WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand’s economy all but stalled in the first quarter as lower prices for milk and oil pushed down growth to 0.2 percent. It was the worst quarterly performance in two years and below market expectations. The figures released Thursday pushed down the currency by more …

ISTANBUL – There’s little doubt Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will win this weekend’s parliamentary elections. But observers say his margin of victory could go a long way to determining what that means for democracy in Turkey going forward, along with this longtime pro-Western nation’s relations with the U.S. …

Fourteen people were charged with participating in a nearly $60 million mortgage fraud ring on Thursday following an FBI crackdown, FoxNews.com has learned. The 14 alleged members of the mortgage fraud ring include real estate attorneys, title closers, appraisers and straw buyers. They were charged with conspiracy to commit bank …

Didn’t think you had much in common with a long-necked dinosaur? A thermometer might say otherwise. The body temperature of enormous sauropods like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus that ruled the Jurassic period was similar to those of most birds — and even akin to mammals like us, claims a new article …

Skydiving is dangerous — but not nearly as dangerous as skydiving from a plane in outer space. That can kill you. The temperature can freeze your body, and the lack of air pressure can boil your blood. Nonetheless, an Austrian daredevil named Felix Baumgartner plans to take the 23-mile plunge …

Like a baseball player who bats lefty and righty, Big Science sways politically with the issue at hand — often backing the party with the fattest wallet. Researching our changing environment, building a new spaceship, using stem cells to find the cure for serious diseases — these scientific endeavors require …

Former “Entourage” star Adrian Grenier was at a pre-Oscar gala last week that raised more than $330,000 for Global Green, an organization that seeks to implement eco initiatives in schools and homes, and bring awareness to issues like climate change. Grenier is well known for touting Green initiatives, so we …

Thursday the Supreme Court handed a victory to the most hated agency of the federal government, the IRS. The Justices voted 6-3 that the IRS can continue to offer subsidies to ObamaCare buyers in all fifty states, contrary to what Section 1401 of the Affordable Care Act says. The ruling …

The Republican Party remains in a state of chaos — facing the increasingly realistic possibility of the first “brokered” convention in more than fifty years. Mitt Romney — having won narrowly this weekend at CPAC and in Maine — is now turning his guns on Rick Santorum, whose resurgence last …

Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – Thursday night the Harvard University Department of African American Studies held an extraordinarily interesting event here with a wide diversity of speakers about the education gap between African-Americans and the broader white society. The question presented was “How can the persistent gap between whites and African-Americans …