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China executed a British citizen early this morning for smuggling heroin despite claims the man was severely mentally ill.
Newt Gingrich says that during the 2010 midterm elections Republicans will run on repealing any healthcare legislation made into law.
Pirates have taken a U.K. flagged chemical tanker off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden and can be expected to demand a ransom.
A U.S. judge has ruled that the BitTorrent search engine ISO Hunt is illegal because it celebrates copyright violation.
Grant money is sought to preserve an attendance log that Robert Frost kept while he was teaching at a grammar school in Methuen, MA.
Scientists believe that the “hunger gene” which tells the brain when the body needs food can act when we’re already full.
Researchers have created solar panels tiny as glitter specks which could be placed anywhere to power the future.
European companies have built China the world’s fastest train which took its maiden voyage last weekend.
The U.S. has an increasing military presence in Yemen which is seen as the next potential training ground for Al Qaeda operatives.
That the Nigerian terrorist was not investigated is due to a massive database of 500,000 possible terrorists, officials say.
Political opponents have been arrested, as many as eight killed and over 300 arrested as protests in Iran take a violent turn.
As climate change legislation gets more attention more businesses are lobbying Congress to get their piece of the pie.
China is scheduled to execute a Briton convicted of smuggling heroin despite claims that he is severely mentally ill.
New research suggests that disinfectants can train bacteria to resist antibiotics they have never been exposed to before.
Britain will send $80 million to support the Palestinian Authority, help Gazans through the winter and pay teachers in U.N. schools.
Obama has largely ignored Latin America but economic engagement is still necessary for everybody, writes The New Republic.
Sexually deceptive orchids that give off the odor of female insects trick lustful males into carrying off pollen.
Structural barriers to women’s rights in Iraq are loosening as women increasingly populate the national police force.
Of all the writers to emerge from the psychedelic ’60s, few have endured as long at the top of their craft as Robert Stone. In a candid interview with Big […]
Families who have lost income during the recession are planning their finances better and even saving money.
An archeological dig in Nazareth has uncovered the home of “a simple Jewish family” in a neighborhood Jesus may have known.
Researchers who followed Blondie suggest that rock and roll drummers get an aerobic and anaerobic workout just like elite athletes.
Property speculators in China are driving up the price of real estate at a record pace prompting calls for restraint.
There is speculation that Apple will announce its much rumored tablet computer in San Francisco late this January.
The Christmas Day bomber once lived in a $3.2 million apartment while attending a top London university.
States with currently expanded Medicaid coverage stand to pay out much more than others under the Senate’s healthcare bill.
The expected repatriation of Yemeni prisoners from Gitmo has been complicated by the Christmas Day bomber who was trained in Yemen.
Iranian reformists have gathered in Tehran during the Shia celebration of Ashoura to protest the government.
New findings show that maternal behavior encourages the formation of new neural connections in the brain.
How does Nicholas Negroponte know his nonprofit, One Laptop per Child, is improving education in the Third World? When participating schools see their truancy rates drop to zero, he believes it’s doing something right. […]