WASHINGTON (AP) ― Fresh off his strongest fundraising month this year, President Barack Obama is looking to raise millions of dollars from celebrities and wealthy donors in California with just one month left in a tightening race. The two-day swing through the solidly Democratic state highlights the critical role that fundraising will play in the campaign’s final weeks as Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, escalate their barrage of television ads in competitive states like Ohio in the

CARACAS (AP) ― President Hugo Chavez won re-election and a new endorsement of his socialist project Sunday, surviving his closest race yet after a bitter campaign in which the opposition accused him of unfairly using Venezuela’s oil wealth and his near total control of state institutions to his advantage. Fireworks exploded over downtown Caracas amid a cacophony of horn-honking by elated Chavez supporters who waved flags and jumped for joy outside the presidential palace. With 90 percent of vote

As robots are used more by manufacturers here and elsewhere, researchers here are busy building Singapore’s robotics capabilities.A multi-institute initiative at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) has built robots that can safely work and live side by side with people, learn by watching and even respond to human emotions.And some inventions, more nimble than conventional industrial automation systems, are already being tested in manufacturing here.Singaporean Prime Minister

Amid hard financial situations and illegality, Bangladeshi immigrants find lives harder in ItalyAmid desperate financial situations and illegality, Bangladeshi immigrants find lives harder in Italy with the eurozone crisis deepeningIn the beautiful countryside 100 kilometers off Rome, vegetables native to Bangladesh, like bitter gourd, okra and pumpkin, are growing. The brains behind the agricultural goldmine scattered over hundreds of acres of land, which meet the needs of the Asian community l

A combo of handout photos from a Nobel Prize Institute press release shows John B. Gurdon from Great-Britain (left) and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan who won Nobel Medicine Prize, the Karolinska Institute announced on Monday in Stockholm. (AFP-Yonhap News)British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that matu

Asbury Park, N.J., was overrun by more than 10,000 zombies as part of the 5th Annual New Jersey Zombie Walk.The zombies stumbled from Convention Hall on Asbury Park‘s boardwalk up Cookman Avenue to the downtown area Saturday, NJ.com reported.The Annual New Jersey Zombie Walk set a Guinness World Record in 2010 for the world’s largest gathering of zombies when 4,093 zombies were in attendance. This year organizers said they believed more than three times that record amount would be in attendance

Accompanied by his daughter Rosa Virginia, left, Venezuela`s President Hugo Chavez gestures to supporters as he leaves the polling station after voting in the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday. (AP-Yonhap News)President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthfu