Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church.Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain — their bodies found later in three different parts of the…

s ASCO Numatics business unit will award two $5,000 scholarships to U.S. engineering students pursuing careers in industrial automation-related disciplines.is the world’s leading manufacturer of comprehensive fluid automation, flow control, and pneumatics solutions. “ is increasingly important to the global economy, and continuing to deliver innovation to meet evolving market needs will require the best…

With remnants of once-legal lead paint, leaded gasoline and other pollutants from the nation's industrial past tainting land in U.S. cities, soil researchers warn that the growing number of urban farmers and community gardeners need to test their dirt and take steps to make sure it's safe.They point to cities like Indianapolis, where nine out…

Muammar Gaddafi's better armed and organized troops reversed the rapid westward advance of rebels on Tuesday as world powers meeting in London piled pressure on the Libyan leader to step down.A conference of 40 governments and international bodies agreed to press on with a NATO-led aerial bombardment of Libyan forces until Gaddafi complied with a…

div class="yn-story-content">If you haven't heard, The New York Timesaround its digital content beginning 2 p.m. ET on Monday. Based on our initial tests, it's already fully functional.After clicking through 20 articles on the site, further access was blocked by a pop-up message politely requesting I subscribe to read more. I was still able to read…

Theto the Internet early Friday morning, affecting about 88 percent of the country's online networks.While blackouts of selected sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Google are common in countries with autocratic and totalitarian governments, this appears to be the first time a government tried to shut down all Internet access.Internet monitoring firm Rensys was first…

SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea has made a fresh call for talks with South Korea to discuss ways to ease tensions, its official news agency reported Friday.A group called the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland sought dialogue between legislators from both sides "to seek ways to move forward together as a people…

LONDON – Stocks and the euro fell Monday amid mounting political turmoil in Ireland following the government's request for a massive bailout package and worries that Europe's debt crisis could spread to other countries, most notably Portugal and Spain.In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed down 52 points, or 0.9 percent,…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dow and S&P 500 fell on Monday as enthusiasm over a bailout package for Ireland faded and investors worried that further steps would be needed to combat euro zone sovereign debt problems.The European Union and International Monetary Fund began to thrash out details of a loan package to Ireland to…

T.J. Maxx confirmed viathat it has gotten into thefray. The discount store has begun selling 16GB Wi-Fi iPads for $399; that's $100 less than the going rate of $499. The T.J. Maxx Twitter feed reads like , but from what I can gather, the iPads are currently available in undisclosed stores across the country. The…