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…
ON his final “Tonight” show, Conan O’Brien said walking away instead of accepting a demotion is the hardest thing he’s ever had to do. Despite…
ASTRONAUTS from Canada, Belgium and Russia landed safely on the Kazakhstan steppes yesterday following a six-month stint on the International Space Station. The Russian Soyuz…
A SPACEWALKING astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station. Expectant father Randolph…
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel thanked former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for making change possible in East Germany as she visited what was once a fortified…
A LUCKY property swap and a frenzy of building propelled a 19-year-old Norwegian student to the top of board game fame at the Monopoly World…
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…