21 August 2014, 11:19 Russia Denies Sanctions Revenge On McDonald’s Tweet Russia’s food safety agency has denied it has closed fourMcDonald’s restaurants in Moscow as an act of revenge for US sanctions. Rospotrebnadzor insisted there was no…
ShareWatch more news videos | Latest from the US CopyPolice in St. Louis released video showing officers shooting and killing a man – a shooting that occurred only 10 days after an officer in nearby…
The long-held idea that Europeans were the first to bring tuberculosis to the Americas when they arrived in the 15th Century has been thrown into doubt. Instead, a study suggests that the deadly disease was present in the area hundreds of years…
Washington, Aug 20 (EFE). — President Barack Obama spoke out on Wednesday about the videotaped beheading by the Islamic militant groupISIL of a U.S. journalist, describing the murder as “an act of violence that shocks the conscience of the…
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait detained a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric at the Gulf state‘s airport on Wednesday after the United Statesincluded him on a sanctions list on suspicion that he is funneling money to militants in Iraq and Syria, a security…
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS, an Islamic terrorist group released a video on Tuesday showing a man,they claim is a missing Americanjournalist’s beheading at the hands of a member of the terrorist group. ISIS leaders said the purpose for releasing the horrific video is to send a message to the…
JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel completes its damage assessment from its latest war with Hamas, it may conclude that one of the biggest casualties was its all-important relationship with the United States. A recentAmerican decision to hold back on the…
Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip have fired rockets at Israelfor a second day after fighting resumed with the collapse of truce talks and anIsraeli air strike that killed three people in Gaza. Claiming that Israel had “opened a gateway to hell”,…
(Close): Apple shares surged to an all-time high on Tuesday helping to drive shares on Wall Street higher for a second consecutive day. Shares in the tech giant closed up 1.4% at $100.53,…
Travel deals BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Three relatives ofPopeFrancis died in a car crash Tuesday along a provincial highway in Argentina, the Vatican and local highway police said. Police Superintendent Jorge Raineri said the small car…
More talks planned between Israel, Hamas aimed at ending war MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH Associated Press Comments A Palestinian man stands near the rubble of the house of Hussam Kawasma, one of three Palestinians identified by Israel as suspects in the killing of three Israeli teenagers, after it was demolished by theIsraeli army in the West Bank city of…
The initial aid shipments will contain 3,300 tents and 20,000 plastic sheets for shelter, 18,500 kitchen sets and 16,500 jerry cans. The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday it was launching a major aid operation to get supplies to more than half a million people displaced by fighting in northern Iraq.…
Brasilia, Brazil – Environmentalist Marina Silva could unseat incumbent Dilma Rousseff in Brazil‘s October presidential vote, a poll found on Monday, a stunning political twist after Silva‘s running mate was killed in a plane crash. Silva, a…
A senior Israeli official has told Sky News an agreement has not been reached with Hamas on a possible extension of an existing five-day ceasefire in Gaza. It comes amid Palestinian media reports that a new ceasefire deal has been drawn up between a…
FERGUSON: US National Guard troops deployed in a suburbanMissouri town on Monday as authorities struggled to contain week-old protests triggered when a police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager. State governorJay Nixon lifted an overnight…
Today, after two years of self-imposed imprisonment, he met with the press to announce that he will be leaving the embassy soon, but – “…but perhaps not for the reasons that Murdoch press and Sky news are saying at the…
MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) – The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned Monday the German ambassador in Ankara to express concern over recent reports of German intelligence agencies eavesdropping on talks between officials from the United…
Roger Federer won an unprecedented sixth championship inCincinnati, overcoming one bad set. Serena Williams dominated for her first title.Federer extended his record of finals perfection in Cincinnati, beating David Ferrer6-3, 1-6, 6-2 in the…
The United Nations‘ top humanitarian official in the Middle East has issued an impassioned appeal for a new deal for Gaza to end the “collective punishment” of its 1.8 million inhabitants imposed by Israel‘s seven-year blockade of the territory. As Egyptian mediators prepared to renew efforts today to persuade Israel and Hamas to agree a durable…
LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sowed confusion Monday with an announcement that appeared to indicate he was leaving his embassy bolt hole, but his spokesman later clarified that that would not happen unless the impasse over his extradition were resolved. Assange made the cryptic comments during a press conference at the Ecuadorean…
Kurdish forces have taken control of most of Iraq’s largest dam after battlingIslamic State fighters in nearby villages, reversing some of gains made by the insurgents in the north with US military support. The forces, also known as the peshmerga, will have full control of the Mosul Dam in “just a matter of time,” said Fuad Hussein,…
After seven years of hard work and conscientious saving, Issouf Balde was about to realise his life-long dream of fulfilling one of the five pillars of Islam by travelling to the holy land of Mecca for the Islamic pilgrimage, but the Ebola virus dashed his hopes. “My travel agent returned my money for the trip, saying that the embassy ofSaudi…
Poachers have hunted South Africa’s rhinos nearly to extinction—but conservationists have a bold new plan to evacuate the animals to safer ground. South Africa is the most dangerous place in the world to be a rhinoceros. Targeted for their horns,…
updated 8:44 PM EDT, Sat August 16, 2014 A video of Abubakar Shekau, who claims to be the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, is shown on September 25, 2013. Boko Haram is an Islamist militant group waging a campaign of…
FERGUSON, Mo. — Anger spurred by the death of a black teenager at the hands of a white police officer boiled over again when protesters stormed into a Missouri convenience store — the same store that Michael Brownwas accused of robbing. Police and…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The BrazilianSocialist Party is likely to announce environmentalist Marina Silva as its presidential candidate next week, replacing party leader EduardoCampos who was killed in a plane clash, three leading local newspapers…
VOA NewsBritish police say one man has died and at least 19 people have been hospitalized after they were found inside a shipping container at a port east of London.…
Islamic State (IS) militants have been accused of massacring hundreds of people in areas under their control in northern Iraq and eastern Syria. At least 80 members of the Yazidi religious minority are believed to have been killed with women and children abducted in a village in Iraq. IS is also accused of killing 700 tribesmen opposing them in…
updated 8:44 PM EDT, Sat August 16, 2014 A video of Abubakar Shekau, who claims to be the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, is shown on September 25, 2013. Boko Haram is an Islamist militant group waging a campaign of…
FERGUSON, Mo. — Anger spurred by the death of a black teenager at the hands of a white police officer boiled over again when protesters stormed into a Missouri convenience store — the same store that Michael Brownwas accused of robbing. Police and…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The BrazilianSocialist Party is likely to announce environmentalist Marina Silva as its presidential candidate next week, replacing party leader EduardoCampos who was killed in a plane clash, three leading local newspapers…
VOA NewsBritish police say one man has died and at least 19 people have been hospitalized after they were found inside a shipping container at a port east of London.…
IRBIL, Iraq — Airstrikes pounded the area around Iraq’s largest dam on Saturday in an effort to drive out militants who captured it earlier this month, as reports emerged of the massacre of some 80 members of the Yazidi religious minority by Islamic…
Militants in northern Iraq have massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abducted women and children, reports say. Islamic State (IS) fighters entered Kocho, 45km (30 miles) from Sinjar, on Friday afternoon, reportedly telling men to convert to Islam or die. The group’s atrocities against non-Sunni Muslims have shocked…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Suspected IslamistBoko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses who fled the violence said…
Luis Suarez trained with his new Barcelona team-mates for the first time on Friday Barcelona striker Luis Suarez trained with his new team-mates for the first time on Friday morning after the Court of Arbitration for Sportrelaxed the…
By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea has declared a public health emergency over an Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 1,000people in three West African states and is sending health workers to all affected border points, a government…
LONDON (AP) — A British air accident report has recounted how a pilot briefly lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached from the control yoke during landing. The report, published Thursday, said the…
Understanding how life got started here on planet Earth may mean searching for its counterparts “out there” HOW did early Earth’s inert matter give rise to its teeming life today? That’s one of the biggest questions in science – and has long been one of the hardest to answer. We’ve known for 60 years that life’s most basic building blocks can form…
Staff with the World Health Organisation battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africasee evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak, the UN agency said on its website yesterday. The death toll from the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola stood on Wednesday at 1,069 from 1,975 confirmed, probable and…
By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea has declared a public health emergency over an Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 1,000people in three West African states and is sending health workers to all affected border points, a government…
LONDON (AP) — A British air accident report has recounted how a pilot briefly lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached from the control yoke during landing. The report, published Thursday, said the…
Thousands have gathered in the Pakistani city of Lahore as a key opposition rally got under way, demanding the government’s ouster over allegations of vote fraud. The demonstration is led by Imran Khan, famous cricketer-turned-politician who heads…
