Until a few months ago, Booncherd Leekasem would never have been caught astride a muddy tractor or squelching through buffalo dung in a rice paddy. As a headman of Khao Ngam in central Thailand he had far more respectable things to attend to, such as...

This is the original haunted eBay Painting. Hands Resist Him was painted by Bill Stoneham in 1979. It depicts a young Stoneham standing in front of a door with a female doll. On the other side of the glass paneled door, disembodied hands grab at the...

Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released...

According to the Israeli government, the Bush Administration secretly endorsed plans for Israeli expansion into the West Bank in settlements Israel eventually intends to keep.

15-year old Lai Thi Dao is awaiting surgery in Miami to remove a 16-pound Schwannoma tumor, which is on her face. The tumor has been growing on her face since she was 3-years old.

*The historic election victory of former bishop Fernando Lugo who overturned more than 60 years of conservative rule in Paraguay is another sign of the left-wing swing across South America. “I will continue to dream of a greater Latin America,...

Harry Lee McGinnis, better known as “The Hawk,” has seen his fair share of the world. He’s trekked through all 50 states, criss-crossed the Continent, and explored the depths of Asia, Africa, and South America, carrying only a...

Europe’s trade chief gave warning of “a spiral of protectionism” in the grain trade as the price of rice soared to a new record and grain-producing countries stopped exports to prevent further outbreaks of food rioting.

Last Thursday, about a year too late, I read the “2008 Delegate Selection Rules for the Democratic National Convention.” Not a fun read, I must add, which may be the reason Sen. Hillary Clinton, or her people, and most of the press, did not...

Memory vendors have become excellent at marketing their latest high-end products: DDR3-2000 speeds are currently considered state of the art for enthusiast Intel platforms based on Intel’s P35, X38, X48 chipsets or the new Nvidia 7 series. But how...