Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.Helms died at 1:15 a
Heavily armed militias shatter the stillness in this central African park. Desperate refugees crowd park boundaries. Charcoal producers strip forests. Then, last summer, someone killed seven of these magnificent creatures in cold blood.The killers waited
Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization's largest cities.The soaring Teotihuacan stone pyramids, now a major tourist site
An RAF technician who shook his baby daughter to death then blamed his wife for the killing was jailed for six years and eight months today.Gareth Harries, 25, attacked eight-month-old Chloe when she would not stop crying.He initially blamed his wife Hayl
In an unprecedented attempt to revive the tiger population in western India, authorities airlifted a female tiger to a national reserve Friday where it will join a male tiger delivered there last week.The tigers were carried by Indian Air Force helicopter
The solar system may not be a nice round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring the solar system's outer limits, scientists said.Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 unmanned probes
A plan to kill badgers in England has been scrapped after the government decided it's not the best way to control a disease that's killing cows.A report by scientists recommended that a badger cull would help control bovine tuberculosis, or TB, in cattle.
A SINGAPOREAN housewife who set her dog on an Indonesian maid was sentenced to 20 months in jail for what a prosecutor called one of the worst cases of maid abuse.Tay Siew Hoon, 53, received the sentence in court yesterday.Prosecutor Lim Tse Haw said the
A two-year-old boy has driven his parents to despair by refusing to eat any food apart from yoghurtLittle Bobby Glarvey eats his way through 14 pots of his favourite dairy food every day and refuses to eat anything else that his parents put in front of h
What was before this universe is currently anybody's guess, but it is highly likely that it was preceded by a similar universe and therefore time existed before the Big Bang. The evidence to back this theory is said to be found in the Cosmic Microwave Bac
