The price of garlic bulbs has tripled in just eight months in China, with global prices likely to rise as a result. Speculators have been blamed for the massive rise - but there is also a popular theory in China that garlic may offer protection from swine flu.
A U.S. journalist was grilled by Canadian border officials for 90 minutes Wednesday. Officials demanded to know if Democracy Now's Amy Goodman was going to speak against hosting the Olympic games in Canada.
A BURGLAR posed as a homeowner's relative and arranged for the contents of her house to be removed and auctioned off. David Perry, 26, had no criminal record when he decided to become a "career burglar" as a way to support his lifestyle, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Aliens from outer space are already among us on earth, say Bulgarian government scientists who claim they are already in contact with extraterrestrial life.
The French fashion world today dealt a new blow to President Sarkozy's drive to upstage President Obama: Elle magazine, the Parisienne's style bible, proclaimed Michelle Obama more chic than Carla Bruni.
An unidentified gunman shot Unicef worker Nestor Bulahan at a bus terminal in Parang town, Maguindanao province, on Thursday morning. He died in hospital a short time later, a statement from the national police headquarters revealed.
Nasa scientists have produced the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists on Mars.
"New defence mechanisms on international cargo ships will deal blows to Somali pirates."
Eight years after 9/11, why are doubts growing about the official record of that day?
In his Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis teases out the mechanisms of famine in British-ruled 19th century India.
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