The United States just passed a dubious milestone: Government debt surged to an all-time high, passing $14 trillion – $45,300 for every person in the country. That means Congress soon will have to lift the legal debt ceiling to give the almost maxed-out government an even higher credit limit or dramatically cut spending to stay under the current cap. Either way, a fight is ahead on Capitol Hill,... 

A woolly mammoth skeleton is seen on display at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas in September 2009. Instead of Jurassic Park, try Pleistocene Park. A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce... 

Mohamed Ahmed Hussein was found guilty of pre-meditated murder. Egypt has sentenced a man to death for killing six Coptic Christians and a Muslim policeman in January 2010. Mohamed Ahmed Hussein was found guilty of shooting the group outside a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas in Naga Hamady, southern Egypt. The attack was thought to be revenge for the alleged rape of a 12-year-old Muslim girl by... 

Nine strange giant rings appeared over Australia in January and February 2010. Could HAARP have been involved? That would explain the massive floods which occurred 1 year after the rings appeared, in 2011. A year ago, Colin Andrews received an email from someone in Australia claiming that he has discovered a bizarre ring over Australia’s South East region. The rings were huge, as big as Germany... 

Climate change? The sun rose in Ilulissat, Greenland, two days early on Tuesday, ending a month-and-a-half of winter darkness. One theory is that melting ice caps have lowered the horizon allowing the sun to shine through earlier. The sun over Greenland has risen two days early, baffling scientists and sparking fears that Arctic icecaps are melting faster than previously thought. Experts say the sun... 

Activists from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) women's wing shout slogans against the Congress-led government during a protest against an increase in milk, vegetables and food prices in New Delhi on April 1, 2010. The BJP activists protested against the price hikes of essential commodities. Food inflation is still at 17 percent according to official figures. Strained by... 

Former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. A startling power shift in restive Tunisia inched forward Saturday as the country’s parliament speaker assumed the interim presidency and the country’s former longtime leader took refuge with his family in Saudi Arabia. In a change of government driven by days of angry street protests, Tunisian state TV reported that Fouad Mebazaa was sworn... 

Another victim of the Tucson tragedy – the right to criticize your Congressperson without getting a knock on the door from the feds. We can add another victim to the Tucson tragedy – the right to criticize government without fear of getting a knock on your door from the feds. Despite the fact that shooter Jared Loughner was not politically motivated, the FBI is now compiling a list of Americans... 

Eleanor Carruthers, 68, had the flu vaccine in October but died after catching the swine strain. A grandmother-of-three thought she was safe from swine flu after she had the vaccine months ago. But Eleanor Carruthers, 68, from Merseyside became the latest victim of the outbreak on Saturday. Mrs Carruthers was seriously ill with emphysema and lung cancer, but had had the flu vaccination in October to... 

Following the unexplained deaths of several thousand birds over the last two weeks, events are now emerging that may offer a physics-based explanation for the mysterious deaths. It all begins on a runway in Tampa, where airport officials recently closed that runway in order to change the numeric designators painted there. Why are those numeric designators being changed? Because the Earth’s magnetic... 

Riots and Protests in North Africa. Prices of basic food items have rocketed in the last year, hitting the world’s least developed countries the hardest, where working people commonly spend half or more of their income on food. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization announced in January that the food price index rose 32 percent between June and December 2010. Prices are expected... 

Food price protests sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East reached Jordan on Friday. Thousands of Jordanians have taken to the streets of the country to protest the government’s inability to control the rising price of commodities. Chanting anti-government slogans, demonstrators in the capital Amman and other cities denounced the government economic policies on Friday, saying Prime... 

Rabbi Dov Lior Rabbi Dov Lior says Jewish Law prohibits sterile couples from conceiving using non-Jew’s sperm, as it causes adverse traits. On subject of single mothers he says, ‘Child cannot be 100% normal’. Rabbi Dov Lior, a senior authority on Jewish law in the Religious Zionism movement, asserted recently that a Jewish woman should never get pregnant using sperm donated by a non-Jewish... 

Can’t work your iPhone with your winter gloves on? Got a scratched DVD that’s skipping? Or how about a work PC that signs you out the moment you step away from your desk? The MacGyver-approved answer may be hiding in your junk drawer. In this week’s episode of Upgrade Your Life, Yahoo! News’s Becky Worley delivers some simple, everyday solutions for what might appear to be... 

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (Left) talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday, January 13, 2011. The P-5+1 talks with Iran will resume January 21-22. For those not tuned into the obscure jargon of the diplomatic world, these are the talks between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, Britain, France, China and...