Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so [...]
Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so [...]
Scientists have repaired the world's largest atom smasher and plan by this weekend to restart the machineView from the central axis of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) tunnel of the ATLAS underground facility with the eight toroids surrounding the calorimeter
Scientists have repaired [...]
"We take our freedom for granted. But imagine not to be able to speak or discuss or debate or even question the society you live in," Tony Blair told the House of Commons in March 2003, urging [...]
Intriguing stuff right now in the world of Anglicans & Episcopalians:
For many sitting in the pews of Saint Augustine's Anglican church in north London it was a particularly special Sunday. There were three confirmations and one man received his first communion.
But amid the applause and smart outfits there was another sense of occasion, with [...]
Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guantánamo detention camp in the [...]
Few could have imagined this day, when communist ideas first began to spread in China in the 1920s. The nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek's vicious crackdown in Shanghai [...]
The bullet tore through Mao Guangrong's back and came out through his groin. It took five men to hold him down as they stuffed the wound with cloth to staunch the bleeding – the only treatment the troops could muster as [...]
From here to Hong Kong and myriad ports in between, millions will pause today at 17:59 on the 24-hour clock and raise a glass to the 18th-century Irish brewer who made the day worth celebrating.
The man: Arthur Guinness. While today is his 284th birthday, it [...]
Twenty-one white doves in Kabul? Hand-painted pinwheels in Texas? “Peace biking” in Phnom Penh? [...]
For generations, school meant books -- lots of books. But not [...]
Nothing pushes frontiers in science and technology – and the human imagination – like space travel to other bodies in space. Breaking the bounds of Earth is now the pursuit of more than a dozen nations, all eager for the [...]
Twenty years ago, Douglas Coupland was at work when he sneezed. It was December, he recalls, and snowing hard, and it was the biggest sneeze he'd ever had [...]
Perched above 10,000 feet in the icy reaches of the eastern Himalayas, the town of Tawang is [...]
His thesis was no immature document penned by a 21-year-old for an undergraduate class. It is a 93page manifesto written by a 34-year-old [...]
Opponents of health-care reform should be chanting "No more Medicare!" The arguments that have been made against the public option (a health insurance plan sold and administered by the federal government) apply with equal or greater force to Medicare.
Plan designed by the government? Check. Government bureaucracy? Check. [...]
MOON, Pa. — On' [...]
Bob McDonnell is proving to be a clever campaigner as he works to get himself elected [...]
“What is Maker Faire?” is perhaps one of the [...]
Awesome! : )Snoopy, the irreverent dog from the "Peanuts" comic strip, took time from his World War I dogfights as world-famous flying ace to become a world-famous astronaut for NASA's Apollo 10 mission.
The beagle now has a 5-foot-tall statue at Florida's Kennedy Space Center to' [...]
WHO IS the best candidate for Northern Virginia? Judge by appearances and there are two obvious possibilities in the Democratic primary for governor: Brian Moran, the former Alexandria [...]
West Coast energy giant PG&E unveiled a plan this week to put solar panels in orbit and wirelessly beam energy down to Earth by 2016.
Satellite solar cells would capture the sun’s rays 24 hours a day, without fear of cloudy mornings or dark [...]
Medieval knights hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, the Vatican said yesterday in an announcement that appeared to solve the mystery of the relic’s missing years.
The Knights Templar, an order which was suppressed and disbanded for alleged heresy, [...]
Last week the House Judiciary Committee passed the Free Flow of Information Act (HR 985), sending it to the House for a full [...]
Hundreds of billions of dollars in extra money was pledged along with a [...]
Dear readers:
The Christian Science Monitor has published its final daily print edition, dated March 27.
The key words in that sentence are "daily print." As of today, we are shedding print on a daily basis. But the Monitor itself – the century-old [...]
NEW YORK, March 16, 2009— Hearst Corporation announced today that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) will become the nation’s largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product. The announcement was made by Frank A. Bennack, Jr., vice chairman and chief executive officer, Hearst Corporation, and Steven R. Swartz, president of [...]
The launch of the Kepler spacecraft from Cape Canaveral in Florida today marks the beginning of the most ambitious hunt for planets like ours in distant solar systems.
