FACT popularity and FACT trends

Apoorva Pauranik and colleagues' points are well taken. However, it is a fact that activists have made formal allegations of ethical violations and filed complaints with the Indian Supreme Court and other agencies. The Court will decide how to proceed, and whether clinical trials were legal and ethical.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Apple and a number of other large U.S. publishers of conspiring to fix eBook prices and filed an antitrust lawsuit. While most of the publishers quickly settled the lawsuit, Apple decided to fight. Earlier this week, as Ars Technica reports today, Apple responded (PDF) to the government's accusations. Apple doesn't mince words in its response. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars....

Romney surrogate wrongly claimed Bain Capital was "able to save jobs about 80% of the time" at companies in which it had invested.

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice said the flaws in the judicial system would be improved with the help of bar and bench. The cherished goal of providing justice to the people remains elusive despite the fact that Pakistan was one of the most regulated countries in the world. He was addressing a full court reference held in his honour at the LHC premises on Friday. Chief ...

Headline Title:  Activist: ‘Zimbabwe government increases repression following Arab Spring’ 25 May 2012 Hope that the wave of popular uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa would spread south and translate into widespread social reforms was quashed over the last yea...

In an email to supporters, President Obama's campaign explained that their popular win-a-dinner contests are about avoiding special interest money. "If you're wondering why we have so many contests to meet President Obama, I'll be honest. Yeah, it's partly because they're really popular," campaign chief operating officer Ann Marie Habershaw wrote to supporters. "But it's also because we don't a...

This Memorial Day, we honor the men and women who have defended our nation, and mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. On Memorial Day, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will participate in an event at Arlington National Cemetery. The President, Vice President, First Lady and Dr. Biden will also attend an event at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Prior to these events, t...

OpenDNS founder and CEO David Ulevitch wants his company to become "the Akamai for security."

Ms Burrell, 42, who hosts Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, confirmed the fact after Mr Allen announced her sexuality to listeners of Sirius XM.

Norwich goalkeeper confirms broken finger which rules him out of Euro 2012 is in fact his ring finger with wedding looming.

There aren't a whole lot of contenders left for the NBA title. In fact, you can count them on one hand.

San Francisco's famed bridge is a public health hazard; it needs adequate barriers to stop suicides.As San Francisco hosts a citywide birthday party for the Golden Gate Bridge's 75th anniversary, one thing that won't be celebrated is the fact that the bridge continues to be the world's top suicide site. Since it opened on May 27, 1937, there have been an estimated 1,600 deaths in which the body...

Such a good sport! Jessica Sanchez, the 16-year-old American Idol runner-up, isn't too disappointed that she lost to Phillip Phillips. In fact, she thinks he deserved it and is just relieved that the season is over. After the season finale, she told reporters: "I'm kind of relieved that this whole thing is over, but I'm also [...]

TRUTH IS one of the first casualties of a US presidential campaign. “The stakes are too high. Both political parties will twist the facts or spin them if they think it will give them political advantage,” says Glenn Kessler, the author of the Washington Post’s Fact Checker column.

Reverend Marvin Winans -- the guy who MC'd Whitney Houston's funeral service -- shouldn't have been driving when he was carjacked last week ... because his license was suspended. In fact, Winans is a wanted man -- with an active warrant out for his…

BJP on Thursday rejected the proposals made by the Centre’s interlocutors on J&K, saying it would not accept any dilution of the fact that the state’s accession with India was complete and total.

Within two days, 2,592 people signed up to give care packages in the Reddit gift exchange for U.S. troops — in fact, at the moment, there…

David Wessels says a new bipartisan bill called the JOBS Act will in fact roll back protections for investors who want a slice of IPOs.

Bangalore: Every recruiter at some point of his/her life has made the mistake of hiring wrong candidates. Sometimes the HRs doesn't want to admit this fact, and sometimes they just hope that their performance may improve with experience.

Anderson Cooper may be known for occasionally cracking up on air, but one of the guests on his daytime talk show this week definitely did not leave him laughing. In fact, she simply left...

