A man has been charged with murder in Australia after an elderly man who was watering his garden was bashed to death in an apparent case of suburban water-rage.
In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.
Central banks, lauded as near infallible pilots of the monetary economy in recent years, are facing uncomfortable doubts about their collective grip on credit markets, interest rate structures and inflation.
Japan has ordered the withdrawal of its two ships supporting US-led operations in Afghanistan.
A church whose members cheered a soldier's death as "punishment" for US tolerance of homosexuality has been told to pay $10.9m (£5.2m) in damages.
Oil prices have continued their unremitting climb, passing the $96 a barrel mark after figures showed a surprise fall in US crude reserves.
On September 24, a Federal Judge in New York heard final oral arguments in the class-action settlement between MORGAN STANLEY and 22,000 of their clients involving costs associated with THE STORAGE OF PRECIOUS METALS.
Even as companies in China, Germany, Japan and the United States churn out silicon photovoltaic cells - which convert sunlight into electricity - at a blazing and accelerating rate, many experts have become convinced, paradoxically it would seem, that the technology is an also-ran, at least as far as global climate change goes.
Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities.
US President George W. Bush said a nuclear Iran would mean World War III. Israeli newscasts featured Gog & Magog maps of the likely alignment of nations in that potential conflict.
The rapidly growing appetite for fossil fuels in China and India is likely to help keep oil prices high for the foreseeable future - threatening a global economic slowdown, a top energy expert said Wednesday.
Britain is no longer a Christian nation and Christmas should be downgraded in favour of festivals from other religions to improve race relations, according to an explosive new report.
Gold barreled above $800 an ounce Wednesday for the first time since 1980 as investors cheered the FEDERAL RESERVE'S DECISION TO LOWER ITS BENCHMARK INTEREST RATE BY A QUARTER POINT.
A World Toilet Summit has opened in the Indian capital, Delhi, with more than 40 countries taking part.
Tropical storm Noel has left at least 48 people dead on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, officials say.