Botanists believe they have discovered one of the world's largest carnivorous plants in Southeast Asia. The giant pitcher plants were located in Palawan, central Philippines by a team led by UK botanist Stewart McPherson. The second largest species, now called Nepenthes attenboroughii has been named in honor of the UK's world-renowned natural history presenter Sir David Attenborough. The new discovery measures about 30 centimeters in diameter and are formed in the shape of a large ...

No one's enthusiastic about torture, but Dick Cheney is back in the news, talking-up some pretty tough stuff. The former vice president, who said after the attacks of 9/11 that the United States would have to work on the "dark side" to protect itself, is coming forward to commend some controversial interrogation techniques. "I know specifically of reports that I read," he told Fox News, "that lay out what we learned through the interrogation process and what the consequences were ...