US House passes landmark climate change bill that curbs greenhouse-gas emissions. However President Barack Obama doubts the provision of imposing tariffs on goods from countries that don’t match US efforts to combat global warming.
Six months after Israel’s invasion of Gaza, 1.5 million Palestinians remain trapped in rising poverty, unable to rebuild their [...]
British Embassy employees in Iran have been detained by Iranian authorities.
Augmented Reality is a revolutionary new technology that is poised to explode.
Weak Monsoon rains, 53% less than normal in India, are expected to severely affect crop produce this year.
The President of Honduras has been arrested and exiled to nearby Costa Rica by troops.
The first solar [...]
Newspapers around the world react to the sudden death of the ‘King of Pop Music’ Michael Jackson. A surge on Google, Twitter and Aol, searching for news of his departure took down part of the web.
Students from the University of British Colombia have found a hard drive at a market in Ghana with documents about [...]
Iran’s electoral body says there has been no fraud in any presidential election and this one was the cleanest; President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was critical of President Barack Obama for condemning Iranian violence against protesters. The White House has accused Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of seeking to blame the US for unrest following Iran’s disputed election.
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One billion people on earth are hungry.
A 15-year old has invented a way to generate energy from algae.
President Obama is lending $465 Million to Tesla, to develop electric cars and the batteries that power them. There are high expectations of the CA-based company after it revealed its Model S.
China temporarily blocked all Google services, including [...]
Iran poll: The details.
Iranian top electoral authority has ruled out annulling the results of the disputed 12 June election, saying there was no fraud or breach in the poll. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was named the winner.
The Obama administration’s most radical idea: to make nearly [...]