Google said Thursday it will give $30 million to the first company that can land a rover on the moon and transmit a gigabyte of data. The contest is a joint offer of the Internet giant and the X Prize Foundation. The contest has a 2014 deadline. To earn at least $20 million, a company must meet contest requirements by 2012. Google also provides a $5 million prize for second place and $5 million for the team the goes beyond what is expected of them.

A video baby monitor has been broadcasting images from the space shuttle Atlantis to Natalie Meilinger of suburban Chicago. The 2-year-old "Summer Infant" monitor has been broadcasting images from the shuttle and from mission control since Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

Natalie Meilinger, a mom from Chicago says she's addicted to watching her baby monitor not because she could keep her sons from climbing the furniture, but because the monitor is showing live, streaming images from space. According to Meilinger, her baby monitor is showing a live video feed from the space shuttle Atlantis, currently in orbit docked to the International Space Station, and has been showing the images since Sunday.

A man who took photos of children and female staff members in a school bathroom has been jailed for four months. Adrian Alan Mayne worked as a maintenance worker at a Tasmanian school and drilled holes in the walls of the bathroom. He then used a camera owned by the school to take pictures of girls' breasts and other private parts.

Royal courtiers wanted to block the sale of "tasteless" memorabilia when Britain's Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip in 1947. Papers released Tuesday by the National Archives at Kew, west London, revealed that members of Britain's Royal Court took their concerns over the wedding souvenirs to the Home Office. The courtiers were particularly annoyed about the "undesirable" handkerchiefs, produced by the Cheadle Fabric Factory.