A Sudanese man has been forced to marry a goat after he was caught having sex with it.

It is no secret that mobile phones are attractive to advertisers and marketers. BusinessWeek and visiongain projected in March 2006 that US mobile advertising and marketing spending will increase rapidly from 2005, reaching $602.3 million in 2009.

Honda on Thursday announced a major breakthrough in ethanol production, saying it and a research institute had developed a practical way to use discarded plant material to make abundant quantities of the fuel.

Scientists have discovered a way to turn one of the ants’ strongest weapons into a weakness. By altering the identifying chemicals coating the ants’ bodies, researchers turned typical cooperative behavior into an ant-family feud.

The vacancy rate in China’s commercial property sector surged 13.1 percent over last year to reach 121.69 million square meters of floor space by the end of August, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.

In China, a total of 27 competitors from 15 countries fought for the title of "2006 World Top Hercules Champion", a 30-year-old event with a prize of US$40,000. The youngest participant was a 21-year-old Norwegian. Three-time consecutive champion Dymek also competed. 

The New York Times reported this month on a new hybrid of social networking and e-commerce called "social shopping." The article listed ThisNext, Kaboodle, Wists and StyleHive as examples. The sites attempt to answer the characteristically American question of "What should I buy?" based on recommendations made by uber-shopper site members who each have their [...]

Michael Rogers:  I’m an accidental futurist. Five years ago, when I was trying to name this column, I found that all the clever technology titles involving bytes, bits and so forth had already been taken. So I thought: since I’m interested in how technology will affect us in years to come, why not “Practical Futurist”? 

Cell phone makers are packing new features into cell phones, many of which have been the exclusive domain of PCs. These features include e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, television, music players, television shows and even full-length movies.