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The Millennium Villages projecta 'the flagship initiative of Millennium Promise, implemented in cooperation with the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the United Nations Development Programme a 'now ...

For more than a quarter century, Harry Kreisler has been interviewing individuals who have helped shape the modern world.

A suicide bomber struck the headquarters of the Anti-terrorism Squad of the Islamabad police force Thursday afternoon, just as lawmakers were preparing to convene 15 miles away to discuss growing militancy in the country.

The incident added to the rise in bomb attacks that Pakistan has seen over the past year, not only in its troubled northwestern region but also on high-profile targets in major cities like Islamabad, the capital.

"The message [from Thursday's attack] couldn't have been clearer," says Hassan Askari Rizvi, former professor of Pakistan Studies at Columbia University.

U.S. and U.K. universities continue to dominate an annual ranking of the world's top 200 higher education institutions, with Harvard heading the table for the fifth year running, Yale in second place and ...

The global financial crisis risks distracting world leaders from the fight against hunger, even as it proves they can mobilise massive funds to tackle emergencies, a prominent economist said on Thursday.

Gov. Sarah Palin has made moral issues the center of her campaign. When Patrick Buchanan declared a "culture war" at the Republic Convention in 1992, it was a not-so-veiled reference to gay rights.

A new animal model has provided insight into the cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with behavioral therapy for depression.

Corrected at 8:11 p.m. PDT: See below for details. Intel has tapped Senator Dianne Feinstein's chief of staff to head its Washington office.

A new PBS documentary will cast a spotlight on the crucial role of U.S. Hispanic voters in picking the next president of the United States.

South Africa has been rated the 45th most competitive country in the 2008/2009 Global Competitiveness Report , Business Unity South Africa said on Wednesday.

The Board of Trustees at The Bishop's School unanimously selected on Oct. 6 Aimeclaire Lambert Roche as the new Head of School, effective July 1, 2009.

Two Americans and one Japanese won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for the discovery and development of a brightly glowing protein first seen in jellyfish, work that has helped scientists study how ...

Microsoft and academic partners will be exploring how videogames can push math and science education to new levels through a newly-founded institute.

Some unlucky investors like Dino Macaluso are feeling the double whammy of the market meltdown: They are watching their investment portfolios shrivel while college tuition payments loom.

A Graduate School Fair will be held at Rutgers University-Camden from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct.

The discovery, by scientists in Singapore, is published in the October 2008 issue of Cell.

Throughout the presidential campaign, a common theme could be heard -- that Latinos wouldn't vote for Barack Obama because they won't support an African American for president.

Head and neck surgery is a diverse regional subspecialty, whose central focus is treatment of oncologic disorders of the neck.

The men suspected in the 2006 slaying of Greenwich real estate developer Andrew Kissel are awaiting trial, but Kissel's wife is now fighting her own legal battle against insurance companies intent on recovering ...

By conventional measures, Republican Adam Hasner holds the advantage in his run for a fourth term in District 87 of the Florida House.