NEW YORK – A “perfect” 100-carat diamond in a classic emerald cut is going on the auction block, where it could fetch between $19 million to…
LONDON – Royal officials say Britain’s new prince has been named George Alexander Louis. Palace officials said Wednesday that the 2-day-old baby and third-in-line to…
POLICE fired tear gas and rubber bullets in Geneva on Saturday to weed out violent demonstrators against a meeting of top world trade officials, but…
AMERICANS Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories…
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…
RESEARCHERS in Israel say they have developed a computer program that can decipher previously unreadable ancient texts and possibly lead the way to a Google-like…
MISS Venezuela was the fairest of them all once again, winning the 2009 Miss Universe crown for the second year straight and the sixth time…
RELIGIOUS authorities in Malaysia postponed yesterday the caning of a Muslim woman convicted of drinking alcohol until after the holy month of Ramadan. The planned…
NORTH Korea announced yesterday it had agreed to resume reunions of families separated by the border with South Korea and restart stalled tourism ventures in…
THE first astronauts to walk on the moon want United States President Barack Obama to aim for a new goal: Mars. Early this morning (Singapore…