More than $100m changes hands in China every year for ghost-written academic papers, according to research by a Chinese university.
According to a Vanity Fair article, in 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated [...]
Today is Christmas Day.
The sale of virtual items in online games and social networks is booming.
In an unequivocal rebuke to those pursuing political reforms, a Chinese court on Friday sentenced one of the country’s best-known dissidents to 11 years in prison for subversion. The dissident, Liu Xiaobo, a former literature professor and a dogged critic [...]
The Healthcare bill has passed in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has drawn both condemnation and adulation for deals he struck to win passage of legislation for the biggest overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system in more than four decades.
Windows 7, just two months on the market, is accelerating the pace of corporate [...]
Al Qaeda suspects have been arrested in a drug trafficking plot in Africa.
A deep-sea robot has recorded the deepest ever erupting undersea volcano in the Pacific.
Research In Motion, makers of the Blackberry handset, recorded profit growth of 59% in the third quarter, amidst signs that its smartphone device is now popular amongst other segments of [...]
Computers performing surgery might soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to operate on a beating heart.
MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that the drug hydroxyurea kills bacteria by inducing them to produce molecules toxic to themselves, a conclusion [...]
North Korea has fired five short-range missiles off its east coast and declared a “no sail” zone in the area from October 10-20.
Two academics who broke new ground in researching how people cooperate with each other outside of conventional markets won the Economics Nobel Prize.
Anti-terrorism magistrates in Paris have filed preliminary charges [...]
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has purportedly urged European nations to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, saying wise men don’t waste money and soldiers.
US President Barack Obama believes that Iran concealed a partially-built second uranium enrichment plant in defiance of calls for transparency over its nuclear plans, and that it must act immediately.
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