From msnbc.com: Oil prices spiked Friday as continued tensions in the Middle East and concerns of renewed violence in Nigeria pushed the price for a barrel of oil to a record near $146.
By midday in Europe, light, sweet crude for August delivery rose $3.53 at $145.18 a barrel...

A new ufo mystery surfaces in Needles, California 1290 miles from Las Vegas as a large object with a turquoise hue plummeted out of the sky earlier this summer and plowed into the earth south of Las Vegas. Eyewitnesses say this was no meteorite, especially since a bunch of helicopters hauled it...