May 14 2008
Space, the final frontier, is about to be inundated with sightseers. Microsoft has unveiled a new website which brings the outer reaches of the universe to the fingertips of anyone with internet access and a computer.
May 14 2008
Do you think there is life on Mars? Do you think Phoenix will find evidence of it? Now there’s a blog that’s trying to collect a snapshot of the opinions of scientists, amateurs, and everyday people.
May 14 2008
Shaken by a Hezbollah military offensive in recent days, Lebanon’s pro-Western parties have launched an intensive campaign to lobby allies in Washington, Europe and the Arab world to intervene diplomatically or even militarily on their behalf,...
May 13 2008
The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000 people are dead. Delays in delivering relief to the victims, the inaccessibility of the...
May 13 2008
Four years after the Roma People’s Goat Project in Nemsa had started (2004), Maria Lesca and her family have imported seven Alpine dairy goats from France and three local Romanian Carpathian goats.
May 12 2008
Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential hopeful, has pulled ahead of his rival in superdelegate endorsements for the first time, bringing him ever closer to the Democratic presidential nomination.
May 12 2008
A far cry from the tiny mobile phones in use today, the telephone was made up of a system of wire suspended between metal rods with the transmitter placed on a train carriage or boat.
May 12 2008
Picture the Manhattan skyline filled with Nike swooshes. Or the golden arches of McDonald’s gently drifting over Los Angeles.
May 12 2008
Kill Bill actress Uma Thurman is being sued by cosmetics giant Lancome, the French firm has confirmed.
May 12 2008
Defence technology used to shoot down nuclear missiles could be used to treat thousands of women with breast cancer, a US army specialist says.