UK airport arrest - Pilot charged :

A pilot has been charged after being arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being drunk.

The United Airlines pilot was arrested on Monday after being reported to police by colleagues.

A source said the pilot was on board the Boeing 767 when he was told that police wanted to speak to him. He was then breath-tested once he was off the plane, out of view of the passengers.

He was released on bail and will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in Middlesex on November 20.

US evangelist Billy Graham's son visits North Korea :

The son of veteran U.S. evangelist Billy Graham arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to deliver aid to the impoverished country more than six months after the isolated regime kicked out all American humanitarian groups.

Billy Graham's family has had relations with the communist North for years. The senior Graham went to North Korea in 1992 and in 1994 at the invitation of late North Korean President Kim Il Sung, father of current leader Kim Jong Il.


The North's official Korean Central News Agency also reported on Graham's arrival Tuesday in a brief dispatch, quoting him as saying at the airport that he made the visit to "play the role of a bridge for better relations" between the two countries.

Graham leads the U.S.-based aid group Samaritan's Purse, which has provided the impoverished North with more than $10 million in aid since 1997.

Pterodactyl fossil fills gaps in evolutionary tale :

Scientists say a very rare find of some 20 fossilized pterodactyls has produced the first clear evidence of a controversial theory of evolution.

The fossils were found in north-east China earlier this year, embedded in rock dating back 160 million years, and have been called "Darwinopterus" after the renowned naturalist Charles Darwin.


The creature's discovery has astounded scientists because their age puts them within two recognized groups of pterodactyls -- primitive long-tailed forms and advanced short-tail forms -- and they display characteristics of both.

The combination of features indicates that the primitive pterodactyls evolved relatively quickly, and that certain groups of features changed at the same time.