Defense Minister Pedro Morenés Eulate talks to EL PAÍS about Spain's plans to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan

Case of 11-year-old with cerebral palsy and A* maths GCSE fuels wider concerns over education reforms and accountabilityTwo of the government's flagship academy schools are facing legal challenges over their refusal to admit children with statements of special needs.One of the cases involves Mossbourne academy in Hackney, east London, which has become one of the most celebrated schools in the c...

BAGHDAD — A second day of talks between Iran and world powers began Thursday amid fading hopes that these latest negotiations would help ease tensions over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. Iran rejected a new package of proposals put forward by the six nations, including the United States, on Wednesday, but U.S. officials said the fact that the talks were being extended into Thursday suggeste...

Horrific violence between warring drug cartels has been a fact of life in Mexico for years.But now it's getting closer to U.S. retirees.

The government has never issued any formal orders for national holidays on Republic Day, Independence Day or Gandhi Jayanti. The fact has come to fore through a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by city girl Aishwarya Parashar.

It's no secret in Hollywood that The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons is gay. In fact, his partner of 10 years is often with him when he hits a red carpet or sitting beside him at...

Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show was supposed to bring out the softer, cuddlier side of the silver-haired newsman. But a guest on Tuesday's episode left Cooper so disgusted, he cut the interview short and tossed her off his program. Cooper's guest was Sarah Burge, a British woman who holds the Guinness World Record for having the most plastic surgeries in order to become a "Human Barbie." Sh...

House and Desperate Housewives were two of the most high-profile series that ended this season, but they weren't the only shows calling it a day.Check out our season MVPsIn fact, we lost more than 30 shows this year — some old and some so new (and under-watched) that that they didn't even make it to the third episode. Some weren't even given a chance to succeed (Bent) and one even died for the ...

GINA Rinehart defends crown as the nation's richest person. So who are the other four rounding out the Top 5 richest?

Two new ads from President Obama focus on benefits for veterans and senior citizens, a marked shift from the campaign’s recent ads attacking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Obama says he is not dropping its campaign against Romney’s private equity experience, a line of attack that has led to blowback from some Democrats. “This is not a distraction,” ...

A report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences highlights the fact that more and more young girls are having abortions, this shows the urgent need for sex education in schools.

Miley Cyrus is no stranger to criticism for her sexually charged image, but the singer and actress wants you to know she's not ashamed. In fact, she thinks sex is pretty awesome. 

QUENTIN LETTS: Nick Clegg was at the despatch box for Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister. He was helped by the fact that he is opposed by Harriet Harman.

Barclays Capital‘s Ben Reitzes this afternoon reiterates an Overweight rating on Apple (AAPL) shares, writing that the stock can see further gains as it “extracts more profits out of the traditional PC and mobile phone industries.” In fact, his report makes the case Apple and Samsung Electronics (005930KS) have come to dominate so much of [...]

"Executives across the globe feel peer and competitive pressure to 'get to yes' on private cloud. This burden falls on IT to provide a cloud solution -- oh, and by the way, we need it by the end of the year. With this clock ticking, it?s hard to think about private cloud strategically. In fact, ...

The aim of the new terminology is to prevent a repeat of the situation this year where people were told that their areas were officially in drought despite the fact their homes were being flooded.

BOSTON -- The visitors from Philadelphia had not been set up, and they were not the victims of a confidence game. These truths did not prevent the 76ers from feeling as if they had been hustled by the Celtics and their crowd. The Boston fans could not have been in on the sting, because, in fact, they had come here Monday to possibly say goodbye.

Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree. In fact, government spending is rising at the slowest pace in nearly 60 years, writes Rex Nutting.

Baylor University gets “sucks” domain back after letting it expire. It’s pretty easy to sit down here in Austin and say that Baylor sucks. You can get on its case for yanking a gay student’s scholarship. And for waiting until the 90s to lift a ban on dancing on campus. There’s also that little fact [...]

Little about the origins of dogs is agreed upon, beyond the fact that they descended from wolves. Genetic research has provided little insight so far.

There is a lot of ignorance on the subject of dams and in particular about Kalabagh dam. There is the unfounded fear that dams decrease flow in the river rather than increase it; that dams cause degradation of the Indus delta when they actually increase river flow; that Punjab will steal Sindh’s water because KBD is in Punjab, despite the fact that it is IRSA which supervises distribution ...

