The University of South Florida is holding commencement ceremonies for its biggest graduating class ever this weekend. Here's a look at the class by the numbers: ...more

May 2, 2009

193 Number of countries analyzed by Freedom House 89 Number of countries considered to be free in 2008 Senegal dropped from the list ...more

January 12, 2009

Can a pill a day help prevent infection from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS? ...more

August 4, 2008

Into The Cauldron Arthur Hayhoe's letter May 26 ("10 Years Later") regarding a gun ban blithely ignores the Constitution and experiences of a number of countries that confiscated guns from the general public. ...more

June 4, 2008

Freedom declined in 2007 for a second consecutive year as 36 percent of the people in the world - about half of them in China - were not living in freedom, according to a survey by a private democracy watchdog organization. ...more

January 16, 2008

One in 10 Britons are now living overseas, according to a think tank (Institute for Public Policy Research) estimate just out. ...more

December 28, 2007