“A British couple was sentenced to three months in jail Thursday in a case that has caused controversy in this Gulf boom town because the two were charged with having sex on the beach.”

“Airport security found a jar of pasta sauce in my luggage last month. . . . And to demonstrate how dangerous he really thought that jar was, he blithely tossed it in a nearby bin of similar liquid bottles and sent me on my way.”

“It didn’t just have protolimbs, it had a mobile neck as well. More details have emerged about the anatomy of Tiktaalik, the ‘fishopod’ that bridges the gap in evolutionary history between swimming fish and four-legged land-dwelling animals.”

“A gunfight broke out Wednesday between Thai and Cambodian troops at a disputed border zone near a landmark 11th-century temple, killing two Cambodian soldiers and escalating a conflict that has raised fears of war between the neighboring countries.”

“A beached whale has died in Malaysia after swallowing a plastic bag, a rope and a bottle cap, a marine researcher said Wednesday.”

“If all hospitals performed as 5-star facilities, as ranked by an independent healthcare ratings company, 237,420 U.S. Medicare patient deaths could have been prevented between 2005 and 2007.”

An Arab Israeli citizen who drove on Yom Kippur was arrested “for reckless endangerment and harming religious sensitivities.” Presumably, the reckless endangerment was because he angered right-wing Israelis and set off four days of rioting.

“The European Union aims to launch a planned air and naval force in December to combat piracy threatening sea lanes off Somalia, the bloc’s foreign policy chief said Tuesday.”

“In a Nairobi slum, more than one in four children under 5 will die, but in a wealthier part of the Kenyan capital, the mortality rate is one in almost 67, according to a World Health Organization report released Tuesday.”