It is estimated that 17 million people worldwide, including the British Royal Family, Iranian Royalty, and the family of Dracula, are direct descendents of Genghis Khan.

A London restaurant chain is offering customers free DNA testing to see if they’re descended from Genghis Khan.

Restaurant Shish has promised free meals for any found to be related [...]

A Chinese author is bringing out a novel that will only be available as a sequence of text messages.

BBC Online, quoting China’s official Xinhau news agency, says Qian Fuchang has reduced his novel Outside the Fortress Besieged into 60 chapters of 70 characters each.

And pundits insists the novel, described as a steamy tale of adulterous [...]

Protesting Israel’s Apartheid Wall
By TOUFIC HADDAD writing from day 5 of the solidarity tent in Ar Ram where at least 17 people have joined in on the hunger strike protesting Israel’s apartheid wall. Despite the heat wave (36 centigrade) there is a good atmosphere in the tent, and the hunger strikers - though visibly more [...]

The month of July 2004 has two full moons, which means one of them is a Blue Moon. But will it really be blue? Believe it or not, scientists say blue-colored moons are real.

When you hear someone say “Once in a Blue Moon…” you know what they mean: Rare. Seldom. Maybe even absurd. After all, [...]

A Palestinian youth, bearing signs of physical violence, is seen in an undated picture which was shown in a Jerusalem court by the Israel Justice Ministry, June 1, 2004 at the start of a trial against three Israeli border policemen. The policemen were arrested this week for allegedly abusing two 17-year old Palestinians about a [...]

Microsoft wins patent to exploit network potential of skin. Fact or fiction - carrying a keyboard on your arm.

Call it the ultimate wireless network. From the ends of your fingers to the tips of your toes, the human body is a moving, throbbing collection of tubes and tunnels, filled with salty water and all capable [...]

One of the first things I did when I got back from vacation was to go see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s a brilliant piece of propaganda, entertaining and funny, and it skewers the president deliciously. But am I the only one to notice that in one critically important way, it entirely misses the boat [...]

STAR-SPANGLED START FOR WTC.

Nearly three years after the Twin Towers fell, a 20-ton block of granite will be set in place tomorrow to mark the official start of construction on the 1,776-foot tower that will rise on the site of the World Trade Center.
The cornerstone-laying is “an incredible step for the rebuilding of Ground [...]

Chiquita plans costlier, tastier bananas.

It seems that every time I pick up some sort of fruit juice these days it’s one of these funky “mixes”: banana-apple-kiwi or pineapple-cranberry-rambutan or whatever. I’m not exactly sure what the excitement is about mixing fruits, but apparently it’s leaving the drink space and moving into the actual fruit. It’s [...]