ICT magazine

It is now forty years since the start of a riot for freedom in a small tavern in New York City - and the riot...

Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer but this does not apply to all forms of the disease, a major study has found.The study involving 60,000 people found those who followed a vegetarian diet developed ...

General Motors is using its huge pension fund in a way it never intended. It had planned -- and put money aside -- for a steady march of retirees over time. But instead, tens of thousands of blue-collar workers, most in their 40s ...

My last post about Madoff's 150-year sentence aroused quite a response and requires that I clear the air about some issues that were raised: I...

By Aunohita MojumdarBBC News, KabulIt sounds like an old joke - a farmer, a cook, a mason and a schoolteacher go climbing together.But this unlikely foursome from the Wakhi community in ...

I believe what we witnessed last Fall is the visible result of a complete re-ordering and reorganization of every single facet of the global economy by the combined power of information technology and the Internet.

The Pentagon is considering how it might ease the "don't ask, don't tell" law requiring gays to keep quiet about their sexual identity or face expulsion from the military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. "One of the things we're ...

The 150-year sentence is headline grabbing, but what should surprise us is not that Madoff got such a long sentence, but that other corporate criminals escape with no criminal prosecution at all.

Moments after former Sen. Norm Coleman conceded the drawn-out Minnesota Senate election to Al Franken, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that that he would sign the election certificate. In a matter of minutes, the seven-month-long recount process had co...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Eight health care workers blocking access to the Illinois House have been removed by Capitol police officers. The home- and child-care workers are represented by the health care division of the Service Employees Inte...

Carlos Acosta stretches out on the sofa and yawns. Not the most promising start to an interview, perhaps - or indeed the most flattering response...

The Bank of International Settlements - the "Central Banks' Central Bank" - slammed too big to fail. As summarized by the Financial Times:The report was particularly scathing in its assessment of governments’ attempts to clean up their banks. “The...

The EU's transport chief has called for a worldwide blacklist of airlines deemed unsafe, as investigators probe the crash of a Yemeni airliner. More on Airlines ...

The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution calling for the reinstatement of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Mr Zelaya's expulsion by the army on Sunday has been criticised ...

Michael Jackson's father has said the family will wait for the results of a second post-mortem before finalising plans for the pop stars's funeral.Joe Jackson told reporters in Los Angeles the ceremony would have "some private" elements but "not closed down all the way to the public". The music ...

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The long-running battle for Minnesota's Senate seat is finally over. Democracy – and Al Franken – won fair and squareIn the end, the conspiracy theories became so laughable that the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (RSCC) quietly removed its own "Minnesota Recount" website, once ...

DETROIT — Gunmen in a green minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, wounding seven including three who were in critical condition, authorities said. Five of the teens had just ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela deported a convicted European drug trafficker dubbed the "Mafia's foreign minister" to Italy on Tuesday, where he has been wanted on drug smuggling charges since 2001. Salvatore Miceli, 63, was led in hand...

• Flight 626 crashes on the way to Comoros• Airline criticised over 'flying cattle trucks'A 14-year-old girl may be the sole survivor from an Airbus A310-300 jet from Yemen carrying 153 people that crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros islands early ...