Quoted: A professor who developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water has won a $1 million engineering prize — and he plans to use most of the money to distribute the filters to needy communities around the world.

Quoted: Efficient appliances and flourescent bulbs are easy upgrades that make a big difference, experts say.

On Thursday, a vast majority of delegates to the U.N. General Assembly's first committee endorsed the resolution calling for the establishment of a treaty to stop weapons transfers that fuel conflict, poverty and serious human rights violations.

As many as 139 countries voted in favor of the resolution while 24 abstained. The United States, the world's largest supplier of small arms, was the only country that opposed the resolution.

Other major arms-manufacturing nations that oppose the treaty but did not participate in the voting include Russia, China, India and Pakistan.

The vote came after three years of complex diplomatic negotiations and a worldwide campaign by civil society groups that involved more than one million people in 170 countries.

Quoted: Heavy use of mobile phones may damage men's fertility, a study has suggested.

Quoted: Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty.

Quoted: Violence against children is widely accepted as normal around the world, and at least 106 countries still allow physical punishment in schools, a U.N. report on the issue showed on Thursday.

Quoted: The discovery of what is believed to be a 9,000 year-old city off the coast of India could radically reshape archaeologists' view of the ancient world.

This is really sad.

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Quoted: Another Great Investigative Report

Hard core proof that our president and his aids did nothing while in office but rob us and let our people die in Iraq.