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Obama: $1 trillion deficits 'for years'

01.07

An expensive economic recovery plan will add to the short-term federal shortfall. But experts warn the bigger problem by far is the long-term picture.

German battlefield yields Roman surprises

01.07

Archaeologists have found more than 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarians in the third century.

Israel Using Depleted Uranium Against Gaza Victims

01.05

...meaning the ultimate death toll could be far higher as future generations are plagued by cancers and birth defects.

GOOGLE tries converting every book ever written to digital...

01.05

Google gives out-of-print books a new life online

For Privacy’s Sake, Taking Risks to End Pregnancy

01.05

The pills were small and white, $30 for 12. Ms. Dominguez, two or three months pregnant, went to a friend’s apartment and swallowed the pills one by one...

Is Saturn losing its rings?

01.04

The sixth planet from the sun, Saturn, is perhaps best known for its many rings, which consist of billions of particles of ice and rock.

Europe feels heat from gas stand-off

01.04

Russia and Ukraine traded insults at the weekend as a gas stand-off between the two countries entered a fifth day!

Israeli troops move into Gaza Strip

01.03

GAZA, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by helicopters advanced into Gaza on Saturday

Scientists Extend The Lifetime Of Quantum Memory

01.03

Storing and sending information using quantum phenomena is one of the hottest areas of research today.

'Viagra lure' for Afghan warlords

12.29

America's CIA has found a novel way to gain information from fickle Afghan warlords - supplying sex-enhancing drug Viagra, a US media report says.

Who's infrastructure is it?

12.29

Cash-strapped states weigh selling roads, parks.

Aussie arrested in Egypt for mummy smuggling

12.24

CAIRO — An Australian teacher who stuffed his luggage with 2,000-year old animal mummies and religious figurines wrapped as gifts was arrested Wednesday, an Egyptian airport security official said.

IMF chief warns 2009 may be 'even darker'

12.22

Hallelujah! Cohen classic dominates British music charts

12.22

Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" made British chart history Sunday when it became both number one and number two in the Christmas singles charts -- although both versions were covers.

Boy, 9, Recovers After Decapitation Separates Skull From Neck

12.22

A 9-year-old Texas boy has almost fully recovered after suffering an orthopedic decapitation in a car accident 3 months ago,

The dollar is a terribly flawed currency.

12.21

Rogers: The Elite Are Turning A Recession Into A Depression

12.19

Veteran investor Jim Rogers warns that the policies of central banks and politicians & Barack Obama’s taxation agenda will only make the problem much worse.

Mexican Volcanic Glaciers Disappearing Due to Climate Change

12.19

The glaciers atop the Iztaccíhuatl and Pico de Orizaba volcanoes in Central Mexico will disappear in the next 10 to 35 years due to global warming.

A $17.4 Billion, 3-Month Lifeline for Automakers

12.19

President Bush tossed General Motors and Chrysler a temporary lifeline from the taxpayers on Friday, announcing $13.4 billion in emergency loans

2 light planes collide in Australia; 2 dead

12.17

Two women were killed Thursday when a pair of light planes collided while flying over suburban Sydney, causing one of them to crash into the backyard of a home and burst into flames.

Chrysler to Shut Factories for a Month

12.17

Chrysler said Wednesday that it would close all 30 of its factories for at least one month, starting at the end of this week, in response to plunging vehicle sales in the United States.

Morgan Stanley Posts $2.36 Billion Loss

12.17

Morgan Stanley reported a fourth-quarter loss of $2.36 billion — or $2.34 a share

Children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms

12.17

A few weeks before 13-year-old Jonathan King killed himself, he told his parents that his teachers had put him in "time-out."

Sun Induces Strange 'Breathing' of Earth's Atmosphere

12.16

New satellite observations have revealed a previously unknown rhythmic expansion and contraction of Earth's atmosphere on a nine-day cycle.

Scientists fool bacteria into killing themselves to survive

12.16

Researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have found a way to fool a bacteria's evolutionary machinery into programming its own death.

Greece-Style Riots Coming To U.S.

12.15

Troops and mercenaries will be used to detain Americans in prison camps, warns deadly accurate trends forecaster

No One Else Is Reducing Emissions That Much So We Won’t Either: Australia

12.15

Scam victims: Finance giants count losses

12.15

List of potential victims in what is said to be a massive Ponzi scheme run by money manager Bernard Madoff continues to grow.

Americans rich and poor pawn more to pay bills

12.15

Whether it’s a Tiffany diamond or a three-year-old lawnmower, more and more Americans from all social classes are pawning their possessions to make ends meet.

Mind-Reading Computer Takes Images Straight out of Your Brain

12.12

Japanese scientists at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs have successfully built a machine that can read your mind - or at least getting images straight from your brain

Scientists find 2,000-year-old brain in Britain

12.12

One expert unconnected with the find called it "a real freak of preservation."

Japan Uses Footsteps to Create Energy

12.12

400,000 people use the Tokyo station every day, meaning there is enough energy to light up signs at the very least.

Key to regulation of puberty discovered

12.12

A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cukurova in Turkey have taken a major step to understanding how the brain controls the onset of puberty.