Raising their arms in triumph, the mighty Spartans of the milk-drinking competition chugged down their baby bottles in a ferocious battle of the classes. One girl and one boy representative from each grade was seated on a platform, where the girls squeezed milk out of pink and blue bottles into the mouths of their male counterparts. The catch: the boys, who were seated on the girls’ laps, could not touch the bottle. The first team to empty the bottle won the most points for their class.

Britain’s plutonium stash is becoming a serious threat to both the environment and the lives of humans. "Plutonium is highly toxic,” said a report by the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s top institute of science. “It is the primary component in most nuclear weapons and could be made into a crude nuclear bomb by a well-informed and equipped terrorist group." With a store of more than 100 metric tons, Britain has accumulated enough plutonium to recreate the 1945 devastation of Nagasaki, Japan – and do so 17,000 times over. Britain is still searching for the best way to deal with this enormous cache, whether the solution means using it or losing it.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced another recall for the world’s largest toy company, Mattel Inc. As of August 14, about 19 million toys have been recalled worldwide. “The company has ordered that all products be pulled off retail shelves,” said acting chairwoman of the safety commission Nancy Nord to CNN. These toys, manufactured in China, may be coated with toxic lead paint or may contain tiny detachable magnets which are dangerous to children. Eighty percent of the world’s toys are produced in China. According to Chinese media, the boss of one manufacturing company hanged himself after a recall regarding toys containing excessive levels of toxic lead.

Could this be the worst summer for air travel? The Federal Aviation Association (FAA) released a report, saying that passengers across the country are experiencing flight delays. And statistics from FlightStats.com, a flight-tracking service, show that June was one of the worst months in U.S. history. Last year, there were 8,710 canceled flights in June. This year, in the same month, the number more than doubled to 20,301 flights which ended up in cancellation. From 40 of the largest airlines, 30% of the flights scheduled to land in the U.S. were delayed in June, with delays lasting an average of one hour. Some blame the FAA, which is responsible for operating the nation’s air-traffic-control system. “Consumers are fed up now and the airline industry is taking the heat,” said aviation analyst Mike Boyd of the Boyd Group to The Associated Press.

“Millions of people have safely ridden this ride in our parks,” said Six Flags spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg. Unfortunately, one thirteen-year-old girl was not one of them. While riding the Superman Tower of Power at a Six Flags amusement park in Louisville, Kentucky, both her feet were severed at the ankles. The girl was taken to University Hospital for surgery. The exact cause of Thursday’s accident is still being investigated. Witnesses report that the cable that broke in the duration of the ride wrapped around her legs. Passengers from the ride claim to have also been hit with the loose cable, although none of them suffered severe injuries.