Molded in cloth, Azeitao cheese has a rustic appearance. It looks like a flattened cylinder, without definite edges but with a yellow crust. The paste, yellow too, is buttered, creamy, soft, smooth; with a little bit or none grains and shuted texture,...

EVEN though Nazareth, Pa., isn’t quite the holy city its namesake is, pilgrims with a musical bent still go there every weekday in search of a potentially spiritual experience. They head to a quaint brick building, lured by the promise of taking a...

The nation’s main inflation gauge spiked to 7.1 percent last month, the National Bureau of Statistics said, pushed up by an 18.2 percent rise in food prices, with the cost of pork jumping 58.8 percent compared with a year ago. But it also...

Starbucks coffee lovers were deprived of their caffeine fix for an agonizing three hours Tuesday, as the firm closed its 7,100 shops across America to train staff to brew the perfect cup of joe. The Seattle, Washington-based company described it as an...

This SkyTran system operates with individual, two-passenger vehicles, which are propelled and suspended by a maglev system from overhead guideways. These are laid out in a one mile by one mile networked grid throughout the city. A large number of small...

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged a tight campaign fight across Ohio on Sunday two days before crucial voting that could virtually nail down the Democratic nomination or prolong the party battle into the spring. McCain,...

As with nearly all patents the fact there is some technology patented apparently means nothing, this patent actually dates back as far as mid 06. However, RIM is onto something, and most know with the intro of Apple’s iPhone every handset maker is...

With nearly 100% of the ballots counted, the election commission has announced he won 70.23% of the vote. Mr Medvedev said he hoped to work in an “effective tandem” with Mr Putin as his prime minister. As president, he said, he would...

With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25...