TBILISI, Georgia – The Obama administration firmly supports Georgia, but President Mikheil Saakashvili must further encourage democracy, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.
BASEL, Switzerland – For the past two months, the Kunstmuseum in Basel has been host to an extraordinary exhibit thanks to its troubled artist and its troubled sponsor. Vincent van Gogh’s landscape artwork forms the bulk of “Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes,” an exhibition presented by the Union Bank of Switzerland, also known as UBS.
NEW YORK – Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of “Angela’s Ashes,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning “epic of woe” about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer.
WASHINGTON – The measure of what humanity can accomplish is a size 9 1/2 bootprint. It belongs to Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. It will stay on the moon for years with nothing to wipe it away, serving as a testament to a can-do mankind.
One small step began with a childhood dream, at least for Bernard Harris.
David Richards’ body was found about five hours after he went missing, said Angela Goldman, Indiana Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman.
IU trustee Bill Cast was nominated Thursday for the position of president of the IU board of trustees until 2011.
The IU board of trustees approved the budget for the 2009-10 academic year that will raise tuition for all students.
IU nuclear physicist Mike Snow’s investigations into the weak interactions of low-energy neutrons will advance using equipment funded by the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research and then be put into use at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
A research team at the University of Kansas has discovered a potential cancer-fighting mechanism in fungi compounds.
IU President Michael McRobbie announced Thursday that School of Informatics and Computing Dean Robert Schnabel will serve as interim vice president for research while a search continues to permanently fill the position.
While Jack Nicklaus will go down as one of the – if not the – best golfers of all time, one of his many records was in jeopardy until Sunday afternoon.
Sports are for the young. But on Sunday, 59-year-old Tom Watson proved that even the soon-to-be-eligible-for-Social Security crowd can compete for championships.
Lou Holtz and John Cooper were enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame on Saturday night wishing they had another team to lead out on the field.
Dancing the night away in Des Moines doesn’t seem to be at the top of many must-do lists. Maybe because it’s illegal.
A 1997 graduate of the Jacobs School of Music will receive one of six 2009 Indiana Governor’s Arts Awards.
The third annual Dine Local Week, which started Saturday and runs through Thursday, will bring Bloomington residents food from less than 50 miles away, breaking the current trend in American meals discovered by Iowa State University researchers.
Hundreds of criminal convictions, including that of a man found guilty of a crash that killed three people, could return to court because the Indiana prosecutor who oversaw the cases had an inactive law license for more than three years.
Staff members of Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., are organizing a forum to discuss the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act on Tuesday in Evansville.
