Chrysler and General Motors Make New Bids to Survive »
By Joseph R. Szczesny Monday, Apr. 27, 2009 gm chrysler general motors Stan Honda / AFP / Getty; Stan Honda / AFP / Getty Chrysler, Fiat and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative labor agreement over the weekend that could provide the troubled American automaker with a better shot at longevity. Though complete details [...]
Does Beer (Goggling) Affect Whom We Find Attractive? »
By John Cloud Monday, Apr. 27, 2009 drinking alcohol beauty age beer goggles Leland Bobbe / Getty Alcohol often gets blamed for sexual assignations that, in the bright light of the next morning, seem unwise. It’s called beer-goggling, but does it really exist? Does drinking actually affect how your brain evaluates the attractiveness of other [...]
The New Age of Extinction »
By BRYAN WALSH / MADAGASCAR Panther chameleon. Art Wolfe / Getty There are at least 8 million unique species of life on the planet, if not far more, and you could be forgiven for believing that all of them can be found in Andasibe. Walking through this rain forest in Madagascar is like stepping into [...]
Maybe an Asteroid Didn’t Kill the Dinosaurs »
By Jeffrey Kluger Monday, Apr. 27, 2009 Asteroid headed for Earth An artist’s drawing of an asteroid headed towards Earth. Denis Scott / Corbis When a scientific principle is common knowledge even in grammar schools, you know it’s long since crossed the line from theory to established fact. That’s the case with dinosaur extinction. Some [...]
South Korea testing suspected swine flu case »
28 Apr 2009 01:57:02 GMT Source: Reuters – For full coverage of swine flu outbreak, click [nFLU] (Adds quote, changes attribution) SEOUL, April 28 (Reuters) – South Korean health authorities are conducting clinical tests on a 51-year-old woman who is displaying symptoms of swine flu upon her return from Mexico, officials said on Tuesday. Three [...]
International unity key to tackling swine flu threat, Ban says »
[Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voices concern over potential swine flu pandemic] Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voices concern over potential swine flu pandemic 27 April 2009 – Global solidarity is critical if a pandemic of swine flu is indeed imminent, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, as he made an unscheduled press appearance to lay out the rapid United [...]
Osama bin Laden may be dead: Zardari »
PTI First Published : 27 Apr 2009 12:01:00 AM IST Last Updated : ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said his intelligence believes that al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is dead, but admitted they have no proof. “The Americans tell me they don’t know and they are (better) equipped than us to trace [...]
Ready to extradite Prabhakaran to India: »
IANS First Published : 27 Apr 2009 09:47:00 PM IST Last Updated : COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said Colombo would extradite Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, if caught alive, to India – but after first putting him through trial in his country. In an interview to CNN IBN channel, Rajapaksa said it [...]
Colombo announces end of combat operations with heavy weapons »
B. Muralidhar Reddy Security forces to confine their attempts to rescuing civilians COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka government on Monday announced that the combat operations against the LTTE had reached their conclusion and that the troops were instructed to end the use of heavy weapons, which could harm civilian population. The mission now was rescuing an [...]
Karunanidhi ends fast after Colombo’s decision »
R.K. Radhakrishnan HENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Monday went on an indefinite fast at the Anna Square on the Marina here to press the Sri Lankan government to announce a ceasefire, but gave it up six-and-a-half hours later after Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram telephonically conveyed to him that Colombo had announced [...]
