Using a computer simulation of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, Rasmus Bjork, a physicist at the Niels Bohr institute in Copenhagen, proposed that a single civilisation might build eight intergalactic probes and launch them on missions to search for life...

Howler lays down a Southern Rock blues vamp as Stephen Foster chants out his complaints in I m Mad as Hell (And I m Not Going to Take It). As the verses do a hesitation jam, Foster s vocal cadence matches like another instrumen...

Elton John had a blunt message on Thursday for Australian Prime Minister John Howard over his conservative government s ban on gay marriages...

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Tanks rolled through the streets and jets roared overhead Saturday in Havana's first military parade in a decade, but ailing leader Fidel Castro did not show up at what had been viewed as a test of his political future...

Need place for two three nights in Boston or easy train commute to attend Bob Dylan concert on November 12. We bought tickets and found we had to return to Florida a month early. We will leave NH on Friday October 20. Trying to keep budget reasonable...

ATLANTA -- James Brown, the singer, songwriter and bandleader known as the "Godfather of Soul," had told friends from his hospital bed that he was looking forward to performing on New Year's Eve, even though he was ill with pneumonia...

"You do a lot of talking and you do it at a loud level," said Pinaglia, who teaches boisterous 4th and 5th graders at Reavis Elementary School in Kenwood, a Chicago suburb....