Look closely: this is history in the making. These are the clearest pictures ever taken of what is the starting point of every human life: ovulation occurring inside a woman’s body.

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Popularly known by their names of color as much as their historical designations — the ancient Blue City known as Jodhpur, neighboring Jaipur known as the Pink City, its …

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Thirty miles west of the Taj Mahal, on the road to the pink city of Jaipur, tourists on buses pass a sight that the guide books rarely mention.
A mile beyond the town of Bharatpur in …

Mozilla released Firefox version 1.0 to relative obscurity in November of 2004, and four short years later, the much-anticipated Firefox 3.0 will hit the streets with ambitions of setting a new world record tomorrow. In …

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The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. To …

1. “Watch out for scare tactics. Admonitions like ‘I wouldn’t drive this another mile’ should be viewed with suspicion.”
2. “Check for ASE [National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence] or AAA [American Automobile Association] certification, as …

An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the …

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7 Bride kidnapping

Bride kidnapping is a common practice in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. When it is time to get married in Kyrgyzstan, a …

The global legalisation
of drugs would raise the
Third World out of poverty,
says Duncan Campbell

The recent row over the Government’s decision to change the classification of cannabis reopened, for a moment, the weary debate over legalisation of …

The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, …

1. There are more people in slavery now than at any other time in human history
2. The value of slaves has decreased.
3. Slavery still exists in the US.
4.Slavery is hidden behind many other names, thus …

This is too true to be funny. It was forwarded to me via email. I wanted to pass it along. I understand how many zeros in 1,000,000,000. Many who don’t wish to type or show …

Welcome to the world of lunatics and masochists - that’s what it says when you visit the “About” page on the official site of Le Marathon des Sables. And I don’t think they’re just saying …

Take a look around the world at what $1.5 million buys in 20 of the world’s most expensive housing markets.
1. London

Price: $6,191 per sq. ft.
What you get for $1.5 million: …

1. Technically, the prize awarded in Economics is not a Nobel Prize, as it was not specified in Alfred Nobel’s will. It has been nicknamed the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and is selected by …

It’s actually been done too, in October 2007, a German cathedral, first mentioned in documents in 1297, was moved using a huge trailer platform from its original emplacement by a mining company. The village it …

A popular e-mail going around features a spinning dancer that has been touted as a test of whether you are right-brained and creative or left-brained and logical. If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, the …

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Skin painted bright red, heads partially shaved, arrows drawn back in the longbows and aimed square at the aircraft buzzing overhead. The gesture is unmistakable: Stay Away.
Behind the two men stands another figure, possibly a …