Sudan declared a state of emergency along its border with South Sudan on Sunday after month-long border clashes, as four foreigners allegedly arrested in the Heglig oil region remained in custody.President Omar al-Bashir issued a resolution declaring the emergency in the border states of South Kordofan, White Nile and Sennar, the official SUNA news agency said. Other parts of the border were alrea

World News April 30, 2012

Playing an action videogame, even for just a short time, causes differences in brain activity and improvements in visual attention, Canadian researchers say.Twenty-five subjects who had not previously played videogames, taking part in research at the University of Toronto, played a game for a total of 10 hours in 1- to 2-hour sessions.Sixteen of the subjects played a first-person shooter game and,

Technology April 29, 2012

A man running the London Marathon stopped only 800 meters from the finish line and dropped to one knee to propose to his girlfriend.Ben McCreadie, 28, of Newport, Wales, was running the 42-kilometer race Sunday and stopped just short of the finish line to kneel in front of his girlfriend, Laura Rendell, 30, who was in the crowd to cheer for him, and ask her to marry him, The Sun reported Thursday.

Podcast April 29, 2012

A California man who lived for 94 years and six months with a bullet in his head has died at the age of 103.William Lawlis Pace, who was certified as a Guinness World Record holder in 2006 when he had lived for 89 years with the bullet in his head, died Monday at the Covenant Village retirement home in Turlock, The Modesto Bee reported Friday.Pace said in 2006 the bullet entered his skull when he

People April 29, 2012

US law enforcement blew the roof off a mountain hideout in Washington state on Saturday and inside found the body of a man suspected of killing his wife and teenage daughter, officials said.Peter Keller, who had been missing since Sunday when the bullet-ridden bodies of Lynnettee Rocha Keller, 41, and their 19-year-old daughter Kaylene Keller were discovered at the family home, apparently died of

World News April 29, 2012

Hong Kong businessman Kennedy Tam always wanted to travel the world. When he died suddenly of a stroke in 2010, his wife Freda decided death would not stand in his way.Since that day, Freda has taken Kennedy on trips to New York, Canada, Shanghai and Turkey."We are always together. Even at work he is always near me," said Freda, 48.As she talks, Freda looks lovingly down at the necklace around her

Arts & Design April 26, 2012

Korea’s year-on-year GDP expanded 2.8 percent, the slowest on-year growth rate for two and a half years, the Bank of Korea said Thursday.But Korea's economy grew at the fastest pace for a year on a quarterly basis in January-March due to strong industrial output.A rise in demand and strong government spending also helped offset softness in the construction and agricultural sectors.Gross domestic p

April 26, 2012

Geological evidence suggests a tsunami described by the ancient historian Herodotus did indeed protect a Greek village from Persian invaders, scientists say.Researchers from Aachen University in Germany said sediment on the northern Greek peninsula where the ancient village Potidea and the modern town of Nea Potidea are located shows signs of massive marine events such as large waves, evidence of

World News April 25, 2012

Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars.Similar experiments have taken place in the United States and Germany, but they involved either able-bodied patients or invasive brain implants.On Tuesday, a team at Switzerland's

Technology April 25, 2012

Authorities in Georgia say a grandmother foiled a robbery attempt by two armed men by getting into a shootout with them, wounding one man.Police told The Telegraph that Lulu Campbell had just dropped off her grandson at her daughter's house early Saturday morning when someone demanded money outside her car, threatening to shoot her.Campbell says the man fired at her, missing. The 57-year-old fired

World April 24, 2012