Quoted: Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before coming back, a study says.

the internets made me do it

Quoted: An Australian farmer kidnapped in Mali after falling for an internet scam tells the BBC about his ordeal.

Uh oh.

Quoted: Fighting breaks out close to the Somali interim government base in Baidoa, during an EU envoy's peace mission.

Crater California.

Quoted: The chief scientist on Nasa's Mars rover mission contemplates whether to send Opportunity into a crater with no escape route.

redotting to read later. genocide and guilt, always interesting topics. which is why cambodia, rwanda, and to some extent south africa, are so fascinating.

Quoted: BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell talks to Armenians in Turkey and asks why 90-year-old massacres are still such a sensitive subject.

Good BBC overview of the "cheery coup".

Quoted: Well, they didn't just tolerate it, they welcomed it with open arms. Mr Thaksin was the most popular political leader in recent Thai history, the first to win an outright majority in parliament. And yet the troops who had forced him out were cheered and festooned with flowers. What on earth was going on?

Wonderful... fail to clear out your old computer and it ends up in Nigeria where of course they scrape it for financial information.

Classic.

Quoted: The bank details of Britons are being accessed from old PCs sent to Nigeria, the BBC's Real Story programme discovers.