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Before Susan Boyle came along and gave nearly everyone in the world goosebumps, there was Paul Potts. The winner of the TV program “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2007, Potts recalls the butterflies he felt in the lead-up to his audition
Political junkies who weren’t thrilled at the prospect of a relatively staid confirmation process for President Barack Obama’s as yet unnamed Supreme Court nominee can rest easy. This week Senate Republicans named perennial bomb thrower Jeff Sessions, 62, of Alabama to be the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, promising to bring at least a few sparks to a confirmation process that — if Minnesota’s Al Franken is seated — was bound to be relatively easy. While Sessions alone can’t change the basic legislative math that promises whomever Obama picks to replace retiring Justice David Souter a fairly easy path to confirmation, he can certainly liven up the proceedings
He won’t look me in the eye, won’t engage in any small talk, and looks more ill at ease than I feel. The man in front of me is Zabiullah Mujahid — one of two spokesmen for the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar
Forty-four people were slain during an attack on a wedding party in Turkey’s southeastern Mardin province Monday, with some of the victims gunned down as they prayed, authorities said.
Japanese authorities have agreed to continue searching for an American university professor through at least Tuesday, more than a week after he disappeared on a volcanic Japanese island, colleagues and relatives said. Craig Arnold’s family also has hired a private, U.S.-based rescue group that is set to join the search in Japan this week, according to his sister-in-law, Augusta Palmer
How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel and Act the Way We Do By Dr. Sharon Moalem 274 pages; Harper The Gist: At this point, is there anything we don’t know about the biology of sex Never before has a populace had as much access to information about how their bodies operate.
A Spanish court decided Monday to investigate Israel for an alleged "crime against humanity" for its 2002 bombing in Gaza that killed 15 people and wounded 150 others, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.
Nepal’s prime minister said Monday he will resign to save what he called the country’s "infant democracy." It is the latest fallout over the status of Nepal’s army chief, Gen. Rookmangud Katawal
The World Health Organization cautioned that the swine flu outbreak could gain momentum in the months ahead, despite claims by the health secretary of Mexico — the epicenter of the outbreak — that the virus "is in its declining phase." The outbreak is only about 10 days old, and even if the illness is declining, it could return, said Gregory Hartl, the WHO spokesman for epidemic and pandemic diseases, at a briefing Sunday. “I …
Someone at technology news site, Cnet, came up with the clever idea of running a poll to learn the age of people who use Amazon’s miracle book reader, the Kindle. Seven hundred people responded, which puts the survey somewhat below what researchers would expect from Gallup, but it is a reasonable straw poll, nonetheless