There is a lot of ignorance on the subject of dams and in particular about Kalabagh dam. There is the unfounded fear that dams decrease flow in the river rather than increase it; that dams cause degradation of the Indus delta when they actually increase river flow; that Punjab will steal Sindh’s water because KBD is in Punjab, despite the fact that it is IRSA which supervises distribution ...

A simple nickname that forever changed an entire industry

The former Mainz trainer insisted that despite the fact that BVB claimed the double this season, the Bavarians remain the side to beat in German football

There are two types of evolution, micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Micro-evolution is fact and truly science. Macro-evolution simply is imaginary and blind faith. Micro-evolution involves variations within a biological kind or natural species. Micro-evolution is the expression, over time, of already existing genes

@gi http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20100108_Is_Antarctica_Melting.html 100 cubic kilometers = 100 gigatons wobei das die unterste schätzung ist, andere gehen bis 300 hoch. und: »How is it possible for surface melting to decrease, but for the continent to lose mass anyway? The answer boils down to the fact that ice can flow without melting.« ich kann zudem die von Ihnen beabsicht...

1 Beautiful, the way the partita progresses and retreats (repeats?). This node virtually branching on two “sides,” without haste or seeming intent, almost reluctantly, in fact, almost “sending regrets.” 2 Long Term Technologies has made these fully nuanced, self-reflexive stanzas— sliver echoes—  . . . (Subscription required.)

When President Obama announced his support for gay marriage, supporters and pundits declared it symbolic of a historic shift in American attitudes. But as the attention fades, the fact remains that voters in 31 states have rejected gay marriage and more are lining up to do so....

Amid the fanfare of SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch to the International Space Station there is in fact another secret mission the rocket will perform - sending James 'Scotty from Star Trek' Doohan and 307 other people's ashes into orbit.

Image: Researcher Hans Roy opening a core sample, photo by Bo Barker Jørgensen, © Science / AAAS I was amazed to find out that there are bacteria in the ocean floor that have metabolisms roughly 10,000 times slower than those living at the surface of the seabed. This extremely slow lifestyle allows them to live for thousands of years. In fact, these microbes were found in a core sample...

It’s a long-established fact that Americans work longer hours than their European counterparts—30 percent more, according to recent studies. You’ll typically hear it’s because of our work ethic and smaller welfare state: We continue to be the country of Thoreau, Jefferson, and the Puritans, while Europeans prefer their mandatory six weeks of vacation. Read full article >>

Lawrence Taylor, it turns out, isn’t selling his Super Bowl XXV ring. His son, T.J., is. Mark Sepselter, Taylor’s agent, clarified the matter, telling Jay Glazer of Fox Sports, “Lawrence was in fact unaware of it, but said he gave it to T.J. and it’s his right to do what he wants with it. He's fine with whatever T.J. decided.” Read full article >>

There is a frequent commenter on my blog who always supports .CO, and he goes by the name “Robert Cline.” It seems that this person responds to almost all .CO articles, and in fact, he seems to respond to all articles on every single blog when it comes to .CO. No matter what the topic [...]

EU trade commissioner appears to be to first to acknowledge the fact that plans are being drawn up

Disney’s ‘Newsies’ now officially an open-ended run It took much longer than anyone expected, but Disney has finally confirmed that “Newsies,” which has been doing brisk business since previews, has been converted into an open-ended Broadway run. In light of the colossal failures of “The Little Mermaid” and “Tarzan,” it took Disney a while to embrace the fact that it has a gen...

MINORITIES NOW account for more than half the babies born in America, a milestone in the path toward what demographers forecast will be an overall majority-minority population in 30 years. That watershed bit of data from the Census Bureau, reported this week, was seized on by the multicultural left, which reads it as a triumph of demographic inevitability, and the Chicken Little right, which se...

Their marriage only lasted 14 months, but Russell Brand says he has no regrets about Katy Perry. In fact, the British actor and comedian admitted he still loves his estranged wife in an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres show today.

AriGoldberger just successfully defended a UDRP on the domain name Stage.com, from a complaint brought by Specialty Retailers, Inc.  which owned a trademark on the term “Stage”, despite the fact that the domain name was parked and that the domain holder offered to sell the domain to the Complainant for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here are the relevant facts and finding by...

SENSATIONAL media stories about Sydney's The Star casino were untrue,  the NSW casino watchdog has found.