D. Parvaz is the special projects editor at Al Jazeera Englishonline. She was in Cairo in July and August 2013, and witnessed the violent dispersal of protesters at the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in on August 14. Al Jazeera asked her to share her…
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United Nations, August 14: With more than one million people affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the WHO has warned that there is “no early end in sight” to the severe health crisis and called for “extraordinary measures” to stop…
MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev‘s Twitter account has been hacked, and the words on his resignation were fake, the Russian government press service said Thursday. “The (latest) tweets are not…
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North Korea has launched several missiles into the sea to coincide with a visit by PopeFrancis to the South. Three rockets were fired as the pope’s plane approached Seoul – and there were reports of a further three, shortly after he touched…
United Nations, August 14: With more than one million people affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the WHO has warned that there is “no early end in sight” to the severe health crisis and called for “extraordinary measures” to stop…
Saudi Arabia has handed over a check for $100 mln to UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon to help finance the UN’s center to combat global terrorism. The UN chief welcomed the gift at a ceremony in his office and said the recent upsurge in terrorism in a…
This image is one of several radar views of the asteroid 1950DA as observed on March 4, 2001 by astronomers using the Arecibo Observatory inPuerto Rico. A new study of asteroid 1950 DA released Aug. 13, 2014 finds that the space rock is actually a…
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Brazilian presidential candidate EduardoCampos was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, local television channel GloboNews reported, throwing the country’s October election into disarray and knocking local financial markets lower. Campos’ private…
Three train cars derailed and 11 people were injured on Wednesday (local time) after a Swiss mountain train ran into a landslide in the Alps. One carriage slid off the tracks onto a steep slope and was halted by trees. The accident…
WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) – A developing U.S. cyber security program would not only hunt down and halt potential computer attacks but also strike back without staff oversight, according to former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, Edward…
Bloodthirsty Islamic State militants threaten Iraqi civilians with genocide. But the country’s barbaric civil war could also have effects on the West – with dire consequences for all of us, writes Patrick Cockburn. Iraq has disintegrated. Little is exchanged between its three great communities – Shia, Sunni and Kurd – except gunfire. The outside…
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Paris, August 13: French PresidentFrancois Hollande has announced that Francewould supply arms to Iraq‘s Kurdish forces to fight Islamic State (IS) militants who have overrun the country’s northern areas and triggered a security crisis, media reports said Wednesday. The move is “in response to the urgent need expressed by the regional authorities…
Officers were attempting to diffuse ordnance as it exploded leaving at least five dead, including AP journalist Simone Camilli Associated Pressjournalist Simone Camilli on a balcony in Gaza City, during Israeli air strikes.Photograph: Lefteris…
This afternoon, President Obama issued a statement on the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was fatally shot on Saturday by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri: The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, andMichelle and I send our deepest…
MADRID (AP) — Some 700 migrants stormed border fences to try to enter Spain‘s northwest African enclave city of Melilla from Morocco on Tuesday while the sea rescue service said it had picked up another 700 seeking to enter the…
ShareWatch more news videos | Latest from the US CopyOfficers in riot gear fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters inFerguson, Mo., renewing tensions after the Saturday police shooting death of unarmed Michael Brown, 18. Ferguson…
Untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization says. The WHO said it was ethical in light of the scale of the outbreak and high number of deaths – over 1,000 people have died in west Africa..The statement was made after its medical experts met in Switzerland on Monday to discuss the issue.…
Tom LongDetroit NewsFilm Critic Comments Williams (Kevin Winter / Getty Imagesfor TV Land) What to say when the funny man laughs no more? That comedy truly is tragedy turned on its head, and sometimes a smile cracks under the weight? That wit so fast and fearless flirts with danger? That the secrets spoken aloud on stage, the inner demons…
Robin Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film’s biggest stars, was found dead late yesterday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California. He was 63. The comedian’s appeal stretched…
Great Barrier ReefPhoto: Leigh Henningham Climate changeis the most serious threat to the Great Barrier Reef, according to a major new report. Warmer ocean currents are also likely to remain a threat to the Queenslandcoral ecosystem…
New York • The group of oil and gas pipeline and storage companies controlled by Kinder Morgan but traded separately will combine and become the 4th biggest U.S. energy company by market value. The companies announced Sunday that Kinder Morgan Inc.,…
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian PresidentHassan Rouhani offered his harshest criticism yet Monday of hard-liners opposed to making a deal over its contested nuclear program with world powers, saying they should go “to hell.” Iran reached a…
KABUL, Afghanistan: The U.S. failed to properly investigate civilian killings, including possible war crimes, which occurred during its military operations in Afghanistan, the international rights group Amnesty Internationalsaid Monday. NATO said it…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish aid group said on Monday it would send ships again to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza, four years afterIsraeli commandos stormed its flotilla bound for the Palestinian territory and killed 10 people. The…
MOSCOW (August 11) RIA Novosti – An Ebola vaccine co-developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and US scientists has shown promising results on animals and is to enter the first stage of testing on humans if approved by USFood and Drug…
Arsenal, who went nine years without a trophy before winning the FA Cup in May, collected their second piece of silverware in three months when they crushed champions Manchester City 3-0 in the Community Shieldat Wembley. Arsenal thoroughly deserved…
US jets attacked jihadists who have besieged civilians on an Iraqi mountain for a week, as France and Britain yesterday joined a desperate race to save the stranded people from starvation. Two days after Washington deployed its air force over Iraq to…
VOA NewsIn Japan, tens of thousands of people turned out on Saturday to mark the 69th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki. Thousands of aging survivors, government officials and others attended a ceremony in the city’s…
A civilian airliner crashed on take-off in a residential area near Tehran’s Mehrabadairport today, Iranian news agencies said, with reports that almost 50 people were killed. The plane…
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No doubt by now you’ve likely heard about the excitement concerning what supposedly will loom large in our sky on Sunday night. It’s the “Super Moon!” Well … maybe not quite. I really don’t want to be the wet blanket at your…
VOA NewsIn Japan, tens of thousands of people turned out on Saturday to mark the 69th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki. Thousands of aging survivors, government officials and others attended a ceremony in the city’s…
A typhoon is lashing Japan as the country heads into a holiday week, causing authorities to order the evacuation of half a million people living near swollen rivers and cancelling hundreds of flights. Typhoon Halong also disrupted land traffic…
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt‘s administrative court dissolved Saturday the political party of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets liquidated, the state news agency reported. The decision against the Freedom and Justice Party comes…
Five years ago I covered Operation Cast Lead, the precursor to Israel‘s recent offensive against Hamas in Gaza. This week I went back for the latest sequel and its aftermath. Some things were different, but depressingly despite the passage of the time, many things were the same. This time the Israelis allowed the world’s media into Gaza, rather…
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt‘s administrative court dissolved Saturday the political party of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets liquidated, the state news agency reported. The decision against the Freedom and Justice Party comes…
President Barack Obama said, “if necessary” he will continue airstrikes to combat “terrorists” affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) in his weekly address, which was released on Saturday. However, Obama also…
SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge has decided a $324.5 million settlement isn’t enough to cover the damages done to more than 60,000 high-tech workers in a class-action lawsuit alleging Google and Apple conspired with other technology companies to block…
New York A burst of buying Friday in U.S. stocks defied slumps in other markets and offered hope for investors shaken by geopolitical turmoil. Major U.S. stock indexes closed up around 1 percent, buoyed by signs that tensions in Ukraine might be…
An Indonesian couple reunited with their daughter a decade after she was swept away by the 2004 tsunami said on Friday they were now hopeful of finding their son, who also went missing in the disaster. Raudhatul Jannah, then aged four, and her…
Five Palestinians have been killed since the 72-hour ceasefire ended on Friday morning Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City.Photograph: Majdi Fathi/ Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Corbis Talks are continuing inCairo in a desperate bid to…
Didier Drogba has announced his retirement from international football. The Chelsea striker scored 65 goals in 104 appearances forIvory Coast over a 12-year period. He played in three…
Two rockets fired by Gaza militants slammed into southern Israel before dawn today, as a 72-hour truce appeared to be reaching an end. And two senior Hamas officials said the Palestinian militant movement would not extend a 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza that expires at 0500 GMT today, accusing Israel of rejecting their demands for a truce. A leader of…
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebolaoutbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread. The WHO announced the Ebola outbreak — the largest and longest in history — is worrying enough to merit being declared an international health…
BHUBANESWAR: The floods triggered by heavy rains in the past week have affected nearly 1.8 million people in Odisha with the death toll rising to 35, an official said on Thursday. Eight more deaths were reported from 24 of the state’s 30 districts,…
