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The world Santa Claus Congress 2011 is being celebrated in Copenhagen

Is there a way to get a quick-read on the U.S. economy, for those who are time-pressed, and don't have time to review the latest economic reports from the U.S. Federal Reserve? Indeed there is: review the performance of diversified industrial giant General Electric (GE).

Russia, which boycotted the Nobel ceremony on Friday, suggested that the Norwegian Committee should award a peace prize to Julian Assange. In an unusual move, Moscow called upon Rights group to rally support for the whistle-blower. Meanwhile, snubbing the communist China, the Nobel Prize committee has called for the immediate release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

A malicious new sophisticated Trojan malware targeted at Android smartphones has appeared in China.

Now that NASA's shuttle program has ended, a a new constellation of companies is set to respond to the sudden demand for firms with the capability to transport humans to the International Space Station, and eventually the moon.

Now that NASA's shuttle program has ended, a new constellation of companies is set respond to the sudden demand for firms with the capability to transport humans to the International Space Station and eventually the moon.

A new measure, signed into law by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, classifies beer as alcohol, limiting its sales at unlicensed kiosks and banning sales between certain hours.

Space shuttle Atlantis may be permanently stuck on earth, but the private space industry is preparing for blastoff.

The U.S. delivered the last time there was a space race. This time those who want to see the country beat the Russians and other space competition may be relying on the private sector.

An irony: the U.S., which won the moon race to symbolize the superiority of democracy/free markets vs. communism/centrally-planned economy, will now relinquish delivery of humans into space to Russia.

On Wednesday, a new Russian law declare that beer was alcohol

Hess was at one time the third most powerful man in the Nazi regime, behind only Hermann Goring and Der Führer Hitler himself.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), the shooting took place not at a police station, but at the close main bazaar of Hotan, in the Nurbagh area, when more than 100 local Uighurs peacefully gathered to protest a police crackdown imposed on the city for the last two weeks.

The Rugby World Cup is expected to be an intense tournament.

All Non-African carry Neanderthal genetics.

People outside Africa are found to have some of the human X chromosome originating from Neanderthals, according to a latest study.

New research proves that humans and Neanderthals mated, making people everywhere but in sub-Saharan Africa distant descendants of Neanderthals.

new research proves that humans and Neanderthals mated, making people everywhere but in sub-Saharan Africa distant descendants of Neanderthals.

People everywhere but in sub-Saharan Africa are part Neanderthal, distant descendants of Neanderthal-human interbreeding, a new study of human genetics has found.

People everywhere but in sub-Saharan Africa are distant descendants of Neanderthal-human interbreeding, a new study of human genetics has found.

Genetic researchers at the University of Montreal seem to have confirmed that non-Africans interbred with Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago.