To the outside world it has become as known as Africa’s First World War with its foreign armies and invasions, and ceaseless killing and dying that seems to achieve nothing. The battleground is the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where to some...

Nothing seems to work right for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in her attempts to once more dwell in the White House. Senator Barack Obama, despite inflated controversies, continued his glide to the Democratic nomination with a landslide victory and a...

A key mechanism by which smoking triggers genetic changes that cause lung cancer has been unravelled.

More than 1.5m children in India are at risk of becoming malnourished because of rising global food prices, the UN children’s charity, Unicef, says

How do we perceive a rainbow? And does everyone perceive a rainbow in the same way? These seemingly simple questions can reveal some interesting features of the human brain. For instance, is the “striped” appearance of the rainbow—the seven ...

A black hole blasting an immense jet of energy into a neighbouring galaxy has been observed by astronomers for the first time.

Unfortunately, the truth of the real condition of America is kept hidden from the people until conditions become so intolerable that the most uninformed of the people readily sees that something is wrong. Then, scapegoating becomes a necessary tool used...

The Blairs’ hearts sank when they learnt that George Bush’s victory over Al Gore in 2000 had been ratified and that he was to become President of the United States, Cherie Blair reveals in The Times today.

She tells how she and her husband watched...

A man who allegedly photographed more than 3,000 women’s bottoms as they toured Venice has been arrested.

Sheyla Hershey carries the weight of the world, or at least two large globes, on her chest. Hershey, a wife and mother from Texas, is in Brazil’s Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest breast implants.

But they’re apparently not big...