Balanced News Blog

Scientists announced Monday that they had created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

The magnitude 6.7 quake was felt from the Afghan captial of Kabul through most of Pakistan. No deaths or injuries have been reported.

The redistricting had been a controversial effort by DeLay, with Democrats stymieing efforts to approve the plan at the first two sessions by leaving the state and denying Republicans a quorum.

Israel’s consul-general in Los Angeles has lambasted Steven Spielberg’s film about the 1972 Olympic massacre in Munich as a “superficial“, “pretentious” and “problematic” work that draws an incorrect moral equation between Mossad agents and Palestinian terrorists.

Hollywood’s Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc., will pay $1.6 billion in cash to buy DreamWorks SKG.

Young people riding in vehicles smashed cars and store windows in suburban Sydney late Monday, a day after thousands of drunken white youths attacked people they believed were of Arab descent at a beach in the same area in one of Australia‘s worst outbursts of racial violence.

This armor is “five times stronger than steel and at least twice as strong as any impact-resistant material currently in use as protective gear”.

Ten out of 20 oil tank fires at the Buncefield depot have been extinguished, Hertfordshire fire service said at midday.

Russia’s first English-language news channel, Russia Today, stopped broadcasting on Monday, just two days after launch, because of a suspected breach in its computer system, the Gazeta.Ru internet newspaper quoted Russia Today’s press service as saying.

The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said it had reached a sublicensing deal for production of its flagship anti-influenza drug Tamiflu in China with Shanghai Pharmaceutical group.