After years of relative somnolence, the sun is beginning to stir. By the time it’s fully awake in about 20 months, the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., charged with...
California’s Death Valley, already one of the hottest places on Earth, may have the potential to get a whole lot hotter — and live up to its name in a surprising (and possibly scary)...
OAKLAND, Calif. – Oakland police said they arrested about 300 people Saturday as protesters spent a portion of the day trying to get into a vacant convention center, and later broke into City Hall...
BACTERIA that can resist nearly all antibiotics have been found in Antarctic seawater. Björn Olsen of Uppsala University in Sweden and colleagues took seawater samples between 10 and 300 metres away from Chile’s Antarctic...
Adbusters, the radical, Vancouver-based anti-consumerist magazine, credited by many media outlets for launching the Occupy Wall Street protests, has put out an ad calling for 50,000 protestors to “Occupy” the G8 summit in May....
(CNN) — Occupy activists tossed pipes, bottles, burning flares and other objects Saturday at Oakland police, who responded by using tear gas and smoke grenades and arresting 19 demonstrators, police said. By late Saturday...
A leaked plan from the German government proposes a eurozone “budget commissioner” to take control of Greece’s tax and spending, reports say. The Financial Times, which has a copy of the plan, calls it...
TOKYO (BNO NEWS) — Two moderate earthquakes struck near a dormant volcano in eastern Japan on early Saturday morning, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The quake was...
Forget part time work, job fairs and temp agencies: To find a secure, long-term job, most pundits agree, the best route runs through the classroom. So with unemployment still high and underemployment even higher,...
A tropical cyclone and major bushfires are posing a twin threat to travellers in Western Australia’s central west. Authorities are concerned holidaymakers from Perth and elsewhere may find themselves stranded. The Fire and Emergency...
