The American vice president, Dick Cheney flew to Ukraine on a voyage of solidarity tonight after condemning Russia’s “illegitimate, unilateral” attempt to change Georgia’s borders by force.

Sony is recalling hundreds of thousands of its Vaio portable computers worldwide, citing a potential hazard that could cause them to overheat or short circuit.

Powerful Hurricane Ike charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the US east coast today while tropical storm Hanna's death toll from floods and mudslides in Haiti grew to 90.

“In East Hampton, I’m a nudist and I eat meat,” Baldwin—a vegetarian—had said before my visit, expanding on the idea that he lived a quite different life on Long Island than he did in New York. “I shoot deer with a bow and arrow. I smoke the deer meat and eat it every morning with my eggs and toast. I am a...
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Though less fierce than expected, Hurricane Gustav highlighted once again the vulnerabilities presented by our centralized energy systems.

Within the Gulf of Mexico, 98 percent of the oil and natural gas production facilities were shut down, ahead of the storm. More than 10 refineries were also closed, while numerous others were running at a reduced rate. Combined,...
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The legendary Komodo dragon, a giant carnivorous lizard that feasts on water buffalo, and occasionally even attacks humans, is disappearing from its limited habitat, according to zoologists.

Politicians of the right and left blasted the magazine Paris Match today for publishing a photograph of a Taliban guerrilla dressed in the combat uniform of one of the ten French soldiers killed in Afghanistan last month.