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Britain is out of recession. It’s official. The UK Treasury today confirmed what the Government had both predicted and hoped for, that the deepest recession since the 1930s is over. […]
If you think a crow is looking at you with malice in its eyes…chances are it is. Wild crows can recognise individual human faces and hold a grudge for years, according to research.
China has accused America of “hypocrisy and initiation of cyberwarfare against Iran” in response to criticism by Hillary Clinton of countries that censor the internet and engage in hacking.
“No great American has suffered more cruelly and undeservedly at the hands of historians than Ulysses S. Grant,” writes The New Republic.
US Vice President Joe Biden’s son has said he won’t run for the Senate seat vacated by his father – striking another blow for the Democrats.
A woman who was considering IVF treatment after failing to conceive a child for more than four years has given birth to a little girl after using an iPhone application to get pregnant.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s adopted children have been made into “fashion accessories” in a new online game which also encourages young children to administer contraceptives.
Air New Zealand is offering what it calls “the first major improvement in economy class travel in 20 years”: the provision of beds in coach class flights.
President Karzai of Afghanistan has proposed a “Taliban amnesty” whereby Taliban names would be removed from a UN blacklist imposing travel restrictions and asset freezes.
Ali Hassan al-Majeed, an Iraqi general and cousin of former dictator Saddam Hussein, known widely as “Chemical Ali,” was hanged yesterday, having received four death sentences.
The world’s astronomical experts are gathering at the Royal Society in London to discuss aliens, with notable scientists agreeing that on a balance of probabilities “they exist.”
Only time will tell how historic Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts may prove to be, but for now its effects can clearly be seen rippling through both parties, as Republicans […]
To understand Haiti better is to help it more effectively. That’s the simple premise behind our interview today with Prof. Laurent Dubois, a Duke University historian and French Studies professor […]
Now that the dust is settling around the Berlin Wall metaphor which Hillary Clinton made during her major address last Friday on the Internet, let’s have a look at the […]
When you think of Pop Art, the art movement that dominated the late 1950s and early 1960s in America, you almost automatically cast up the wigged head of Andy Warhol. […]
World of Warcraft gamers are being encouraged to upgrade their Adobe Flash players after a glitch was discovered that could make their accounts vulnerable to hackers.
New research suggests that prescribing the female hormone estrogen to women with emotional disorders might protect them from contracting schizophrenia.
A defeat of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s quest for another four-year term could raise the risk of a “double dip” recession, economists have warned.
Aliens visiting Earth will be “just like humans”, sporting faults such as greed, violence and exploitation of the weak, according to claims by a leading scientist at Cambridge University.
An aircraft, suspected to be a US drone, has crashed in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region according to officials and local residents.
Cambodia’s government-run drug rehabilitation centers have been accused of torturing addicts with “sadistic violence” such as electric shocks by human rights groups.
The parliamentary elections in Afghanistan have been postponed from May to September in a move to avoid a repetition of the massive electoral fraud that marred last year’s polls.
Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has appeared in a new video speaking publicly for the first time about the attempted Christmas Day airliner bombing, praising the attempt.
Fourteen bodies have been recovered after an Ethiopian plane carrying 90 passengers crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Beirut in stormy weather this morning.
The daredevil who made the first unpowered flight across the English Channel six years ago is planning to sky dive from the edge of space hoping to break a 50-year world record.
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” —Oscar Wilde If I may borrow a word from this Oscar Wilde quote, I believe the Supreme […]
His name may be Steel (David, that is), but Samsung’s Senior VP of Strategic Marketing for North America is more interested in the warmer, fuzzier side of his company’s products […]
Last month, Dr. Jack Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, released a national study revealing which US cities (population greater than 250,000) are, by his measures, most literate. Those […]
Al-Jazeera English Television celebrated its fourth birthday at the end of last year. Launched with much fanfare, albeit after an eighteen month delay, the channel that promised to tread where […]