Following on from genetic engineering, nanotechnology represents the latest high technology attempt to infiltrate our food supply. Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of atoms and molecules....

Seven score and five years after Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, 40,000 to 50,000 still toil in the United States. And about 27 million in the world.

The Wall Street calamity that obliterated $2 trillion in retirement savings nationwide has left Bay State baby boomers with shattered careers, retirement plans and hopes.

The BBC World News reports the iconic children's program, Sesame Street is broadcasting episodes to help kids cope with the long absence of their service personnel parents "manning" the walls of the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Scientists have confirmed that the first genetically altered humans have been born and are healthy. Up to 30 such children have been born - 15 of them as a result of one experimental programme at a US laboratory.

"If you're a student in Virginia, how do you get access to a Burger King internal document?"

An aviation-fueling company has agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million to black and Hispanic workers who said they were taunted with hangman's nooses, racist cartoons and other racial slurs.

Genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - and on the entirety of the Africa continent - is the direct result of deliberate policies by American and European governments and the multinational corporations they serve.

The Bush administration jumped into a long-running legal fray in California on Tuesday, exempting the Navy from a law that environmental groups have used to prevent the use of a type of powerful sonar that is believed to harm whales.

I had been in Iraq for about two months when my brigade suffered its first fatality. He died from a gunshot wound to the head. Nobody wanted to believe that it had happened. The deployment was supposed to be quick and easy; we were supposed...............