Ethnic Chinese tipped as US energy chief
[2008-12-12 07:05]US president-elect Barack Obama is widely expected to name Physics Nobel winner Steven Chu, who is of Chinese descent, his energy secretary.
Gay elders' distinctive challenges get closer look
[2008-10-05 10:51]Today's gay elderly are emerging as distinct community, getting more help and attention as they confront challenges that differ in many ways from their heterosexual counterparts.
Not-quite-so-thin is in for models at Fashion Week
[2008-09-12 11:24]If model thin is always in, at least there were fewer protruding collar bones and ribs to be counted at New York Fashion Week.
Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
[2008-09-07 09:55]Calling all ninth-grade boys! Raise your hand if this school sounds like fun: wearing jackets and ties every day, staying until 5 pm, and no girls.
Kids working in African gold mines
[2008-08-11 10:16]A reef of gold buried beneath this vast, parched grassland arcs across some of the world's poorest countries. Where the ore is rich, industrial mines carve it out. Where it's not, the poor sift the earth.
AIDS hitting Asian gays at high rates - UN
[2008-07-30 10:53]HIV infection rates among gay men in many parts of Asia are as severe as those which devastated US homosexual communities in the late 1980s, top officials of the UNAIDS said.
Impotence drugs help treat brain tumors
[2008-07-29 22:03]Impotence drugs may help carry cancer-fighting drugs through the brain to treat malignant tumors, US researchers reported on Monday.
Thousands of blank British passports stolen
[2008-07-29 16:53]Britain's Foreign Office says thousands of blank British passports have been stolen in a raid on a delivery van.
Twins born to have different skin tones
[2008-07-28 14:41]The twin boys, who have radically differing skin colours, were born on July 11 by Caesarean section to German mixed race couple Stephan and Florence Gerth.
Arctic's oil could meet world demand for 3 years
[2008-07-24 15:14]The Arctic Circle holds an estimated 90 billion barrels of recoverable oil, enough supply to meet current world demand for almost three years,the US Geological Survey forecast. Ominous Arctic Melt
Major US firms gird loins for more losses
[2008-07-08 09:25]Profits at US companies probably shrank for the fourth consecutive quarter, the longest losing streak since 2002, as Citibank Inc and Merrill Lynch & Co suffered more losses from the collapse of the mortgage market.
NY millionaire gets prison for enslaving workers
[2008-06-27 10:12]A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison.