Biden may aspire to be US president in 2016WASHINGTON - US Vice President Joe Biden has proven his mettle within the Obama administration, and according to an article in the Los Angeles Times, he may be setting his sights on contesting the presidential elections in 2016. Friend: American missing in Iran were hiking in wrong place; family asks for safe returnSAN FRANCISCO — Freelance journalist Shane Bauer planned to cover the elections in northern Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region. His girlfriend, Sarah Shourd, was going with him on a backpacking trip. Another friend stayed put, under the weather with a cold. US planning new strategy to reduce tensions with Pak over drone issueISLAMABAD - The United States is working out a new strategy to reduce tensions with Pakistan over the drone strikes. Illness carried by humans may have killed the Neanderthals 30,000 years agoCOPENHAGEN - A new theory has suggested that an infectious disease carried by Homo sapiens migrating out of Africa was responsible for the demise of the Neanderthal 30,000 years ago. New digital memory storage device can store a trillion bits of data for a billion yearsWASHINGTON - Scientists in America have created a new memory storage medium that can pack thousands of times more data into one square inch of space than conventional chips, and preserve this data for more than a billion years. Experts: Prosecutors seemed to throw the book at teenage pirate in unique caseNEW YORK — When U.S. prosecutors brought piracy charges against a teenager from Somalia, they dusted off a law that has been on the books since George Washington was president and used only sparingly since then. |