At least 51 people were killed and 238 injured in a stampede on Tuesday at a Yemeni stadium where President Ali Abdullah Saleh was holding a pre-election rally in the southern province of Ibb.

Seth Godin:  I was reading John Hammond’s biography entry, (John discovered Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen and yes, Count Basie) and I noticed that he was independently wealthy.

China will become the world’s largest broadband market within a year, according to market research firm Ovum. The firm has released projections claiming that not only will China have 79 million broadband subscribers by 2007, but that this number will grow by 75% by 2010, resulting in 139 million total in 2010.

A much tougher drink-drive limit for young drivers and a higher legal age at which cigarettes can be bought are needed to tackle the drugs that do most harm to young people, the British government’s experts on drug policy recommended.

The world has tapped only 18 percent of the total global supply of crude, a leading Saudi oil executive said Wednesday, challenging the notion that supplies are petering out.

Industrial robots have been slaving away in factories for decades, far out of the sight of the average Joe, but over the next decade the machine-human relationship will become a lot closer. In fact, futurists believe that there will come a time, in the not too distant future (less than 30 years), when it will [...]

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle limits what we can know about the quantum world. Now the uncertainty principle is being harnessed to see if it is possible to identify a point at which matter begins to exhibit weird quantum behavior.

U.S. engineers have created a battery that uses plastic, not metal, to conduct current, combining a capacitor’s power with a battery’s storage capacity.