They squander their days watching TV and surfing the Web instead of studying, but it's not for lack of discipline: Gaza students accepted at foreign universities are stuck at home because Israel and Egypt won't let them leave the blockaded territory.
Laura Youngblood clutched her husband's photo as she drove alone to the hospital. She'd become pregnant nearly nine months earlier, the day he'd left for training for Iraq. Hours later, after the baby was born, she placed the photo in the bassinet next to the infant he'd named Emma in his last letter home. He would never hold her.
A Romanian man had his bid to renew his identity papers rejected because official records said he had died more than eight years ago. Gheorghe Stirbu, 61, a retiree, went to authorities last week to have his identity card reissued because the old one had expired.
Doctors shouldn't shy away from asking patients about their sex lives, a new research paper advises. Researchers say problems in the bedroom can translate into serious medical conditions, and ignoring sexual dysfunction may mean missing early indicators for heart failure, depression or other ailments, according to a paper published in Friday's issue of The Lancet.
In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.
The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II has been announced.
Interesting when the Science Editor (that's his title) of a pretty decent site like Softpedia gets hooked into a story that's obviously false. Or did he? I guess I wonder when this happens if they just post it to get traffic, or what?
They were Cold Warriors in search of an enemy -- just not the one they got. When the Clintonistas, on their way out of the White House, warned them about al Qaeda, they paid next to no attention. Non-state actors were for wusses.
Only 15 percent of children who need treatment are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, the world's largest gathering on AIDS and science, heard on Wednesday in Sydney, Australia.
About 30 animal lovers rushed to a parking lot in Shanghai after reading an internet posting sparked by animal rights activist Huo Puyang that said two trucks carrying cats in wooden boxes had been intercepted.
Our bodies grow in two major spurts during our lives. You probably don't remember the first, which occurred during the first few months of your life as you grew from a single cell into a fully formed baby.
With so much information coming too us each day it's imperative that we have a good system for filing and keeping track of our digital lives.
As the distraught couple surveyed the damaged they were told that the three-year-old car's wing mirror had become wedged in the side of the garage, almost certainly saving their lives.
LA JOLLA, Calif., May 16 (UPI) -- A new survey conducted by California-based everythingyoushouldknow.com found that 68 percent of Americans think their lives worthy of a book.
Interesting 1-day experiment from the BBC. Mini-blog entries from a variety of Iraqis at the start of their 4-day holiday celebrating the fall of Saddam.