VOA News The Hamas militant group that controls the Gaza Strip says it will not extend a 72-hour cease-fire with Israel, which is set to expire early Friday. Shortly before the truce formally ended at 8:00 a.m. local time, senior Hamas officials said…
Civilians subject to ‘extraordinary acts of cruelty’, including gang rape and ethnically motivated murder, says Human Rights WatchDireconditions at a UN camp for internally displaced people in Malakal. The conflict has displaced about 1.5 million…
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China says it may try to create a theology based onChristianity – that integrates the religion with Chinese culture and is compatible with the country’s socialist beliefs, it’s been reported. Wang Zuoan, a senior official for…
Scientists have identified a new species of dinosaur, with the help of its 200-million-year-old fossilised bones. The species has been named Laquintasaura Venezuela, after its remains were discovered dinosaur in the La Quinta Formation in Venezuela.…
Click photo to enlarge Cambodian former Khmer Rouge servitors, Soum Rithy, left, and Chum Mey, right, embrace each other after the verdicts were announced, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thurdday, Aug. 7, 2014. Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia‘s Khmer Rouge ended, the tribunal on…
Oscar Pistorius was an “appalling witness” who repeatedly lied in his testimony in a crude attempt to defend himself against a murder charge over killing his girlfriend, the chief prosecutor at his trial has said. During closing arguments, Gerrie Nel also harshly criticised the legal team of the double-amputee, saying it floated more than one…
An Air India flight has been grounded after rats were reportedly spotted scurrying about the aircraft. Crew members noticed the “scores” of rodents as flight…
The Israeli Prime Minister has defended the actions of Israel’s armed forces in the recent war in the Gaza Strip, blaming the heavy civilian casualties on Hamas. Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s intense bombardment ofGaza was a necessary response to…
Some of the European women already in the ranks of theIslamic State are trying to lure their ‘sisters’ to the marriage beds of the caliphate’s holy warriors. BEIRUT, Lebanon — The self-proclaimed Islamic State, formerly known by the acronym ISIS, is…
As city rents skyrocket and small businesses close to be replaced by chain cafes and glass condos, JeremiahMoss’s blog, Vanishing New York, keeps a rueful eye on the ‘progress.’ When I tell Jeremiah Moss—whose name turns out to be a pseudonym—that I…
After years of obfuscation and, simply put, lies; TEPCO has admitted in a new report that more nuclear fuel had melted at the Fukushima nuclear reactor than previously stated. While this is dreadful news, it gets worse, as the report further confirms that despite Abe’s promises and TEPCO’s state-funded efforts to build ice-walls, it may miss an important deadline binding it to clean radioactive water stored inside the Fukushima nuclear plant. Bloomberg reports officials commenting “we are doing everything we can do,” but it appears, that is not enough as tens of thousands of tons of toxic water are expected to remain at the site by the imposed deadline.
Two American aid workers were gravely ill, fighting to survive infection with the deadly Ebola virus. A San Diego drug company had three doses of an experimental Ebola medicine that showed promise in monkeys but had never been tested in humans.…
In the wake of any ugly conflict, the question of who won can seem beside the point. Still, as fighting in the Gaza Strip gave way to a truce on Tuesday, Israel and Hamas both were quick to claim victory. And it was left to those who took the…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the longAfghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German…
Orkney, North West – An aftershock hit the township of Khuma, near Orkney in the North West on Tuesday evening, which was the epicentre of an earlier 5.5 magnitude earthquake. People gathered outside one of the houses that was destroyed during the…
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TOKYO: Japan warned on Tuesday that China’s “dangerous acts” over territorial claims in the East China Sea could lead to “unintended consequences” in the region, as fears grow of a potential military clash. The annual defence white paper was adopted…
BERNIE Ecclestone hopes to walk from court a free man tonight (AEST) after negotiating a $US100 million ($108m) payment to settle the criminal bribery case against him. The Formula One chief will hear tonight whether Bavarian judges have accepted the deal he negotiated with prosecutors for the biggest personal financial settlement in German legal…
GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM— Israel pulled its ground forces out of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and started a 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas mediated by Egypt as a first step toward negotiations on a more enduring end to the month-old war. Minutesbefore the truce began, Hamas launched a salvo of rockets, calling them revenge for Israel’s “massacres.”…
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TOKYO: Japan warned on Tuesday that China’s “dangerous acts” over territorial claims in the East China Sea could lead to “unintended consequences” in the region, as fears grow of a potential military clash. The annual defence white paper was adopted…
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) ? Authorities are looking into a viralInternet video that shows a man kicking a squirrel off what appears to be the edge of the Grand Canyon. But park officials say the chances of finding the man are slim. “Right now they are…
Nigeria has confirmed the country’s second case of Ebola in a doctor who treated a Liberian man who died of the virus last month in Lagos. This comes as a South Korean university rescinded an invitation for three Nigerians to attend a conference and…
Very heavy rain is expected to fall in western Japan, mainly on the island of Shikoku, until Tuesday noon, the Japan Meteorological Agencysaid. A man drowned in a raging river while more than half a million people were advised to evacuate over the…
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Israel Is Minting the Next Generation of Hate
The children of Gaza still have dreams for their future. Who do they admire? Anyone who might protect them: a doctor, a journalist, the fighters from Hamas.
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Israel Reportedly Spied On Kerry Talks
Israeli intelligence reportedly listened in on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s telephone calls during Middle East peace negotiations last year. Der Spiegel quotes “a reliable source” saying Israel eavesdropped on conversations made on telephones that were not encrypted. It reports that at least one other foreign intelligence service listened on Kerry’s talks, as well, but did not specify which. Neither the U.S. nor Israel has commented. At the same time, documents newly released by Edward Snowden show that the NSA works closely with its Israeli counterpart SIGINT National Unit and provides surveillance assistance to monitor and target Palestinians, as do British and Jordanian agencies.
BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake in southern China’sYunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800. About 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely populated county located around 366 kilometers (277 miles) northeast of Yunnan’s capital, Kunming, China’s official Xinhua News…
Very heavy rain is expected to fall in western Japan, mainly on the island of Shikoku, until Tuesday noon, the Japan Meteorological Agencysaid. A man drowned in a raging river while more than half a million people were advised to evacuate over the…
MOSCOW (AP) â?? More than 400 Ukrainian soldiers have crossed the border into Russia and deserted the Kiev government, news agency Interfax quoted a border security official as saying Monday. Ukraine confirmed the crossing but said the soldiers were…
OSCAR Aguilar was a man who loved to impress with his selfies, but when he decided to pose with a handgun it resulted in his death. Aguilar, 21, a veterinarian from Mexico City has a…
WASHINGTON — A senior White House adviser says President Barack Obama will make a decision by the end of the summer on how to use his authority to address immigrants living illegally in the…
A strong earthquake in southern China’sYunnan provincetoppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800. About 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely populated county located around 366 kilometers…
MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) – The Islamic State militants have seized control of Iraq’s biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns in the country’s north on Sunday, Reuters has reported, citing witnesses. Concerns grow that…
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Deadly Quake Topples 12,000 Homes In China
At least 150 people have been killed and more than 1,400 injured by an earthquake in southwest China.
Some 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely populated county in Yunnan province, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Nine civilians have been killed in new fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists around the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk in east Ukraine, local officials say. Six people were killed in shelling and gunfire on the outskirts of Donetsk, Deputy Mayor Kostantyn Savinov said on Sunday, while city officials said three others were…
The BBC has reported that the factory, which employs 450 workers, belongs to the Kunshan Zhongrong Metal Products Company, has contracts with large automobile manufacturers like General Motors. In a workshop where wheel hubs are polished, 264 workers…
VOA NewsLibya‘s newly-elected parliament held its first meeting Saturday in the eastern city of Tobruk, as fighting between armed factions continued in Benghazi and the Libyan capital, Tripoli. More than 150 members of parliament gathered for…
BAKU, Azerbaijan — A sharp escalation in fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has left 15 soldiers dead and prompted Russia to issue an urgent call for calm. Azerbaijan’sDefense Ministry said…
A recount of votes in the Afghan election has been suspended again, despite being scheduled to restart on Saturday after the Muslim Eid holiday. The breakdown came despite late night phone talks between US Secretary of StateJohn Kerry and candidates…
A day after they were to begin a cease-fire, Israel and Hamas are still firing at one another, in a conflict that has killed at least 1,650 Gazans, 63Israeli soldiers and 3 Israeli civilians, according to tallies from the respective sides. Those…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel launched dozens of airstrikes early Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip as part of a large-scale search for a soldier Israel suspects was captured by Hamas fighters. At least 35 Palestinians were killed in the…
NAIROBI, Kenya — A Ugandan court on Friday struck down a punitive anti-gay law that has strained Uganda’s relations with the West, but the court ruled on narrow technical grounds, preserving the possibility that the measure could be revived. In front..
