The Olympic flame for this summer’s London Games will be lit Thursday in Ancient Olympia, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) announced on Tuesday. The Flame will be lit “with every solemnity, according to the traditional way,” the HOC said in a statement. Ceremonies at the site where the first Olympics were held some 2,800 years ago will be attended by International Olympic Committee (IOC)... 

A paralyzed British woman became the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit as she crossed the finishing line in London on Tuesday 16 days after the race began. Claire Lomas was in tears but said she was “over the moon” as she completed the 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) course in her bionic ReWalk suit, which mimics the response that the wearer’s joints would make if they were not... 

The United States released letters Thursday from Osama bin Laden’s compound that revealed a divided al-Qaida and an anxious leader worried about his network’s image among Muslims, even as he yearned to strike again at U.S. targets. A year after bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs at his Pakistani hideout, the White House released 17 documents from a vast trove of files recovered at his home... 

Angela Merkel is planning to boycott next month’s Euro 2012 football tournament in Ukraine unless imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is released, according to newspaper reports. The German chancellor’s decision came as the former Ukrainian prime minister’s daughter made an impassioned plea to the German government to “save the life” of her mother, who is has... 

Communication is important for everyone and in particular for those who have difficulty because of congenital impairment (such as cerebral palsy or autism) or who acquired communication difficulties (such as CVA’s, Motor Neuron disease or Parkinson’s) With this in mind, some of you may have seen the BBC morning news on Friday 13th April which featured Lee Ridley, the stand up comedian known as... 

Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars. Similar experiments have taken place in the United States and Germany, but they involved either able-bodied patients or invasive brain implants. On Tuesday, a team at Switzerland’s... 

“Don’t stop giving, just like her. It’s what she would have wanted.” The story of Claire Squires, the 30-year-old British hairdresser who collapsed and died on the final stretch of the London Marathon on Sunday, has raised nearly $1 million for a mental health charity close to her heart. Ms Squires had asked her friends to support her run in the hope of raising £500 ($780)... 

Olympic doping officials are considering whether to tweak their tests after a recent British study showed green tea might hide testosterone from the standard test used to spot it. The study was a test in a lab dish so scientists aren’t sure if the effects will be the same in people. But some experts say the results are intriguing enough that Olympic testing could be updated to include that possibility. “It’s... 

A startup evidently devoted to mining asteroids for metals is to make its public debut Tuesday in the US northwest city of Seattle, seeking to redefine the term “natural resources.” X Prize founder Peter Diamandis and a former NASA astronaut are slated to unveil Planetary Resources, which boasts an impressive list of backers including Google co-founder Larry Page and famed film maker James... 

LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball. And about what it meant when Jackie Robinson broke the game’s color barrier. “Without Jackie, I wouldn’t be in front of you,” the Los Angeles Angels pitcher told several dozen kids at...