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Airbus is having a lot of problems with its new transport plane--Airbus wants $7.6 billion (more than 25% of the initial budget) more from the governments that ordered the military transports. Airbus chief Thomas Enders said that he is preparing to quit the project because it will probably be unprofitable:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aErjIVe4aym0

NASA selected 3 proposals as candidates for its next space mission to another celestial body--one project would probe the atmosphere and crust of Venus, the other would return a piece of a near-Earth asteroid for analysis, and the third candidate would drop a robotic lander into a basin at the moon's south pole to return lunar rocks back to Earth for study:
http://avi.pennnet.com/display_article/372178/143/NEWS/none/none/1/NASA-chooses-three-finalists-for-future-space-science-mission-to-Venus,-an-asteroid-or-the-moon/

British film collector bought a film tin on eBay for $5 because he liked the way it looked. He was shocked to find out that the tin contained a previously unknown Charlie Chaplin movie that could be sold for $75,000!
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1225693/Unknown-Charlie-Chaplin-movie-3-20-nitrate-film-tin-bought-eBay.html