Breaking News - August 11

(PLEASE NOTE: The Bus Driver is off to New Brunswick to watch his sister get married. The Bus should be rolling again sometime late Monday night...Canuck time....you know, which is about two Timbits to 10, eh.)

'Calm down and go home, please,' father of man killed in Britain urges (CNN) 

(The deaths of three men who residents say were mowed down by a car while protecting businesses from looters have heightened fears in Britain's second largest city. Jittery residents said they peer over their shoulders as they scuttle down the streets. Businesses that remained opened all night close at the first sign of darkness. And the distraught father of one of the victims, who tried desperately to revive his dying son, appealed for calm.)

FDA Approves New Once-Daily HIV Drug (FOX NEWS) 

(Regulators approved a once-daily HIV pill by Gilead Sciences Inc, giving a new source of revenue to the leading maker of HIV medicines as it faces expiring patents. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave a nod to the pill Complera for patients who have not received prior treatment for the virus that causes AIDS. The $1,705-a-month drug combines Gilead's Truvada with Johnson & Johnson's Edurant, which received FDA approval in May.)

Arctic Ocean to lose ice faster than predicted (Vancouver Sun) 

(New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says the most recent global climate report "fails to capture trends in Arctic sea-ice thinning and drift," and in some cases "substantially underestimates these trends." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, forecast an ice-free Arctic summer by 2100.)