnetism. Herdsmen and hunters have long known that cattle and sheep tend to face the same direction when grazing, but had believed they were simply positioning themselves according to prevailing winds or the sun's rays.