Science

HIV vaccine efforts face several years of ‘void’ after latest setback

The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past decade,…

Russia retrieves mice and newts from space in preparation for Mars mission

A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals…

Fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published

The field of mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with…

Human tissue cloning could treat heart disease or Parkinson’s disease

Lorraine Barnes suffered a heart attack in 2005 and has lived with the consequences –…

Tech News

Yahoo prepares to buy Tumblr for up to $1.1 billion

Marissa Mayer, the former Googler who is now chief executive of Yahoo, is poised to create…

Google’s Eric Schmidt denies company avoided British taxes

Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Sunday defended the US Internet giant’s tax arrangements after…

Media

Al Jazeera faces uphill battle with planned U.S. launch

Can Al-Jazeera win hearts and minds in America? The pan-Arab news giant is laying the…

Denmark wins Eurovision Song Contest

Denmark won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of Malmoe early Sunday…

World

Kuwait deports ‘hundreds’ for traffic offenses

Kuwait has deported hundreds of expats for traffic offences in the past month, a report said on Sunday, drawing condemnation…

Egypt police shut passage to Israel due to abductions

Egyptian police closed a commercial passage with Israel on Sunday in support of colleagues who shut down a crossing with…

North Korea test-fires another short-range missile amid military drill

North Korea Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South…

Saudi man ‘spared paralysis sentence’

A Saudi man escaped a sentence of paralysis for stabbing and paralysing another man by offering him compensation, media reported…

Briton accused of slitting throats of two young children in France

French police were on Sunday questioning a 48-year-old divorced Briton arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two…

U.S. News

Vanden Heuvel: Republicans using ‘weapons of mass distraction’ against Obama

The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel on Sunday said that Republicans were succeeding at using…

Rove says his super PAC is same as NAACP because it’s for ‘social welfare’

Republican strategist Karl Rove says that Crossroads GPS, which is a part the American Crossroads…

Paul Ryan: IRS connection to Obamacare is ‘rotten to the core’

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday used the news that the…

Pfeiffer to Fox News host: ‘Offensive’ to suggest Obama let Americans die in Benghazi

White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday told Fox News host Chris Wallace that…

Falling U.S. deficit renews ‘austerity or growth?’ debate

Austerity or growth? Europe’s struggling economies have faced the question without fully answering it in…

New Yorkers unnerved by neighbor’s voyeuristic photos

Residents of a New York City apartment building are up in arms over an exhibition…

Bobby Jindal calls for jailing of IRS officials behind Tea Party targeting

Louisiana governor uses speech to Virginia Republicans to say Barack Obama ‘bears responsibility’ as scandals…

Confederate Civil War General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson venerated with lemons 150 years after his death

It has been 150 years since Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson died, and visitors are still bringing…