Facts &Finds

#in baseball, the Boston Red Sox sweep the Colorado Rockies to win the 2007 World Series.
# Researchers from Bangor University determine that a quahog clam was aged between 405 and 410 years, making it the longest-lived animal on record.
# Scandinavian Airlines permanently discontinue services based on the use of its Dash 8 Q400 Turboprop after a series of crash landings, the latest in Copenhagen.
# Comet 17/P Holmes (pictured) unexpectedly brightens by about 500,000 times, becoming a naked eye object in the night sky. Only 175 stars are brighter.
# A referendum that would have changed the status of the New Zealand non-self-governing territory of Tokelau to that of associated state fails by a margin of less than 3%.