Pfizer announced Monday cuts in its research activities and staff after acquiring pharmaceutical rival Wyeth. Research and development activities will now be conducted ...
Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within ...
Prominent Bahamian lawyer charged in US federal corruption case A prominent Bahamian lawyer has been indicted on U.S. federal corruption charges in a case that allegedly involves a South Florida politician and nearly $1 million in laundered money. Sidney Cambridge, 45, of ...
Mass. construction workers find ancient skeleton with gun under woman's shed; 'Wow,' she says Construction workers installing support for a new deck at a home outside Boston dug up the concrete floor of a shed and found a skeleton buried there with ...
A punter tides up a boat on the river Cam, in Cambridge, England, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2009. On the surface, it's the very picture of a civilized afternoon. But as tourists lounge on more than 200 traditional narrow-beam wooden skiffs, sip champagne ...
Cambridge's tranquil River Cam turns turbulent as boatmen clash over tourist trade On the surface, it is the stuff of English postcards — champagne-swilling tourists gliding down the River Cam and listening to the lore of Cambridge University. But a nasty undercurrent ...
A commemoration service will be held Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Marchioness pleasureboat disaster in which 51 people died when the vessel sank in the Thames. Survivors and relatives of those who died when the boat collided with the ...
Boston gears up for new bike-sharing program that would be nation's largest, with 2,500 bikes The city is entering talks with a Montreal-based company to create what would be the nation's largest urban bike-sharing system. Boston officials are hoping to reach a ...
