October 13, 2006
Karim, one of the YouTube founders, is more interested in his degree course than in the millions he can make
October 13, 2006
October 11, 2006
North Korea warned today that it will regard increased pressure from the United States as a “declaration of war” that will be met with “physical measures,” as Japan announced tough new sanctions against the country.
October 11, 2006
October 11, 2006
Pearl was knowledgeable and trustful, Sheikh vengeful and focused
October 11, 2006
October 10, 2006
The North Korea nuclear test amounted to a major failure for China, which mounted one of its most extensive diplomatic efforts in years to find a negotiated solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis and to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to the Korean peninsula.
October 10, 2006
October 9, 2006
This summer Russia surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer. But is the government using green concerns to keep foreign companies out? Andrew E. Kramer reports from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
October 9, 2006
October 9, 2006
It was a rare and poignant moment, one that moved President Bush to tears. Not the current President Bush, but the first...
October 9, 2006
October 8, 2006
As both the CEOs went unscathed, they saw colleagues step down, seemingly serving as sacrificial lambs
October 8, 2006
October 7, 2006
Compulsive buying is just as common in men as in women, a telephone survey in the US has found, and in its extreme forms may be a psychiatric illness - an impulse control disorder associated with abnormal levels of depression and anxiety.
October 7, 2006
September 30, 2006
The New York Times Op-Ed page asked the seven candidates for the post of UN Secretary-General to respond to two questions: first to discuss an avoidable mistake the United Nations had made within the last five years. Second, what major reform they would undertake as secretary general. Excerpts from the answers five candidates gave.
September 30, 2006
September 26, 2006
A federal judge in New York today gave class-action status to a lawsuit that poses a major new threat to the tobacco industry...
September 26, 2006
September 26, 2006
When soldiers and tanks rolled onto the streets of Bangkok last week and the king appeared on TV with the generals...
September 26, 2006
September 26, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI sought again today to repair the Catholic Church’s rift with the Islamic world...
September 26, 2006
September 26, 2006
Air travellers in the US and those taking international flights from there will be allowed to carry drinks bought at the airport...
September 26, 2006
September 24, 2006
At a news conference after his spirited address to the United Nations on Wednesday, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela expressed one regret: not having met that icon of the world’s dissenters, linguist Noam Chomsky, before his death.
September 24, 2006
September 22, 2006
When President Bush and his advisers decided to allow President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran into the country to address the UN...
September 22, 2006
September 20, 2006
Researchers have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams. The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.
September 20, 2006
September 19, 2006
In the dense humidity of northern Cambodia, where canoes are the common mode of transportation...
September 19, 2006
September 19, 2006
George Foreman, the legendary boxer, had to make an unlikely return to the boxing ring in 1994 only to knockout Michael Moorer in the 10th round.
September 19, 2006
September 19, 2006
A secret investigation of news leaks at Hewlett-Packard was more elaborate than previously reported...
September 19, 2006
September 17, 2006
The Iraqi government plans to seal off Baghdad within weeks by ringing it with a series of trenches...
September 17, 2006
September 16, 2006
A video at your waist—this is not for you to stare at but for everybody else to do. What is more, it would be likely to attract comments, perhaps even foster conversation
September 16, 2006
September 16, 2006
FEW scientists have elicited such equivalent heaps of praise and criticism as James E. Lovelock, the British chemist, inventor and planetary diagnostician who has long foreseen a clash between humans and their planet.
September 16, 2006
September 16, 2006
LIARS, cheats, philanderers and murderers are not renowned for exquisite personal hygiene, but then no one has studied their showering habits.
September 16, 2006
September 16, 2006
If the stress of a pink slip or the strain of physical exertion can set off a heart attack, then why not the emotion associated with birthdays?
September 16, 2006
September 16, 2006
Some factors are out of your control. People are born with metabolic differences. Some have a higher resting metabolic rate or produce more fat-burning enzymes
September 16, 2006