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He says one woman was put to death last months after being found guilty of witchcraft. Colville says Saudi Arabia's growing use of the death penalty goes against an international trend for fewer executions. He says the UN human rights office also ...

There, they didn't just take part in a class offering creative and education lessons through Lego bricks — they pretended to be sitting in classes at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardy just like Harry Potter. "Legos are something you can do ...

Venus repeatedly surfaces as an imagined “UFO.� There is a story that in World War II, the US warship Houston fired 250 rounds towards Venus thinking it was an enemy aircraft. Of similar size as Earth (Venus is 7521 miles wide; Earth is 7926 miles), ...

I am no Hyde Park corner orator, warning of alien abductions or all for chucking out the Queen. My obsessions are gentle ones like reading, talking, weeding and eating marmalade, and my pleasure is life's rich visual tapestry. ...

Seattle novelist Jayne Ann Krentz's new book, "Copper Beach," — set in Seattle and a pseudonymous island in the San Juans — is a contemporary romance with the paranormal twist that has infused her recent work. Krentz will sign copies of "Copper Beach ...

If you're familiar with longstanding volunteer community computing projects such as SETI@Home or the World Community Grid projects, you have the right idea. Similarly based on Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), Charity Engine ...

NJ high school students from Storming Robots, a unique year-round robotics learning center, were selected as finalists in the 2011 ZeroRobotics Competition held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA. The teams were tasked with writing ...