The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey... People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it.

...a professor of psychology at University College London, shows that men and women are fairly equal overall in terms of IQ. But women, it seems, underestimate their own candlepower (and that of women in general), while men overestimate theirs.

"The dispute illustrates how lawmakers, in a frenetic, end-of-session scramble, passed legislation they may not have fully understood and may have given the administration more surveillance powers than it sought."

The US, the world's biggest economy, consumes around a quarter of global energy and causes nearly 30 per cent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.

Help Women Prosper And Society As A Whole Will Benefit, UN Assembly President Says