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Conflict between hardline animal rights groups and whalers in the Antarctic has reached crisis point after a Japanese whaling ship tore the bow off a protest vessel yesterday.
An American pilot has pleaded guilty to being over the alcohol limit as he prepared to take off from Heathrow Airport in London, England.
A spill of diesel fuel in China’s second-longest river has been “effectively” contained by barricades according to the China National Petroleum Corp.
Amid fears of further terrorist attacks the Yemeni government has ordered an “unprecedented” number of troops into the region controlled by Al Qaeda.
With just over 3,000 left in the world, efforts to save tigers from extinction will be stepped up in 2010 after it topped the World Wide Fund for Nature’s list of most endangered species.
Montana’s Supreme Court has ruled that self-administration of lethal drugs under a doctor’s care is not illegal.
2009 finally receives some compliments from Ezra Klein at the Washington Post after a thorough panning from most commentators.
Two-thirds of President Karzai’s proposed cabinet appointees have been rejected by the Afghan Parliament.
At least 93 people were killed in northwest Pakistan when a truck filled with explosives was detonated at a volleyball tournament.
A Swedish program is helping American families change their lives to see that reducing energy consumption needn’t be painful.
The rare earth metal crucial for clean-energy technology is found in vast quantities in China but its export is tightly controlled.
Police around the world were highly organized and out in force during last night’s celebrations on the lookout for drunkards and terrorists.
A federal judge has thrown out the case against five Blackwater employees accused of killing 17 innocent Iraqi civilians.
The famous NYC restaurant that Robert Moses inspired has served its last meal until bankruptcy negotiations are completed.
They say you shouldn’t make huge, quixotic resolutions at New Years. Pick something small, something gradual, something you’ll stick to. Instead of swearing you’ll get down to a size zero, […]
Yesterday and today I’ve departed from commenting on the media in order to raise awareness of a contemporary political injustice. The story of Don Siegelman is astounding given the facts of […]
The Russian space agency wants to deflect the asteroid Apophis from its course toward the earth by 2032.
New scientific data suggests that natural variability explains this year’s cold winter and that global temperatures are still on the rise.
The first Blue Moon in 19 years will usher in the New Year imbuing an already crazy night with more superstitions.
Right now, just hours after someone detonated an improvised explosive device and killed four Canadian soldiers and one Canadian journalist in Afghanistan, I’m reflecting on words Canada’s defense minister spoke […]
Today and tomorrow I depart from commenting on the media in order to raise awareness of a contemporary political injustice. The story of Don Siegelman, former governor of Alabama, is […]
A controversial full-body scan that examines private areas is scheduled to be used increasingly across U.S. airports including O’Hare.
The Obama Administration is gearing up to support immigration reform that improves border security and provides a path to citizenship.
An Illinois physics professor helped the Secret Service to break up a ring of businesses making huge profits by selling fake diplomas.
The Japanese have created a robotic hummingbird that weighs two and a half grams and flaps its wings 30 times per second.
Kudos to Matthew Urbanksi, the principle landscape architect (Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates) charged with mapping the natural layout of a new $3.8 million Manhattan playground. Urbanski thought to consult experts […]
China executed a British citizen early this morning for smuggling heroin despite claims the man was severely mentally ill.
Pirates have taken a U.K. flagged chemical tanker off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden and can be expected to demand a ransom.
Exciting news for Gen-Y back-to-the-landers this month. If you went upstate after college instead of to Wall Street, if you’re growing carrots and raising beef to sell at local farmers’ […]
It’s hard to avoid the barrage of end-of-decade retrospectives this last week of 2009, a decade marked by an interesting combination of the sublime and the ridiculous. But in a […]