A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden truck into a crowd of people gathered to watch a volleyball game in a village in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 75 in an attack seen as a retaliation against locals who had formed a progovernment militia.
The attack — in an area near South Waziristan, a center of Taliban and al Qaeda activities where Pakistan’s government began a military offensive last fall — marked a bloody start to 2010 for the country. Pakistan has seen a surge in attacks by Taliban militants in recent …

Two experts have examined what life will be like 50 years in the future, and claim that the labor market will be vastly different with androids working alongside humans in many jobs.
Psychologist Neal J. Roese and computer scientist Eyal Amir from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, authors of the report “Human-Android Interaction in the Near and Distant Future,” say people can expect to be sharing a lunch break with robots in our lifetime.
Published in the journal ‘Perspectives on Psychological Science,’ Roese and Amir look ahead a half decade to …