Actress Amy Walker has become an instant YouTube star with a video performing 21 different accents in two and a half minutes. Amy Walker tells us why some actors manage to get accents so wrong.

With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. This was just one of the difficult lessons writer Benjamin Skinner learned while researching his book, <em>A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery.</em> He discusses the challen

Republican Sen. John McCain's choice of a running mate is shaping up to be a significant issue for his presidential campaign. On the Democrats' side, is a ticket including both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama likely?

Russians like to joke that they might be the only people to benefit from global warming. At least, they say, it might temper Russia's notoriously cold winters. But scientists in Moscow are concerned that increasing temperatures will help spread malaria an

Sports blogs were ablaze about the New England Patriots running up the score in their games this season. Some are saying it is unsportsmanlike to let the score get that high.

Bernake warns of more foreclosures despite help.

The world would be a better place if people ate insects instead of beef or chicken, says David Gracer. A group of masticating marauders known as the Gastronauts puts his theory to the test with a creepy, crawly menu featuring grubs, flies and giant waterb

Movie and television writers may get back to work this week. Negotiators for producers and the writers reached a tentative agreement late last week and members of the 10,000-strong Writers Guild are expected to quickly accept a new contract.

A computer programmer in Indiana develops FreeRice.com, a game that teaches vocabulary and helps fight hunger. The word game offers four definitions for a word, and clicking on the right definition leads to a donation of 20 grains of rice to the U.N. Worl

Vincent Virga's Cartographia is a rare collection of 250 color maps and illustrations drawn from the world's largest cartographic collection at the Library of Congress. The collection spans everything from maps of ancient Mesopotamia, to maps of the human