Thursday 24 September '09
Steep investment losses have caused painful cutbacks at some of the US’s best-known universities over the most recent fiscal...Wednesday 23 September '09
Some 100 heads of state gathered at the United Nations for an unprecedented daylong conference on combating climate change with key leaders like presidents Hu Jintao of China and Barack Obama acknowledging that agreement is an important goal.Wednesday
23 September '09L. Mahadevan, a 44-year-old applied mathematician at Harvard and Maneesh Agrawala, 37, of the University of California, are among the 24 recipients of the $500,000 genius awards.Tuesday
22 September '09Ahmad Wais Afzali had for years been a popular imam in Queens. He was also a source of information for local and...Tuesday
22 September '09It was just over two years ago that Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois with aspirations to the presidency...Monday
21 September '09After a frustrating week of shuttle diplomacy here in which the Obama administration failed to persuade Israelis and Palestinians to renew...Monday
21 September '09The global stock markets have been soaring. They may have gone too far, too fast.Sunday
20 September '09Seven former directors of the CIA asked President Obama on Friday to shut down the Justice Department inquiry into abuses...Sunday
20 September '09The Denver shuttle bus driver at the centre of a federal terrorism investigation has begun to cooperate with the...Sunday
20 September '09“Like a locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives.” That is how a shark expert, Matt Hooper, described Carcharodon megalodon...Saturday
19 September '09Russian Prime Minister Vladimir V Putin praised US President Obama on Friday for canceling a plan for an antiballistic missile system in Eastern Europe....Saturday
19 September '09In a study that will provide comfort to chocolate enthusiasts everywhere, researchers in Sweden have found evidence that people who eat chocolate...Friday
18 September '09One of Southeast Asia’s most wanted terrorists, a fugitive Islamist leader held responsible for organising the deadliest attacks in Indonesia....Friday
18 September '09US President Obama announced on Thursday that he will scrap former President George W Bush’s planned missile defence system in Poland....Friday
18 September '09A Lab technician was arrested early on Thursday and charged in the killing of Annie M Le, a Yale graduate student whose body was hidden in the wall of a university building....Friday
18 September '09Mary Travers, whose ringing, earnest vocals with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary made songs like Blowin’ in the Wind, If I Had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?...Thursday
17 September '09The 24-year-old graduate whose body was found in a Yale University medical building had said nothing about being stalked...Thursday
17 September '09China’s Communist Party convened its annual plenary session of its 17th Central Committee on Tuesday with mandate to root...Thursday
17 September '09After a year that threatened to engulf the automobile business in a bruising contraction in world trade and most Western...Wednesday
16 September '09Patrick Swayze, the balletically athletic actor who rose to stardom in the films Dirty Dancing and Ghost and whose battle...Wednesday
16 September '09There is a “for sale” sign in the front yard, not that potential buyers would see it. The street is closed to nonresidents by...Tuesday
15 September '09A British judge sentenced three men to life in prison on Monday for plotting to bomb at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners with...Tuesday
15 September '09Western powers now in Afghanistan run the risk of suffering the fate of the Soviets if they cannot halt the growing insurgency...Tuesday
15 September '09The police in New Haven believe the apparent slaying of a Yale graduate student “doesn’t appear to be a random act...Tuesday
15 September '09Kim Clijsters dropped down on her knees in disbelief, and then looked to the stands to find her golden-locked daughter...
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