MUMBAI: With eye on human occupation of Mars, Nasa on Thursday unveiled a selection of seven instruments which will be on board the Mars 2020 rover to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations. One of the instrument includes the Mars OxygenISRUExperiment (MOXIE), an...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel launched dozens of airstrikes early Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip as part of a large-scale search for a soldier Israel suspects was captured by Hamas fighters. At least 35 Palestinians were killed in the…
Woody Allen has been through a lot during his career. Now new accusations are out saying that he will not cast black actors in his movies. On Thursday, The Wrap shared about this news and how Woody Allen is responding to these new…
It might look like a perfect sphere to you and I but scientists have now declared that the Moon is most definitely “lemon-shaped”. Researchers from the University of California published a new study in the journal Nature using advanced laser…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If someone were to create an award for “mother of the year” in the animal kingdom, a remarkably dedicated eight-limbed mom from the dark and frigid depths of the Pacific Oceanmight be a strong…
The Ebola virus outbreak has led both Sierra Leone and Liberia to declare states of public emergency, meaning the army can now move in to enforce quarantine zones. It is a major escalation of both governments’ responses to the disease, which has killed more than 670 people across four West African countries since February. The measures in Sierra…
It might look like a perfect sphere to you and I but scientists have now declared that the Moon is most definitely “lemon-shaped”. Researchers from the University of California published a new study in the journal Nature using advanced laser…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If someone were to create an award for “mother of the year” in the animal kingdom, a remarkably dedicated eight-limbed mom from the dark and frigid depths of the Pacific Oceanmight be a strong…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A United Nations-assisted tribunal on Wednesday cleared the way to begin the genocide trial of two elderly former top leaders of Cambodia’s 1970sKhmer Rouge regime. Survivors of the communist regime’s reign of terror,…
31 July 2014 Last updated at 11:55 BSTIsrael will not stop its operation in Gaza until all the tunnels constructed by Hamas have been destroyed, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Speaking ahead of a cabinet meeting, he said Israel was determined to destroy the tunnels – used to attack troops and towns – “with or without a ceasefire”. Meanwhile the…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A United Nations-assisted tribunal on Wednesday cleared the way to begin the genocide trial of two elderly former top leaders of Cambodia’s 1970sKhmer Rouge regime. Survivors of the communist regime’s reign of terror,…
BEIJING: A clash in Xinjiang, home to China’s mostly MuslimUighur minority, left nearly 100 people dead or wounded, an exile group said on Wednesday after what authorities called a “terror attack” on a police station and township. Dozens of…
Al-Qaeda is increasingly funding terror operations thanks to at least $125 million in ransom paid since 2008, largely by European governments to free western hostages, the New York Times reported. The payments totalled $66 million in 2013 alone,…
Wednesday, 30 July 2014, 3:57 pm Press Release:UnconditionalGaza ceasefire needed now The Israeli response in Gaza is disproportionate and with the firing of tanks and mortars into civilian areas, increasingly indiscriminate, says Labour’s Foreign…
Ukraine says it has seized a key town near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, as fighting intensifies in the east. Pro-Russia separatists were driven out of Avdiivka on Wednesday, the army says. The strategic town is near the airport and train station in Donetsk. Heavy fighting around Donetsk has prevented international experts from reaching the…
JERUSALEM: Hamas’ military chief ruled out a truce in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday until the Islamist group’s demands for an end to the economic embargo of the territory are met. Meanwhile, the Israeli army stepped up its bombardment. Hamas’ armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, can withstand the Israeli offensive, its leaderMohammed…
Map locating Malin village in India‘s western Maharashtra stateA major landslide on Wednesday struck a village in western India following heavy monsoon rains, leaving 150 people feared trapped, a rescue official said. The landslide submerged Malin village in Pune district of Maharashtra state, said Alok Avasthy, regional commandant at the National…
Wednesday, 30 July 2014, 3:57 pm Press Release:UnconditionalGaza ceasefire needed now The Israeli response in Gaza is disproportionate and with the firing of tanks and mortars into civilian areas, increasingly indiscriminate, says Labour’s Foreign…
Related articlesIsrael bombs home of Hamas political leaderNEWS ANALYSIS: Pressure to extend Gaza truce past Eid Gaza fighting flares, Netanyahu and UN chief spar on truce terms GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israel knocked out Gaza’s only power plant, flattened…
In an escalation of tensions, the administration of US PresidentBarack Obama accused Russia of conducting tests in violation of a 1987nuclear missile treaty, calling the breach “a very serious matter” and going public with allegations that have…
SHINKAI, Afghanistan — It was a homecoming of sorts for Lt. Col.Paul Larson, returning to this remote corner of southern Afghanistan at the twilight of America’s longest war. He was back to take stock of a slice of the battlefield that seemed…
NDASSIMA Central African Republic (Reuters) – Three young rebels, their AK47s propped against wooden stools in the afternoon heat, guard the entrance to the giant Ndassima goldmine carved deep into a forested hilltop in Central African Republic. Sat…
AP: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reinforced the Security Council‘s call for an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire in theGaza war yesterday and demanded that Israel and Hamas end the violence “in the name of humanity”. The United…
AP: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reinforced the Security Council‘s call for an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire in theGaza war yesterday and demanded that Israel and Hamas end the violence “in the name of humanity”. The United…
The shooting down of the Malaysia Airliner MH17 shows the world the devastating carnage when civilian airplanes used for commercial flights are targeted in the war games between governments.…
The war in Gaza threatened to erupt again on Monday following a lull in fighting after several children and adults were killed when missiles struck a refugee camp and the compound of Gaza’s biggest public hospital, and four Israelis died in a mortar…
A strike on a Gaza park has killed 10 people, nearly all of them children, as the death toll from the fighting rose on both sides. RelatedArticles The Israeli military said nine soldiers died in separate attacks – four were killed in a mortar attack…
British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron has set out new welfare rules to cut European migrants’ access to social security payments, marking the latest in a string of British measures aimed at addressing voters’ concerns over immigration. Writing in The…
With more than 1,030 people now dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, Palestinian presidentMahmoud Abbas has been urged by human rights organisations to urgently seek access to the (ICC) – so that it can pursue allegations of war crimes and crimes against…
Ukrainian armed forces have mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters in an attempt to gain control over the area where a Malaysia Airlines plane was downed earlier this month. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Sunday that a column of Ukrainian armoured personnel carriers, trucks and tanks had entered the…
McDonald’s on the mainland has stopped using products from all Husi food plants since last Friday, the company said in a statement released this afternoon. “We have noted the public’s concerns regarding our use of Husi’s products … McDonald’s has…
28 July 2014, 5:12 UN Calls For ‘Unconditional‘ Gaza CeasefireTweetThe United NationsSecurity Council is calling for “an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza during an emergency session. The council is set to release a…
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A series of unanswered questions about the downing of Malaysia AirlinesFlight 17 shows the limits of U.S. intelligence gathering even when it is intensely focused, as it has been in Ukraine since Russiaseized Crimea in March.…
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A series of unanswered questions about the downing of Malaysia AirlinesFlight 17 shows the limits of U.S. intelligence gathering even when it is intensely focused, as it has been in Ukraine since Russiaseized Crimea in March.…
The number of Palestinians on the Gaza Strip who are slain in the fighting between Hamas and Israel has risen to over 1,000 people. VimeoPhoto: A Palestinian man reacts as he lies on the remains of…
• Chechen president cites US and EU ‘state terrorism’ • Three EU leaders also barred from entry The Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov, meets the actor Gérard Depardieu in Grozny last year but Barack Obama is not welcome.Photograph: Stringer/Reuters…
