The latest flap over EA’s inclusion of SecuROM (a Sony technology) in Spore has also inspired some user-generated content. Here’s a small gallery of creatures who’ve evolved (or not) in response to the game’s DRM.

Trudging gingerly across the arid sands of the Gobi desert, Czech explorer Ivan Mackerle is careful not to put a foot wrong, for he knows it may be his last. He scours the land and shifting valleys for tell-tale signs of disturbance in the sands below,

They gave him goggles and told him not to look directly at the flash.Five decades later, Joe Cohen let out a rueful chuckle as he recalled his role in secret atomic-bomb tests held in the Nevada desert in 1955.

Three bomb attacks killed 34 people and wounded dozens more in Iraq on Monday, underscoring the security challenges facing the next U.S. military commander in the country who takes over this week.

“But now suddenly, John McCain says he is about change, too. He even started using some of my lines. Suddenly he says he wants ‘to turn the page.’ He had an ad today that he started running that he and Gov. Palin would bring the change...

Lance Armstrong charged up Fanny Hill on his mountain bike as if this were the Pyrenees.

The death toll from Hurricane Ike rose to 25 across nine states Sunday, as rescuers said they had saved nearly 2,000 people from waterlogged streets and splintered houses

Apple has admitted it did not invent the iPod, which was in fact the brainchild of a British man who patented his prototype 30 years ago.

Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin spent Saturday scrambling to explain details of her only trip outside North America in the wake of a report that that trip did not include travel into Iraq, as the McCain-Palin campaign had initially claimed.

Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water and may even have extra health benefits, say researchers.