The "millefiori" dish (the name means "thousand flowers") was found buried in the grave of a Roman Londoner, the museum said. Based on the other grave goods found at the site, archaeologists believe the person buried there was wealthy, the museum said. The dish was highly fragmented when archaeologists unearthed it, the museum said, but it had been held together over the centuries by the earth around it. A conservator at the museum reassembled the dish, which is now ...

Archaeologists excavating a site in East London have made an "extremely rare and unprecedented" find -- a delicately detailed dish made of hundreds of pieces of tiny glass petals, the Museum of London Docklands announced Wednesday. The "millefiori" dish (the name means "thousand flowers") was found buried in the grave of a Roman Londoner, the museum said. Based on the other grave goods found at the site, archaeologists believe the person buried there was wealthy, the museum said. The dish ...

The House of Representatives passed a $3.44 trillion budget resolution for fiscal year 2010 Wednesday, approving most of President Obama's key spending priorities and setting the federal government in a new direction with major increases for energy, education and health care programs. The resolution, which was approved by a vote of 233 to 193, passed in a virtual party-line vote. All but 17 House Democrats supported it, and no House Republicans voted in favor. The measure passed two days after ...

Sarah Jessica Parker is expecting twins this summer, but she's not pregnant. The "Sex and the City" star and her husband of 12 years -- actor Matthew Broderick -- "are happily anticipating the birth of their twin daughters later this summer with the generous help of a surrogate," according to a statement issued by their publicists. "The entire family is overjoyed," the statement said. It did not say if the surrogate was the genetic mother of the twins or if ...

Edo Berger got an alert early last Thursday morning when a satellite detected a 10-second blast of energy known as a gamma ray burst coming from outer space. Telescopes around the world swiveled to focus on the explosion, soon picking up infrared radiation, which travels more slowly than gamma rays. Berger waited for the visible light which he expected to come next. It never arrived. "We were kind of blown away. We immediately knew what that meant," Berger said. What ...

Is the world finally ready for the mobile minitablet? It's become quite clear over the last several months that Apple is ready to bridge the mobile computing gap, with plans to develop a device that fits somewhere in between the iPhone and the MacBook. A recent Wall Street Journal article proclaimed that during his medical leave, CEO Steve Jobs has been working on that mid-sized mobile device, bigger than an iPhone but smaller than a MacBook. And just this ...

Leading cyclist Davide Rebellin tested positive for doping at the Beijing Games, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) told CNN on Wednesday. Rebellin, who won silver in the road race in China, has been suspended from all competition, a spokesman said. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) revealed on Tuesday that six athletes had given positive results as samples taken at the Beijing Games were re-tested for a more advanced strain of the blood-boosting hormone CERA. CNN was also able to confirm ...

Arsenal's Mexican striker Carlos Vela has been given the all-clear to join up with their squad for the Champions League semifinal against Manchester United after a swine flu scare. Vela had been visited by some Mexican friends last week and was told to stay away from training while he underwent urgent medical checks. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told Press Association: "It looked to be a massive problem because we were asked to keep him at home and not get him ...

The father of a U.S. journalist jailed for espionage in Iran said he was summoned to court Wednesday and questioned about his daughter's hunger strike. Reza Saberi said the court asked him questions about a hunger strike that his daughter, Roxana Saberi, started after being sentenced last week to eight years in prison. That sentence followed a closed one-day trial for Saberi, a 31-year-old journalist from North Dakota who has been living in Iran since 2003. She started the hunger ...

World champion Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren team have escaped with a suspended three-race ban for "deliverately misleading" stewards at the Australian Grand Prix. The team could have been thrown out of the Formula One championship, but an extraordinary hearing of the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) in Paris opted for a lesser penalty. McLaren had pleaded guilty on all five counts of breaching article 151c of the International Sporting Code. A statement from the WMSC said they had taken ...