German auction house Breker said an Asian client, who asked to remain anonymous, bought the first-model Apple computer that company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family garage in 1976. The machine sold Saturday is said to bear Wozniak's signature and included an old business transaction letter from Jobs.

A team from North Carolina State University found that the newly improved cockroaches had a "reorganized" sense of taste, making them perceive glucose used to coat poisoned bait as bitter rather than as sweet.

Vietnamese fireworks fans may have a noiser Tet than usual: the Ministry of Public Security intends to allow individuals to buy and set off "quiet" fireworks for the 2014 Lunar New Year, a first since fireworks were outlawed 18 years ago.

Scientists have found why the white tiger is white but still has black stripes.