Young American women between the ages 15 to 19 who got pregnant went up by 3.4 percent, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. It is the second straight year that teen birthrates rose in 2006 to 2007, reversing 14 consecutive years of declines.

In 2005 to 2006, teen birthrates grew 1.4 percent.

A newly discovered fish, with a wild swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes and odd behavior, has been dubbed "psychadelica" for its appearance and its habit of bouncing like a ball along the ocean floor.

University of Washington's Ted Pietsch, as the first to describe the fish, had the honor of naming it. Psychedelica is an appropriate name given the cockamamie way the fish swim, with seemingly little control, and often appearing intoxicated.

More Britons continued to rely on technology to lose weight as the United Kingdom went on with its battle against obesity. Date from the National Health Service said stomach stapling and other surgical procedures went up in 2008 by 40 percent.

While it permitted overweight Britons to shed pounds, it drained NHS budget. Last year, 2,724 stomach stapling or bariatric surgeries were performed on obese Britons, mostly women, and paid by taxpayers. The previous year the number of U.K. residents who went through the same procedure totaled 1,951.

Crew members, including pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, of the U.S. Airways flight that crashed on the Hudson River last month without any casualties are currently testifying before the House Transportation and Infrastructure panel. Authorities are still investigating whether a bird strike had caused the accident.

"It was a completely unremarkable flight," Sullenberger, who has been hailed as a hero for keeping all 155 passengers of the plane alive, told the panel on Tuesday. "The take-off and initial departure were normal up until the screen was filled by birds."

A panel of federal judges on Monday ruled that California must release 55,000 state prisoners within three years to decongest the overcrowded prisons.

A federal appeals judge for the Ninth Circuit and two federal district judges said the tentative decision will ensure the constitutional rights of California's estimated 150,000 prisoners to adequate medical and mental health care.