“You know what the greatest talent in the world is?” asks the Hollywood bigshot in John Guare’s terrific play The House of Blue Leaves. “To be an audience. Anybody can […]
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There has been outrage at the revelation that British police have garnered the world’s biggest DNA database without proper regulation or debate.
China has put to death two of the key players in a milk poisoning scandal that led to the deaths of six infants in 2007.
An internet romance that ended in the disappearance of a woman has left police with a homicide investigation but no evidence and no body.
A 14-year-old girl could be charged as an accomplice to the gang-rape of her ninth-grade classmate after she spoke to reporters last week.
Brain scans have been used in a murder trial for the first time ever to try to prove that the defendant is a psychopath.
A more intrusive iPhone worm than the recent “Rick Astley” hack is worrying Apple as it puts sensitive information under threat of exploitation.
A TV pay-per-view service is now available for the Nintendo Wii in Japan—but there’s no sign that it’s heading stateside just yet.
Burma’s Muslim minority are fleeing the region in large numbers to live in self-made refugee camps and try to find transport to Malaysia.
A Chinese dissident who criticized the government after a school collapsed, killing thousands of children, has been sentenced to three years in jail.
A 13-year-old boy with learning difficulties spent 11 days in the New York subway because he thought his parents were mad at him.
If the title “Riverkeeper” sounds like a mythic, sacred charge worthy of Tolkien, that’s because it is. Few natural phenomena have ever been as threatened by the forces of human […]
Americans shop too much and save too little. At least that’s how it went before the economic crisis of 2008. Will we change our ways now? Probably not. That’s why […]
I came home from Sunday night’s thrilling Major League Soccer championship game sure that I would finish my weekend by writing about the explosive aftermath of the World Cup qualifying match between Egypt […]
A host of diverse marine creatures have been discovered living in total darkness in the depths of the Atlantic – out of the reach of sunlight.
British inventors inspired by Harry Potter have developed a magic-wand style remote control which can command any infra-red device with a flick.
Google has banned tooth whitener and weight loss advertisers from its networks in a bid to live up to its “don’t be evil” motto.
A magazine featuring the tallest model ever to be a cover girl hits shelves this week.
Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri seems to be emerging as a voice of reason against the Iranian government.
On this day 46 years ago the Time Lord (aka Doctor Who) hit television screens, sparking several generations of hick British science fiction.
An army investigation has unearthed another unmarked casket at the historic burial site at Arlington, prompting fears that unofficial burials are taking place.
Microsoft has been in talks with News Corp over a possible move to de-index its news websites from Google.
The Gamburtsev mountain range, buried beneath a kilometre of ice, has been mapped for the first time by an international team of experts.
The US Senate has narrowly voted to hold a full debate on a landmark bill designed to overhaul the country’s healthcare.
The social networking site Twitter has taken off this year. According to Alexa it is now the 15th-most widely used site on the web. Its micro-blogging format—users post 140 character […]
Harvard is teaming up with Pennsylvania State to deliver a series on the future of journalism given the increasing role of NGOs in producing news. Can NGOs fill in for […]
The story by Evelyn Theiss of The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer has been online since Friday and I can’t stop wondering how Vietnam will react to it. The headline: “My Lai […]
David Small’s graphic memoir, “Stitches,” may not have won the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature this year. But it did break new ground in a rapidly evolving medium, […]
For the first time, according to Gallup’s latest tracking poll, less than fifty percent of Americans approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President. That’s down from 60% […]
Creepiest incentive ever to exercise: Peruvian cops have arrested a gang that, they say, kills people for their fat. The extracted adipose tissue was then allegedly sold for cosmetics made […]