3 August 2007: Afternoon

Estimates drop from 20-30 to eight for number missing in Minneapolis bridge collapse.

Coming federal crackdown on illegal immigrants may be a huge headache for 12 million legal citizens with incorrect Social Security records.

L.A.-based Telemundo reporter suspended for having affair with city's mayor; Oakland newspaper editor killed in shooting that "definitely doesn’t appear to be random."

China is taking care of corruption, its 1,800 least favorite officials first.

Yellow ribbons removed in hometown of kidnapped British girl amid fears of "grief tourism."

Anyone with underwater audio equipment encouraged to get it over to Scotland so they can get that whale unstuck.

Google being displaced by advanced, and extremely inaccurate, online people searches.

U.K. brands pull Facebook ads after they appear on ultra-nationalist group page.

Interactive: How your mouse pointer really works. (Be sure to double-click.)

Nigerian scammers doing their part to tackle global warming.

Manchester United recruits nine-year-old soccer star based on video footage, now on YouTube.

In today's Non-Expert, Jessica Francis Kane seriously parses phrases of affection.

A comprehensive explanation of why most every percentage you read in a popular science article is wrong.

"He wagged his little tail, he was a very happy lamb." New Zealand's favorite/only seven-/eight-legged lamb put down.

Gawker solicits the "worst best faux New Yorker cartoons" and the competition is fierce.