 | A letter that scientist Francis Crick wrote to his son about his Nobel Prize-winning DNA discovery was sold to anonymous buyer at a New York City auction on Wednesday for a record-breaking $5.3 million. |
 | President Barack Obama said he’d been looking forward to a White House celebration of Memphis soul music for one reason. |
 | As spring melts away a long winter deep in Latvia’s vast forests, the stillness is almost imperceptibly broken by a rhythmic drip, drip, drip. |
 | Ten years after the statue of Saddam Hussein was famously toppled in Firdos Square, symbolising the fall of Baghdad, Ezzedine Said, AFP’s Chief Editor for the Middle East and North Africa, recalls the events of the historic day: |
 | After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up. |
 | Walking with moderate speed using the same energy as intensive running can be beneficial in reducing high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes risks, says a study. |
 | Willpower apparently can be bought. The chance to win or lose $20 a month enticed dieters in a yearlong study to drop an average of 9 pounds — four times more weight than others who were not offered dough to pass up the doughnuts. |
 | Parents of preschoolers at risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may first want to try behavior training before they put their children on medications, suggests a new analysis of past studies. |
 | Jim Riches pulled his firefighter son’s mangled body out of the rubble at the World Trade Center, but the phone calls still filtered in years afterward. The city kept finding more pieces of his son. |
 | In an elaborate April Fool’s prank, YouTube announced on Sunday it was going dark for a decade, and that the site was merely an eight-year contest to find the best video. |
|
