Freak Lightning kills 16 highland cows A single lightning strike killed 16 cows as they sheltered under a tree at a farm in East Lothian in Scotland on 14th June.
The beef cattle were staying out of the rain at Saltoun Home Farm, near Pencaitland, on Sunday afternoon when lightning struck one of them.
It is thought the cow was standing in a puddle, and the water conducted the bolt to the other animals.
Wreck of HMS Victory 'recovered from Channel' The shipwrecked predecessor to Lord Nelson's HMS Victory, which is thought to contain millions of pounds' worth of gold, is thought to have been found at the bottom of the English Channel.
Naval historians have expressed concern that the British Government might be planning to "do a deal" with Odyssey over the contents of the wreck, which is officially a war grave and therefore inviolable in law.
Military canon of the type found on the 18th century shipwreck in the English channel by Odyssey Marine Exploration
Inspired by a visit to the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya, Brecon resident Gavin Hogg has sculpted the overgrown hedge around his garden into a herd of topiary elephants.
Gavin Hogg trims his topiary elephants in Brecon Wales
EMI loses £757m for Terra Firma EMI, the music company behind Coldplay and Katy Perry, made a loss of £757 million in the year it was acquired by Terra Firma, run by Guy Hands.
Sales of Norah Jones "Not Too Late" were disappointing for EMI in 2008
Novelist Tony Hillerman dies at 83 Tony Hillerman who has died at the age of 83 was a master story teller whose mystery novels invoked the spiritual traditions of the Navajo in modern detective novels featuring Navajo policeman Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn.
Poem for May 2009 "The wind is tossing the lilacs,
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.
Beneath the apple blossoms
I go a wintry way,
For love that smiled in April
Is false to me in May."
