May 10 2008

New research on cane toads in Northern Australia has discovered a way to control the cane toad invasion using parasites and toad communication signals.

May 9 2008

Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of key parts of Beirut from Sunnis loyal to the U.S.-backed government Friday, a dramatic show-of-force certain to strengthen the Iranian-allied group’s hand as it fights for dominance in Lebanon’s political...

May 9 2008

Senator Barack Obama began trying to rally the Democratic Party around him on Thursday and struck a tougher tone against Senator John McCain, saying McCain was “losing his bearings” in his pursuit of the White House.

Even as Senator Hillary Rodham...

May 8 2008

Iran has dismissed any prospect of new talks with the United States on Iraq, accusing US-led forces of a “massacre” of the Iraqi people.

May 8 2008

THE rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book.

May 8 2008

U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they’re catching them on the way out.

At random times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been setting...

May 8 2008

Pushed to the fringes by a money-driven social divide, Rosa is what Cubans call a “marginal” person.

She’s lived all of her 72 years in a shabby enclave of Marianao, a neighborhood where crude wooden cottages, their rotting boards held together...

May 7 2008

The deadly cyclone that ripped into Myanmar poses a threat to the stranglehold on power of the country’s ruling generals, becoming a force for change more powerful than huge pro-democracy demonstrations and international sanctions.
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May 5 2008

In following the will of its people by attempting to find a negotiated solution to mounting extremism, the new Pakistani government is wading against American skepticism, the lessons of the recent past, and – some suggest – its own military...

May 5 2008

here is a primal link between man and fire. Every man should know how to start one. A manly man knows how to start one without matches. It’s an essential survival skill. You never know when you’ll find yourself in a situation where you’ll need a...