Washer of dead bodies in Baghdad comes face to face with violence

Friday 25 August '06

They arrive in borrowed wooden coffins. He lifts them to his marble slab, cuts away their clothes, stuffs their wounds with cotton.

Granma frowns but it’s C for Cuba & capitalism

Monday 21 August '06

Castro’s Cuba may be culturally off-limits to the United States, but it is clearly in touch with other parts of the world

New tapes tell of horrifying last moments inside the WTC

Friday 18 August '06

In what has become a ritual, New Yorkers got fresh and horrific glimpses of what happened inside the World Trade Center buildings the morning of September 11, 2001.

China moves to regulate songs in karaoke bars

Friday 21 July '06

With their control over newspapers, television, magazines and the Internet secure, censors in China are now turning their attention to the dim recesses of the nation’s karaoke parlours.

Shanghai shopping in ghost malls

Sunday 16 July '06

Amid the towering glass and steel splendour of the Plaza 66 mall — packed with boutiques from Dior...

Stopping the Clock

Sunday 16 July '06

Face lifts are outdated. A new generation of permanent dermal fillers—which make use of biology and synthetics—may turn collagen into a cosmetic dinosaur

Toying with trauma

Sunday 4 June '06

A soldier in a Humvee scoots across the desert, warily eyeing the vast, empty plain. A fire appears on the horizon, driving smoke high into the sky.

Monroe exhibit prompts lawsuit

Thursday 1 June '06

A Los Angeles law firm has filed what it hopes will become a class-action lawsuit against the organisers of the Queen Mary’s Marilyn Monroe memorabilia exhibit...

Space Age on Earth

Sunday 23 April '06

An engineer and his team want to make money on Mars and then bring the tech back to earth

The Lonely Gene

Sunday 23 April '06

If you’re feeling lonely, perhaps you should blame your genes. That’s what scientists at the University of Chicago and in the Netherlands found when they studied sets of twins to see whether there is a genetic predisposition to loneliness. There is.

Hunt for ancestral bones

Sunday 16 April '06

It’s a mystery that has baffled the world for more than a half-century. What happened to the fossils of the prehistoric human ancestors known as Peking Man?

Brain’s Darwin Machine

Sunday 16 April '06

Scientists find evidence of a perpetual evolutionary battle in the mind. The process, they suspect, is the key behind individuality