From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in American classrooms.
The US presidential candidates will duel over the economy this week, with Republican John McCain touting proposals he says will stimulate job growth.
A music festival with heavy metal, punk and hip-hop might seem like an unusual place to get baptised, but Creation is a festival with strict rules.
It is known as the Inland Empire: a stretch of land tucked in the valleys east of Los Angeles. It is now a sprawl of freeways and endless suburbs.
World champion Tyson Gay’s dream of an Olympics double ended in pain when he crashed out of the US 200m quarterfinals on Saturday.
Jesse Helms, an anti-communist firebrand who championed a wide range of conservative causes in his 30 years in the US Senate, died early on Friday.
After the astonishment and outrage, after the doubts and ethical head-scratching, a baby girl was finally born to the pregnant man.
A United States judge’s order to Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom has sparked an outcry from privacy advocates.
A ferocious wildfire burning through the Los Padres National Forest continued creeping closer to the tourist town of Big Sur in California on Friday.
Deceased hotelier Leona Helmsley, who bequeathed $12-million to her pet dog, has left the rest of her multibillion-dollar estate to animal welfare.
Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75%, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report.
The US Department of Justice has begun a formal investigation into competition concerns surrounding an advertising tie-up between Google and Yahoo!.
Christopher Hitchens attempted last year to draw a distinction between what he called techniques of ”extreme interrogation” and ”outright torture”.
South African gold producer AngloGold Ashanti said on Tuesday it had finalised its 100% acquisition of United States gold miner Golden Cycle.
John McCain, accorded hero status because of his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has hit back against a challenge to his security credentials.
Brewing giant SABMiller and US brewer Molson Coors have announced the closing of the transaction to combine their US and Puerto Rico operations.
Private New Zealander puts $50m into a new business school aiming to produce a generation of business leaders in poverty-stricken parts of the globe.
Welcome to Strike 2008 — the sequel. Just when you thought it was safe, the Hollywood unions and their studio paymasters have devised a new dispute.
World champion Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100m of all-time to win the United States Olympic trials on Sunday, a wind-assisted 9,68 seconds.
Pixar hit the box-office jackpot once again on Sunday as its robot love story WALL-E snagged the number one spot.
An old painting dropped off at a rural thrift store turns out to be a work by a French Impressionist.
What is that? That’s the question asked by 10 000 drivers who registered their vehicles in North Carolina and got plates starting with ”WTF”.
The tradition of politicians kissing babies along the campaign trail has gone virtual.
Steve Ballmer has been CEO at Microsoft for eight years, but he will finally get to move into the corner office vacated by Bill Gates.
No doubt Hillary is a woman, but she’s also many other things
Imagine being a leader in your field for more than 60 years. Imagine exchanging ideas with the artistic greats of the past half-century.
It was, for a Democratic Party anxious to project an image of a happy family before the presidential election, an irresistible conjunction of symbols.
Oil leapt to a new record high above a barrel on Friday, extending gains after surging nearly 4% in the previous session.
The cacao plant is to become the latest organism to have its complete genetic code sequenced, but it is no idle exercise.
Attack by evangelical leader framed as wholesale rejection of Barack Obama’s views on faith. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.
The US on Thursday welcomed a North Korea account of its nuclear activities and said it would remove the country from its terrorism blacklist.
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday his top choice for running mate would be someone who would offer sound advice.