Scientists predict that if the largest super-volcano underneath Yellowstone National park in Wyoming explodes in the near future -- for the first time in around 600,000 years -- it could wipe out two thirds of the United States.The Soufriere Hills volcano erupts in the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Saturday, January. 23, 2010. (AP)According to the Daily Mail on Tuesday, the super-volcano has bee

(MCT)A leading astronomer has said that we are utterly alone in the universe.The claim that there is no other form of life in the universe is likely to upset pro-alien theorists and those who dream of an encounter with an intelligent being from another planet.“We have found that most other planets and solar systems are wildly different from our own,” Dr. Howard Smith, a senior astrophysicist at Ha

PALO ALTO ― The United States and Europe are two giant free-trade areas, each wealthy but with serious short-run problems and immense long-run challenges. They are also two single-currency areas: the dollar and, for much of Europe, the euro. The challenges facing both are monumental.But only Europe’s currency union faces uncertainty about its future; America faces no existential crisis for its cur

NEW HAVEN ― We are in the midst of a boom in popular economics: books, articles, blogs, public lectures, all followed closely by the general public.I recently participated in a panel discussion of this phenomenon at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Denver. An apparent paradox emerged from the discussion: the boom in popular economics comes at a time when the general public seems

FORT WORTH, Texas ― It was a frostbitten January day 50 years ago when the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art opened its doors to the public. Only 400 people braved the threat of an icy Camp Bowie Boulevard to visit the memorial to Fort Worth’s greatest champion.Before his death in 1955, as a final act of magnanimous boosterism, Amon G. Carter Sr., the self-made millionaire and publisher of the Sta

Comic strip journalist calls it quits after 70 years of reportingBrenda Starr was born June 30, 1940, full-grown into a big-city newspaper office where she was an oddity, a female reporter.Also gorgeous, a fiery redhead, as they say, with a glamorous if out-of-place wardrobe. Straight away Brenda Starr demanded respect in a man’s world, insisting on hard-hitting news assignments.Hers was a call to

The international community must hunt the dozen Somali clan chiefs who run the pirate attacks on international shipping in the Indian Ocean, a UN advisor told the Security Council on Tuesday.Amid mounting international concern over the attacks and hostage-taking, former French minister Jack Lang said "we need to tackle the force behind the pirates, those who order the pirates to carry out their at

 BEIJING (AP) _ It has shown up frequently in pork but also in snake dishes in south China and beef from the far western Xinjiang region, sending diners to the hospital with stomach aches and heart palpitations. A farmer pours the fresh milk at a dairy farm in Shenyang, China on Sept. 20. (AP)Clenbuterol, known in China simply as ``lean meat powder,'' is a dangerous drug that's banned in China yet

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Barack Obama called on Congress on Tuesday to ratify the pending free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea as soon as possible as a means of doubling exports and creating jobs for a timely economic recovery."Last month, we finalized a trade agreement with South Korea that will support at least 70,000 American jobs," Obama said in his State of the Un