- China posts an alarming increase in energy use over the last 6 months, prompting worries amongst both the Chinese leadership and the international community.
- New York grannies gather every Wednesday to protest America's wars.
- Formspring, a networking site popular with the Justin Bieber crowd, allows kids to let loose, anonymously, on friends and classmates.
- New research revives the debate about whether Neanderthals and humans mated.
- Exploring the role of a doctor's gender in patient care.
- Scientists struggle to create meaningful tsunami alert systems.
- HBO's documentary about slain UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello recalls the man that one writer likened to a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy.
- Summer movie guide for Hollywood films.