Windows XP is all set to begin its long goodbye on Monday with Microsoft stopping licensing the seven-year-old operating system.

Michael O’Leary, CEO of European budget carrier, Ryanair, had something interesting to say at a press conference in Germany. It should get much undivided attention.

According to a report issued by aid agency Oxfam today, biofuels are to blame for a 30 per cent increase in global food prices. In the search for alternative fuel sources, Oxfam says biofuels have also pushed 30 million people into poverty globally.

University of Georgia researchers have developed an effective technology for reducing contamination of dangerous bacteria on food.

Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts has 250 mentally handicapped children who are divided between 38 group homes. One of the forms of punishment is electroshock therapy. It goes under the guise of 'behavior modification'.

Oil prices continue to climb despite the pledge by Saudi Arabia to increase oil production; light, sweet crude for August delivery rose $1.29 US to $136.65 a barrel.

Yesterday afternoon, the citizens of Elmira, NY received a treat as they looked up to the sky. The phenomenon is referred to as 'Hole Punch Clouds'. It is caused by an area of cold air that sinks through a layer of clouds.

The copyright fiasco between AP and bloggers. A man facing jail time for smelling women's armpits. The dark side of Cindy McCain. These are the top stories making headlines around the world.

Recently, a new report has revealed something interestingly. The United States is not number one in obesity. Australia ranks number one in obesity.

Study suggests that it is the ocean, and in particular the epic ebbs and flows of sea level and sediment over the course of geologic time, that is the primary cause of the world's periodic mass extinctions during the past 500 million years.

Fox News hires another McCain supporter, former Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, as a political correspondent.

If you do suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia you can now relax until Feb.13 of next year. If you don't know what it is it is the fear of Friday the 13th. Yesterday was the only Friday the 13th for this year.

If you care about the tiger, you would be glad to know that a national conservation campaign to save the big cat has some good news to announce. A ray of hope from the Jim Corbett sanctuary in India.

As a university student curious about the world, I left my home near Toronto, Canada and flew to South Africa. For weeks now I've seen AIDS, extreme poverty and a plague of orphans. This is your intimate look at today's South Africa.

Could the source to the philosophy of modern day life come from a teenage who fights vampires? That is what the focus will be at a three-day conference that began on Friday at Henderson State University in Arkansas.

Very few able-bodied people know what it's like to live with a disability, but Nathalie Caron does. Almost everyone close to her is suffering from disabilities, both physical and mental. Now she wants to help others through citizen journalism.

Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, a leading Islamic organization, along with other Muslim parties have called for a “fatwa” against terrorism at the Anti-Terrorism Global Peace Conference held in India.

After many hours of deliberating and having to filter out the interruptions from the emotional and passionate spectators, the DNC has finally reached a compromise for Michigan and Florida.

The strive to become elite has backfired in the faces of psuedo intellectuals everywhere as more "folks" call them on thier "bullshit."

A group of United Kingdom academics have called for a boycott on cooperation with Israeli academics, while some in the UK are calling the move anti-semitic.