Termites are serial offenders, ecologically. They eat people’s homes, generate methane, adding to greenhouse gases, and they’re one of the most successful forms of life on Earth. Now, they’re in trouble. Someone’s found a use for their guts.

It always interests Aussies when people try to report Australian events, and the 2007 election was no exception. The common reaction was “Bush ally defeated”, with varying levels of depth. Actually, the tone of some of the reporting was very positive.

New York City is on pace to record fewer than 500 homicides in 2007, a new low. This disputes the reputation of the Big Apple as a place where random acts of violence occur on a daily basis.

The British government has lost the banking data of 25 million of its citizens in the mail. These data were important for the payment of child benefits. This was made public by the Finance Minister.

Jeff Jarvis recently wrote a description of what he thinks the quintessential 21st Century editor is like, by telling his audience all about recruitment ads of some renowned newspapers.

Say the world was under threat from an asteroid, and the guy from NASA says “Well, we don’t really have the budget…” At the moment, they’re talking about a budget for detecting asteroids, not a budget for doing anything about them.

A German man filled up his car, paid for the gasoline, but he forgot to take his car back home. The police found the owner of the car from the records and contacted him to get the it back.

Chinese officials are denying state media reports indicating the country plans to launch a space station by 2020. The China Daily newspaper reported the country's planned space station would be "a small-scale, 20-ton space workshop."

Queen Elizabeth II of Britain has been named one of the 50 "most glamorous women" in the world by Vogue magazine, alongside big names in fashion such as Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer.

Pakistani authorities Sunday swooped on opposition leaders and rights' activists in a bid to contain public resistance to emergency rule declared by President Pervez Musharraf a day earlier to pre-empt any judicial onslaught on his authority.

India has said it regretted the difficult times Pakistan was passing through and hoped that the situation in the neighbouring country returns to normalcy soon, officials said Sunday.

Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran vowed to fight on after suffering the biggest loss in the 25-year armed struggle to carve out the north and eastern parts of the country as an independent homeland for minority Tamils.

A South Carolina couple found a hand written note inside a secret and unknown room, right behind a bookcase in their home. What they found was not a treasure, it was a nightmare.

Macs have been left largely alone till now, but online crooks are apparently getting market-sensitive. A new routine targets users, rather than system weaknesses. Downloads now carry with them an uninvited Trojan.

The World Bank gave the green light to a loan of $944 million to India on Friday for strengthening the rural finance system, vocational training programmes and community-based water management projects.

In what you would expect to happen in a third world country an United States city has run out of water. A small town in Tennessee has completely run out of water. Orme, Tennessee is about 40 miles west of Chattanooga and 150 miles northwest of Atlanta.

You don't have to get ready for a season of reruns as Hollywood writers begin their strike but it may take longer to get next year's shows out. It's the first time that the writers have actually gone on strike in almost 20 years.

According to the Institute of Physics, Arizona State University has designed a "laser technique which can destroy viruses and bacteria such as AIDS without damaging human cells and may also help reduce the spread of hospital infections such as MRSA."

Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto Thursday left for Dubai, where she was to stay until the country's top court decides on the legitimacy of President Pervez Musharraf's re-election.

A&E has halted production on Chapman's show after a phone call surfaced featuring Dog screaming racial tirades at his son. The phone call was recorded and released to The National Enquirer.