compulsory military service in South Korea

A killer whale that can mimic words such as "hello" is thought to be the first of its kind to copy human speech.

Antibacterial hand sanitiser has spread from the hospital ward to the high street – and its producers are making a killing. But who really needs it?

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CEO Aaron Feuerstein Puts Employees First

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Pint-size actress Mary-Kate Olsen has refused to be interviewed by federal investigators probing the accidental drug death of her close friend Heath Ledger unless she receives immunity from

England had banned bagpipes from the front line as they attracted enemy fire. But Bill Millin's commander said the landings needed a morale boost.

"She tap- danced for us, and she was f---ing amazing," says the singer and guitarist of the late actress. A crucial influence on Kurt Cobain, Osborne dated Temple's daughter Lori Black.

How the Sept. 11 tragedy changed all the rules for CBS' "Big Brother 2"

Applying qualitative historical methods, we examined the consideration and implementation of school closures as a nonpharmaceutical intervention (NPI) in thirty US cities during the spring 2009 wave of the pA(H1N1) influenza pandemic. We gathered and ...

The growing science of memory manipulation raises social and ethical questions

organisation with trained personnel for dealing with fires and other incidents and for co-operating in their prevention

fan fiction story based on Harry Potter

Elizabeth Taylor wasn’t one for understatement: she had eight marriages, won two Oscars and was a bold pioneer in AIDS activism. And let’s not forget those captivating violet eyes. Now, according to Slate’s Brow Beat blog, Taylor’s large, liquid eyes had…

In 1975, police officers raided a zoo and subsequently fingerprinted the orangutans and chimps and compared them to crime databases.

Basic physics suggests that electrons are essentially immortal. A fascinating experiment recently failed to overthrow this fundamental assumption. But the effort has produced a revised minimum lifespan for electrons: 60,000 yottayears, which is — get this…

See you on the other side, Bubbles and Freddy.

Defeated in battle and ravaged by bombing in the course of World War II, Germany and Japan nevertheless made postwar recoveries that startled the world. Within ten years these nations were once again considerable economic powers. A decade later, each had…