The first vaccine against avian flu won US government approval yesterday, even as federal officials conceded its usefulness in a flu pandemic might be limited.
Global warming has hit Mars, but the planet’s shifting winds and swirling dust devils that power climate changes there bear no relation to the heat-trapping gases that now concern the people of planet Earth.
Outsourcing is breaking out of the back office. For years, most service industry jobs that were moved to countries like India were considered relatively low-skill tasks like answering customer inquiries.
There was a time when cataract surgery involved anaesthesia and one took days to recover. But not only does it take around two hours nowadays, one does not even have to wait till a cataract is fully ‘ripe’
The feud between Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, one-time best of friends, had all the elements of a literary classic: accusations of betrayal, jealousy and adultery
The Senate went on record for the first time on Tuesday in favour of a withdrawal date from Iraq, with Democrats marshaling the votes they needed to deliver a forceful rebuke to President Bush’s war policy.
I’m not sure that we need any more, but here are two new examples that define “over the top” in air travel: The superjumbo A380, all 10,000 square feet of it, as a personal or business jet.
The case is being seen as the first major test of the historic legislation guaranteeing private property rights passed by the National People’s Congress
After a firestorm of speculation, the Blackstone Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, has said that it would seek an initial public offering
Damage to an area of the brain behind the forehead, inches behind the eyes, transforms the way people make moral judgments in life or death situations, scientists reported
A House Judiciary subcommittee today authorised subpoenas for Karl Rove, President Bush’s political adviser, and other senior White House officials in the investigation into the firing of eight United States attorneys.
Along the Afghan border, not far from this northwestern city, Islamic militants have used a firm foothold over the past year to train and dispatch suicide bombers against American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Alcohol, strictly forbidden by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan, is involved in a growing number of crimes committed by troops deployed to those countries.
Four hundred people packed into an auditorium at UCLA in January to listen to a public lecture on prime numbers, one of the rare occasions that the topic has drawn a standing-room-only audience.
Inside Washington, the frustration of doing business with Pakistan’s President, General Pervez Musharraf, is matched only by the fear of living life without him.
