LAWRENCE | This was what Kansas coach Bill Self likes to call a “grind-it-out” game. Elbows fly, shots that went in last game rattle out and, somewhere in the middle of a sweaty pile, a team discovers something about itself.

1 Dec 2008

Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru.

1 Dec 2008

The United Nations climate chief is warning against what he calls "cheap and dirty" power as a quick fix to the global financial crisis, saying it will lead to another economic disaster. Yvo de Boer met with reporters Sunday on the eve of an international climate change conference in Poznan, Poland. De Boer said governments must not try to save money by giving up high-technology in favor of ...

1 Dec 2008

POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The world must avoid a "cheap and dirty" fix for the economy that could undermine the fight against global warming, the U.N.'s top climate official said on Sunday. Yvo de Boer said the world risked a second financial crisis if governments reacted to economic slowdown by building cheap, high-polluting coal-fired power plants that might then have to be scrapped as ...

1 Dec 2008

The United Nations climate chief is warning against what he calls "cheap and dirty" power as a quick fix to the global financial crisis, saying it will lead to another economic disaster.

1 Dec 2008

Actor Robert Pattinson has poor standards of hygiene when it comes to his hair - he never washes it. The Twilight star has shot to fame after portraying a vampire in the new movie - but he risks jeopardising his hunk status by confessing his dirty secret.

30 Nov 2008