The slick shtick of Americans Elect

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The Ghost Sport: Boxing, today relegated to the margins, was once central to American life

Even now, making our twenty-first-century rounds, we’re never far from the reach of the Fancy.

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A mother's sorrow: Lydia Craig's story - South Australia Police News

On Monday, 6 December 2010, Lydia Craig's life changed forever. Her son, Kallum Althaus was killed in a fatal car crash on the Phillip Highway at Elizabeth – just two days after his eighteenth birthday.

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Werner Herzog and the World's Oldest Paintings

Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a new documentary by Werner Herzog, is a striking and characterful work of art, framing another that is wholly extraordinary.

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Mother's Day essay: 62 Going On 22

When did my mom become more fun than me?

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OsamaBinRaided.com, Going Once, Going Twice … The flash market of Bin Laden-related URLs isn't making many people rich.

"You want to make a million dollars?" Ezra Azizo asked Maurice Harary at half past midnight Monday morning, an hour after President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed.

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Rann to address parliament on MP

South Australian Premier Mike Rann says he will make a major statement to state parliament next week after the arrest of an MP over child pornography offences.

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A world without oil - it's closer than you think

So far, we've done very little to plan for the perilous moment. DISMANTLE the oil rigs and stack them in a pile. Radio the tankers and order them back to port. Pull out the drills and seal the wells with cement.

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Apple plans to sue medical supplies firms over use of "Eye Pad"

In a new development in Apple's ongoing attempts to trademark borderline-generic terms – including "App Store" – the company has today threatened legal action against some medical suppliers including St John Ambulance and Medisave over a range of "Eye Pad" dressings …

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NASA reveals planes of the future

NASA is to begin testing passenger planes of the future, which will travel faster, quieter and greener than current models.

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Dead Birds: The ominous rise of amateur ornithology

For a few days this month, America became a nation of bird-watchers. More than 3,000 dead black birds started raining from the sky shortly before the new year broke in Beebe, Ark., prompting widespread concern about ecological disaster, government conspiracy, and the Rapture.

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The Baffling Cybercrime Case of the Nosy Spouse

Cybercrime is a costly problem that needs to be taken seriously.

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Neal Cassady: Drug-taker. Bigamist. Family man

He was the hard-living, fast-driving, pill-popping womaniser who was immortalised in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. But what was it like to be married to Neal Cassady? As the Beats revival gathers pace, his wife explodes a few myths.

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Jared Lee Loughner & The Insanity Defense: How do mental-health workers figure out whether someone is crazy?

Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old who allegedly killed six people and wounded 14 others in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday, faces five federal charges. According to the New York Times, he may plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

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Google to fight Spanish demands to remove 'libelous' links

Google says it is an intermediary and cannot be held responsible for content on the internet.

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Love and hate: Kama Sutra virus alert

Hackers are spreading a nasty computer virus with a file promising a guide to sexual positions.

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Cautionary tale: Man used Facebook to hack women's emails

A California man has admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into women's email accounts, then send nude pictures of them to everyone in their address book.

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Gay man and straight woman marry for art

A GAY man and a straight woman have got married in the name of art – but have no plans to consummate their relationship.

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In 'Last Exit,' Brooklyn Is A Character, Too

There are a lot of books I'd like to tell you I always reach for, books I'm supposed to love ...

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A 'Plastic Planet,' In Thrall To A Deadly Addiction

As Austrian filmmaker Werner Boote traveled the world to make Plastic Planet, he asked people to show off just how many plastic items were in their homes. Modest-sized dwellings in Japan, Austria and the U.S. yielded huge caches of the stuff. So did a small shanty in India.

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Ancient Farmers Swiftly Spread Westward

Sophisticated farming methods traveled quickly from the Middle East into Europe around 8,000 years ago.

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Social Animal: How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life

Researchers have made strides in understanding the human mind, filling the hole left by the atrophy of theology and philosophy.

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The Rise of the New Global Elite

F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me.

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American Express Offers Credit Card To 3-Year-Old

If you needed any more evidence that credit card offers are on the rise, you need look no further than this story over at CNNMoney, in which the writer's 3-year-old daughter received a credit card application from American Express.

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