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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.

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...

An Amnesty International report claims that Nigerian security forces had warning of an imminent attack four hours before Boko Haram abducted 300 schoolgirls from their school in Chibok in rural Nigeria, but failed to sen...

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...

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 ...

Egypt to try 200 suspected members of al-Qaida-inspired group for attacks and conspiracy

Bear Grylls, the TV adventurer and survivalist, is facing questions about whether he has misled viewers of his new TV show, The Island with Bear Grylls, on Britain’s Channel 4.

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo has been taking heat recently for their decision not to allow same sex relationships in Tomodachi Life, an upcoming life simulation game for the 3DS. An advocacy group for LGBT issues...

Pro-government crowds gather in capital, a day after rivals began campaign to remove remnants of ousted PM's cabinet.

Take a look back and how the crisis in Ukraine started and where we are today.