ASTRONAUTS TO RETURN
The three American astronauts on the International Space Station should be home by early May. A Russian Soyuz craft to be launched next month will bring the astronauts back to Earth after delivering two Russian cosmonauts and fresh supplies to keep the space station ticking over. The shuttle Discovery was due to take off last week to service the ISS, but all shuttles were grounded last month in the wake of the Columbia accident, leaving NASA entirely reliant upon Russia for manned missions.
DUTCH FLU FEARS
A flu virus raging through chickens in the Netherlands has caused…
