With as little public notice as possible, the United Nations Security Council plans to hold a summit meeting next week to significantly boost its role as a global military and police force, social development agency and international arbitrator, all rolled into one. Even though President Barack Obama is slated to …

Ordering lunch online is nothing new — from pizza to salads to subs — scores of eateries have offered web-based menus for years. But now some restaurants are finding the way to a hungry customer’s heart is through a highly interactive website, so they can customize their order, and enjoy …

Lightning is one of Mother Nature’s double-edged swords; it is beautiful to watch as it lights up the sky, but it is dangerous when it hits the ground at a scorching 50,000 degrees F and brings with it a jolt of 100 million electric volts. Lightning comes in various types, …

Arrgh… while Johnny Depp reprises his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” the fourth film in a blockbuster franchise that has already grossed over $2.7 billion, it’s interesting to compare pop culture’s love for the pirate legend with our historic distaste for real …

Editor’s Note: This article was corrected on Nov. 23. An explanation appears at the bottom. If Willie Nelson supports it, it must be green, right? Not so fast. Amid rising concern over U.S. dependence on fossil fuels, many hope that running our cars on so-called “biofuels,” which are grown rather …

The United Nations touts the principle of impartiality, but one UN agency is finding itself in the crosshairs of an international scandal because of the political activism of a staff member. The Israel Mission to the UN has formally requested that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs …

President Obama recently announced plans to hold a bipartisan summit on health care reform at the end of this month. The president is clearly making an effort to create a politically diverse coalition of supporters for his reform legislation. Many commentators claim that comprehensive health care reform is no longer …

President Obama kicked off his bus tour today. And while his trip to the Midwest may be good politics in the short term it doesn’t begin to address a long term problem that his administration faces if he is to successfully recover from his sinking approval ratings. Mr. Obama, if …

Astrologers are just as excited as astronomers about Tuesday’s transit of Venus, a rare event that horoscope mavens associate with major upheaval and advancement throughout history. Venus passes directly in-between the Sun and Earth in pairs eight years apart in cycles that occur every 105.5 or 121.5 years. The last …

Does Washington take cyber security seriously? Today the director of the office of personnel management in DC resigned — but is that enough to take on the real problem of cyber security growing more serious every day? The massive OPM data breach is just one event — where 21 million …