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The United States may have formally made the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, but according to a long-awaited British inquiry into the war, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also played a key role in the decision. Blair deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq in an attempt to justify military action, according to the Chilcot report, which spans 12 volumes plus a 150-page summary. The Chilcot Inquiry is named after its chairman Sir John Chilcot and is also known as the Iraq War Inquiry.

A local California government destroyed a geological marvel, without even knowing it. For years, geologists, science classes, and "geopilgrims" ventured to a split in a sidewalk curb in Hayward, California. Two sections of sidewalk have been slowing drifting askew for several decades, creating a striking visual portrayal of something geologists call creep. The curb sits on the Hayward fault, one of seven significant faults in the San Francisco Bay area. It runs nearly parallel to the more famous San Andreas fault, and is considered part of that "fault system." The system forms the boundary of the North American and Pacific plates. Creep is the slow steady movement of earth along the fault, in

Daniel Peabody loved his dogs. At least, that’s the way it looked to students whenever Peabody, a hulking and heavily tattooed school cop, strode into northern Georgia classrooms with a K-9 at his side. The lieutenant loved his animal partners so much that when one dog retired, Peabody promptly adopted him. But Peabody wasn’t the dog savior he portrayed himself to be, authorities say. Instead, the veteran K-9 officer now stands accused of leaving one police dog in a roasting car to die and executing another. On Tuesday, investigators announced that the remains of a third dog - unearthed in Peabody’s back yard - indicated the animal also had been shot, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Commodity investors generally agree that the oil market is coming into balance , but huge stockpiles of fuel and teeming strategic Chinese crude inventories could send prices on one last, ugly slide lower, analysts tell CNBC. On Wednesday, oil futures were down more than 1 percent, following a nearly 5 percent slide Tuesday, on worries that Britain's vote to leave the European Union would slow economic growth and dent crude oil demand. Oil markets at least briefly appeared to be oversupplied by about 350,000 barrels of crude per day last week, based on an average of major investment bank estimates, according to Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at oil price information firm OPIS.

A boy poses for a photograph as he attends Eid al-Fitr prayers that mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Sanaa, Yemen; revelers cool off with water thrown from a balcony during the start of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain;