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I will always wonder what it was like to huddle around a shortwave radio and through the crackling static from space hear the faint beeps of the world's first...

Laith repeats my question back to me, chuckling. "What is the Iraqi media saying about the US elections?" He pauses, thinking how best to answer. "Man, the situation is...

Back in 1950, the European Reconstruction Program organized a contest for posters promoting the U.S. Marshall Plan. Among over 10,000 entries, the winner was Reijn Dirksen, then barely 25...

It’s a surreal sight Los Angeles residents won’t soon forget: A hulking space shuttle strutting down city streets, pausing every so often to get its bearings as it creeps...

Turkish premier's wife has said that western countries did not assume an effective attitude over the matter. Turkish premier's wife has said that Turkey has been exerting great efforts...

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are neck and neck in opinion polls, but there is one area in which the incumbent appears to have a big...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has accused Vice-President Joe Biden of making misleading statements on last month's Libya consulate attack. In Thursday's TV debate with Romney running mate Paul...

Starting from 7am, half a million voters will decide on a new government, tasked mainly with seeing through the country's EU membership talks and tackling the economy. Voting closes...

A recent rumor claiming that U.S. President Barack Obama was wearing an "Allah ring" in a photograph has been denied by anAmerican reporter in a piece written for about.com. The claim,...

Nigerian soldiers moved house to house yesterday in an urgent bid to hunt down attackers responsible for the massacre of 26 people who were shot or had their throats...