WASHINGTON, Nov. 30: With North Korea reeling from economic and succession crises, American and South Korean officials early this year secretly began gaming out what would happen if the North, led by

Fort Benning, Georgia, Nov. 28: War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only more of it were fought by robots.

And while smart machines are already very much a part of modern warfare, the Army an

New York, Nov. 28: Yoga is practised by about 15 million people in the US, for reasons almost as numerous — from the benefits mapped in brain scans to the less tangible rewards that New Age journals c

New York, Nov. 24: Exuberance made a comeback this year at Mr Josh Koplewicz’s annual Halloween party. More than 1,000 people packed into a 6,000-square-foot space at the Good Units night club in Manh

Illinois, Nov. 23: Twelve years ago, Commonwealth Edison found itself in a bind.

The Zion Station, its twin-unit nuclear reactor here, was no longer profitable. But the company could not afford to t

Mosalsk, Russia, Nov. 22: The road into town is a potholed track, passing villages of log cabins and fallow fields that speak to the poverty that has gripped this part of central Russia for as long as

Lisbon, Nov. 20: Nato leaders agreed on Friday to establish a missile defense shield that would cover all Nato member states, and on Saturday they expect Russia to agree to discuss the possibility of

New York, Nov. 19: Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear programme have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifug

New York, Nov. 19: A new planet the size of Jupiter with origins outside the Milky Way galaxy has been discovered, according to a study in the journal Science.

The finding is important because the p

Beijing, Nov. 19: China has sentenced a woman to a year in a labour camp for “disrupting social order” by retweeting a satirical message urging Chinese protesters to smash the Japan pavilion at the Sh