I usually don’t believe the hype. In fact, I despise it.

A FORMER Fine Gael town councillor accused of accepting corrupt payments yesterday told a court that when he told gardaí there was no “free meal” in relation to an €80,000 payment he received from a developer, he was referring to the fact that he would have to pay interest on the loan.

Soot may be responsible for the tropics expanding north, according to an analysis involving multiple computer models of the climate. By absorbing sunlight and trapping extra heat in the atmosphere, the tiny, black particles may be helping the poleward march of tropical conditions. The research will be published in Nature on May 17. (Scientific American [...]

LET'S get one thing straight from the outset. I am not heterophobic. In fact, some of my best friends are heterosexuals.

The iPhone's "buzz" got a bump after Apple started using celebrities in its Siri ads FORTUNE -- Some purists used the fact that Apple (AAPL) had replaced the always appealing but generally anonymous faces in its TV ads with a couple of Hollywood celebrities -- Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson -- as evidence that the company had gone to hell without Steve Jobs at the helm. (See Siri takes...

"Shying away" from the fact that the Rochdale sexual grooming gang came from Pakistani backgrounds can only do more harm, the Children's Minister has warned.

ONE OF the characters in the classic 1939 film Stagecoach is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big government, especially bank regulation. “As if we bankers don’t know how to run our own banks!” he exclaims. As the film progresses we learn Gatewood is, in fact, skipping town with a satchel full of embezzled cash.

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott agrees there is no place in politics for personal innuendo but said the findings against Federal MP Craig Thomson are fact not rumour.

azakhstan has made an official request for the arrest and extradition of a millionaire businessman — accused of stripping assets from the state-owned nuclear company in his homeland before fleeing to Toronto — but the revelation hurts and helps his fight for freedom in equal measure.

Jim Bolger has reaffirmed his intention to run Parish Hall in the Investec Derby at Epsom on June 2 despite the fact that he will also take part in the Irish 2,000 Guineas only seven days earlier.

While the US economy is crawling back on its recovery path and there is no end in sight to Europe’s economic mess, the fact remains that it is the governments there that seem to be poor — not the private sector giants, many of whom are cash rich. N Madhavan writes.

TWO overlapping voices ring out, their shared story blurring the lines between fact and fiction.

INSIDE POLITICS:THE OUTCOME of the elections in France and Greece last weekend was hailed by the forces campaigning against the fiscal treaty in Ireland as a boost to their cause. In fact those results could actually prove helpful to the Yes side in persuading the electorate that there is no viable alternative to the treaty.

The blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has claimed his nephew his facing a charge of "international murder" after attacking officials who broke into his home, despite the fact no one died in the encounter.

While Chris Gayle stole the limelight with yet another breathtaking knock against the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday night, the fact that Kohli found his silken touch with the willow would have come as a huge relief for the man and his teammates. Amol Karhadkar writes. Face off

In the fall of 2010 Aerosmith's future was thrown into doubt when news broke that Steven Tyler would become a judge on American Idol The singer hadn't shared the news with his bandmates yet even though they were touring at the time and the fact that Tyler had taken a...

Kofi Annan, the special envoy on Syria, provided the U.N. Security Council this week with another maddeningly inconclusive update on his peace plan. Yes, Syria has stopped shelling residential neighborhoods. No, it has not stopped its crackdown or called off its snipers. In essence, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has provided just enough good behavior to keep the diplomatic...

The death toll cancer takes in Canada is on the decline, fuelled in large part by the fact that lung cancer is killing fewer Canadian men than it did in earlier decades, the Canadian Cancer Society said Wednesday

Reports from the US say the would-be suicide attacker in a foiled "underwear bomb" plot was in fact a double agent.

HE'S no stranger to grabbing headlines, so it makes sense that Mr Jolie will be the first man to face up for Chanel.

Steve Nash was hired as the Canadian men's basketball team, accepting the role despite the fact he still has a job in the NBA.

I spent most of today on a transcontinental flight either sitting on the tarmac or cursing at the executives at United dumb enough to think 1) A Katherine Heigl movie will put everyone in a better mood; and 2) Running out of food for ourchase halfway through the flight would be a swell idea. I was, in other words, in a very cranky mood.  And then someone asked me to look at a Paul Saunders ...

