“Peru, a mining country” is a government slogan which can be seen emblazoned on official buildings and heard repeatedly on state media broadcasts. It is all part of an aggressive drive by the government of President Alan Garcia to attract...

In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline. …

The majority of the world’s billion-odd Muslims are Sunnis. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of all Muslims follow the Shiite branch (pronounced Shi‘ite, Shi‘a or Shia). Beyond that, it gets slightly complicated: Who lives where, and why the...

It only took eight years for JFK’s dream to land a man on the moon to be fulfilled, but plans to to land a man on is going to take just that little bit longer -24 years to be exact, but at least we know how we’re going to go about getting our...

Polymer-based solar cells have received a fair bit of attention in the research community, some of which has been covered here at Nobel Intent. Much of the attraction is in being able to move away from the expensive raw materials used in inorganic solar...

Busty Yasmin Fostok, 27, leads a secret life after rebelling against her fanatical Muslim dad — who rants against Western “depravity”.

It has been over a month since the closing ceremony of the Beijing games and the announcement that the IOC requested the FIG to investigate the ages of the Chinese Gymnastics Team.

The battle for the use of white spaces, the unused portions of the television broadcast spectrum, is heating up.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her comment that the proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her foreign policy experience, explaining in a CBS interview aired Thursday that ``we have trade missions back and...

The 35-year-old illusionist/stuntmeister/attention-junkie has survived his latest feat of fortitude, a 44-foot