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Bird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, say UK researchers.

The Rev. Michael G. Ryan, the longtime pastor at St. James Cathedral and former top aide in the Seattle Archdiocese, took the witness stand Thursday, where he described how the local Catholic church o...

WALL Street has rebounded from a heavy sell-off as investors looked toward economic recovery despite data showing more Americans losing their jobs.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Victor Martinez had four hits and drove in four runs, raising his batting average to .400 and helping the Cleveland Indians beat the Tampa Bay Rays 11-7 on Thursday night.

. Arrest is pretext to extend detention, says Brown . Mormon swam to home of opposition leaderThe US and Europe led a chorus of international condemnation last night after Burma's military regime jailed and charged the pro-democracy opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, over a bizarre incident in which an American man swam across a lake to her property.Foreign governments and human rights organisations accused the regime yesterday of planning to put Suu Kyi on trial next week on charges of violating the terms of her house arrest as a pretext for keeping the winner of the last free vote in Burma, 19 years ago, in detention ahead of elections next year.Suu Kyi, 63, faces up to five years in prison if convicted after John Yettaw swam to the property next to Lake Inya in Rangoon where the 1991 Nobel peace prize winner has been confined for 13 of the last 19 years. The latest house detention order expires in a fortnight and the opposition leader's lawyers intended to go to court to demand he

One of Zimbabwe's leading human rights lawyers has been arrested after he secured bail for three activists accused of terrorism by Robert Mugabe's loyalists.

In an unexpected twist, sharp-tongued, conservative talk-show host Michael Savage, who in the past savaged Hillary Clinton as a 'dangerous human being' and 'fraudulent huckster,' has asked for help after being banned in Britain - from Secretary of State...

CAIRO, May 18 (IPS) - Egypt's parliament is set to review a long-overdue draft law to regulate organ transplant operations. If passed, the legislation could make more human organs available for transplant, and curtail the country's booming organ trade.

YouTube celebrity and computer scientist Johnny Chung Lee famed for his excellent hacks of the WiiMote talked about life beyond the keyboard and mouse.The afternoon talks at Thinking Digital began with a YouTube star, Johnny Chung Lee. I along with millions of others have seen Johnny create a multi-touch white board with the WiiMote from the Nintendo Wii. It's a brilliant hack, and he basically showed how almost anyone could create a multi-touch whiteboard for $100 and a weekend of work. It's being used all over the world, especially in places where these boards could be useful but were previously unaffordable.I hadn't see the VR display in the video above that used similar concepts to create a 3D display. The objects seem to be projected deep into the screen and jump out of the screen. It's a stunning effect. All of this was possible because the WiiMote actually has computer vision, similar to the technology show in the movie Minority Report.After getting his doctorate in human-comput

Through sophisticated statistical analyses and advanced computer simulations, researchers are learning more about the genomic patterns of human population structure around the world.