As studies show, about 78 percent of the Danish population speaks good English.Mingoville makes one more step towards making Denmark one of the top European countries where people speak fluent English.We are proud to announce that Mingoville, as an English

Residents of New Mexico are flocking to motorized bicycles in an effort to save money in an age of high gas prices.

Famed museum shows off dubious glass sculpture while explaining that it's probably fake.

Law forbidding 'locked' phones means Belgians have to pay entire cost up front -- but at least they can use any carrier or plan they want.

Tech giants' people tell Senate committee than privacy rules should be firm, simple and clear.

Over the last 6 months, representatives from NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have been engaged in a detailed assessment of potential programs and technologies that when conducted cooperatively could one day support a human outpost on the

Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA.

A campaign to amend Michigan's constitution to end the state's ban on stem cell research that results in the destruction of human embryos was launched this morning at a news conference at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit. (Detroit Free

A code of practice to regulate the use of electronic chips to screen embryos is to be drawn up by the European Fertility Society's ethics task force. (BBC)

A Central Florida foster child needs a life-saving liver, but doctors have taken him off a transplant list because they fear he cannot recover from surgery without a stable home. (Miami Herald)

The tragedy is likely to raise fresh concerns over the safety of testing medicines in clinical trials. Six healthy volunteers almost died two years ago after receiving TGN 1412, a rheumatoid arthritis and leukaemia drug. (Times Online)

Medicare has paid as much as $92 million since 2000 to medical suppliers who billed the government for wheelchairs and other home equipment purportedly prescribed by physicians who, according to records, were dead at the time, congressional investigators said yesterday.

Since the 1970s, the field of bioethics, a term coined independently by two professors, has dealt with ethical and moral questions resulting from advances in science and medicine. Its theoretical framework and approach, drawing from various disciplines, has tried to

Embryos near the very beginning of development can yield stem cells for therapeutic applications without being destroyed in the process, research has shown. (The Press Association)

An array of unions and liberal activist groups in Wisconsin have joined a national coalition that plans to spend $40 million to push for health care reform, particularly universal coverage, in the coming election. (redOrbit)

BBC Scotland journalist Paula MacKinnon uncovers a market for human organs in her attempt to donate one of her healthy kidneys to a stranger in a bid to save a life. (BBC)

Infants born from embryos which were frozen and then thawed before being implanted into a woman had a higher birth weight and were less likely to suffer abnormalities. (Telegraph)

A University of Minnesota public health professor has been named as a staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors.

The David O. McKay School of Education has introduced a new doctoral program in which doctoral candidates develop skills of educational research, measurement and evaluation, guiding them to a variety of careers in educational reform.

The Angolan Association of Chemists (AAQ) will hold from July 25 to 26, here, its first Technical-Scientific Chemistry Cycles under the commemoration of its first founding anniversary, May 25.