Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Nature is the best teacher." -Leonardo da Vinci Just like the tens of thousands of students that flooded the streets in Italy to protestuniversity budget cuts, Leonardo da Vinci's life was one of resistance and protest too. Having been born in a small town, Vinci, and out of wedlock to a wealthy Florentine and a young peasant girl, Leonardo soon understood what it meant to be marginalized. Even when he was apprenticed to the great painters...
Associated PressPosted: 12/26/2010 11:23:54 PM PSTUpdated: 12/26/2010 11:28:59 PM PST Hugh Hefner, left, and Crystal Harris arrive at the premiere of "Iron Man 2" at the El...
Moscow (CNN) -- A court in Moscow is expected to begin reading the verdict in the corruption trial of a former Russianoil tycoon on Monday. The court was originally scheduled to read the verdict in the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on December 15, but it was unexpectedly postponed. A note about the...
Nine of the 12 men arrested in police raids a week ago have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions in Britain and with plotting terrorism offences. Police said on Monday that the men were arrested on December 20 in what authorities said at the time were...
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - These days, Casal Ventoso is an ordinary blue-collar community - mothers push baby strollers, mensmoke outside cafes, buses chug up and down the cobbled main street. Ten years ago, the Lisbon neighborhood was a hellhole, a "drug supermarket" where some 5,000 users lined up...
LONDON (AFP) – Nine men will appear in a London court Monday on terrorism charges including plotting one or more bomb attacks in Britain, a week after police arrested them in pre-dawn raids across England and Wales. The men have been charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion -- or...
Faced with reports that the ocean's major commercial fish species will disappear by 2050 due to overfishing, many seafood-loving gourmets have been wondering if it's time to abandon their penchant for pesce. Governments aren't doing much to assuage those fears, having largely failed to step up with...
AMSTERDAM - Dutch authorities yesterday cleared five of the 12 Somalimen who were detained on Christmas Eve on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. Prosecutors said they had no evidence of...
MOSCOW - Icy rain yesterday shut down Moscow's largest airport, coated roads with ice, and left more than 300,000 people and 14 hospitals without electricity in winter. Workers were scrambling to restore the power supply after heavy ice snapped...
