The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected a lesbian as assistant bishop, underscoring Episcopal commitment to accepting same-sex relationships despite enormous pressure from other Anglicans to change that stand.
Iranian authorities have slowed Internet connections to a crawl or choked them off completely before expected student protests Monday to deny the opposition a vital means of communication.
The U.N.'s top climate official on Sunday conceded that hacked e-mails from climate scientists had damaged the image of global warming research but said evidence of a warming Earth is solid.
Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.
A school superintendent in Connecticut is defending a principal's ban on Christmas parties in class and the display of secular symbols, saying the issue of religious celebrations is 'especially difficult' during December.
DNA tests showed a man named Ali who returned from Iran was the sole surviving child of 58-year-old Fatima Mohammed Salih, who had lost her husband and other 6 children in the 1988 chemical attack on the Kurds.
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