Scientists have unearthed three 160 000-year-old human skulls in Ethiopia that are the oldest known and best-preserved fossils of modern humans’ immediate predecessors.
The Indian government raised the global biotechnology stakes yesterday by saying it intended to feed ”nutritionally enhanced” GM potatoes to poor children as early as next year.
The US defence secretary yesterday tapped into deepening international concern about a clandestine nuclear programme in Iran, warning that Tehran was actively working to develop a bomb.
US military officials are making preparations for the trial and possible execution of captives held in Guantanamo Bay, including the construction of a ”death chamber”.
A teenage suicide bomber dressed as an Orthodox Jew killed 16 people on a rush-hour bus in the heart of Jerusalem yesterday, fulfilling a vow by the militant Islamic movement Hamas to avenge a botched Israeli attempt to assassinate its political leader a day earlier.
Tit-for-tat killings
When, at the age of 20, Steven Greenberg discussed his attraction to men as well as women for the first time, his religious counsellor offered a surprising view. ”He told me: ‘You have twice the power of love. Use it carefully.”’
For more than eight decades, the serenely beautiful likeness of Queen Nefertiti’s head has been the most celebrated exhibit in Berlin’s Egyptian Museum, attracting thousands of visitors and resisting all attempts at repatriation.
About the only buzz at the US Open is the hum of trains that dump fans by the hundreds near the first tee at Olympia Fields Country Club. On the eve of the year’s second major championship, this sleepy Chicago suburb seems sleepier than ever, even while it’s full of the world’s best golfers.
Controversial Lithuanian rider Raimondas Rumsas tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) during the Tour of Italy which finished on June 1, his Lampre team confirmed on Wednesday
Springbok coach Rudolf Straeuli has made two changes to his starting XV for Saturday’s second test against Scotland in Johannesburg.