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Britain will send $80 million to support the Palestinian Authority, help Gazans through the winter and pay teachers in U.N. schools.
Sexually deceptive orchids that give off the odor of female insects trick lustful males into carrying off pollen.
The intellectual trap of exploring a new place — whether through actual travel or by reading a book set there — is the practically unconscious assumption that we can generalize. […]
An archeological dig in Nazareth has uncovered the home of “a simple Jewish family” in a neighborhood Jesus may have known.
The Christmas Day bomber once lived in a $3.2 million apartment while attending a top London university.
The expected repatriation of Yemeni prisoners from Gitmo has been complicated by the Christmas Day bomber who was trained in Yemen.
You’ve gathered up all your quaint eco-wrapping (newspapers and last year’s ribbons), and you’ve put it out with the recycling. You’re getting down to the dregs of the organic eggnog […]
A Nigerian man who ignited an explosive aboard a Delta Airlines flight is not believed to have connections with organized terrorism.
Black, Hispanic and Asian voters constituted the majority of the electorate in last month’s NYC mayoral vote for the first time ever.
Victims of fraudulent mortgages are battling a banking bottleneck to have their payment plans renegotiated.
A winter storm that currently covers two-thirds of the country is responsible for at least 18 deaths across the Midwest.
A Chinese academic who helped write a document advocating political liberalization has been sentenced to 11 years in jail.
A tree in southern California is thought be 13,000 years old making it the oldest living organism on the planet.
Most people already rue the 2000s compared to past decades but are very optimistic about the one to come.
Didn’t see this one coming: I thought Shiites were attracted to Hezbollah for its fight against Israel, or its aura of piety, or its social welfare programs. Didn’t know that, […]
Scientists have predicted how far different ecosystems will have to move annually to keep pace with shifting temperature zones.
A verdict on the trial of China’s most prominent dissident will be reached on Christmas day following a hearing which lasted just two hours.
An American Airlines plane has crashed in Jamaica injuring 40 after it overshot the runway, according to aviation authority reports.
Despite Pentagon denial of safety breaches, an anonymous U.S Air Force official is claiming that Iraqi militants are staying a step ahead of American forces by intercepting surveillance feeds.
As the Philippines-based volcano Mount Mayon continues to show signs of erupting residents who are refusing evacuation are being asked to sign waivers by rescue services.
A top rabbi has accused the Pope of “insensitivity” towards Jews after he moved his World War II era predecessor Pope Pius XII a step close to sainthood.
The “Arbeit macht frei” sign stolen from Auschwitz on Friday has been recovered in Northern Poland and five men are now being questioned by police.
I hope the New York Times will do a follow-up story on Friday’s “G.I.’s in Iraq Hope to Heal Sacred Walls.” The story — like an NPR broadcast in 2007 […]
Radiohead’s front man attended the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and has posted his observations on the band’s website.
The number of executions in the U.S. has dropped for the seventh straight year while more defendants are exonerated by DNA evidence.
Imagine you’re a citizen who cares a whole lot about stopping climate change. When it became clear that a hugely important climate conference would take place in Copenhagen in December […]
World leaders left the Copenhagen conference before signing an agreement that would obligate countries to reduce emissions.
The Department of Homeland Security is studying physical characteristics like strained facial expressions that could betray malintent.
James Bain was convicted of kidnapping and rape of a 9 year-old boy in a field back in 1973. The DNA testing of crime scene evidence used to free him […]
Some time in the early 1960s, the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot was asked by a university librarian to give his advice about some dusty journals no one consulted—should they be thrown […]