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190 Countries Ranked to Find Best Places to Live
How do you determine where in the world is the best place to live the good life? International Living magazine ranked 194 countries in...
Boy Addresses the United Nations at Age 13
It's not every day that a 13-year-old boy gets a chance to address the United Nations General Assembly. But Felix Finkbeiner is no ordinary...
President Obama Honors 15 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Today, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor, to fifteen diverse recipients. The Medal of Freedom is...
Meditation Changes Brain Structure In 8 Weeks, Helping Memory Loss, Stress
In just 8-weeks, a program of mindfulness meditation was able to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, empathy and stress. A...
‘World Giving Index’ Ranks Generosity of Countries With Surprising Results
The “World Giving Index” is the first report of its kind to tally different types of charitable behavior found in people from 153 countries....
To Improve Learning, German School Allows Chewing Gum
Few things rile a teacher more than seeing a pupil chewing gum in class, but a primary school in southern Germany is now actively...
Millions Turn Out for Party on German Autobahn Highway
An estimated three million people turned out for a celebration on the super highway in western Germany where cars were forbidden Sunday. Bicycles and...
Mozart Makes Microbes Eat Sewage Faster
Sewage-eating microbes are major appreciators of Mozart, according to one pioneering waste treatment plant in Germany which has taken to playing the Austrian composer's...
Landmark Deal Protects Millions of Acres of Canadian Forest
Most of Canada’s largest forestry companies announced a groundbreaking deal with environmental groups Tuesday that will restrict logging in vast northern forests....
Electric Car Plant to be Built in Hawaii
South Korean electric car manufacturer CT&T announced plans to build an assembly plant in Hawaii that will eventually produce up to 10,000 vehicles a...
US Grants Asylum to German Homeschoolers, Others May Follow
A US judge granted German homeschoolers asylum in January after ruling they faced persecution in Germany, where the practice is punishable with fines or...
G7 Nations Announce They Will Cancel Haiti’s Debt
The world's leading industrialized nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following a devastating earthquake last month. ...
Firefox 3.5 Now the World’s Most Popular Browser
New site tracking from StatCounter Global Statistics shows that Firefox 3.5 is now the most used browser in the world, surpassing Internet Explorer 7....
Wind Supergrid to Connect Europe in North Sea
Progress has already been made in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Change Conference in the realm of renewable energy. Nine European countries, it was...
Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl mark Berlin Wall’s Fall
Ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl, former US president George Bush and the Soviet Union's last head of state Mikhail Gorbachev -- gathered in Berlin...
Lutherans Ask Forgiveness for 16th-century Persecutions
Leaders of the Lutheran World Federation have approved a statement apologising for the 16th-century persecution by Lutherans of Anabaptists, religious reformers whose successors...
Rich Germans Demand Higher Taxes
A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.
The group say they have...
Tour the Futuristic Solar Homes Competing on the National Mall (Video)
20 university teams from around the world have designed and built their ultimate solar dream homes on the National Mall in Washington, DC....
Solar Village Begins to Bloom on National Mall
A cluster of 20 solar-powered homes will open their doors to tourists as well as energy and design enthusiasts tomorrow in the 4th...
Amazing Video Spoof – Berlin TV Tower Takes Off Into Orbit
Video of the Berlin TV tower, one of the most recognisable buildings in Germany, being fired into space during an audacious Nasa "theft",...