The European Union has extended sanctions against seniorRussian officials in the wake of the shooting down of the Air Malaysia flight last week. Two hundred and ninety-eight people died when the plane came down inUkraine on July 17th, 10 of whom…
The European Union is set to adopt much tougher economic sanctions againstRussia for its role in the Ukraine crisis, officials said. After discussions on broadening the sanctions from the current mix of asset freezes and travel bans, the legal instruments required to give effect to the new punitive measures will be taken up on Tuesday, they said.…
BAMAKO: All passengers and crew on board an Air Algerie jetliner that crashed inMali died in the tragedy, which completely wiped out several families, Franceannounced. As the first images emerged of the crash site, showing a charred landscape and debris scattered over a wide area, French PresidentFrancois Hollande said in a sombre televised…
Israel is preparing to “broaden” its ground assault on Gazaafter reportedly rejecting an international plan for a temporary truce. US Secretary of StateJohn Kerry said he was “confident progress can be made” on a seven-day truce that…
Beirut – A Syrian Air Force strike on the border with Lebanonkilled around 20 Syrian rebel fighters on Friday, security sources said, in the latest spillover of violence into the area. The…
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has issued a ten-day ban against an anonymous editor of its website located on the premises of the U.S. Congress, after the latter engaged in “disruptive editing,” on a wide range of subjects, from…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 25 (Reuters) – U.S.Secretary of StateJohn Kerry pressed regional proxies to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, threatening to spread Israeli-Palestinian…
Reuters Shanghai China’s food regulator has visited close to 600 restaurants, businesses and food distributors as it investigates a fast-spreading food safety scare that has dragged in a number of global brands and hit food outlets as far away…
The UN chief met current Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and stressed the need for a broad-based government to be formed as soon as possible to save the country from collapse. Kurdish politician Fouad Massoum becameIraq’s new president on…
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation Thursday, opening the way for new elections that would reflect the country’s starkly changed political scene after the ouster of pro-Russian PresidentViktor Yanukovych in February. Yatsenyuk, a supporter of closer ties with Europeand a key participant…
The UN chief met current Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and stressed the need for a broad-based government to be formed as soon as possible to save the country from collapse. Kurdish politician Fouad Massoum becameIraq’s new president on…
The wreckage of a passenger jet which vanished from radar in West Africa has been spotted in northern Mali‘s desert, the country’s president has said. PresidentIbrahim Boubacar Keita said: “I have just been informed that the wreckage has been…
A female tourist was killed in the Kenyan port city ofMombasa today in the same area where a Russian visitor was murdered earlier in July by a criminal gang, a police official said. The…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside, Palestinian officials…
PHOENIX — A condemned murderer took nearly two hours to die and gasped for about 90 minutes during an execution in Arizona that quickly rekindled the national debate on capital punishment in the U.S. The execution of 55-year-old Joseph Rudolph Wood…
Caracas – Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez went on trial in Venezuela on Wednesday, accused of masterminding anti-government protests that turned violent and left 43 people dead. Days after the demonstrations began in mid-February, Lopez…
There are major clashes occurring currently in The West Bank tonight as claims of 10s of thousands and Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers. Sadly, as the photos below reveal taken moments ago show, things appear set to get very much worse.
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has expressed extreme concern at the situation in Gaza, describing a ceasefire as “vital”. She said the conflict meant 44% of Gaza was a no-go area for Palestinians, and residents were running out of food. More than 710 Palestinians and 30 Israelis have been killed in the past 16 days of fighting,…
IBRAHIM BARZAK and PETER ENAV Associated PressComments An Israeli tank moves through the morning mist near the Israel andGaza border July 24, 2014. Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded the Gaza Stripon Thursday, as Hamas militants stuck to their…
Related media Travel deals CANBERRA, Australia – (AP) — Australia has sent 50 police to London in anticipation of deploying them to Ukraineto secure the Malaysian plane crash site as part of a potential U.N. team that’s under consideration, the…
Philadelphia – A former Nazi concentration camp guard died hours before a judge on Wednesday ordered his extradition to Germany, where he faced charges of aiding and abetting the deaths of 216 000Jews. Johann Breyer, 89, who served during World War…
GRANTS PASS, Ore. Widespread drought across the West had forecasters expecting an above-average wildfire season this summer, which so far has not lived up to expectations. U.S.Forest ServiceChief Tom Tidwell said Wednesday that the hot windy…
Hacked again. That’s the story at the Wall Street Journal this week as the newspaper reports computer systems housing some of its news graphics were breached. The systems have been taken offline in an effort to isolate any attacks, according to…
A plane landing in stormy weather has crashed outside an airport on a small Taiwanese island, with 47 people feared dead. Transport ministerYeh Kuang-shih was quoted by the government’s Central News Agency as saying another 11 people were injured…
PresidentGoodluck Jonathan has met for the first time some of the parents of 219 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls and dozens of classmates who managed to escape from their Boko Haram captors. Jonathan assured them on Tuesday of his determination that those still in captivity “are brought out alive,” presidential spokesman Reuben Abati told reporters…
NEW YORK (AP) — Experimentation with human growth hormones by America‘s teens more than doubled in the past year, as more young people looked to drugs to boost their athletic performance and improve their looks, according to a new, large-scale…
KARIN LAUB Associated Press= GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) â??Ibrahim Zain was driven from his home by Israeli tank fire this week, but says he’d rather endure more Israel-Hamas fighting than accept an unconditional cease-fire he fears will leave in…
23 July 2014 Last updated at 00:02 BST “To call heroin an epidemic is an understatement,” says Camden, New Jersey, Police ChiefScott Thomson. “Our cops were out on the street and they didn’t have any tools to help the people there.” But in recent…
By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as some positive earnings and economic data pointed to a market that still had room to rise despite the S&P 500 hitting an intraday record. Investors continued to pay close attention…
Authorities in New York are investigating who raised two large white flags on the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge early on Tuesday. The flags briefly flew atop two towers at either end of the storied landmark in the place of two American flags…
DETROIT (AP) â?? Chrysler is recalling up to 792,300 older JeepSUVs worldwide because the ignition switches could cause engine stalling. Tuesday’s recall covers 2005-2007 GrandCherokees and…
Chinese PresidentXi Jinping has signed a series of oil and mineral deals withVenezuela. They include a $4bn (£2.34bn) credit line in return for Venezuelan crude and other products. The agreements came on the latest stop of a four-country visit to Latin…
Israeli aircraft and tanks have hit more than 70 targets in the Gaza strip, including five mosques, a football stadium and the home of the late leader of Hamas’ military wing, according to Palestinian police. At least seven Palestinians were reported killed in the new round of air strikes early on Tuesday, bringing the death toll ofIsrael‘s…
A hospital was shelled, killing and injuring staff and patients, and up to 28 members of one family died in an air strike as Gaza endured another day of relentless bloodshed on Monday . As heavy shelling and fighting on the…
NASA honored one of its most famous astronauts Monday by renaming a historic building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It now bears the name of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon when the Apollo 11mission landed…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S.and Europe should work together to develop tougher sanctions on Russia and says she backs President Barack Obama‘s calls for a thorough investigation into the passenger jet that was shot down…
CAIRO — With high hopes but low expectations, the U.S.stepped up calls Monday for an international push to end fighting in the Gaza Stripas President Barack Obama sent his top envoy to the Mideast to help broker a new cease-fire between…
Israeli soldiers walk near the border with the central Gaza Strip July 14, 2014. See Also So far, 25 Israeli soldiers have been killed during the first four days of ground operations in Gaza. This equals over one-fifth as many as the 121 Israeli…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A high-level attempt by the U.N.chief and the U.S. secretary of state to end deadly Israel-Hamas fighting was off to a rough start Monday: Gaza‘s Hamas rulers signaled they won’t agree to an unconditional cease-fire,…
