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Bionic eye gives hope to the blind After years of research, the first bionic eye has seen the light of day in the United States, giving hope to the blind around the world.

06 February 2013

Love in 3rd century BC: It was a lot like now A plump, naughty looking winged baby with a bow and arrow: sounds like the illustration on a Valentine's Day card, right? Wrong: it's a two-thousand-year-old statue on show in New York.

05 February 2013

Boeing asks US authorities to allow 787 test flights Boeing asked US aviation authorities Monday to let them carry out 787 Dreamliner test flights after the planes were grounded worldwide following a fire risk linked to the plane's lithium batteries.

05 February 2013

Young musicians seek to show new Afghan face Some of them call an orphanage home. One used to spend her days selling plastic bags. And this month, the Afghan teenagers are taking the stage of the most prestigious US concert halls.

05 February 2013

Online search ads expose racial bias: study Ads pegged to Google search results can be racially biased because of how certain names are associated with blacks or whites.

05 February 2013

S&P faces US govt suit over mortgage bond ratings The US government plans to sue Standard & Poor's over its rating of mortgage bonds at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis.

05 February 2013

Couch potatoes have lower sperm counts Men who watch television for 20 hours per week have almost half the sperm count of those who watch very little television or none at all.

05 February 2013

NASA science balloon breaks longest flight record After more than 55 days flying over Antarctica, NASA's huge Super-TIGER scientific balloon has broken the record for the longest flight of its kind, bringing back a wealth of data.

05 February 2013

'No big red button' for Oscars host MacFarlane The producers of this year's Oscars show said Monday they have no "big red button" to press in case boundary-pushing host Seth MacFarlane oversteps the mark.

05 February 2013

Fidel Castro makes surprise appearance in Cuba Ailing Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro made a surprise appearance in Havana Sunday to vote in parliamentary polls, expressing confidence in the revolution despite a decades-long US trade embargo.

04 February 2013

Ex-Marine charged with famed US sniper's death An Iraq war veteran believed to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder has been charged with killing a former Navy SEAL whose exploits in the same conflict were detailed in a best-selling book.

04 February 2013

S. Korea, US drill begins under nuclear test cloud South Korea and the United States launched a joint naval exercise involving a US nuclear submarine Monday, as tensions rise on the Korean peninsula ahead of an expected nuclear test by North Korea.

04 February 2013

Twitter hit by 'sophisticated' cyber attack Twitter said Friday it was hammered by a "sophisticated" cyber attack similar to those that recently hit major Western news outlets, and that the passwords of about 250,000 users were stolen.

03 February 2013

Panetta calls 'Zero Dark Thirty' a 'good movie' The man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, ex-CIA director Leon Panetta, vouched Friday for "Zero Dark Thirty," calling it a "good movie".

03 February 2013

US scientists explain how owl rotates head US medical specialists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have figured out how owls can almost fully rotate their heads - by as much as 270 degrees in either direction.

03 February 2013

US needs to keep up drone war against Qaeda: Panetta The United States will have to keep up an open-ended drone war against Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan and elsewhere to prevent another terror attack on America.

03 February 2013

Cuba says Obama 'misinformed' on island affairs A senior Cuban official lashed out at President Barack Obama on Friday for linking improved human rights in the country to better diplomatic ties, and suggesting the communist island had outdated policies.

03 February 2013

Schmidt book labels China online menace: report The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that in his coming book, Google chairman Eric Schmidt brands China an Internet menace that sanctions cyber crime for economic and political gain.

02 February 2013

Pfizer unit Zoetis makes strong market debut Zoetis, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's animal-health division, made a dramatic debut on Wall Street Friday as the biggest initial public offering since Facebook.

02 February 2013

US, Russia seek to iron out Syria differences The US and Russia meet in Germany Saturday in a new bid to iron out their differences over the war in Syria, with the head of the opposition saying the world must not be a bystander to the tragedy.

02 February 2013

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