Apr 22 2008
HE’S played Gandhi, won an Oscar and been knighted by the Queen – but I have a feeling this may be the highlight of SIR BEN KINGSLEY’S career.
Apr 22 2008
Hamas has said it is ready to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders but “will not recognise Israel”. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Khaled Meshaal, the exiled Hamas political leader, reaffirmed Hamas’s stance...
Apr 19 2008
Fears that the rapid draining of water from the top of Greenland’s ice sheet may be contributing to the rise of global sea levels have been allayed by new research. Though scientists confirmed that the water can drain away faster than Niagara...
Apr 18 2008
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner said farmers were responsible for massive brushfires that left the capital blanketed in smoke. A thick layer of smoke covered Buenos Aires Thursday and forced the cancellation of some flights, La Nacion...
Apr 18 2008
Robert Mugabe is putting on a clinic for African despots. A lost election, inflation at 200,000% and the contempt of his people can’t budge the octogenarian. The Mugabe regime wobbled, briefly, after the March 29 elections. Opposition leader...
Apr 17 2008
Michael Dell has said his firm can regain its spot as the world’s number one PC maker by switching its focus to consumers and the developing world.
Apr 16 2008
Blowing through one nostril at a time, Andrew Dahl inflated 213 balloons within an hour Friday — a feat that has been submitted for review by Guinness World Records.
Apr 16 2008
MBTA riders, especially women, have long complained of a not-so-subtle form of sexual harassment on crowded buses and subways. more stories like this Now T officials are trying to clamp down on the unwanted physical contact with a new ad campaign to be...
Apr 15 2008
Texas officials who took 416 children from a polygamist retreat into state custody sent many of their mothers away Monday, as a judge and lawyers struggled with a legal and logistical morass in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.
Apr 15 2008
There’s a possibility that the chemical found in plastic water bottles, baby bottles and the lining of many food, drink and baby formula cans could be linked to health problems, including prostate cancer, breast cancer and early-onset puberty