Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system with a lethal gas. They were stopped not by any intelligence breakthrough, but by an order from Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Zawahiri. And the U.S. learned of the
Dozens of members of the Bush administration's domestic security team are now collecting bigger paychecks working on behalf of companies that sell domestic security products, many directly to the federal agencies the officials once helped run.
The $65 million communications satellite is part of a wider plan to raise the profile of the country, one of the world's top 20 oil producers, as a key player in the Central Asian region while maintaining good ties with neighbouring Russia.
If there was a prize for biggest sperm in nature, it would go to Drosophila bifurca, a tiny fruit fly whose coiled sperm would measure more than 2 inches long if straightened out.
That's 1,000 times longer than an average human sperm.
Starbucks Corp. may be next on the target list of a consumer-health group that this week sued the operator of the KFC fried chicken restaurant chain for frying foods in oils high in harmful trans fat.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest sa
Representatives from NASA's Office of Safety and Mission Assurance and the Office of the Chief Engineer recommended against flying [the shuttle] until further design changes are made to the external fuel tank. Despite their recommendations, they
Hooters Chairman Bob Brooks said that he wants to reimburse FEMA for the $200 bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne that was purchased with a government credit card issued to Hurricane Katrina victims. Among numerous examples of improper spending of hurri
Basra in the south of Iraq is beginning to splinter under increasing violence and sectarian divisions.
Smuggling of oil on a large scale coupled with increasing violence and the lack of basic services like water and electricity has caused increasi
What really happened in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005? Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including 10 women and children and an elderly man in a wheelchair. But how and why it happened and who ultimately bears responsibility are matters of profound dispu
Pentagon investigators threatened the death penalty and used other coercive techniques to obtain statements from some of the seven Marines and a Navy corpsman jailed for the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian, two defense lawyers say.
[This is the most dangerous phishing scheme!] A cross-site scripting flaw in the PayPal Web site allows a new phishing attack to masquerade as a genuine PayPal log-in page with a valid security certificate, according to security researchers.
By employing cryptography, the researchers say they can ensure that law enforcement, intelligence agencies and private companies can sift through huge databases without seeing names and identifying details in the records. [trust us]
China's top satellite launcher has angrily denied US accusations that it was assisting Iran's missile programmes and demanded that its assets in the US be freed up, state press has said.
The embattled co-chief executive of Airbus parent EADS defended his sale of shares in the company before news of delays to Airbus' A380 superjumbo sent the stock tumbling, even as France's market regulator confirmed that it would look into th
When a 76-year-old pensioner recently told Jill Schlesinger he wanted to put 10 percent of his $100,000 portfolio into gold, the financial adviser knew the latest investment craze would likely end badly, and soon.
The US is not prepared to cope with a large-scale terrorist attack or a powerful hurricane, the Department of Homeland Security said. "Evacuation, attention to populations with special needs, command structure, and resource management, were area
Iran's foreign minister said the government likely would suggest amendments to a Western package of incentives meant to persuade the Islamic republic to give up its uranium enrichment program.
Would not give any timing for Iran's response
"Suppose you almost always vote for candidates from one of the 2 major parties. If you do this, the optimal strategy for the parties is to IGNORE you completely. Since the candidate already knows that your vote is in hand he can concentrate on m
A few Texas ranchers tired of costly repairs to cattle fences damaged by illegal immigrants have installed an easier route over the U.S.-Mexican border ladders.
"It's an attempt to get them to use the ladders instead of tearing the fences
The submarine that William T. Mabin was in disappeared while on a mission to attack a Japanese convoy in the last months of World War II. The Navy says a wreck found at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand appears to be the USS Lagarto.
SpeedAlert, links real-time location data and speed obtained with the help of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to a database of posted speed limits stored in a driver's PDA or programmable mobile phone.
Without a Net neutrality law proponents say providers would be able to "look at the packets going over their lines, and block or degrade access based on how much protection money their clients have paid them." Not long ago, I was very much
Gritty rats and mice living in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems than their squeaky clean cousins that frolic in cushy antiseptic labs, two studies indicate. The lesson for humans: Clean living may make us sick.
Dating from around 690 B.C., the underground burial chamber is decorated with roaring lions and migratory birds. Experts are hailing it as the earliest example of the funerary decorations that would later become common in the Greek and Roman world.
The US urgently needs an effort similar to the Manhattan Project or NASA's moon mission to confront a looming energy crisis, scientists said. "A sense of urgency is needed like the Manhattan Project or sending a man to the moon,"
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When scientists wanted to find the best way to collect water, they looked to the dime-sized Namib Desert beetle.
Engineers from the MIT have developed some "biomimicry" material after reading about the insect's water-catching tactics
The Homeland Security Department produced a letter Friday from disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke'' Cunningham recommending a limousine company for federal contracts - a day after claiming it didn't have such a letter.
A bunch of states team up and give all their electoral college votes to the nationwide popular-vote winner, regardless of who won the most votes in their state. Then, the candidate who garners the most citizen votes in the country moves into the Whit