Officials in Bangladesh are working to control an anthrax outbreak that has infected nearly 300 people since its first detection two weeks ago.

The country was put on high alert Sunday as the bacterial disease continued to spread between [Read more...]

TOKYO – In a rare victory for Sony over arch-rival Apple, the Walkman portable music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in [Read more...]

God did not create the universe and the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

In “The Grand Design,” co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new [Read more...]

Sony’s battle to block the distribution of a hack for its PlayStation 3 (PS3) has been won in an Australian court but lost on the internet.

The court ruled on Friday that a ban on distribution of the PSJailbreak “dongle”, first issued on 27 August, would be [Read more...]

LONDON – Yoko Ono says John Lennon is still helping her in her endeavours as an artist and peace activist as she pays tribute to her late husband before what would have been his 70th birthday.

Ono visited Lennon’s childhood home and school in northern England’s [Read more...]

Nine years later, the September 11 terrorist attacks continue to affect our feelings and our memories. People who were directly affected by the attacks show the biggest long-term changes in both brain activity and body chemistry. You don’t have to have a clinical diagnosis to be [Read full story...]

A Brooks Brothers bow tie

Raymond E. Stauffer was shopping at a New Jersey mall when he noticed something peculiar about the bow ties on display at Brooks Brothers: They were labeled with old patent numbers.

Mr. Stauffer, who calls himself a “sharp-dressed man,” also happens to be [Read more...]

Important information for Toshiba Satellite T135, T135D and Satellite Pro T130 owners – The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada announced a recall following over 100 cases of the notebooks overheating and [Read more:]

President Viktor Yanukovych’s administration says law enforcers are finally cracking down on corruption. But the main targets are people close to former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who claims political persecution. She will lead an opposition rally on Sept. 7 outside of [Read more...]

Former Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn refuses to disclose his location, but says his not hiding.

If and when he returns to Ukraine, former Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn stands a strong [Read more...]