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Gen. Norton Schwartz bounds out of bed at 4:30 each morning and charges off for a four-mile run.

QATAR Statistics Authority yesterday launched its new website to allow users and researchers "easier access to key statistical data". QSA acting president Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor al-Thani said the revolution in ...

Endangered wild orangutan populations are declining more sharply in Sumatra and Borneo than previously estimated, according to new findings. Although other threats to orangutan survival exist, such as hunting in agricultural areas where human-orangutan conflicts exist, the biggest by far is forest destruction associated with the burgeoning palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia.

A Vietnamese mathematician is to be awarded the George Polya Prize by the US Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in San Diego, California, for his work in combinatorial theory.