Google's SearchWiki Roll your own search results with Google's new SearchWiki

Google's SearchWiki—the feature that allows people to annotate, add, delete, and move around search results—will soon be available to all users logged in with a Google account. The company's not sure yet what it plans to actually do with the data, though.

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Bush Pushing To Relax Endangered Species Regulations

Animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don't pose a threat, under regulations the Bush administration is set to put in place this week Friday.

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EU opens Europeana digital library to public with over 2 million works

The EU has finally launched Europeana, a digital online library that hosts more than 2 million books, maps, recordings, photographs, paintings, and documents from cultural institutions in its 27 member states. The EU hopes to have 8 million more works added by 2010.

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Jobless claims surge to a 16-year high

Initial unemployment filings rise to 542,000 and number of Americans continuing on benefits nears 26-year high.

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Einstein's Formula Finally Proven

It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.

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Obama Team Springs Leaks

Obama Campaign Was Tight-Lipped, But Rumors Are Now Disrupting Plan For Announcing Cabinet Nominees

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U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukaseyl Collapses During Speech

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while delivering a speech on national security at a hotel in Washington on Thursday, CNN reported.

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iPhone 2.2 firmware update available now

It's here. Google Street View, over the air Podcast downloads from iTunes and much more.

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What Recession? Bentley Debuts Its Most Opulent Car Ever

The economy has tanked, no one's buying cars anymore and the entire auto industry is in a tail-spin. But such things don't matter when you build cars that cost more than your neighbor's house, and Bentley's pulled the silk sheet off a convertible that brings new meaning to "over the top."

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Roger W. Ferguson For Treasury Secretary

Many Americans have lost confidence in our government and the actions of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsen are a key reason why. Paulsen does not understand the system of relationships between financial institutions, companies, and their employees who are losing jobs. So he does not know where to apply the bailout money.

Many Americans have lost confidence in our government and the actions of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsen are a key reason why. Paulsen does not understand the system of relationships between financial institutions, companies, and their employees.

The person I recommend to replace him and to serve President Obama, is Roger W. Ferguson. Dr. Ferguson was Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. During 9-11 it was he who steered the World's financial system out o collapse by working with the G-7. Ferguson was at one point mentioned to be the President of Harvard University. Currently, he is CEO of TIAA / Cref and on President-Elect Obama's Transition Team.

McClellan: George W. Bush Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame

11/15/08 Scott McClellan on C-SPAN Book TV

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Dick Cheney , Alberto Gonzales indicted by Texas grand jury

A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers.

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