> • Qassam Brigades announced they had kidnapped an Israeli soldier and hold him captive in Gaza. • Qassam Brigades has identified the Israeli soldier as ShaulAron and his military number as 6092065. • Israel has not confirmed on the abduction. GAZA, July 20 (Xinhua) — The Islamic Hamas movement’s armed wing announced on Sunday that they had…
Gaza endured the bloodiest day of the two-week conflict between Hamas and Israelon Sunday, with an Israeli assault in a residential area causing carnage described by the Palestinian leadership as a “heinous massacre” and a “war crime” by the…
July 20, 2014 — Updated 1538 GMT (2338HKT) The passengers and crew aboard Malaysia AirlinesFlight 17 came from around the world and held a wide range of hopes and dreams. While the identities of the 298 people aboard have not been release by the…
New York — The rate of HIV infections annually diagnosed in the United States fell by one-third over the past decade, a government study finds. Experts call it hopeful news that the AIDS epidemic may be slowing in the U.S. “It’sencouraging,” said…
photo: US Navy / Photographer’s Mate Airman Konstandinos Goumenidis
How one bureaucrat’s climate denial overruled wildlife scientists and put the Northern Rockies species on the road to extinction. A witless remark by a single bureaucrat may be dooming America’s remaining wolverines to extinction. The specious crack…
By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – Nineteen people died trying to reach Italy on a boat packed with hundreds of migrants, probably poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes from its engines, said the Italian Navy on Saturday, which has rescued more than 4,000…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Israeli bulldozers demolished more than a dozen tunnels on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian authorities reported intensified air strikes and shelling as the death toll from Israel‘s ground offensive rose to at least 342 Palestinians. Diplomats struggled to revive a cease-fire. Israeli soldiers uncovered 34
New York — The rate of HIV infections annually diagnosed in the United States fell by one-third over the past decade, a government study finds. Experts call it hopeful news that the AIDS epidemic may be slowing in the U.S. “It’sencouraging,” said…
photo: US Navy / Photographer’s Mate Airman Konstandinos Goumenidis
How one bureaucrat’s climate denial overruled wildlife scientists and put the Northern Rockies species on the road to extinction. A witless remark by a single bureaucrat may be dooming America’s remaining wolverines to extinction. The specious crack…
By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – Nineteen people died trying to reach Italy on a boat packed with hundreds of migrants, probably poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes from its engines, said the Italian Navy on Saturday, which has rescued more than 4,000…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and battled Gaza militants on the second day of an open-ended ground operation Saturday as the Palestinian death toll climbed to 325 and diplomats scrambled…
Henry Ridgwell LONDON — The Malaysia Airlines crash in eastern Ukraine is drawing reaction from leaders around the world. With suspicions growing that a surface-to-air missile shot down the aircraft, there are increasing tensions in the…
photo: Creative Commons / White House / Pete Souza
Typhoon thought to be strongest to hit southern China in 41 years moves north after claiming at least 77 lives in PhilippinesLink to video:Typhoon Rammasun makes landfall in China A typhoon believed to be the strongest storm to hit southern China…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and battled Gaza militants on the second day of an open-ended ground operation Saturday as the Palestinian death toll climbed to 325 and diplomats scrambled…
Typhoon thought to be strongest to hit southern China in 41 years moves north after claiming at least 77 lives in PhilippinesLink to video:Typhoon Rammasun makes landfall in China A typhoon believed to be the strongest storm to hit southern China…
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UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon will travel to the Middle East on Saturday in a bid to end the fighting between Israel and Palestinians, alarmed at a serious escalation that includes a ground offensive by Israel, said a senior UN official. Israel…
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers haggled on Friday over the terms of extending negotiations on a nuclear deal for four more months after failing to bridge wide gaps on limits for Tehran‘s atomic program, diplomats said. It has been clear…
AVIATION experts and weapons analysts have shed more light on what happened on-board Flight MH17 before it was shot down. The flight, on a Boeing 777-200, was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Passengers left Amsterdam at 12.15pm (local time) in the afternoon, and were due to touch down in Kuala Lumpur the next day at 6.10am local time.…
An appeals court in Italy has overturned the conviction of former Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi on charges that he paid for sex with an underage prostitute and then abused his power to cover-up the crime. The Milan…
ZAMORA Mexico (Reuters) – Children in a squalid home for abandoned and troubled kids run by a controversial mother figure in western Mexico said hunger and regular beatings drove them to offer sex for food and get high by sniffing paint. Mexican…
White House calls on Israel to restrict itself to ‘precise operation’ in Gaza while stressing its right to defend itself John Kerry emphasised the need to ‘avoid further escalation and to restore the 2012 ceasefire as soon as possible’. Photograph:…
UNITED NATIONS, July 18 (RIA Novosti) – After the UN pulled its international staff out of Libya, the UN Security Council issued a statement condemning “the recent violence in Libya, including the fighting around TripoliInternational…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday morning on Ukraine. Britain’s U.N.Mission said Thursday it requested the meeting and later tweeted that it is set for 10 a.m. Friday. The request follows…
18 July 2014, 5:47 PlaneDisaster Could Be A Game ChangerTweet If Russia in any way had a hand in flight MH17’s fate, calls for Westerngovernments to intensify their response to the crisis will be loud. The terrible tragedy could be a game changer.…
KIEV (Reuters) – A Russian jet shot down a UkrainianSU-25 fighter plane that was on military operations over the east of Ukraine, where government forces are fighting to quell a pro-Russian separatist rebellion, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Thursday. It was the strongest Ukrainian allegation to date of direct Russian military…
Published July 16, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 KABUL, Afghanistan – Gunmen used rockets to attack the Kabul International Airport in the Afghan capital Thursday, a senior military official said. The gunmen occupied two…
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A conference of international donors pledged more than 1.8 billion euros ($2.43 billion) on Wednesday to help Bosnia andSerbia recover from devastating floods in May. The European Commission, the EU executive, said the…
July 16, 2014 — Updated 1130 GMT (1930HKT) (CNN) — UK police have arrested 660 suspected pedophiles — including doctors, teachers and scout leaders — in a six-month operation spanning the country, the National Crime Agency said Wednesday. The…
Bank of America returned to profitability in the second quarter, although earnings were down 43 percent from a year ago. The bank on Wednesday also announced a $650 million settlement that resolves all outstanding mortgage-related litigation with…
CHARAMA (Chhattisgarh): Chhattisgarh state department of archaeology and culture plans to seek help from Nasa and Isro for research on 10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs in Charama region inKanker district in tribal Bastar…
At least 20 people have died after a subway train derailed inMoscow, twisting and mangling crowded rail cars at the height of the morning rush-hour. [TICON-A VIDEO] About 150 more people were taken to hospital after the incident, with many of them…
The United Nations has said new HIV infections and deaths from Aids were decreasing, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually end it ‘‘in every region, in every country’’. ‘‘More than ever before, there is hope that ending Aids is possible. However, a business-as-usual approach or simply…
July 16, 2014 — Updated 1130 GMT (1930HKT) (CNN) — UK police have arrested 660 suspected pedophiles — including doctors, teachers and scout leaders — in a six-month operation spanning the country, the National Crime Agency said Wednesday. The…
Bank of America returned to profitability in the second quarter, although earnings were down 43 percent from a year ago. The bank on Wednesday also announced a $650 million settlement that resolves all outstanding mortgage-related litigation with…
CHARAMA (Chhattisgarh): Chhattisgarh state department of archaeology and culture plans to seek help from Nasa and Isro for research on 10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs in Charama region inKanker district in tribal Bastar…
