America's equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel," a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world's knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood. At a million sq

Hundreds of refugees -- including many minors -- had hoped to reach U.K.

Health care reform has produced a generous serving of little oddities, i.e., The Futile Care Law allows a corporate hospital committee to overrule families and pull the plug on granny if the hospital deems any more treatment to be "futile." Tks GW Bush.

Last week, many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were innoculated with the tamiflu vaccine. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading.

WASHINGTON - Seven former CIA directors asked President Barack Obama on Friday to quash a criminal probe of harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration. The CIA directors, who served both Democratic and Republican presidents ...

The US Congress, while busily building such shelters for its members and staff, as well as stocking up on gas masks and other equipment, is strangely quiet when it comes to supplying US citizens with such equipment. Had they forgone shelters and masks the

DALLAS - Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman

Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug who won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating world hunger and saving nearly 1 billion lives, which kick-started the 'Green Revolution' has died Saturday in Dallas from complications due to cancer at age 95.

"Our government is now a corporate criminal enterprise extorting the wealth productivity of the people. The people are so used to it and so conditioned they no longer know how to ask questions or extrapolate outcomes. They just react in fear..."

A look at characters caught up in famous financial scandals