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Royal Caribbean International is continuing to dock its luxury cruise ships on the beaches near Labadee in Haiti, near the epicenter of the earthquake. Some passengers are queasy about this. […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come under fire for spending nearly $3,000 of tax payer’s money on flowers in four months while Whip James Clayburn has spent hundreds on donuts.

Five British sailors are being held captive by the Iranian Navy after their racing yacht possibly strayed into Iranian territories on its journey from Bahrain to Dubai.

A British student who pleaded guilty to outraging public decency has been spared jail by a court after he was arrested for urinating on a war memorial.

Hundreds of Jupiter-like planets and a handful of Earth-sized plants have been discovered by astronomers fuelling hope of finding alien life forms.

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 super-submarine left over from the Second World War has been found in Hawaii.

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.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is encouraging Cuban scientists to “bomb clouds” with aircraft in order to stimulate rainfall during sever droughts.

With all the sturm und drang about Tiger Woods and (his) infidelity, it might be worth remembering William Blake‘s celebrated poem, The Tyger. The poem has nothing to do with […]

After Israel released photographs claiming to prove Iran was importing weapons to Hezbollah militia, Iranian news agencies have retorted claiming the images were forged.

A tiny pellet the size of a multi-vitamin could provide an endless supply of safe, clean energy – But is this unrealistic optimism?

If you want to speculate about an alternate-universe world without intelligent primates (and who doesn’t?), then your thoughts must turn to the octopus. Because the octopus has a large and […]

The word “explosive” is use to describe a lot of artists’ work. In the case of Cai Guo-Qiang, he actually earns the adjective. Last month, the Chinese artist inaugurated his […]

In response to Europe’s “Seven Wonders of the World” list which didn’t include Russia, the former Soviet Republic has compiled its own list of “wonders”.

The appearance of an expensive mosque in impoverished and predominantly Catholic Nicaragua has got the rumour mill turning.

Bottlenose dolphins have been caught on film playing soccer with jellyfish.

This is a common time of year for Lists. Everyone seems to have one. David Brooks’s Best Essays List ran in today’s New York Times, and almost every other literary publication […]

Defense contractor KBR has been accused of exposing 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancerous toxins in Iraq.

Peter Brabeck, former CEO and now Chairman of Nestlé, thinks we’ll run out of water faster than we will oil, unless we change how much it’s considered a human right.

Knowing full well that I tee myself up for easy, Whitney-Houston-themed ridicule, I’m here to say that the children are our future, and that childhood in the Gaza Strip — […]

It is becoming increasingly common knowledge that our world is on the brink of an unprecedented environmental crisis. However slow the reaction has been, it is beginning to take tangible […]

I’ve been thinking of different ways scientists and engineers could have prepared the world population for the extreme weather problems. By not financing weaponry but instead innovative solutions to natural disasters we could have been way ahead of the game by now.

Steve Abrams wouldn’t advise dropping out of college, though it seemed to work for him. He got out of there a semester in, and is now successfully the owner of […]

The bizarre mating rituals of sea horses are fascinating – and they are the only species in which the male becomes pregnant.

The devastation wreaked on Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, in the aftermath of an earthquake which rocked the city to its fragile foundations is a bitter blow to what remains […]

You’ve heard the hullaballoo about recent legislative steps toward a carbon market. To which John Kerry responded last week, of his new climate bill, with a defensive: “I don’t know […]

Jeff Swartz thinks banning bottled water at his company shows employees that something big is coming.

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You already know that the world’s poor are being hit first and will suffer most as a result of climate change. Think Katrina, think flooding in Bangladesh, think desertification in […]