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Rice University has developed the world's darkest material, made from millions of tiny vertical tubes of carbon. Pulickel Ajayan, who helped lead the project, says the material isn't perfect, but it's "pretty dark." It approaches the elusive ideal black, which would absorb all colors of light and reflect none.

Kenya has been mired in ethnic violence and protests since it held presidential elections last week that international observers say was flawed by corruption.

A political suspense thriller is unfolding in Kenya. No fewer than nine candidates are running for president, but from nearly every angle, it is a two-man race between Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki.

In the immediate future, the UT won't replace me, but I'm certain the editors won't let theater go uncovered. It's just too important. They're likely to fill the position from the inside, perhaps with Jim Hebert who's a wonderful writer and has done quite a bit of theater reviewing and feature writing. However, neither he nor I know that for sure. We do know that Jim Chute, the arts editor, is committed to getting the beat covered, whether with two or three staffers or Jim and a free-lancer. I just don't know.

Earlier in the year, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was near the back of the pack among Republican presidential contenders. Now, he's running second nationally. Huckabee outlines his positions on Iran, the mortgage crisis and his religious beliefs.

Economic numbers out this morning show consumer spending holding up pretty well and producer prices on the rise. But that good news was undermined by a sharp increase in wholesale prices. It was the biggest one-month jump in more than 30 years.

This bit of history may sound familiar. Japanese warplanes stage a surprise December attack on the U.S. Navy. But the sinking of the USS Panay, on China's Yangtze River, occurred four years before Pearl Harbor.

As Democratic presidential candidates debated at a forum Tuesday sponsored by NPR and Iowa Public Radio, they sometimes raised more questions than they answered. NPR reporters following along kept track to provide a reality check.

Two teams independently discover a way to turn ordinary human skins cells into stem cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.

Ian Fleming's Casino Royale