NOT FOR the first time in a national hurling final starring Kilkenny, the fairytale was suspended abruptly. What happened in yesterday’s league final in Thurles does not change the fact that Cork’s spring revolution under the guidance of Jimmy Barry-Murphy was a treat to watch. But when the day was done, Kilkenny were, once again, indomitable. In truth, the stripy men made mercilessly short wor...

Fact, in this case, is more interesting than fiction.

Don’t believe the hype about the supposedly narrow path to 270 electoral votes that Mitt Romney faces. The idea, advanced in a Washington Post story today, is that the presumptive GOP nominee faces an extra burden this fall in the specific swing states that will ultimately decide the presidency.The claim has been made by others recently, and there’s really nothing to it. At its core, it reflect...

Retailers believe in the Easter Bunny rather than the sad fact consumers have to dig into savings to keep spending.

Americans are fooling themselves if they think the era of adventures abroad is over. In fact, another big international intervention is just around the corner. And we're not nearly ready for it.

Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence takes not just a novel approach to a museum, but a curatorial approach to a novel. A guided tour by Mr. Pamuk.

Listen I have no idea what happened on last night's Glee except for the fact that "Choke" was an appropriate name for the episode Somehow it made sense to combine story lines about trying to graduate trying to audition for your dream college and trying to cope with the consequences...

“As a mater of fact, a new mechanism has been created and tested for attracting foreign investment and granting foreign companies access to operate in strategic sectors of the Russian economy. Since it was formed four years ago, the commission has considered more than 140 applications from foreign companies and investors. An overwhelming majority of those applications has been approved.”

Rick Schwartz penned a long post today, highlighting his vision for the next 20 years – partnering with interested parties to develop his extensive portfolio of premium domain names. It is a delightful read, as most of Rick’s work is. And it is a very appreciable sentiment – to build slow, build steady, and create [...]

“Mad Men” and ABC’s romantic-detective procedural “Castle” don’t seem to have much in common: One is the best show on television, and the other is a perfectly serviceable will-they-won’t-they series on ABC. But both “Mad Men” and “Castle” (which airs its second-to-last episode of the season tonight) contain frosty, unlikable, not-very-good actresses in pivotal roles — January Jones as Betty Dra...

Small businesses in the UAE are beginning to use the fact they are Emirati as a real selling point.

THAT Parramatta inexplicably piled on 30 points in a short space of time should not camouflage the fact that this appears to be a seriously fractured club.

Information assymetry between banks, supervisors and market participants regarding how risky RWA are can, in fact, lead to increased uncertainty about the adequacy of bank capital.

Simon Hughes: rejuvenated by fact you only have to bat, and field, for 20 overs, veretans show up younger counterparts.

It's a provocative fact about the tax code: Nearly half of U.S. households end up owing no federal income tax.

Over the years, Apple has quietly been working on a new alloy for use in a variety of devices. This exotic alloy, composed of titanium, zirconium, nickel, copper and other metals; promises a greater strength-to-weight ratio as well as greater resista...

HOMEOWNERS could finally be in for an interest rate reprieve - in fact, they might even get a double dose of good fortune, and very soon.

This is the title of an article from Henry Cooke over at Stuff.co.nz. No doubt the title was created to draw attention but his article doesn’t stray very far from the headline. In a nutshell, he states the more generic the domain, the more irrelevant it is. They are TOO generic. Add to the fact that most of the generic terms lead to ads and bad content, users no longer are giving extra credit t...

America's soaring pump prices seem to defy the laws of supply and demand, except for one fact: It's increasingly not just about us.

A giant sandcastle constructed on Weymouth beach to mark 100 days until the Olympics was in fact knocked down five days ago - just hours after it was finished.

If you are a suspicious type you may be disturbed by the fact that, despite reassurances of the safety of the procedure, dentists and their technicians, when administering X-rays, usually step out of the room while the deed is done. Not only that, they often drape a lead-lined apron over your body to protect your vital organs. Well, all but one: your brain.from the Economist

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced grave concern over the fact that, despite calls by the international community for the immediate restoration of constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau, the leaders of last week’s coup have continued to deepen the political crisis through their declared plans to establish a transitional government.

