US President Barack Obama global warming should be called ‘global weirding’.
California is caned three women after they were convicted for adultery under Islamic law, the first time that punishment has been handed out inside the country.
Visual Economics show youVerizon Wireless will allow its subscribers to make Skype calls on nine of its smartphones is [...]
If the course of human history is any model, then the wheels are already turning on Earth’s sixth mass extinction, thanks to habitat destruction, pollution and now global warming, a scientific analysis of millions of years of data revealed. On the same note, global temperatures could rise substantially more because of increases in carbon [...]
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 [...]
US Border Patrol officials have announced that drone planes, unmanned robot aircraft like those used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be used to track illegal immigrants on the California - Mexico border.
Technology not only makes it easier to cheat, it also makes it easier to get caught.
An iceberg twice the size of [...]
BuzzFeed looks at 40 things that were popular at the beginning of the decade and are not popular anymore; includes some nonsense.
The United States has only spent two percent of the $1 billion in aid it promised México two years ago to fight the drug war south of the border, according to a report by [...]
Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund has made a $1bn profit after selling its stake in Citigroup for $4.1bn, less than two years after acquiring preferred shares the US’s largest bank during the financial crisis - earning a cool 37 percent return.
Newspapers in 45 countries will implore Monday world leaders to take decisive action at the Copenhagen [...]
The Obama administration, capping a months-long review process, announced a new strategy of incentives and possible punitive actions to restore peace in Darfur and assure implementation of Sudan’s north-south peace accord.
US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that pursuit of export-led growth by Asian nations could lead to a reemergence of global trade [...]
