Let's say a relative gave you an imported Omega watch over the holidays. It's a nice piece, but it's not exactly your style, so after agonizing over the issue for the appropriate number of months, you decide to sell it over eBay.
Not so fast. Thanks to a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that might not be so easy. In fact, the...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's diplomatic outreach at the United Nations has taken on renewed urgency in recent weeks as he has begun to press for a political settlement to the conflict in his country. (Kimimasa Mayama/bloomberg News)
UNITED NATIONS -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to seek the removal of up to 50 former Taliban officials...
Birds that devote less time to their offspring engage in more same-sex behaviour.
Janelle Weaver, Nature July 2010
Birds that spend less time parenting engage more frequently in homosexual behaviour, according to a study published this week. The findings offer a possible explanation for the evolution of homosexuality: parents that devote...
Obesity has been blamed for the growing problem of “boy-boobs” – cases of teenage boys with breasts so well developed that surgery is needed to reduce them.
Doctors at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool say that they are seeing dozens of teenagers every year with gynaecomastia, the condition in which males develop breasts.
