A professor at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., has founded a project aimed at producing free online textbooks for students in developing countries.Education can play a fundamental role in reducing poverty, but high-quality and up-to-date textbooks are often too expensive for most people in developing countries.

Plasma TV’s have taken off around the world. Their shallow profile and vibrant screens have a knack for captivating all who come into contact with them. 

The bold and evocative sculpture ‘The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton: the First Woman President of the United States of America’ sits on display at the Museum of Sex in New York August 9, 2006.

The rare newborn albino Pygmy Marmoset (Callithrix pygmae) monkey perches on a zookeeper’s thumb at Froso Zoo in Ostersund, Sweden August 22, 2006. The Pygmy Marmoset, which lives in the upper Amazon basin in South America, is the world’s smallest monkey and reaches 35 cm (13.7 inches) in length and weighs up to 100 grams (3.5 ounces) [...]

Spain’s Red.es, a governmental body within the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce whose mission is to contribute to the development of an information society, conducted a survey of Internet users in early 2006. Based on the survey’s results, retail e-commerce sales in Spain totaled an estimated Eur2.1 billion ($2.7 billion) in 2005.

British women regard healthy finances as more important than good looks in a man, according to a survey on Friday.

In the fish markets of Asia, the tailfin from a basking shark can fetch nearly $10,000 (£5,250), a price tag justified not by its nutritional value, but its desirability as a vast sign on which restaurants can advertise their shark fin soup.

When the backpack is a bit too grade-schoolish for your tastes and the shoulder bag just doesn’t haul enough gear for your liking you now have the option of pulling around your own personal trailer.

Many American adults believe certain passengers should be searched or questioned based on their background or appearance, according to a poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. 60 per cent of respondents believe authorities should be able to single out people who look like they might be of Middle Eastern origin to prevent terrorism.

According to a new report from Scarborough Research, newspaper Web sites are contributing significant numbers of readers to their overall audience who do not necessarily read the printed publications. The "Online Exclusive" audience — or the audience that reads a newspaper’s Web site but not its printed version — accounts for 2% to 15% of [...]