Powerset is undoubtedly among the most ballyhooed start-ups in Silicon Valley. The company’s mission is as improbable as it is daring: just as Google did a decade ago, Powerset wants to come up with a better way to search.

Buried beneath several miles of ice in Antarctica are lakes ranging in size from Lake Ontario to lakes the size of Manhattan. Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake on Earth, is believed to harbor ancient life that has been isolated from open exchange...

After George W. Bush won Florida in 2000–O.K., I apologize to my Democrat readers for legitimizing Bush by using the word won. Also, I apologize to the Republicans for delegitimizing Bush by apologizing to the Democrats ...

Secret Service supervisors shared crude sexual jokes and engaged in racially derogatory banter about blacks, and passed around an anecdote about a possible assassination of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, according to internal e-mail disclosed in a federal court...

He escaped from a derailed train, a door-less plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car accidents... then won a million dollar lottery

More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show.

Barack Obama is the global choice for the Democratic presidential nominee by a margin of almost two to one, according to an international poll conducted by Times Online.

65 per cent of participants – spanning all continents right around the world...