Boston has now won 10 of their last 13 games, proving that they could in fact be a dangerous team heading into the postseason.

Mandeep Punia, 35, Poonam Litt’s sister-in-law, was arrested Friday and charged with second-degree murder. Ms. Punia’s father, Kulwant Litt, 63, was charged with accessory after the fact

The truthfulness of Marina Nemat’s book, on which the play is based, has in fact been challenged; I can’t pronounce on that as I haven’t read it, but her story as told here seems plausible enough

Slowing Chinese growth will raise expectations of a move to more aggressive stimulus policy. In fact, a stealth stimulus is already underway.

"I'm going to wait on the fact that some of the ladies keep the babies for their own," the Nurse Jackie star jokes

Ontario NDP Leader says the Premier conveniently ignored the fact that her key proposal would raise additional annual revenues

There is a place for faith in life – nothing is ever 100% good or bad – but it is often treated as a great virtue when in fact it is anything but.

Nine out 10 women will be solely responsible for their own finances at some point in their lifetime by being single, divorced or widowed. In fact, Census Canada reports the average age a woman is widowed is 56

A reader responds to an article about a start-up company that aims to gather every existing fact.

Gold is, in fact, a very volatile investment. Its long-term returns are about the same as inflation, meaning its "real return" is near zero.

Jonathan Goldstein: To look at me, you wouldn’t think I care very much about fashion, but in fact, it’s the opposite. I care so much that I can never seem to find anything I like

Forget the fact that James Cameron's 1997 Titanic is second only to Cameron's 2009 Avatar as king of the box-office world (more than a billion bucks each) Forget that Titanic won a record 11 Oscars including Best Picture Forget that Titanic catapulted Leonardo DiCaprio then 21 into the realm of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He hasn't held office since 1989. In fact, he's been dead since 2004. But former President Ronald Reagan has been a regular presence on the campaign trail this year.

The solicitor for Fr Kevin Reynolds has described as “extraordinary” the fact that neither he nor his client were involved in the report into the Prime Time Investigates programme Mission to Prey.

DENVER (AP) -- Brittney Griner and Baylor left no doubt they're head and shoulders above any team in the country. In fact, they're perfect....

The Oakland Athletics want to build a new stadium in San Jose, but the Giants insist that San Jose is in their territory, a fact included in Major League Baseball’s constitution in 1990.

The social sciences need to reject hypothetico-deductivism and embrace the fact that they are mature disciplines with no need to emulate other sciences.

WOODY reckons the slump is underlined by the fact lesser teams are close to Liverpool

The coup leader has promised to end the MNLA insurgency, yet the fact that a relatively junior officer leads the army makes the job even more difficult

Climate change is a fact and needed now are ways to deal with it that can coexist with development.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military bans alcohol for its troops in Afghanistan, but that doesn't stop some soldiers from having a bottle or two stowed away in their gear - a fact highlighted by investigators probe into whether alcohol played a role when a U.S. sergeant allegedly carried out a killing spree that left 16 Afghans dead....

North Korea said today it will launch a "working" satellite to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung's birth next month, prompting immediate fears from Japan it would in fact be another long-range missile launch in breach of a UN resolution.

On the morning late last year that North Korea announced the death of Kim Jong Il, the dictator who for 17 years had presided over the world's most isolated regime, James (Chin-Kyung) Kim, a 76-year-old Korean-American educator, was in an interesting place: his office in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital. That alone is remarkable for a man who had in 1998 been a political prisoner of Kim Jong Il...

Hamas will have to live with the fact that PRC, Islamic Jihad pose a challenge to its control over Gaza.

Many bacterial pathogens can enter various host cells and then survive intracellularly, transiently evade humoral immunity, and further disseminate to other cells and tissues. When bacteria enter host cells and replicate intracellularly, the host cells sense the invading bacteria as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) and pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) by way of various...

RIHANNA'S dad is happy if his daughter rekindles his relationship with Chris Brown, despite the fact he hit her.

THERE ARE plenty of book clubs around the country and many festivals that celebrate literature, but to date, there’s only one event in Ireland that combines both. Last weekend, the Ennis Book Club Festival held its sixth annual gathering. Nobody is sure how many book clubs there are in the country, because most of them are privately run, but what is certain is the astonishing fact that members ...

