Otis Peterson is no Tony Stark, but his innovative, idiot-proof nuclear battery will surely beat Iron Man's arc reactor to market and bring (relatively) green power to remote locations.

With the Beijing Olympic Games just around the corner and the animation film 'Kung Fu Panda' a summer draw at the box office, children have lots of questions about giant pandas.

"The "Birdcage," one of seven Olympic stadiums being built in Beijing for the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics. All are equipped with solar generators that will provide most of the outdoor lighting.

Stolen children in China, the American Slave Trade, Rape in the Congo, Chile's Pinochet regime and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are among the stories of human struggle on screen at the 19th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York.

The undisputed king of fashion during the 1960s and 70s, Saint Laurent introduced le smoking , bare breasts and masculine glamour to the storied world of haute couture.

Gas stations, public bathrooms, digital billboards and trash dumpsters are perhaps not the only canvases where the graffiti artist Skullphone leaves an impression.

"Bridal wear has long been regarded as fashion's slightly tacky sidekick", writes Shine Anthony-Dharan in his Paris review of Lanvin's Alber Elbaz wedding collection.

John McCain et Nicolas Sarkozy se ressemblent étrangement : ils s’en prennent à l’immigration, ils ont un parti démoralisé et intellectuellement exsangue, et ils sont esclaves des sondages. En cette fin de première année de pouvoir, Sarkozy peut constater que les stratégies électorales ne servent pas à gouverner. Néanmoins, ce président pseudo-gaulliste et ce candidat républicain se livrent à une certaine émulation stratégique réciproque. Harold Hyman, à Paris, nous livre ce commentaire.

Shine Anthony-Dharan weighs in on the up-close documentary and haute gossip about the life and times of fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld.

John McCain and Nicolas Sarkozy mirror each other: near-racist anti-immigrant appeals, a dispirited party out of ideas, and the slavish calculus of poll-driven politics. Sarkosy's first year reveals that strategies that win elections don't necessarily help you govern-- and the French Gaullist President and Republican Presidential nominee may be drinking each other's strategy juice. Harold Hyman comments from Paris.

Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and former champ Steve Forbes strap on the gloves for a 12-round bout in Los Angeles.

Do medical and commercial products targeted by race re-energize the idea of race as a biological category just when scientists thought they had laid it to rest? MIT research scientist and physician Dr. David S. Jones weighs in on the controversy before an upcoming conference on race, medicine and the social sciences.

An inefficient gaming PC with powerful graphics card, multiple hard drives and optical drives, flash memory reader and a 30-inch LCD might consume as much as 750 watts, or about as much as a typical refrigerator.

Sudan coverage may be missing from American news these days, but Janjaweed ethnic cleansing, financed by Chinese oil money, goes on every day. A new film on DVD and a book of photographs call us to remember those dying in Darfur.

Colombian rock superstar Juanes tackles themes of world peace and social change. He also reminds us that while conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan grab headlines, Colombia's war kills 3,500 people ---- mostly civilians ---- every year.

Read the full text of Senator Barack Obama's speech today at Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Read the full text of Senator Barack Obama's speech today at Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"As talk of recession, global warming and terrorism buzzed around the front rows, the fashion pack were expecting more than usual from the designers this season", writes Shine Anthony-Dharan from Paris and London.

Heller has become a compelling figure in the realms of physics and cosmology, theology, and philosophy with his provocative fundamental questions such as "Does the universe need to have a cause?"

The recent Elliott Spitzer Emperor's Club VIP scandal brings to mind some unexpected questions about contemporary art, hospitality and homelessness...