More than 1,000 cows are thought to have been shipped to market after being fed radioactive straw, and the contaminated meat has been tracked to supermarkets and school lunchrooms across the country.
The difficulty in pinpointing the offspring of the diseased cow comes amid other difficulties in identifying the location and fate of 81 cows thought to have been shipped to the United States from Alberta, Canada, in August 2001.
King Alfred is thought to have instigated ship construction there as early as the 9th Century, but the first recorded warship, the Sweepstake, was built there in 1497 in what is thought by some to be the UK's first dry dock.
Page A7 RUSSIAN SHIP REACHES SYRIA A Turkish Foreign Ministry official said that a Russian ship thought to be carrying a cargo of munitions reached Syria, in defiance of a European Union embargo, after stopping to refuel in Cyprus and receiving what the Turks said was inadequate scrutiny there.
Interpol sources in Cotonou said the police wanted to question a businessman and two of his associates who were thought to have chartered the ship.
They are a tame variation on Norway rats, which are thought to have evolved from ship rats over the last 1,000 or so years.
America is watching North Korea's ports a ship thought to be carrying missiles or other banned exports to Myanmar earlier turned back after being shadowed for days at sea.
West African police officers hunted today for a ship thought to be carrying scores of children sold as slaves that has been roaming off the coast for more than two weeks.
Speaking almost in a whisper, Mr Castro made wide-ranging and convoluted accusations against America: that it had sunk the Cheonan, a South Korean navy ship thought to have been torpedoed by North Korea, in order to provoke conflict, and that its policy towards Iran would lead to nuclear war.
ISTANBUL — A Turkish Foreign Ministry official said that a Russian ship thought to be carrying a cargo of munitions reached Syria on Thursday, in defiance of a European Union embargo, after stopping to refuel in Cyprus and receiving what the Turks said was inadequate scrutiny there.
