Before the massive blowout of BP's Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, tests showed that the slurry Halliburton pumped down into the well could be unstable.
A French chateau that once belonged to African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa has been sold at auction for 915,000 euros (?760,000). It will cost three times as much to fully refurbish it.
The call to prayer is normally delivered by a sea of voices from minarets across Cairo. Now there are plans to transmit a single broadcast to reduce the cacophony.
"I'm starting to understand and assimilate and internalize hip-hop music... which is a new thing in my life, and I'm completely over the moon. I'm like a kid with a new toy."
Sorry, sorry. First things first. I would love to come with you! What's the French currency? Oh wait, I know we can use Euros. I have some left over from my last trip. Oh my, I'm so excited!!!
Foxconn, Apple's largest manufacturing partner, is coming under renewed criticism over labor practices after reports that vocational students were being compelled to work at plants making iPhones.