For McCain's specific cancer, textbooks cite 10-year survival figures of about 60 percent to 70 percent. That was in 2000. That prediction means he has a 30-40% chance of dying from cancer by 2010.

Obama is consistently leading in the polls.

The flu virus, or a trigger, is said to ride into our atmosphere on the dust of comets. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe say we can expect another flu pandemic to accompany the solar peak "within weeks."

Republican Senator: "The thought of [McCains'] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic, he is hotheaded, he loses his temper and he worries me."

100 years ago there were more electric cars on the road than gas.

American 15-year-olds rank 24th out of 29 countries in math literacy, and their parents are as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution; roughly 30 to 40 percent believe in each. Their president believes "the jury is still out" on evolution.

Wikipedia has been hacked. Screenshot of black background with the text: "This is the Zodiac speaking. I laugh at your attempts to stop me. Your feeble minds cannot get my message."

A Hong Kong computer programmer whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children...