| Astronauts Can See 'Explosions And Rockets Flying Over Gaza And Israel'
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 With the death toll reaching over 600 in Gaza during an ongoing Israeli offensive, a German astronaut shared a picture from space of 'explosions and rockets' flying over the area. Alexander Gerst from the European Space Agency is currently working on the International Space Station and tweeted this image earlier today. My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel pic.twitter.com/jNGWxHilSy — Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex) July 23, 2014
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| Donald Sterling sues wife, NBA and commissioner
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 Donald Sterling has filed a new civil lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking damages from his wife, the NBA and NBA commissioner Adam Silver in their attempt to sell the the L.A. Clippers for $2 billion to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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| New York Community Could Stunt Growth to Delay SIFI Status
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 CEO Joe Ficalora says the thrift has ways it can buy time to announce a transformative acquisition or benefit from a change in the definition of what it requires to be a systemically important institution. With OneWest off the table, industry observers wonder if the thrift can find the deal it's been looking for.
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| French Magistrates Open UBS Money Laundering Probe
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 French magistrates have placed Swiss banking giant UBS AG under formal investigation for money laundering, widening an existing probe examining whether the bank helped rich French people evade taxes.
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| Butter Cow Has Competition: Butter Menagerie
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| Photograph by Gary Gardiner/Bloomberg A couple cools off with ice cream in front of a display of a butter cow and calf, made from 2,100 pounds of butter, at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, in this Aug. 3, 2006 file photo. Even better than the fried salad on a stick and funnel cakes on sale at the annual Iowa State Fair: The display of the legendary Butter Cow. This year, the theme is "Field of Dreams" - honoring the 25th anniversary of the Kevin Costner film which lives on in the field of tourists at the Lansing Family Farm in Dyersville, Iowa. The fair opens Aug. 7. And the Butter Cow will ride out the heat in a 40-degree cooler at the John Deere Agriculture Building. Sarah Pratt is hard at work sculpting this year's #ButterCow pic.twitter.com/MflkrFhpMU — Iowa State Fair (@IowaStateFair) July 22, 2014 Not to be outdone, the Ohio State Fair already underway with today's opening features a Butter Menagerie, a whole barnyard of sculpted butter Have you played the #ButterCowNameGame yet? Help us name the ...
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A couple cools off with ice cream in front of a display of a butter cow and calf, made from 2,100 pounds of butter, at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, in this Aug. 3, 2006 file photo.
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| NBA great LeBron James sends 800 cupcake apologies to hometown
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| NBA star LeBron James, whose recent return to the Cleveland Cavaliers in his home state of Ohio sparked a frenzy in the small town where he has a home, sent sweet apologies to...
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NBA basketball player LeBron James of the U.S. team Cleveland Cavaliers smiles during a promotional event in Hong Kong July 23, 2014. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
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| How honey bees stay cool
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 Honey bees, especially the young, are highly sensitive to temperature and to protect developing bees, adults work together to maintain temperatures within a narrow range. Recently published research led by Philip T. Starks, a biologist at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences, is the first to show that worker bees dissipate excess heat within a hive in process similar to how humans and other mammals cool themselves through their blood vessels and skin.
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