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Distinctive brain patterns could become the latest subject of biometric scanning after EU researchers successfully tested technology to verify ­identities for security checks.The experiments, which also examined the potential of heart rhythms to authenticate individuals, were conducted under an EU-funded inquiry into biometric systems that could be deployed at airports, borders and in sensitive locations to screen out terrorist suspects.Another series of tests fitted a 'sensing seat' to a truck to record each driver's characteristic seated posture in an attempt to spot whether commercial vehicles had been hijacked.Details of the Humabio (Human Monitoring and Authentication using Biodynamic Indicators and Behaviourial Analysis) pilot projects have been published amid further evidence of biometric technologies penetrating everyday lives.The Foreign Office plans to spend up to £15m on fixed and mobile security devices that use methods including 'Facial recognition (two and/or three dimens

Zenit.org ).- The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom continues to show that religious freedom is a human right under fire, but changes have come about and they are not all negative.Tho...

Colby Rasmus doubled home a run in the 10th inning Sunday, and the St. Louis Cardinals overcame five Cincinnati homers -- including two solo shots in the ninth -- to beat the Reds 8-7 and salvage the final game of their series.

Doctors voiced concern over 'unusual' burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country's top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used. The American military...

As a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, has traveled all over the world to learn about conflicts and situations that could impact the united states.

KABUL (AP) -- An Afghan human rights group said Monday that government officials suspect Taliban fighters attacked villagers sheltering from a U.S.-Taliban battle with flammable material or weapons, causing severe burns....

CDC reports additional confirmed human infections and hospitalizations from this outbreak in additional states.

This new document provides interim guidance for state, local, territorial, and tribal officials to use in developing recommendations for large public gatherings in their communities.

More than 140,000 customers in Illinois and Missouri still have no electricity days after a wave of deadly storms socked the Midwest. St. Louis-based utility Ameren said more than 53,000 customers in southern Illinois still were blacked out Sunday, two days...

According to an update issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) today, Sunday 10th May, there have been 4,379 confirmed cases of human infection with swine flu (H1N1), and 46 deaths. All the deaths have occurred in Mexico 45, USA 3, and Canada 1. Mexican authorities inform that the rate of spread within Mexico is significantly slowing down.