Astronauts living at the International Space Station took their first bites of space-grown lettuce on Monday, in what scientists described as another step toward enabling human missions to Mars. The ability to cultivate food during a trip into deep space will be key to survival.
The Houston-based company, Minería Texas Colombia, known as MTC, is now the only foreign mining company in the treacherous world of Colombia's emerald trade.
Sporadic violence, including the ransacking of polling stations in the capital, forced dozens of voting centers to close Sunday during Haiti's long-delayed legislative elections.
For decades, Donald Trump has made flippant misogyny as much a part of his trademark as his ostentatious lifestyle. As a presidential candidate, it doesn't seem to be working for him.
Mexico has been held up as one of the economic bright spots among emerging market economies. But in recent months, Mexican newspapers have kept running banner headlines of economic gloom.
