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While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been exploring Mars and comets, China’s Yutu Mission is discovering interesting things about the moon. While, China is new in the space exploration arena, its efforts should not be discounted. The Chinese space agency has been approaching the space with a few resources than other agencies.

According to police, more than a dozen teenagers are being investigated for a number of sexual assaults against two Los Angeles high school students. According to Los Angeles police Cmdr. Andrew Smith, investigators think that the assaults happened again and again since the end of 2013 at Venice High School.

Eight suspects were taken into custody at the school on Friday morning and the ninth suspect was arrested outside the campus. On Friday only, the 10th suspect surrendered and the remaining four are being searched.

Los Angeles Unified interim Superintendent Ramon Cortines said that Venice High School and the district is going through a very painful situation and crisis counselors would help students at school.

According to an investigation by Capital New York, computers with IP addresses from the New York Police Department headquarters were related to edits made on some Wikipedia pages for high-profile police incident victims. The IP addresses accessed Wikipedia entries for Sean Bell, Eric Garner and Amadou Diallo.

According to Capitals, it is not known that how many actual users did that since NYPD computers can access a variety of IP addresses available to the department. Earlier also, IP addresses from the 1 Police Plaza network were found editing potentially incriminating Wikipedia entries.

According to Capital New York, such addresses have been used for editing articles on stop-and-frisk and some police leaders.

Last night, Donna Davis was awakened by the sound of banging on her doors. She was horrified by what she saw after opening the door: a woman and two children, a boy and a girl, were covered in blood after being shot in their home across the road.

There was blood everywhere and Donna initially thought the injuries were caused by a car accident. She said the little boy was terrified and was half under the porch. He appeared to hide himself from someone. He was crying for help and according to Davis' mother-in-law, Linda Davis, the boy said that half of his ear was gone.

According to new evidence, Neanderthals in Europe used to wear eagle claws as jewelry. Eight talons from white-tailed eagles, together with four that had different notches and cut marks, have been identified by researchers. These have been identified from a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal cave in Croatia. According to them, claws were used to make a necklace or bracelet, which Neanderthals used to wear.

According to study authors, “Some have argued that Neandertals lacked symbolic ability or copied this behavior from modern humans. These remains clearly show that the Krapina Neandertals made jewelry well before the appearance of modern humans in Europe”.

The FDA has issued stricter recommendations on reusable medical devices in order to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistant infections. These kind of infections occurred at Los Angeles hospitals.

According to the FDA, it has announced new recommendations for cleaning reusable medical devices like the duodenoscopes at the center of the ‘superbug’ infections. And the companies, which manufacture the scopes and other devices, will have to provide proof that the devices can be cleaned properly, prior to getting FDA approval.

According to the agency, manufacturers could conduct validation testing in order to prove that their cleaning and disinfection or sterilization instructions will help reduce microbial contamination properly.