This year's finalists for the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Award reflect two of global culture's most dynamic engines; the environment and an aging population. The final Four are different enough to make picking a winner a tough call.

Some Muslim young women in Europe do a plastic surgery to regain virginity in order to get married. They say they do it for cultural reasons and not for religious purposes.

What were Einstein’s beliefs about God and religion? With the public appearance of a letter he wrote the year before his death, the matter would seem to be settled, though probably not to everyone's satisfaction.

Top of the Ticket reports that Ron Paul forces have been quietly, under the radar, plotting a public revolt against John McCain for the national convention in St. Paul which will be in September.

Hillary Clinton does not have the delegate lead that Barack Obama enjoys. Clinton's goal at this point is to convince superdelegates that Obama cannot win in November's general election against John McCain. WV and Kentucky will give her argument validity.

Ronald Smith was helping his mother, Mary Smith on her farm yesterday afternoon. The farm is located near Howell in Michigan.

Elisabeth Fritzl, who was held captive for the last 24 years, has spoken out for the first time and said that she never wants to see her father’s face again.

Here's a swift slap on the peepee for Smilin' Stevie Harper &The Corruptibles. From the UN, no less. Seems the guys at the controls have been too busy pointing thumbs at other folk to keep up with Canada's CO2 monitoring responsibilities.

CBS News blogger Fernando Suarez posts in his “From The Road” blog from Grafton, West Virginia, where he follows the campaign trail of Democratic co-frontrunner, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York.

An immigrant worker from El Salvador, Central America was said to have committed suicide after killing his wife and three young children on Friday. Police found the bodies of all five on Saturday at a rural Houston, Texas home.

Michigan Police issued a $1 parking ticket on September 1, 1976, it was left uncollected and lost in the records. But finally they received the payment from the owner.

A computer algorithm has made it possible to watch the aerial ballet over the US as a real time sim. Complete with musical soundtrack, what looks like a disorganized spider web suddenly illuminates the entire US.

Seems Europeans are imbibing and inhaling at an ever increasing rate. The motivation - getting their rocks off, or should I say socks off. Binge drinking and drug use is being touted as the new Viagra for European youth, with the UK taking top honors.

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As the day was about to end Wednesday at Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute a sixteen-year-old boy was stabbed in the abdomen in a basement hallway of the school. The result was a lock-down of the school that lasted over an hour in the Toronto school.

According to CBC News, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), responded to a call at the Royal Inland Hospital after a delirious patient pulled a knife on a nurse. The man was back in bed when the RCMP arrived and they tasered him in his bed.

An Arkansas woman is pregnant with her 18th child, which is due on New Year’s Day. She plans to give birth to more children "as long as God is willing."

Barnstorming West Virginia today, former president Bill Clinton implored crowds to vote for his wife Hillary and stated repeatedly that the nomination isn't over yet.

An abundance of caterpillars and warm spring weather has created an ideal situation for an early laying season for tits in Great Britain.

In the face of sorrow from Cyclone Nargis comes new life. Than Win lost seven of her 10 children in the Cyclone. On Wednesday she gave birth to her eleventh child in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta where over 10,000 are now dead.