Berlusconi prefers phone talk to greeting Merkel at NATO summit.

What stars do Americans trust most? Hint: Tiger Woods isn’t one of them. Tiger Woods’ sex scandal may have finally exhausted front-page news editors, but it remains top of mind for marketers. Consider this: Before his late November car crash, the world-class golfer was a marketer’s dream–a consummate professional on the course and guarded family [...]

How to piss in public…Many people have brief, isolated episodes of urinary difficulty in situations where other people are in close proximity. This occurs around towns and cities all over the planet every Friday and Saturday night, so much that the streets run yellow with rivers of urine. But it’s not always about just finding [...]

More middle-aged American women have heart attacks but the death rate has dropped in the past years, according to studies made by researchers at the University of Southern California. The two studies also found that heart attacks for women have increased but for men there is a decrease. “We found that men still have a [...]

U.S. Navy destroyer arrived off Somalia on Thursday to apply pressure for the release of an American ship captain taken hostage in the first seizure of U.S. citizens by increasingly bold pirates. Gunmen briefly hijacked the 17,000-tonne Maersk Alabama freighter on Wednesday, but the 20 American crew retook control after a confrontation far out in [...]

In populating the growing brain, neural stem cells must strike a delicate balance between two key processes — proliferation, in which the cells multiply to provide plenty of starting materials — and differentiation, in which those materials evolve into functioning neurons. If the stem cells proliferate too much, they could grow out of control and [...]

Finnish symphonic rockers Apocalyptica, who last played in Kyiv in 2005, are coming back to shake the stage at Sports Palace. While there is no shortage of symphonic metal bands in Finland, Apocalyptica and their rocking cellos managed to captivate with their powerful compositions. Formed in 1993 by four classically trained cellists, three of them [...]