Japanese scientists have found 40-million-year-old relics of bornavirus in the human genome. Bornavirus replicates in the nuclei of infected cells, and may have caused genetic mutations. 

A French court has ruled that Korean books dating to the nineteenth century will stay in the National Library of France, where they were spotted in 1975 by a visiting scholar. Korean historians say the books were looted by the French from a Korean royal library on Ganghwa Island in 1866.  

Five rare Soay sheep from the flock that lives at England’s Flag Fen were killed by marauding dogs. “We are not keeping the sheep to sell them, it’s to remind people of what the sheep were like in the Bronze Age,” said park manager James Beatty.  

Amos, a 4,000-year-old Carian city near Turkey’s southwestern coast, will be opened to tourists.  

The government of Mexico has told the Starbucks Corporation to pay up for using Aztec images on a line of coffee mugs for sale in its stores.

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