President George Bush repaired to the White House to wait for payback on his 60% approval rating and his deep personal investment in the most competitive mid-term elections for half a century.
The US was accused last night of summarily executing the six alleged al-Qaeda members killed in Yemen on Sunday by the first act of what experts say could be a new age of ”robotic warfare”.
The world’s most powerful gamma-ray telescope soared into space on Thursday on a mission to track down black holes, exploding stars and mysterious bursts of radiation emanating from the fringes of the Universe.
A man was shot in the chest at a bus stop early Tuesday, and a police task force was investigating whether the shooting was connected to the serial sniper who has killed nine people this month.
Being a zoo elephant is not an easy life, far from it. You get fat, stressed, and unhealthy; reach puberty early; suffer fertility problems; and go to an early grave.
An invisible dusting of dandruff or a sweaty palm could be enough to identify criminals, using a revolutionary DNA technique developed by an Australian researcher.
The captain of American Airlines Flight 587 was unaware that the tailfin had snapped off the jetliner he was struggling to control moments before it ploughed into suburban New York, it became clear yesterday.
Hundreds of millions of pounds supposedly being paid by Western oil companies to the government of Angola have been discovered going into secret offshore accounts in Jersey.
Turkey’s secular establishment was bracing itself last night for sweeping changes as it became clear that a moderate Islamic party under threat of closure would win a landslide election victory and an outright majority in the national assembly.
Russia has cancelled plans to cut its troop strength in Chechnya and is stepping up its search-and-kill operations after reports that resistance fighters are preparing new acts of terror.