Even as officialdom lectures us about the dangers of using cell phones while driving, the auto industry is about to bring us dashboard web access—with no intervention from the authorities.
The Japanese space agency is embarking on a mammoth $2.2 billion project to put humanoid robots on the moon and create an unmanned robot lunar base by 2020.
Saeed Torabian, a board member of the Tehran bus drivers’ union (Vahed Syndicate), was arrested by Iranian security forces and is being held incommunicado, whereabouts unknown.
Venezuela’s government praised a ruling by a World Bank arbitration panel that should drastically limit compensation ExxonMobil is seeking for the nationalization of its Orinoco oil projects.
Narco-violence claimed 39 lives in two northern Mexico states, as gunmen executed 19 at a Chihuahua rehab center and left 20 tortured bodies around Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas.
At least 23 people have been killed and more than 300 injured in clashes in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek residents.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that New York City can withhold documents related to the arrest of 1,800 protesters during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Following two failed attempts, New York City reached a settlement with the 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers who became sick or injured from responding to the 9-11 attacks.
Schoolchildren marched in Erbil against Iranian shelling of Iraqi Kurdistan, while Kurdish journalists have launched a campaign to demand justice in the torture-slaying of a colleague.
The Bolivian National Congress’ lower house has approved the new Law of Judicial Authority, that would create an independent justice system for indigenous communities.
A Hunt Oil-led consortium opened a new liquefied natural gas plant on the Peruvian coast, with President Alan García attending the ceremony. But the project has sparked a storm of protest.
In a 24-hour strike, campesinos blocked roads across Peru’s Cusco region to demand the reconstruction of irrigation infrastructure destroyed in the January floods.