The Kepler telescope will spend three-and-a-half years staring deep into a starry region [...]
Those policies were based on at least 10 legal [...]
Scientists have been struggling to understand why the northern sea ice has been retreating [...]
A US and a Russian satellite have collided in space hundreds of miles above Earth in what is believed to be the first major crash of two spacecraft in orbit.
The collision – which occurred nearly 500 miles over Siberia on Tuesday – caused massive' [...]
There was a time when a novelist could bestride the American cultural landscape. You could get on the cover of Time magazine. Reporters sought your opinion on politics, culture, sports, anything. Your short stories appeared in Esquire and Playboy. Needless to say, it was the men who ruled the [...]
President-elect Barack Obama will plunge into foreign policy on his first full day in office tomorrow, finally freed from the constraints of tradition that has forced him and his staff to remain muzzled about world affairs during the 78-day transitionAs one of his first actions, Obama [...]
The big bang, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, extrasolar planets, brown dwarfs, quasars, pulsars, cosmic rays, the space-time continuum, galaxies and more galaxies. Do you see what Galileo [...]
Economic reasons have forced the state's oldest morning newspaper into a sale, Steven [...]
Mr. Obama will be taking on the rebuilding of nations, including our own, on multiple fronts.
BAGHDAD — An unpublished, 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into [...]
Sixty years ago, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This concept of universal rights is under attack by some who think it is a Western construct, writes Barbara Crosette in The Nation. "Probably one of the existential issues in international human [...]
Wednesday, December 10, marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Spearheaded by former U.S. first lady and U.N. delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, the UDHR guaranteed the political and civic rights of all people, including the right to freedom from torture, slavery, poverty, homelessness and other forms [...]
Sam Zell acknowledged from the start that his deal for the Tribune Company was flawed.
“I’m here to tell you that the transaction from hell is done,” Mr. Zell said last December [...]
CHICAGO Newspaper and newspaper groups are likely to default on their debt and go out of business next year -- leaving "several cities" with no daily newspaper at all, Fitch Ratings says in a report on media released [...]
Ambassador William H. Luers, president of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), issued the following statement December 1st concerning President-elect Barack Obama’s nomination of Susan [...]
Plagued by advertising declines, The Virginian-Pilot is cutting at least 125 positions [...]
Staring at his computer screen in May, poking through images of the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomer Paul Kalas found himself staring at a tiny white dot. The dot appeared amid a great ring of [...]
CHICAGO The American Press Institute (API) will host an invitation-only, closed-door "summit conference" Nov. 13 in which 50 CEO-level executives will ponder ways to revive the newspaper business.
The one-day conference at API's Reston, Va., headquarters will be "a facilitated discussion of concrete steps the industry can take to reverse [...]
The United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) congratulates [...]
France Presse reports:
Leading US newspapers said [...]
Michael Crichton, the author of the blockbuster science-fiction novels “Jurassic Park,” “The Andromeda Strain” and “State of Fear,” has died. He was 66. [...]
... We are a culture without the will to seriously examine our own problems. We eschew that which is complex, contradictory or confusing. As a culture, we seek simple solutions. We enjoy being provoked and titillated, but resist the rigorous, painstaking examination of issues that might, in the end, bring [...]
U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Rocky Mount, gives conservatism a bad name.
His nativist appeals to the worst instincts of some of his constituents reached a crescendo with his shameful rhetoric following [...]
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Shatner is setting his phaser to stun against his [...]
1. John McCain, Straight-Talking Maverick
Despite a recent voting record that makes him one of the Senate's most conservative lawmakers, the press has clung fiercely to the notion that, as U.S. News & World Report put it, "McCain [...]
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britain's Ministry of Defense has released files on UFO sightings dating back to the 1970s, including witness accounts and the government's response.
The ministry on Wednesday released the files as part of a four-year project to transfer all of the UFO documents to the National Archives to make them [...]
Five years after the consecration of an openly gay bishop, conservatives who have left the Episcopal Church have organized into a cohesive movement, creating a de facto, if small, separate Anglican church in the United [...]
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