MICHAEL PERRY: The Australian government has issued its first license allowing scientists to create cloned human embryos to try and obtain embryonic stem cells. The in vitro-fertilization firm Sydney IVF was granted the license and reportedly has access to 7,200 human eggs for its research. If the firm...
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KRISTIN KAINING: Parents of video-gaming children, take heart: Your kid is not destined to become an anti-social hermit who lives at home until he’s 35. In fact, a new study shows that all that game...
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PALLAB GHOSH (BBC): The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web. Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried...
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ANDREW HEAVANS: Sudanese forces on Sunday launched fresh attacks on a base held by Darfur rebels who signed a 2006 peace deal with the government, the faction's leader said. Minni Arcua Minnawi, leader...
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ALEX FELSINGER: After the Viacom-owned network finished filming their new treasure-hunt themed “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” on a remote, uninhabited island in the Republic of Panama, locals...
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KEITH JOHNSON: There’s a good reason the famous “White Towns” of Andalusia, in southern Spain, are all white-washed. The sun is hot in Andalusia, and white paint reflects the heat, keeping...
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BRIAN X. CHEN: Your iPhone is watching you. If you've got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could...
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CARRIE JOHNSON: The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence...
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DANI COOPER: The world's intellectual property (IP) system is broken and the benefits of biotechnology are being blocked by patent laws, according to the authors of a seven-year study. The Canadian-led...
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CARA DEGETTE: I’m just trying to envision the exchange between the reporter and his editors over at the Rocky Mountain News that led to their decision to live blog the funeral today of Marten Kudlis...
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Daou Report readers - since July, we have administered Peter Daou's site during his leave of absence. The site is now back on temporary hiatus, but you can find us at UN Dispatch . If you have questions...
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One of the sad realities of the ever-accelerating news cycle is that we rarely have the opportunity to follow an event or issue before it's drowned out by something new. Here's a sobering NYT article about...
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Stories like this remind us that across the globe, courageous and principled individuals risk their lives to make a difference: The head of Afghanistan's anti-drug court was shot at on his way to work...
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President Bush today said world leaders were working together to address the worst global financial ...
GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor and violated state e...
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North Korean television broadcast a series of photos Saturday that it said showed North Korea's recl...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gives key ministries to his own party - in defiance of a power-sh...
US President George W Bush urges the world's wealthiest nations to avoid unilateral action amid the ...
John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor for personal ends, a re...
The US will remove North Korea from its list of countries sponsoring terrorism, officials in Washing...
Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider, known for his anti-immigration policies, has been killed...
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has allocated three important government minis...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean state TV broadcast pictures of Kim Jong-il on Saturday as the reclusi...
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed nine militants in overnight clashes in...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, a charismatic populist who helped thrust ...
MURMANSK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia carried out the first test launch on Saturday of a strategic mis...
