A complicated attempt to mate two elderly turtles during this year’s breeding season ended without producing any offspring.

The prize was awarded for work exploring the hidden symmetries between elementary particles.

Finance ministers from the European Union, which has had trouble coordinating policy, gathered to seek common ground to buttress the banking system.

Thousands of anti-government protesters surrounded Thailand’s Parliament, trapping hundreds of legislators, vowing to remain until the government falls.

by Benedict Carey, New York TimesThe public urge for punishment that helped delay the passage of Wasignton's economic rescue plan is more than a simple ... more

Police officers fired tear gas canisters at several thousand protesters who had barricaded Parliament to try to block the new prime minister from delivering his ... more