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Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the 44th President of the United States...
Record numbers of voters across the nation are casting ballots before election day, including high proportions of Democrats and African Americans in s
The star of Wednesday night’s final presidential debate was neither John McCain nor his rival, Barack Obama.
President Bush’s recent claims resurrect a question: Who are the real heroes of democracy in Asia — Americans or Asians?
Soot from coal-burning factories in the northeastern United States might have been the most important factor in the warming of the Arctic region at th
For now, the headquarters of Abdel Wahid’s faction of the Sudanese Liberation Movement is a cafe in Paris.
Recently, in Dallas, one elderly gentleman addressed me in a bookshop. He held a copy of my latest novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and examined t
Have we heard him right? Is Gordon Brown really suggesting a United States of Britain?
US commanders announced the start of a major offensive outside Baghdad on Saturday aimed at flushing out al-Qaeda-linked...
Monday night, 9 p.m. The darkened streets were eerily empty. At Bread, there were five people at a window table and a couple at the bar.
Something novel is occurring in this year’s election cycle. Gore has created a virtual textbook example of a multimedia candidacy
Jerry Falwell was a Christian who couldn’t be counted on to turn the other cheek
An emotional internal rift rocked the Los Angeles Times today, as publisher David D. Hiller scrapped a special edition of the paper’s Sunday
The South Pole of Mars contains enough ice to cover the planet in 35 feet of water if it melted, new radar scans have determined. The North Pole, rese
The most revealing aspect of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s testimony before a military tribunal may not have been the details about the many al-Qaeda...
A review of existing computer climate models suggests that global warming could transform the North Pole into an ice-free expanse of open ocean at the
... simple chest compression works better than mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, reports Japanese researchers in the latest edition of Lancet, giving hope
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Kuwaiti national who is believed to be the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative in US custody, told a military tribunal last
Maggie Farley on a little known mechanism whereby Iranian and American officials have been meeting one-on-one for more than a decade
Britain’s House of Commons took a historic step on Wednesday to endorse a fully elected House of Lords, a move that could eventually end the reign of
Lazy, shiftless couch potatoes of the world, here’s something to crow about.
No more invasive procedures. In 3-4 years, a simple blood test will be able to tell whether your unborn child is likely to suffer from a series of gen
A study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioural and social problems than youngsters w
With the Bush administration taking a pounding over erroneous prewar claims about Iraq in the summer of 2003, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff c
On Wednesday, when Democrat Senator Joe Biden joined the 2008 race for the White House
