Society: level 8

In the US, corporate executives earn about 400 times as much as the average employee, with the discrepancy in other countries only slightly less obscene.

Gross exaggeration of the loss of Greenland's ice cover in the new Times Atlas have glaciologists crying foul, saying that the 15 per cent figure is wildly erroneous.

Growing bone marrow cells in star or flower-shaped molds may sound frivolous. But this difference is enough to dictate whether the cells become fat or bone.

With Libyan rebels and Gadhafi's forces locked in a stalemate, there's concern that NATO's operation may be insufficient to protect civilians — or force the dictator from power.

New Mexico is building an airport for space ships in the hopes that commercial space travel becomes a lucrative industry.

An Egyptian court has found 11 culture ministry employees guilty of negligence, after the theft of a Van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum. An investigation found that none of the museum's alarms were working.

San Francisco is moving to restrict delivery of the Yellow Pages, which many feel to be obsolete in the age of the Internet, to only those who opt-in.

American Indian farmers and the U.S. government have reached a $680 million settlement in a long-standing lawsuit. Plaintiffs claimed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture unfairly denied loans to American Indians.

Social media companies like Google and Facebook are taking measures to stop people from using pseudonyms, as Internet anonymity has been known to aid cyber-crimes.

The US government has issued a travel advisory warning its citizens to be vigilant while traveling in Europe because of the threat of an al-Qaeda commando-style attack.