FORTUNE -- Remember KITT, the loquacious in-car computer on the television show Knight Rider? David Hasselhoff's digital friend has nothing on a new generation of dashboard "command centers," which combine smartphone docking stations with navigation systems once dominated by standalone GPS (global positioning system) products. In response to this competition, Garmin (GRMN), the biggest maker of...

An Islamist lawmaker was expelled from his party for fabricating a story that he was beaten by gunmen. Doctors said in fact he had undergone plastic surgery.

The flat television coverage of the robo-call affair misses the fact that Canadians are genuinely disturbed

In fact, you could nip down the road without emitting anything at all; the ZEV mode will do a few miles on battery power alone.

Das Thema, ob Früherkennungs-Untersuchungen sinnvoll sind oder ob sie mehr schaden als nützen, beschäftigt mich ja immer wieder mal, Gerade erst hatte ich darüber gepostet, dass der Nutzen der Darmspiegelung, der in Diskussionen ja durchaus umstritten ist, sich zumindest statistisch nun belegen lässt. Aber natürlich gibt es auch sehr begründete und ernst zu nehmende Gegenpositionen, eine davon ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is still relying on decades-old technology to expand its nuclear program, a fact that suggests it might be having difficulties developing more modern machines that could speed up production of potential bomb material, experts say.

The evolution of classic toys and games is beginning to reflect the fact that even young children are wedded to digital devices.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered a Moroccan man to be held on charges that he planned a suicide bombing attack against Congress, believing he was working with al Qaeda militants when in fact his contacts were undercover agents.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The California Institute of Technology has announced the death of Roy J. Britten, a pioneering molecular biologist who discovered the crucial fact that humans and animals have multiple copies of some DNA segments....

YOU know an important election is coming up when politicians roll out the big guns in an effort to impress constituencies. In South Africa, President Jacob Zuma, with his eye fixed on Mangaung, blames the inherited problem of "structural unemployment, which goes back to the 1970s" for the fact that he couldn't deliver the 500000 jobs he had promised last year.

The Chief Actuary’s own numbers confirm the entitlement system’s financial health

Blog post by Guillermo JonesChacanaThe text of this image says: The increase of consumption, which can be seen as an auspicious figure for the economy, leaving aside the fact that resources are not infinite. That after these conceptualizations there lives. What we value and reward? I hope we can reformulate our structures to achieve generating other realms. Bourdieu says "those who deplore the ...

The fact that vast numbers of people think Facebook is great is, if anything, grounds for suspicion that it is nothing of the sort and perhaps even the opposite.

People have been arguing about autism for a long time--about what causes it , how to treat it and whether it qualifies as a mental disorder. The controversial idea that childhood vaccines trigger autism also persists, despite the fact that study after study has failed to find any evidence of such a link. Now, psychiatrists and members of the autistic community are embroiled in a more legit...

On the 'Panhandle' in Northern Cyprus, the pace of life is blissfully slow, even hold-ups (by donkeys) can have an unexpected and old-fashioned charm. In fact, you'll feel a million miles away from everything in this unspoilt jewel of the Mediterranean, says David Wilkes.

The startling fact is finding of NGO Pratham’s annual education survey of 6.3 lakh children across India in over 16,000 villages, who under the Right To Education Act are supposed to get quality education.

Record fine imposed on the UK arm of the auditor could not obscure the fact that the regulation of accountants is still a work in progress

Failure is fine, says Ruth Porter - in fact, it's necessary if we want our schools, businesses and banks to thrive.

Separating fact from fiction in North Korea

United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta’s suggestion that the end of the US troop presence in Iraq was part of a US military success story ignores the fact that the George W Bush administration and the US military had planned to maintain a semi-permanent military presence in Iraq.The real story behind the US withdrawal is how a clever strategy of deception and diplomacy adopted by Prime Mi...

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says the fact his team have played tough games away from home mean they have an advantage in the title race.

The fact that more than 100 million European Union citizens have never been online is 'unacceptable', says Martha Lane Fox, the UK's digital champion.

