Texas grad student freed from Iran jailTEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have released a man jailed while home from his graduate studies in Texas after nearly five years, state media reported today.The report by the government-owned IRAN daily quoted Saeed Khalili, the lawyer for Omid Kokabee, as saying the country’s judiciary will allow Kokabee to enjoy “conditional freedom” for the rest of his 10-year sentence.Khalili said Kokabee was released from jail in April to undergo medical treatment on his kidneys and “will not return to prison, anymore.”Kokabee, an Iranian citizen, had been studying optics in the physics department at the University of Texas. He was arrested in February 2011 and convicted of having “relations with a hostile country” and receiving “illegitimate funds.”Though Iran and the United States have no diplomatic relations, many Iranian students apply to study in the U.S. every year.

Tusks from rare mammoth foundVIENNA — An Austrian museum team has recovered two giant tusks and other remnants of what experts say are apparently the remains of a rare mammoth breed, after construction crews unearthed them while working on an Austrian freeway.The find, dating back to mid-August, was reported by Austrian media on Monday. They cite officials of Vienna’s Museum of National History as saying the tusks are more than 8 feet long and apparently come from a mammoth that lived more than a million years ago. That precedes the more well-known wooly mammoth, which was hunted by ancient humans.Also found at the site 30 miles north of Vienna were parts of the animal’s vertebrae.Museum expert Oleg Mandic describes the discovery as “pretty sensational.”