UNHS Robotics - Team 1237

The e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university will undoubtedly raise questions about the actions of some scientists.

For girls, the season’s hottest toy is a set of fake hamsters; for boys, a series of battle cards and action figures inside small spheres.

It’s a measure of Oprah Winfrey’s outsize stature that the news that she would shut down “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in September 2011 buckled the media world.

When an Atlanta hospital closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment.

The successful operation of the the Large Hadron Collider marked the resumption of a $9 billion quest to investigate the universe when it was less than a trillionth of a second old.

After spending $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since 2003, the U.S. is concerned that Iraqis won’t be able to maintain the facilities once the Americans have left.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu activity was declining in all regions of the country.

Test preparation companies are now catering to a new demographic: youngsters who may well watch Big Bird and Elmo the morning of their exams.

Officials from six countries and the European Union expressed disappointment that Iran had not accepted a deal to export most of its enriched uranium.

If it survives an appeal, the verdict late Thursday would be the nation’s largest award of damages to an individual suing a tobacco company.

A variety of economists say that economic stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would.

A South Carolina legislative committee will convene to begin preliminary impeachment proceedings against Gov. Mark Sanford, according to the chairman of the state’s House Judiciary Committee.

German law enforcement officials arrested 17 on Friday in connection with what was described as the biggest match-fixing scandal yet uncovered in European soccer.