RAHIM YAR KHAN - President Zardari is making lame excuses about his illness as in fact he has been frightened by the popularity of PML-N’s “Go Zardari Go” movement. PML-N Central leader and former deputy speaker Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal Gujjar made claim while addressing a public gathering at Nooray Wali… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

LAHORE (PR) Some of the leading journalists from print, electronic and radio got together to share their experiences on reporting the gender equity issues in the media and deliberated that despite the fact that there is an improvement in the way the media reports on gender, however, a lot of work remains to be done.The journalists who have been part of the series of workshops held on gender equ...

If you've ever slowly blinked back to consciousness in a dentist's chair unable to distinguish dream from fact you already know what King Krule sounds like Archy Marshall the 17-year-old who wrote and sing- mumbles this five-song EP exaggerates his South East London accent and douses his voice in echo...

The Italian Treasury's funding costs declined at a 12-month treasury bill auction despite the fact that last week's EU summit failed to convince investors it had delivered a long-term solution to the continent's debt crisis.

Many suspect that the reason for this is the fact that Verizon has a NFC payment system of its own in the works

NEW YORK - A prominent American columnist Tuesday cautioned the U.S. against getting into "heedless and unnecessary" confrontations with Pakistan, saying there will be no chaos-free exit from Afghanistan without Islamabad's cooperation."To make an enemy out of Pakistan is to lose sight of the fact that Pakistan is far more important to US interests than Afghanistan ever was," wrote H.D.S. Green...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A report by the staff of the Federal Communications Commission says AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA provided flawed information to justify AT&T's planned $39 billion acquisition of its smaller rival....

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Jean Dujardin won this year's best actor award at the Cannes film festival for playing a man who hardly says a word, but not because his character couldn't speak. In fact, he says quite a lot.

London, November 25 (ots/PRNewswire) - InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) would like to confirm that the 'Holiday Inn' hotel in Garissa, Kenya is not part of our Holiday Inn brand family. In light of this fact, we respectfully request that future reports, where possible, make this ...

Despite the fact that its preferred share issuance did not meet the original 3.9tn-peso (US$2.1bn) target, GrupoSura will benefit from the depreciation of the euro against the US dollar as the price t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kenneth Kies sizes up the chances of reforming the convoluted U.S. tax code like someone who has lived through it before. In fact, he has.

Most Americans don't know what medical procedures cost until after the fact. One startup aims to change that.

On the outside they may appear to be interchangeable but, knowledge management and social media are not the same. Being cognizant of this fact is a stepping stone towards getting value from both these avenues, writes Prashant Deorah, MD, Puretech Internet.

From the mid 1980s until about 2006 there was no mistaking the fact that Baalbek was Hezbollah country. So much has changed.

That rural markets are driving consumption of FMCG products is well known, but the fact that comparatively lesser developed eastern states such as Bihar, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Assam are leading rural sales is a trend that is being closely tracked.

Let's get the jail part out of the way right at the start Central Cell Block in Washington DC is exactly as much fun as it sounds like In fact the entire process of being jailed unfolded more or less as any observer of say the 84000 episodes of...

It was an easy wreck dive — my first, in fact — and not even a dive, technically speaking, but a full-suited snorkelling expedition in the cold waters of Georgian Bay, just off the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula

A growing body of thought suggests such assertive treatment is, in fact, often inappropriate for patients facing imminent death from cancer or other terminal diseases

In a world of upheaval, the fact that one of its oldest democracies has kept ticking over without a government is remarkable. Could we learn from Belgium?

Some books tell you what sort of food you should eat, based on your blood type. I once found out I am supposed to be vegetarian, a fact I found difficult to swallow, especially after I tasted my first bowl of beef brisket in clear broth at Kau Kee on Gough Street. I remember thinking: "This is one of those things I would find very hard to give up."

Nicaragua's decision to legitimize Russia's geopolitical adventures and recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was rather odd (I am still curious as to how many  Nicaraguans were aware of their existence, before and after the announcement). A few weeks ago Hugo Chavez also followed suit - waiting for almost a year - but the Nicaraguans clearly stole the spotlight. Given this n...

Manolis Kellis is a member of Technology Review's newest TR35 "class." The MIT computational biologist studied pure computer science as a student, and as he recently explained to us, he believes his current work still fits that description. In fact, his goal is still to understand machines--living ones. You can read more about Kellis's work in our profile of him or in his essay, "Findin...