At least 20 people have died after a subway train derailed inMoscow, twisting and mangling crowded rail cars at the height of the morning rush-hour. [TICON-A VIDEO] About 150 more people were taken to hospital after the incident, with many of them…
After beating Argentina 1-0 in the final World Cup match on Sunday, Germany returned home with the coveted gold trophy in hand. See also:German Newspapers Had a Field Day With the World Cup Win And from the second the team’s plane touched down, it…
VIENNA – Participating sides will continue work to bridge the remaining “real gaps” on some key issues in Iranian nuclear talks as the July 20 deadline approaches, while tangible progress has been made on other key issues,US Secretary of StateJohn…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew up his car packed with explosives near a busy market and a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 89 people and wounding more than 40, officials said. The attack in the town of Urgun in…
Medical staff can beat Ebola with more drugs and better health education I AMworking with medical staff in the West African country of Sierra Leone, where the people have never experienced an outbreak of Ebola on this scale before. There area lot of cases – we are really stretched – and my worry is that those we are seeing are the tip of the…
Archaeologists in Norway have found what could potentially be an 8,000-year-old human skull – which contains traces of brain matter. The finding at a site in Stokke, Vestfold, could shed light on life in the Stone…
Reuters FORTALEZA, BRAZIL — A summit of the BRICS group of emerging market countries will abstain from criticizing Russia‘s recent actions inUkraine, Brazilian officials said, a diplomatic victory for PresidentVladimir Putin. The summit…
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s high-profile foreign minister,William Hague, is leaving his job, the government said Monday — a surprise announcement that precedes a major shakeup of the Conservative-led administration. Prime MinisterDavid Cameron‘s office…
Article by WN.com Correspondent DallasDarlingFollowingglobal trends and international pressures, Israeli political and military leaders have been forced to reconfigure their strategic and tactical responses to their brutal containment and policing…
CAIRO — Egypt presented a cease-fire plan Monday to end a week of heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has left at least 185 people dead. The proposal marked the most serious attempt yet by international mediators…
VIENNA (Reuters) – U.S.Secretary of StateJohn Kerry said on Monday he had a good meeting with his Iranian counterpart and a seniorEuropean Union official over Tehran‘s nuclear programme ahead of a July 20 deadline for an agreement. “We are…
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines was bracing for possible floods and landslides as a tropical storm continued to strengthen Monday as it moved closer to the country’s eastern seaboard. Tropical Storm Rammasun was expected to intensify into a typhoon before making landfall Tuesday morning…
VOA News One security officer and seven others were killed in two successive explosions around security areas in Egypt‘s Sinai region, near the border with Israel, the Interior Ministry and security officials said. Egypt…
Desmond Tutu has said he would support assisted dying for the terminally ill. Writing in The Observer he said he reveres “the sanctity of life but not at any cost”. He also suggested that prolonging the life of Nelson Mandela had been an…
London, July 12: Even as Israel, Hamas continue to remain defiant and the death toll increased to 151, western countries will hold a meeting inVienna on Sunday to on how to ceasefire in Gaza. Britain, US, France and Germanywill meet in Vienna where…
BRASILIA, BRAZIL — Robin van Persie and Daley Blind scored early goals to help give the Netherlands a 3-0 win over host Brazil in the third-place match at the World Cup on Saturday. With the result, the Netherlands finishes a World Cup unbeaten…
RIO DE JANEIRO — The World Cup ends Sunday with a marquee match-up,Argentina against Germany, and host Brazil rushing to be ready for an even bigger logistical challenge: the 2016 Olympics. As the winning captain, either Argentina forward Lionel Messi or Germany defender Philipp Lahm will hold aloft the most recognized trophy in sports in front…
London, July 12: Even as Israel, Hamas continue to remain defiant and the death toll increased to 151, western countries will hold a meeting inVienna on Sunday to on how to ceasefire in Gaza. Britain, US, France and Germanywill meet in Vienna where…
BRASILIA, BRAZIL — Robin van Persie and Daley Blind scored early goals to help give the Netherlands a 3-0 win over host Brazil in the third-place match at the World Cup on Saturday. With the result, the Netherlands finishes a World Cup unbeaten…
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Afghanistan?s two rival candidates reached a breakthrough agreement Saturday to a complete audit of their contested presidential election and, whoever the victor, a national unity government. The deal, brokered by U.S.…
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Eight Palestinians have died in fresh Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip and two explosions have been heard in the Jerusalem area, according to reports. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qudra told AFP the eight were killed in Gaza City, central…
Travel deals GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy – (AP) — Italian authorities say work to float the shipwrecked Costa Concordia so it can be towed away for scrapping can start Monday, weather-permitting. The cruise liner struck a reef when it came too close to…
BEIRUT (AP) — The roadblocks and sandbags are back, cafes and hotels are nearly empty and many of the tourists are gone. Anxiety is gripping Lebanon following a spate of suicide bombings, and an ongoing security sweep targeting militants — some of them who had been staying in four-star Beirut hotels — has triggered a wave of cancellations of hotel…
ANKARA (Turkey): Turkey’s president on Friday called onIsrael to halt its offensive on the Gaza Strip and not to carry out a ground incursion, while the prime minister said there can be no normalizing of Turkish-Israeli ties as long as Israel’s…
BusinessPoliticsPrint this story Jul 11, 2014 – 17:44 By FredrikDahl VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has taken preparatory action to start up a uranium conversion plant it needs to fulfil an interim nuclear agreement…
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from Israel‘s massive air campaign in Gaza topped 100 people Friday as rockets fired by militants reached deeper into Israel — and for the first time in the fighting, struck from neighboring Lebanon. Gaza…
A NEWAmnesty International report has highlighted the “hundreds” of abductions and incidents of torture by pro-Russian separatists inUkraine, and also criticised the excessive force used by government forces. Amnesty identifies the…
– With one boat carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers sent back and a second stuck in legal limbo on the high seas, Australia finds itself in uncharted waters on the divisive issue of refugees. ConservativePrime MinisterTony Abbott swept the fractured…
Thailand’s military junta has hinted at the possibility of continuing martial law for the duration of the interim charter, which is expected to last about a year, media reports said today. General Paiboon Kumchaya, assistant army chief and head…
July 11, 2014 — Updated 0732 GMT (1532 HKT) (CNN) — Germany‘s government has asked America‘s top spy chief stationed in the country to leave. It’s a punitive gesture usually reserved for adversarial nations in times of crisis and only very rarely for an ally, particularly a very close one. But allegations of American spying have seriously injured…
Mississippi – A toddler thought to have been cured of HIV now has detectable levels of the virus in her blood, the child’s doctors and US health officials said on Thursday. The Mississippi child’s stunning story, first disclosed at a medical meeting…
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The air quality in some of the UK’s biggest cities is unlikely to meet EU standards before 2030, according to the government. Member states were supposed to meet targets on pollutants from diesel cars and trucks by 2010. The nitrogen dioxide…
JERUSALEM — Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault in Gaza Thursday, hitting hundreds of Hamas targets. Palestinians reported that 16 people were killed in strikes that hit a home and a beachside cafe, and Israel’s missile defense system…
Reuters JERUSALEM — Israel‘s IronDome interceptor has shot down some 90 percent of Palestinian rockets it engaged during this week’s surge of Gaza fighting, up from the 85 percent rate in the previous mini-war of2012, Israeli and U.S.…
Daniel Radcliffe is reportedly walking away from smoking as he plans to enter a treatment centre in order to ditch the filthy habit. The Harry Potter star previously overcame his problems with alcohol and now he’s taking the next steps to put…
– At least six people have been killed in a US drone strike in the North Waziristan tribal area, where a Pakistani military operation against Taliban fighters is ongoing, intelligence sources told Al Jazeera. Two missiles were fired on a compound and…
The world will get its first good look at Pluto a little more than a year from now, possibly reigniting the debate over the object’s planetary status. In July 2015, NASA‘sNew Horizons probe will fly by frigid and faraway Pluto, which was demoted to “dwarf planet” in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. (Despite the..
