The 73-year-old actor Robert Redford joined the VIP group that fight to clean up oil spill and promote alternative energy solutions. Longtime celebrity eco-warrior turned back to his love for the arts and spoke Friday to about 900 attendees at an Americans for the Arts summit, saying that the worst oil spill in U.S. history should serve as a lesson for Americans. It came the time to move away from the dependence on oil and pursue green renewable energy.
He insisted that the oil spill could be the catalyst that has …

An international team of scientists from UK, Europe, USA and Canada, led by researchers at Oxford University is closer to building a DNA profile of people who are at risk from diabetes. Their study offered new diabetes information that could help to identify the suspects and could lead to new treatments that target the genetic problems.
The scientists identified twelve new genes linked to the most common form of diabetes. They tend to be involved in the working of pancreatic cells which produce and control the hormone insulin and the regulation …

Life on the World Cup edge came to an exhausting and crushing end for the U.S. team. With a cushy road into the semifinals theirs for the taking, the U.S. players showed they’re still, at best, a second-tier team. With Ghana’s passing superb in the opening stages, the Americans played as if they were still in the group phases, as if there would be one more chance on another day.
U.S. team will go home while Ghana remained the only African team to advance past the first round and will face …