While Isaac Asimov officially celebrated his birthday as 2 January 1920, his birth date is uncertain. Records were not well kept in the U.S.S.R. in the period between World War I and World War II, particularly if the records concerned Jews. By the time A...

By the time of his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov was widely regarded as one of the most productive and versatile writers of all time. Asimov was best-known for his science-fiction novels and popularized accounts of science, but he worked in a number of oth...

The author of nearly five hundred books, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is esteemed as one of the finest writers of science fiction and scientific fact in the twentieth century. Asimov was born on January 2, 1920, to middle-class Jewish parents in Petrovichi,...

An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip Sunday after they fired rockets at a nearby Israeli town, the Israeli military and hospital officials said.In all, Israel killed four Palestinian militants in Gaza on Sunday, including two Hamas gunmen.The Israeli military...

A 16-story building collapsed while under construction in Azerbaijan's capital, killing eight people, authorities said Wednesday.The building collapsed Tuesday, and rescuers were still searching the site after nightfall Wednesday. An emergency official, Kamil Bagirov, said rescuers believed workers were still trapped."We hope there are people...

Israeli officials on Monday denied claims that they were close to a deal that would secure the release of a captured soldier held by Palestinian militants, citing excessive demands by the Islamic Hamas.Expectations have been building in the media that an announcement could be made...

Fisherman Jose Enrique Tejada clung to a gas container in the moonlit Atlantic and prayed for help after giant waves capsized the boat he was on, throwing him and dozens of other men into the ocean.Some began swimming toward lights on shore 20 miles away,...