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

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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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