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In 1993, Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize for their tireless work ending apartheid in South Africa. Mandela had recently spent 27 years behind bars for his political views. Just a yea...

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Psychoanalysts, take note! A feast awaits you in the show, "Twin Visions: Jerome Witkin & Joel-Peter Witkin," at Jack Rutberg. The rest of us, too, are given plenty to chew on, much of it grisly and pungent. Identical tw...

The cost of 30-year home loans falls, even as the Fed eases its bond buying program.The cost of 30-year home loans falls, even as the Fed eases its bond buying program.

Whether you think Apple buying Beats Audio for $3.2 billion is a good idea or not, there's no question that the two companies have had a long, tangled relationship. Steve Jobs was a fan of Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine, ...

The U.S. Treasury never wanted to surrender control of its currency to a quasi-private agency. But after enduring a recent financial shock and subsequent bank run in 1907, Congress wasn't careful enough when creating our...

First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the White House weekly address on Saturday, in honor of Mother’s Day, to continue bringing attention to the nearly 300 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist grou...

New submitter InfoJunkie777 (1435969) writes "When you go to any place where 'cutting edge' scientific research is going on, strangely the computer language of choice is FORTRAN, the first computer language commonly used...

How could a package be lost for so long, and then turn up? U.P.S. can offer only theories.

The French and German leaders threaten further sanctions against Russia if Ukraine's presidential election fails to go ahead as planned.

Amazon is playing hardball with Hachette, nudging its consumers away from buying their books and delaying shipping them. The story was broken by the Times' David Streitfeld and is interesting throughout.

More than a decade after it revolutionized the music industry with the launch of iTunes, Apple Inc. remains the world's largest music retailer and one of the most recognized brands. So why, exactly, does it need to buy B...

A high-profile Senate bill that would dismantle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac suffered a blow this week when key Democrats decided not to support the legislation, likely wiping out its chances of advancing to the floor this...

University of Illinois researchers created vein-like tubes in a material that carry healing liquid to damaged sites. The system can repair damage that stretches more than an inch across.

Pundits, bloggers, Apple watchers and "experts" are falling all over themselves in a race to decry Apple's putative acquisition of Beats, the company best known for its colorful co-founder Dr. Dre and its near iconic hea...

Photographs which appear to show at least one UK serviceman posing with a dead Taliban fighter are being treated extremely seriously, the RAF says.

Lang Lang has always shown a respectful attitude toward past masters. In the notes for a new recording of piano concertos by Bartòk and Prokofiev, he mentions admiring the soulfully eloquent Hungarian soloist, Géza And...

Dr Rahul Pandey writes on effects of BJP & Modi's rise: "...The first is corruption and the other two are intrusions of business corporations and communal forces into India's natural resources and socio-cultural fabric r...

Here's one more book that identifies the Central Intelligence Agency as the principal killer of President Kennedy. The Agency surely had the motive and the means for the murder. It also puts the spotlight on the role of ...

A woman whose body was found outside high rise flats in Aberdeen is believed to have fallen from a window.

Agreement signed in Ethiopia ends months-long ethnic conflict in world's youngest country South Sudan's president has reached a ceasefire agreement with a rebel leader, an African regional bloc said on Friday, after a vi...

In an unusual move, US First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver her husband's weekly radio address to condemn the mass abduction of Nigerian girls.