“The Seedbomb, an unintentional eco-terrorist, is a non-military “bomb” designed for protecting the earth.”

“Buy land,” the old saying has it. “They aren’t making it any more.” That is almost true, but not quite. For, in the Zubair archipelago, in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, a new island has recently emerged. The island in question, which is about 500 metres across and is as-yet unnamed, is a once-submarine volcano that broke surface last month…”

It is important to first understand that no gay Nigerian, as far as anyone knows, is seeking marriage — in Nigeria.

You can comb the breadth of our decidedly homophobic media (“Homosexuals are in trouble!” crowed The Sun Newspapers, no doubt mirroring the excitement of its upright editorial board), and there is neither anecdotal nor empirical evidence of a clamor, even a quiet one, for gays to be married in churches, mosques or courts.

One day after South Korea staged exercises near Yeonpyeong Island marking the anniversary of North Korea’s deadly shelling, the North’s military threatened “a sea of fire” upon the South’s presidential office, the South’s Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday.

The U.S. military is ordering that soldiers crossing from Iraq into Kuwait be returned home at a faster rate, a move that comes as commanders work to break up a bottleneck of troops who have been pouring across the border ahead of a year-end deadline to withdraw, CNN has learned.

Barring a miracle, the experiment is over.

Stumbling over taxes and entitlements, the so-called super committee is entering its final hours having failed to agree on a debt reduction package of at least $1.2 trillion.

A last-ditch meeting of lawmakers ended Monday afternoon with no smiles, no comments, but some vivid body language. Even a visit to the White House by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., co-chairwoman of the panel of 12 came and went without comment.

With Republican sources telling Fox News it’s just a matter of timing an announcement to the market close, for some, the latest comes as no surprise.

Under fuel-economy rules announced by the White House this summer, cars will have to get an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 — nearly double the current average. Reaching that goal will take not only feats of engineering but also changing how Americans think about their cars and how they drive them.

Egypt’s cabinet has offered to resign after three days of protests against the country’s military rulers, state media have reported.

Cabinet spokesman Mohammed Hegazy said the resignation had not yet been accepted by the military council.

As the blame-gaming bipartisan congressional committee stumbled toward collapse Monday, washing out on even the most basic show of common purpose, the “what happens next” scenarios began to take shape.

Congress passed a revised agriculture appropriations bill last week, essentially making it easier to count pizza sauce as a serving of vegetables. The move has drawn widespread outrage from consumer advocates and pundits, who see “pizza is a vegetable.” as outlandish.

Lax anti-poaching efforts are to blame for the loss of the last wild specimens of Western Black Rhino, leading the rhinoceros subspecies to be declared officially extinct this week, conservationists said Friday.

The South China Sea area may hold 213 billion barrels of oil, or 80 percent of Saudi Arabia’s reserves, according to Chinese studies cited in 2008 by the U.S. Energy Information Agency. The world’s second-largest economy claims “indisputable sovereignty” over most of the sea, including blocks off Vietnam that Exxon Mobil Corp. and Russia’s Gazprom OAO are exploring

“It’s easy to say, ‘We support you and appreciate you,’ ” says Troy Miller, 40, who has been looking for work since he retired from the Navy in January. “It’s harder to say, ‘We support you and appreciate you and give you a job and fair pay.’ “

In a nutshell, new technologies are displacing workers faster than the economy can find new uses for them.