As if scripted programming and melodramatic plotlines don’t entertain any more, SOAPNet has jumped into the reality TV fray with a series called “The Fashionista Diaries,” where “six hungry twentysomethings plunge headfirst into the New York fashion world.” But...

The ‘Oddly Enough’ section of news agency Reuters’ worldwide coverage is the most apropos heading for a report out of southern Chile saying an entire lake has vanished. Fed mostly by melting glaciers in the country’s Patagonia region, the...