Top 5 Countdown for the Week Ending July 6 Were counting down the five most popular songs on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100pop singles chart, for the week ending July 6, 2013. There are some real fireworks on the hit list this week - fitting for U.S....
Forensic Testing of Ivory Could Combat Elephant Poaching The sweeping grasslands of the African savannah might not exist without elephants. They knock down so many trees that forests transform into plains, where other grazers and birds feed. Elephant...
Yoga Helps Mentally Ill Improve Their Lives Ericpaul Clark has been taking yoga classes for several months. Hes been in jail and a psychiatric facility after abusing drugs. Today, he says hes clean and looking forward to a better life. Yoga helps kee...
Obama Proposal Could Help US-Russian Ties President Obama chose an iconic Cold War location -- the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -- to make his new arms control proposal, offering to reduce U.S. nuclear warheads by one third. I intend to seek negotiated...
Study Shows Promising Results in Reducing Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack High blood pressure increases the risk for heart attack and stroke. That's why health experts the world over are concerned about the increasing number of people with high blood pr...
Bacteria Thrive on Ocean Plastic Debris It takes about six weeks for a plastic bag or bottle to ride the surface currents from the U.S. East Coast to the Sargasso Sea, in the center of the North Atlantic. The area is a gyre, essentially a big whirlpo...
How Relevant Are Computing Behemoths? Your basic personal computer has one microchip at its core. The Central Processing Unit, or CPU, executes a set of commands contained in a predesigned program. The first supercomputers had a few more CPUs, but co...
Tough Childhood, Political Battles Marked Turkey's Embattled PM Istanbul's Kaptanpasa neighborhood, a working class district where everybody knows and supports each other. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew up in this modest apartment...
Indonesian Fires Reveal Unfulfilled Environmental Promises It's an annual occurrence in the dry season: a smoky, hazardous haze blankets southern Malaysia and Singapore. This year it was so bad that in some affected areas there was a 100 percent rise...
Europe Demands Answers on NSA Bugging Claims The German magazine Der Spiegel and Britains Guardian newspaper claim to have evidence showing that the U.S. National Security Agency bugged the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washin...
Obama Receives Huge Welcome in Tanzania The Obamas walked off Air Force One into a bright, steamy day in Dar es Salaam, where they were welcomed by Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete, his wife and dignitaries. Cheers went up in the crowd that includ...
Aspen Ideas Festival Inspires, Engages, Promotes Debate Xiao Xiao, pianist, technologist and doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brought to Aspen her insights from piano-playing to human-computer interaction, designing ex...
Kerry at ASEAN Forum for Talks on S. China Sea Disputes U.S.-Philippine naval cooperation includes unmanned surveillance of waters under dispute with China. The unmanned aerial vehicle will be a very very important tool in our operations in safeguard...
Nepals Political Crisis Paralyzes Economy Its nearly 5 p.m. and Sunil Lamichhane has yet to make a sale at his new clothing store in downtown Kathmandu. The retailer says Nepals political turmoil and its effect on the local economy means less money i...
US Immigration Reform Faces Uncertain Future WASHINGTON Supporters of immigration reform in the United States gained a victory last week when the Senate approved a bipartisan bill which tightens border security and sets out a lengthy path for citizen...
