A patented technology created by Warner Bros. in collaboration with AOL involves digitally realigning and sharpening the older film negatives of classic movies shot on Technicolor three-strip film. Known as Ultra Resolution, nominated for a Academy A
Scientists in Italy believe they have uncovered a murder — 400 years after it is thought to have taken place. Historians have long suspected that Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife were poisoned — by Francesco's
Cars fitted with the detection system will not start if sweat sensors in the driving wheel detect high levels of alcohol in the driver's bloodstream. Also kick in if the sensors detect abnormal steering, or if a special camera shows the driver
Iraq will execute two former henchmen of Saddam Hussein Thursday, five days after the former dictator was himself hanged in Baghdad, an official at the Iraqi prime minister's office said Wednesday.
"Your citizens, the people for whom you work, have told you they do not want this, and moreover, they do not want you to do this. Yet once again, sir, you have ignored all of us."
First Lieutenant Ehren Watada still refuses Iraq deployment orders, calling the war illegal. A six-year prison term could result. Preliminary hearings are set for Thursday.
After being paraded around the nation and displayed in front of the media outlets daily for the past week, maybe we can move on beyond this mostly forgettable man. [For a President, that is a complement.]
We're all Boise State fans now. At least everyone who stayed up until after 1 a.m. on the East Coast to watch the Broncos' remarkable come-from-ahead-then-behind victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.
After nineteen years, 64-year-old Harrison Ford can't wait to reunite with the old crew and start working on the fourth “Indiana Jones” installment which is planned to be ready by 2008.
At this time of year, more specifically the end of it, news organizations such as ourselves take a step back from the ever-spinning gerbil wheel of human events and attempt to divine some sort of meaning from it all.
Shehadeh flew from Frankfurt to Las Vegas hoping to meet his wife and drive to Bakersfield, Calif., where his American-born daughter had just passed the California bar exam. Instead, he sat shivering in a holding cell without ever being told why he c
Living in the woods on the shore of the 60 acre Walden Pond, a mile from the village of Concord, Massachusetts , Henry David Thoreau had ample time to dwell on the topic of good and evil.
"Saddam Hussein signed his death warrant," Chapman argued, "when he got the U.N. to agree that he could hold his oil-for-food reserves in euros. Ahmadinejad appears determined to go down the same path."
If 2007 is to be a year of progress, change is necessary. Progress has never come about without change. The use of electricity, telecommunications, computers, increased wages, higher standards of living, and the whole way of life for every individu
A cluster of protesters will greet the new congressional leaders at the Capitol tomorrow. They will be liberals demanding a ban on torture, an end to warrantless domestic spying and a restoration of curbed civil liberties, and impeachment.
When U.S. forces killed the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, six months ago in a village near here, they hoped security would improve in this strategic province just north of Baghdad.
Instead, security has collapsed in Diyala provinc
The USA PATRIOT Act, passed unanimously by Congress, stipulates penalties for criticism of the government. Patriotism, to the framers of the act, means supporting the decisions of our political leaders and that dissent is un-American.
Somalia's internal affairs minister and assistant prime Minster, Hussein Mohammed Farah Aideed, who has convened with tribal elders in Mogadishu, said his government intends to wipe out the boundaries between Somalia and Ethiopia.
New York Times reports Bush plans to fire General Casey, commander of American forces in Iraq, whose plan to transfer security responsibility to Iraqis failed. American Generals agree: Bush doesn’t want withdraw, he wants victory
On Jan. 2, the BBC reported a leak from a "senior administration source" that President George Bush is going to give a speech, whose "central theme will be sacrifice," announcing an increase in US troops in Iraq for security purpo
If in your presence an individual tried to sacrifice an American serviceman or woman, would you intervene? Would you at least protest? What if he had already sacrificed 3,003 of them?
Rather than listening to the Baker-Hamilton commission, the petulant frat boy who imagines himself Winston Churchill at the height of World War II is far more likely to pay attention to the recommendations of another report, this one prepared by the
An Israeli firm has designed a security system to ensure jailbreakers or intruders find a guard dog's bark can indeed be worse than its bite.
Harnessing technology that interprets barking -- to see if an animal is responding to a threat instea
The Daily Telegraph of London reported on Tuesday that U.N. peacekeepers and civilian staff were raping and abusing children as young as 12 in southern Sudan.
Lawyers for Didden took the matter to federal court. They are asking the US Supreme Court to examine whether a private company can demand payment in exchange for refraining to seize private property in an urban renewal zone.
The discovery of a 2,000-year-old toilet at one of the world's most important archaeological sites is focusing renewed interest on a question that has preoccupied scholars for more than half a century: Who lived at Qumran?
A man hunting for American Indian artifacts with his sons along a gravel bar on the Missouri River has uncovered an ancient fishhook that is making collectors envious.
"The first thing I thought is, 'I hope this isn't metal,'