Massive Tropical Storm Brings Death, Flooding to US East Coast Days after withstanding a rare earthquake, large swaths of the densely populated U.S. East Coast have weathered Irene, a once-powerful hurricane later downgraded to a tropical storm. Iren...
Apple Changed Way the World Communicates Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple has produced products that have changed the way people around the world communicate, obtain information and entertain themselves. Here's a look at Apples success and w...
US Stocks Recover After Plunging on Bernanke Speech 美国股市开始恢复平稳 Despite very high expectations, the head of the U.S. central bank on Friday did not announce any major steps to bolster the U.S. economy. Speculation had been running...
Company Takes Biodiesel From Field to Fryer to Fuel In the worldwide search for alternative energy sources, vegetable oil is becoming an increasingly popular substitute for crude oil. Diesel-engine fuel can be made easily from soybean, canola or othe...
Four Dead as Hurricane Irene Churns Up US East Coast Hurricane Irene continues to pound the U.S. East Coast with heavy rains and strong winds, leaving at least four people dead in its wake and paralyzing ground and air traffic. U.S. officials say thr...
Scientists Infect Mosquitoes to Stop Dengue Australian researchers report success in attacking the insects that carry the dengue virus, a rarely fatal disease that nonetheless takes a huge toll in sickness and economic loss in the tropical areas wher...
Experts Recommend Screening Newborns for Heart Defects One of the scariest things a new parent can hear is, your baby has a birth defect. But some of the most dangerous birth defects are are invisible ones, such as deformities in the baby's tiny hear...
MRI-like Scan May Help Identify Alzheimer's Alzheimer's disease normally gets a definitive diagnosis only after the patient dies, and an autopsy finds certain distinctive structures in the brain. Recently, though, scientists have been seeking some so...
Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Honored with Memorial U.S. President Barack Obama leads the nation this Sunday in honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. - with the dedication of a new national memorial in Washington, DC. King was...
Study: Climate is Major Violence Trigger A new study in the journal Nature finds that war is associated with global climate. Researchers from Princeton University and the Earth Institute at Columbia University focused on the natural climate cycle kno...
Challenges Slow Kenyan Cotton Industry's Rebound Kenyas fledgling cotton industry has been picking up in recent months with a spike in world prices for cotton. But the once-flourishing business still has a lot of obstacles to overcome to increase the...
Sanctions Have Unintended Effect on Iran's Tourism Industry - Part 3 When you're talking about travel and tourism to Iran, you can't overlook the question of U.S. and international sanctions imposed against Tehran as part of the ongoing dispute over...
Iran Tourism Appeals to 'Adventure Travelers' - Part 2 A recent British opinion poll found Iran near the top of the list of countries people would definitely not visit. Yet nearly three million international visitors traveled to Iran last year, and t...
Inclusive Camp Welcomes Special Needs Children Many school children in the United States go to camp during the summer months, but what makes Camp Accomplish unique is that it brings children with disabilities together with those without disabilities....
Hispanic TV Networks Ramp Up Telenovela Production Hispanic television networks in the United States are ramping up domestic production of Spanish-language programming. Traditionally, most Spanish-language programs were brought-in from Central and So...
