With the economy in trouble, funding has dried up for green tech companies trying to bring new clean energy technologies to market, according to two new research reports.
More than three years after an immigration detainee died in custody in New Jersey, the mere fact of his death proved troublingly hard to confirm.
North Korea launched a three-stage rocket over the Pacific. Although the third stage probably crashed into the ocean, the North Korean government claims that it successfully lifted a satellite into orbit that has been broadcasting patriotic tunes towards Earth.
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan ordered a review of a new law that curbs women's rights and permits marital rape.
The government of Sri Lanka and ethnic Tamil freedom fighters ignored a call by the secretary general of the United Nations for a cease-fire, as soldiers battled guerrillas in hand-to-hand combat.
The government in Thailand has set up a special website urging people to inform on anyone criticising the monarchy.
The Walgreen pharmacy chain has pulled the Chia Obama ceramic-plant product from its shelves, saying the likeness of President Barack Obama is not appropriate.
The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration's wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim federal agents illegally intercepted their phone calls and gained access to their records.
The conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has been thrown out due to alleged misconduct by the prosecutors, despite reportedly overwhelming evidence of Stevens' guilt.
The Reading Rights Coalition and the National Federation for the Blind staged a protest in New York at the offices of the Authors Guild, to let the Guild know that their successful campaign to remove the text-to-speech feature from the Kindle has hurt blind people and undermined their ability to access a wide variety of works in a more-accessible form.