Applying a tiny electrical current to the brain could make you better at learning maths, according to Oxford University scientists.
They found that targeting a part of the brain called the parietal lobe improved the ability of volunteers to solve numerical problems.
The BBC's Stephen Evans meets Alina Treiger
History is being made in Germany with the ordination of the first female rabbi since World War II. Alina Treiger came to Germany from Ukraine, as the BBC's Stephen Evans reports from Berlin.Why would a Jew migrate to Germany? You would think the ghosts would be too powerful.
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A Plymouth nursery where a worker sexually abused children "provided an ideal environment" for her to abuse, an inquiry has found.
The review into abuse at Little Ted's nursery found that a lack of formal staff supervision was partly to blame.
TARSANDS: The Alberta oil patch will be doing cartwheels as the immediate threat of an aggressive Obama climate bill targeting carbon-heavy oilsands bitumen goes nova. Worries that the states will pick up where the feds left off also abate given the Republican takeover of so many governorships.
The wealthy Davis family valued privacy, but their millions could not buy it. Through violent twists of fate and alleged crimes of greed, their tragedies have played out on front pages for decades.
TBILISI, GA.—Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that no final decision has been made in the case of a woman who once faced death by stoning for an adultery conviction, despite reports her execution was imminent.
A Toronto man wanted in connection with a 2007 homicide case has turned himself over to Korean authorities and is facing an extradition hearing.
Toronto police said Sang-Woo Ye, 29, surrendered in South Korea on Oct. 27.
Economic Crisis and Tax InjusticeMADRID (AP) — A Romanian Gypsy woman whose 10-year-old daughter just gave birth in Spain says she's delighted to have a new granddaughter and doesn't understand why the birth has shocked anyone — let alone become an international sensation.
Vladimir Putin has posed for new photographs that portray him as a modern-day Marlboro man.
The photographs show the Russian PM riding a horse across a rugged landscape while shouldering a rifle and donning dark sunglasses.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Costa Rica on Monday asked the Organization of American States to call an urgent meeting to address an alleged incursion by Nicaraguan troops onto Costa Rican soil.
Security Minister Jose Tijerino said more police had been sent to the northeastern border with Nicaragua after authorities detected Nicaraguan troops on Calero, an island in the San Juan River claimed by Costa Rica.
