Has Putin's Rule Thrust Russia Back to Soviet Union Era?

“Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength but out of weakness,” President Obama said Tuesday. The comments seemed designed to hit his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, where it hurt. It was a bold statement, however, for

MH370 And The Secrets Of The Dark Indian Ocean

The world's most isolated ocean has a long history of making things disappear. In 1900, Jules Verne published The Castaway of the Flag, an adventure novel in the shipwreck fantasy subgenre. To put his Swiss Family Robinson in an excessively remote spot beyond hope of rescue, he plonked them

McCain Condemns Crimea Referendum

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Bill Gates Takes a Swipe on Mark Zuckerberg

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AMISOM and Somali Troops Drive Out Al-Shabaab Out of Buloburte

Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) during their patrol in Kismayu, Somalia in this file picture. Somali government forces backed by African Union troops captured a sixth settlement in the latest advance in their renewed offensive against Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab

Dark Skin May Have Evolved to Protect Against Skin Cancer

When it comes to skin color, the idea that we're really all the same isn't just a utopian dream. A look at skin cancer from an evolutionary perspective suggests that maybe once we were all white; then we were all black; then some of us went back to white. A scientist argues that once we were all