UPI Almanac for Friday, June 5, 2009.

BANCROFT, Ontario, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Authorities say Barenaked Ladies front man Ed Robertson and three others are "very lucky" to be alive after a float-plane crash in southeastern Ontario.

SEATTLE, July 30 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found a parasitic fly in the tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica that determines the social behavior of nocturnal bees.

WASHINGTON, July 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson is in the news a lot these days, but not for the reasons he would like: Seven and half years of reckless and blindly optimistic fiscal and energy policies are coming home to bite him and his master, President George W. Bush.

WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. government wasted an opportunity to forge alliances with tribal leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, officials and diplomats say.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, June 5, 2008.

PANAMA CITY, Panama, April 9 (UPI) -- U.S.-led scientists say they've discovered bats play a major role in protecting tropical plants from damage by insects such as beetles and caterpillars.

UPI almanac for Tuesday, June 5, 2007.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, April 16 (UPI) -- Vandals smashed stone walls and destroyed headstones in two of Scotland's most historic graveyards. The vandalism in Edinburgh by roving gangs of teenagers is a persistent problem, the Scotsman reported on Monday.