WASHINGTON, June 22, 2009 (AFP) - A study of more than half a million people worldwide has found that 70 percent associate science more with men than women, according to results released Monday....
WASHINGTON- Nearly twice as many US army soldiers today compared to six years ago are either alcoholic or engage in damaging behavior such as binge drinking, according to army statistics.
Data...
HONG KONG, Francesca Ayala - The closure of dozens of Hong Kong schools to try to halt the spread of swine flu has kept thousands of children at home, but new technology has meant they can no longer...
PARIS - The French government was split on Friday over whether a law should be enacted to restrict the wearing of the full Islamic veil by Muslim women in Europe's most staunchly secular country....
WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama on Friday reflected over the hole left in his life by the absence of his own father, as he called on American men to do their duty by their kids, two days before...
ABIDJAN - Hundreds of protesters on Saturday demanded that Ivory Coast authorities release 24 jailed top cocoa industry officials, some of whom have been held for the last year in a corruption...
BOSTON - Ivy League university Harvard is to endow a professorship of gay, lesbian and transgender studies, the organizers said Wednesday.
The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus announced that the 1.5...
NEW YORK - New Hampshire on Wednesday became the sixth US state to allow gay marriage after the Democratic governor signed a bill on same-sex unions.
Governor John Lynch, a Democrat, signed the...
WICHITA, Joe Stumpe- Authorities here on Sunday arrested a suspect in the death of a controversial provider of late-term abortions, who was fatally short as he walked into services at his Kansas...
PARIS - A lone robber armed with a handgun on Saturday got away with jewellery worth around 6.6 million euros (9.3 million dollars) in a hold-up at the exclusive Chopard store in central Paris,...
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