Venezuela has accused Colombia of “warmongering” after its neighbor agreed to let the U.S. military use three air bases.
The US economy contracted at an annual rate of one percent from April through June. Eight chief economists from around the world react to this news.
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, approved landmark health legislation [...]
High-school students in Finland rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don’t start school until age 7. Yet by one international [...]
Bernard Madoff, the financier convicted for Wall Street’s biggest investment fraud, was surprised his $65 billion Ponzi scheme was not uncovered sooner, he said in his first interview since entering prison.
China, the country that execute the most, is said to reduce the number of people it executes to “an extremely small number”.
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The world’s most high-profile file-sharing website, the Pirate Bay, faces a new volley of legal action.
A startup unveils a high-yield process for making fuel from carbon dioxide and sunlight.
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser.
AT&T [...]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke traveled to the US heartland to defend the central bank’s actions and reaffirm his assessment of an improving, but still vulnerable, US economy. On the other hand, Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York, says that the Federal Reserve is a “Ponzi scheme” that created “bubble [...]
President Obama has improved America’s image abroad, according to the Pew Research Center.
Time magazine attempts to put obesity in southern states into perspective.
Check out this picture of a California ATM machine refusing to accept state IOUs that stemmed from its recent budget woes.
A security analyst explains how ‘fuzzing’ has made the Microsoft Office file format [...]
Taliban militants, including several suicide bombers, have attacked government buildings in the south-eastern Afghan city of Khost.
World health officials have given up trying to count how many people have the H1N1 swine flu virus, saying the best they can do is estimate the spread of the “unstoppable” virus.
Russia’s most [...]
