Scientists have finished sequencing the genomes of the domestic tomato and one of its wild relatives, paving the way for more precise breeding in tomatoes and other plants.
In a double blow to Florida's controversial push to prevent election fraud, a federal judge blocked the state's new voting law and the Justice Department ordered the state to halt a purge of noncitizens from its voter rolls.
She urged foreign investors to invest in Myanmar in order to provide jobs for the young and alleviate high rates of poverty.
As Ian Stawicki indiscriminately shot five people at Café Racer during a shooting in Seattle on Wednesday, one man, Lawrence Adams, stood up and attempted to subdue the shooter by hurling bar stools at him. Stawicki aimed his gun at Adams, whose efforts created enough of a distraction to allow several customers to flee the scene.
A New Jersey Superior Court judge has ruled that the parents who named three of their four children after prominent Nazi historical figures will not regain custody of the children after losing it temporarily. The decision was made on Thurs., May 31.
Slavery exists for hundreds of thousands of Mauritanians, and some activists are fighting for change.
In a major step towards resolving the Air India crisis, the government of India Friday announced uniform pay scale and uniform working hours for both Air India and erstwhile Indian Airlines employees.
The Indian Pilots Guild, which is spearheading the agitation, has been holding informal talks with Aviation Minister Ajit Singh and the minister has reportedly gave them verbal assurance that the sacked pilots will be taken back.
Sex ed is apparently taken very seriously at Brooklyn's James Madison High School, aka Horndog High, which is embroiled in yet another sex scandal, as allegations emerge that married English teacher Erin Sayar allegedly had a month-long sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.
With the Celtics staring at a 0-2 hole, do they have a chance to come back against the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Thousands of Ecuadoreans this week are trying to force Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil and gas company, into complying with a verdict and paying billions in environmental fines resulting from a decade-long pollution case.
A shooting spree that left six people dead came to an end after the suspect killed himself after a massive manhunt that began when Ian Stawicki walked into Café Racer on Wednesday indiscriminately shooting at his victims.
Only the Supreme Court can finally decide this unique case, wrote First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boudin.
The Pakistani Taliban has vowed to kill Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who has been accused of helping the CIA search for Osama bin Laden.
Indian activists are encouraging a boycott of the London summer Olympics to draw attention to a 1984 tragedy that killed thousands and injured many more in the town of Bhopal.
Where to watch live coverage of day five of the French Open, plus a look at the pick of Thursday's matches.
Police in Scotland charged a former spokesman of British Prime Minister David Cameron with perjury on Wednesday for remarks made in court over the phone hacking scandal.
Democrats in a state where fracking has ignited a furious political debate say a law currently regulating the practice doesn't go far enough, and propose a new one
In the most recent development of the scandal that has rocked Rupert Murdoch's disgraced News of the World tabloid, former editor Andy Coulson has been detained on perjury charges over court testimony about phone hacking. Coulson, 44, has been taken into custody by Scottish police as a part of an investigation into phone hacking and perjury at the trial of politician Tommy Sheridan.
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in war crimes committed during the Sierra Leone civil war that took place in the 1990s. Taylor was found guilty by the same judge who presided over his sentencing in an international criminal court on Wed., May 30.
The American Civil Liberties Union and LGBT group Lambda Legal will file lawsuits to challenge Illinois' same-sex marriage ban.
California death row inmate James Lee Crummel hanged himself from a locker in his cell in San Quentin State Prison over the weekend.
