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AP - 47 minutes ago
Iraq has agreed to pay $400 million to Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Friday.
 
  • NIH to resume funding stem cell research for now
    AP - 3 hours , 1 minute ago
    The government said Friday it's back in the business of funding embryonic stem cell research -- at least for now -- after an appeals court temporarily lifted a judge's ban.
  • UN climate chief urges flexibility in talks
    AP - 8 hours , 58 minutes ago
    The United Nations' climate chief on Friday urged countries to be flexible in order to make progress at weeklong climate talks in China next month, the last formal negotiations on climate change ahead of a major year-end meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
  • Toyota plant in Australia to build greener engines
    AP - 13 hours , 1 minute ago
    Toyota will build a 300 million Australian dollars ($277 million) plant in Melbourne that will produce greener engines that deliver reduced carbon emissions, the company said Friday.
  • Study: Flamboyant male dancing attracts women best
    AP - 1 day , 4 hours ago
    John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.
  • Would you like 1 hump or 2 with your dinosaur?
    AP - 2 days , 1 hour ago
    The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising.
  • Big quake aftershocks plague New Zealand city
    AP - 2 days , 8 hours ago
    A strong aftershock rocked terrified residents of New Zealand's earthquake-stricken city of Christchurch on Wednesday, as officials doubled their estimate for repairing the damage following nearly 300 temblors in five days.
  • Clinton calls plan to burn Quran 'disgraceful act'
    AP - 2 days , 19 hours ago
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called a Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks a "disrespectful, disgraceful act."
  • Microbes are eating BP oil without using up oxygen
    AP - 2 days , 21 hours ago
    Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.
  • 2 asteroids to whiz harmlessly past Earth
    AP - 2 days , 23 hours ago
    NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.
  • Ancient city by the sea rises amid Egypt's resorts
    AP - 3 days , 7 hours ago
    Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.
  • Japan confirms its first case of new superbug gene
    AP - 3 days , 8 hours ago
    Japan has confirmed the nation's first case of a new gene in bacteria that allows the microorganisms to become drug-resistant superbugs, detected in a man who had medical treatment in India, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday.
  • Japanese stem cell researcher wins Balzan prize
    AP - 4 days , 4 hours ago
    A Japanese researcher who found a way to give adults cells certain characteristics of embryonic stem cells, a process scientists say could eventually lead to cures for spinal cord injuries and other ailments, has been awarded the Balzan Prize for biology.
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