Recent reports show the overall economy in Africa growing and reforming. Foreign investors are recognizing this. Foreign donors, such as the G8, must too.
Astronomers have discovered 14 failed stars, or brown dwarfs, that are only 350 to 620 degrees Fahrenheit. Compare this with the 10,000-degree blazing awesomeness of our sun.
The president re-established command and control of his office this week in dealing with BP, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and the financial overhaul bill.
AP - Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland was reunited with her brother Saturday and defended her family against criticism that she had been too young to try to sail around the world alone.
Dubbed "Hannibal Lecter" by the French media, Nicolas Cocaign, 38, was sentenced in Rouen, France, to 30 years in prison for killing one of his cellmates and then eating part of the man's lung after cooking it with some leftover rice.
In the Rolling Stone article that got him fired, Gen. Stanley McChrystal says of the aides who surround him "I'd die for them. And they'd die for me." But the military men around McChrystal are now silent.
Downtrodden Gulf Coast residents may soon have something besides the oil spill to worry about. But it's not really a "new" threat -- it's what they fret about every summer: tropical disturbances.
A union for border patrol workers disputed Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's comment that most illegal immigrants crossing the southern border are smuggling drugs.