Two of the internet’s biggest pornography firms are suing the net’s address regulator, Icann, over its introduction of the .xxx suffix. Manwin Licensing and Digital Playground have also filed a lawsuit against ICM Registry,...
ROME – The Vatican said Thursday it would take legal action against Benetton after the Italian fashion label used a photo purportedly showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing a leading imam in a publicity campaign....
(AP) DETROIT – An area with one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East is bracing itself for a 24-hour prayer rally by a group that counts Islam among the ills facing...
Lasers could help cause rain, scientists now suggest. The finding may give bone-dry regions of the world much-needed moisture, scientists say. Rainclouds form when airborne pockets of tiny particles condense water vapor around them....
The world wide web is about to get a red-light district. After more than a decade of debate, rejections and legal challenges, the Internet’s governing body began accepting applications for .xxx websites from the...
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would’ve declared life begins at conception, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a legal...
Mississippi is in the national spotlight today as voters there cast their ballots on the controversial “ personhood” measure and a voting provision that has spurred national debate. Initiative 26 is an ambiguously worded...
If fertility rates continue at expected levels, the world’s population is likely to reach 10.1 billion in the next 90 years. Based on conservative estimates, the number of people in the world should pass...
In a provocative experiment, researchers said Wednesday they had used a cloning technique to create early-stage human embryos that were partial copies of the patients from which they were derived.
