POLITICS

The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) took a way a family’s basketball hoop pole after clearly stating moments before that the McCafferty family can keep it.

Lights being turned off in homes, businesses and public buildings in Fiji and New Zealand at 8:30 PM local time marked the commencement of Earth Hour 2011, with widespread endorsement of the message that the world and its environment need commitments for action going “beyond the hour”.

As the world joins in the fight against climate change today, during the Earth Hour 2011, US-based Australian model and global ambassador of 2011 Earth Hour Miranda Kerr reaches out to her Myspace audiences through a unique program called Hijack.

Earth Hour has already passed for Asia and Australia. For the Middle East and Africa, it's hours away. For North America and Europe, there is plenty of time to prepare for Earth Day.

As world closely watches the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan mourns deaths caused by earthquake and tsunami in silence. Slideshow contains photos of a mass grave:

Two weeks has passed since a massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami struck Japan to cause one of the most severe natural disasters in Japanese history.

A deadly 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the mountainous area along Myanmar's borders with Thailand and Laos on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The tremors were felt in Bangkok, Hanoi, and some areas of China.

Fourth-grade students in the College Station Independent School District (CSISD) in Texas have completed six weeks of a NASA health and fitness challenge known as Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut.

On the occasion of the World Water Day, Armani entered into a collaboration with Green Cross International with a goal to promote clean drinking water for people in need.

More than 60 people have been reported killed in a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the Indochina region on Thursday.

At least 25 people have been killed in Myanmar as a 6.8 earthquake rattled buildings and nerves.

The Latino population of the United States will break 50 million for the first time, according to analysts. The official US Census Bureau demographics data will be released later today.

Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that’s not very well known. Currently, there is a flurry of interest in this disease due to speculation that a Lu Hao, a 132-pound 3-year-old Chinese boy, may have this disease.

With the staging of the world's most important watch and jewelry show, Baselworld, in Switzerland starting today, many horology enthusiasts and analysts speculate a somber mood during the event, eliciting fears of declining sales for the Swiss watch industry.

As the world closely watches the latest developments at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in earthquake-torn Japan, work to prevent meltdown resumes, workers are hospitalized after radiation exposure, while IAEA said serious concerns remain.

Radiation from the damaged Japan nuclear plant reaches U.S.. EPA, which is monitoring the radioactive substances and isotopes, assures that it is far below levels of concerns.

Paramount Pictures just released the first full-length movie trailer for Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger. Below is the action-packed 2 minutes 30 seconds video clip, courtesy of Entertainment Today.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris was evacuated for three hours on Wednesday after police received an anonymous call about a package set to explode, although it was later determined that the package was harmless.

After three days of searching, Police in Connecticut in the town of Orange said 13 year-old Isabella Oleschuk was found safe on Wednesday.

The American Federation of Government Employees, the union for Transportation Security Officers nationwide, on Wednesday called on TSA to immediately begin a nationwide radiation monitoring program and provide TSOs with dosimeters to measure radiation output at the checkpoints.

The Judeo-Christian God may have been married, according to a British theologian, who says the Almighty, also known as 'Yahweh', had a wife - a goddess named 'Asherah'.

The U.S. army failed to detect tell-tale signs of mental disorder in an army scientist who unleashed the anthrax letter attacks that killed five people in 2001, according to a panel of behavioral analysts.

Starting spring 2012, California-based Crystal Cruises is enhancing its already expansive host of luxury services and amenities.

Airbus along with Tarom Romanian Air Transport and a consortium of key stakeholders have established one of Europe's first projects aiming to establish a sustainable bio-kerosene jet-fuel processing and production capability.

Rabbi David Horowitz of PFLAG National (Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) has written an open letter to Steve Jobs urging Apple to remove an app from Exodus International, which says the app is a refuge for people looking for help in their journey out of homosexuality and will help cure people of their homosexuality.

Michelle Obama, known for her innate sense of style, once again dazzled the world during the official trip to Chile.

“He abused me first,” said Richard Gale, the 12-year-old who taunted and repeatedly punched 15-year-old Casey Heynes

An ambitious project by internationally acclaimed artist, Anthony McCall is on display at a major exhibition at Ambika P3, University of Westminster till March 27, 2011.

Even as Japan reported significant progress in preventing a melt-down in its Fukushima nuclear plant, the National Police Agency said on Monday more than 18,000 people have been confirmed dead in the twin-catastrophe that hit the country on March 11.