Sao Paulo – Lionel Messi can secure his place among the game’s greats with aWorld Cup triumph after Argentina defeated the Netherlands on penalties on Wednesday to reach the final. On Sunday at the Maracana stadium in Rio, Messi will come up against a Germany team that has ended his two previous attempts to bring his country a third World Cup…
10 July 2014, 10:00 GoogleGlassCamera ‘Controlled Using Mind‘ Tweet A Google Glass app that claims to let people take photographs using their mind has been launched. The free open-source MindRDR software has been developed by Londonfirm This Place and lets users control the device using…
– At least six people have been killed in a US drone strike in the North Waziristan tribal area, where a Pakistani military operation against Taliban fighters is ongoing, intelligence sources told Al Jazeera. Two missiles were fired on a compound and…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon called for restraint and an end to the new wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence in a blitz of phone calls Wednesday to their leaders and key players in the region, warning that the situation…
A class of pesticides linked to the catastrophic collapse of bee colonies has now been linked to declines in bird populations, according to a Dutchstudy. The researchers found a strong correlation between pesticide concentrations measured in surface…
July 09: President Barack Obama today said the US is committed to the goal of developing a “new model” of relations with China defined by increased practical cooperation and “constructive management” of differences. “The United States welcomes the…
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army on Wednesday intensified its offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, striking Hamas sites and killing at least 8 people on the second day of a military operation it says is aimed at quenching rocket fire against…
See Also Google smartphones will take NASA astronaut robots from 2006 tech to the future of space travel, according to Reuters. Robots with the phones, armed with technology from Google’s augmented reality experiment ProjectTango, are set to launch on July 11. The Android augmented androids are called SPHERES — short for Synchronized…
Brazilian PresidentDilma Rousseff has urged the country to bounce back after its catastrophic 7-1 World Cup defeat against Germany. “Like all Brazilians, I am very, very sad after the defeat. But we will not let ourselves be broken,” she tweeted. The coach of the…
July 09: President Barack Obama today said the US is committed to the goal of developing a “new model” of relations with China defined by increased practical cooperation and “constructive management” of differences. “The United States welcomes the…
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army on Wednesday intensified its offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, striking Hamas sites and killing at least 8 people on the second day of a military operation it says is aimed at quenching rocket fire against…
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US actor George Clooney has accused the Daily Mail of “irresponsibility” after it claimed his fiancée’s mother opposes their marriage on religious grounds. The British tabloid, he said, had been “negligent” in…
JAKARTA, July 9 (Xinhua) — Indonesians on Wednesday went to polls to pick up their new president for the country. The voting started first in the eastern part of Indonesia at 08: 00 a.m. local time which is two hours earlier than the rest parts of…
Germany ended Brazil‘s FIFA World Cup dream with a sensational 7-1 semi-final victory as the hosts capitulated in Belo Horizonte. Shorn of injured playmaker Neymar, who suffered a fractured vertebra in the quarter-final against Colombia, and…
The White House says it’s asking Congress for $3.7 billion to address the humanitarian crisis along the border with Mexico. The statement said the funds would cover domestic enforcement, repatriation and reintegration of migrants, transportation…
Israel has launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruledGaza Strip, the military said, striking at least 50 sites in Gaza by air and sea and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion in order to quell rocket attacks on Israel. The army said its offensive, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge,” is aimed at striking Hamas…
Madonna has appeared for jury service in New York but was relieved to avoid “creating a distraction” for the court. The pop star spent two hours waiting in a separate room from other prospective jurors, but was not…
According to Reuters, there has been no evidence to substantiate the claims of a child sex abuse conspiracy within the political sphere yet. The key piece of evidence is a large file that contained major allegations. That file, according to IBT, was…
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Berlin stepped up pressure on Monday on Washington over allegations that a German intelligence service employee spied for the United States, with ChancellorAngela Merkel saying the case threatened to undermine trust between the two allies. “If…
A powerful typhoon forced Japanese authorities to cancel flights and urge more than 100,000 people to evacuate their homes on Tuesday as the storm threatened to bring torrential rain and high winds to Japan’s southern islands. Typhoon Neoguri…
SAO PAULO — Thieves raided a Samsung electronics factory in Brazil during the night shift early Monday, subdued workers and guards, and made off with about $36 million worth of cellphones and computers. Heavily armed men captured eight plant…
If you’re flying anywhere later today…sorry. Two planes had a near-miss moment today at Barcelona‘s El Prat Airport, when one jet’s crew aborted their landing in order to avoid crashing into a passenger jet that appeared to be in its path on the…
Researchers involved in European commission-funded initiative to simulate human brain complain of ‘substantial failures’ Many researchers refused to join on the grounds that it was too premature to attempt a simulation of the entire human brain. Photograph: Sebastian Kaulitzki /Alamy The world‘s largest project to unravel the mysteries of the human…
Israeli police arrested six men on Sunday on suspicion of the murder of aPalestinian teenager who was abducted as he walked to a mosque for dawn prayers. The men are Jewish and were arrested in their homes in Beit Shemesh,Jerusalem and the settlement of Adam, a short drive from the site of the abduction.Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 16, was abducted last…
Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, from a video posted by the group. Photo: AP Maiduguri: More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources say.…
VOA NewsU.S. officials say travelers heading to the United States from some overseas airports will be required to power on cell phones, laptop computers and other…
LONDON — Roger Federer already had saved one matchpoint in the Wimbledon final against Novak Djokovic, and had won four games in a row in the fourth set. As both players sat on the sideline during the changeover before Federer was going to…
The FashionDome at Mall of the Emirates. Dubai is launching a project to build an entertainment and hotel district that will include the world’s largest shopping mall, the Emirate’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, said. Plans for the…
Experts have found that when it comes to the ecosystems in the oceans, the main engineers are the whales. According to the Press Trust of India, a study believes that when it comes to the earth’s oceans, how the globe’s carbon is stored…
MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s military said on Saturday that it had killed 53 fighters from the Islamist Boko Haram group when it repelled an attack on a military base in the northeast Nigerian town of Damboa. A statement from defence…
Costa Rica was supposed to have gone home a long time ago. Before Brazil, it had qualified for only three World Cups, making it out of the group stage only once. It was no better then the third-best qualifier from its own region. But on Saturday it…
Experts have found that when it comes to the ecosystems in the oceans, the main engineers are the whales. According to the Press Trust of India, a study believes that when it comes to the earth’s oceans, how the globe’s carbon is stored…
MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s military said on Saturday that it had killed 53 fighters from the Islamist Boko Haram group when it repelled an attack on a military base in the northeast Nigerian town of Damboa. A statement from defence…
Costa Rica was supposed to have gone home a long time ago. Before Brazil, it had qualified for only three World Cups, making it out of the group stage only once. It was no better then the third-best qualifier from its own region. But on Saturday it…
KIEV – Ukrainian troops have regained control over the eastern city of Sloviansk, a stronghold kept by militants for months, the Ukrainian presidential press service said Saturday. Militants who had come under an overnight mortar fire of…
Environmentalists have accused Commonwealth Gamesorganisers of reneging on promises to create low emission zones around venues.Glasgow 2014 has been recognised for efforts to reduce carbon emissions, waste and promote healthy living. But Friends of…
Ahmad Chalabi visiting a refugee camp in Mosul: ‘He is a consummate puppet master.’ Photograph: Boris Niehaus/Demotix/Corbis He was a presidential patron, then a pariah; an alleged fraud, then an economic saviour. And, perhaps more remarkably, he was…
Fortaleza‘s Avenida Beira Mar was alive with the sounds of Brazil‘s celebrations after they took another step towards the 2014 Fifa World Cup final – but there was no mistaking the Neymar effect. The road that sweeps around the front of this picturesque north-eastern coastal location was populated with fans torn between the joy of…
Relentless shelling and sniper fire have since killed more than 470 people and leftWestern leaders frustrated by repeated mediation failures. A pro-Russian fighter stands guard at a checkpoint . AP Ukraine’s interior minister said on Saturday that most pro-Russian rebels and their top commander had fled their main eastern stronghold in what…
Queen Elizabeth has smashed a bottle of whisky against Britain’s biggest warship as she gave her name to the new aircraft carrier at a ceremony in Scotland. The 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth is one of two carriers being built at a cost of…
An unfinished overpass collapsed in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people, emergency officials said.Television images showed the front of a passenger bus crushed by the…
A ceasefire is due to be announced between Hamas and Israel following exchanges of fire along the border with the Gaza Strip, the BBC understands. A source with the militant Palestinian group said a truce had been brokered by Egyptian intelligenceofficials. Scores of rockets from Gaza have hit southern Israel in recent days and Israel has…
David Cameron‘s former spin doctor, who faces up to two years in jail, among four ex-News of the World staff awaiting sentence Andy Coulson is expected to get a discount of several months off his sentence for previous good character. Photograph: Neil…
There’s an association between the parents’ insecure attachment and their child’s consumption of unhealthy foods. Could your relationship with your mom increase your child’s chances of obesity? Perhaps the quality of your attachment to both or either…
Red Cross workers carry the body of a woman who died of the Ebola virus during a 1995 outbreak in the Congo. The United Nations health agency said on Thursday it expected the worst Ebola outbreak in history to continue its deadly rampage through west…
A protester throws a burning tire See Also Arab-Jewish tension in parts of Jerusalem was at fever pitch Thursday afternoon, three days after the funerals for three slain Israeli teens and a day after the alleged revenge killing of…
LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists studying the effects of the psychedelic chemical in magic mushrooms have found the human brain displays a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind-expanding drug trip. Psychedelic drugs such as…
NEYMAR insisted that he is happy for Brazil to win ugly as long as it gets them past Colombia in Saturday morning’s (AEST) World Cupquarter-final in Fortaleza. The occasional moment of genius from Neymar aside, Brazil have rarely sparkled at…
By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) – West African states lack the resources to battle the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola and deep cultural suspicions about the disease remain a big obstacle to halting its spread, ministers said on Wednesday. The outbreak has killed 467 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since February, making it the…
Iggy Pop didn’t have a problem with Amnesty International‘s goals. He just didn’t like them using his image without permission. The organization’s Belgium office published a recent campaign using famous people making statements that were, supposedly, obtained through the use of torture. In the case of Iggy Pop, a picture of the singer, beaten and…
NEYMAR insisted that he is happy for Brazil to win ugly as long as it gets them past Colombia in Saturday morning’s (AEST) World Cupquarter-final in Fortaleza. The occasional moment of genius from Neymar aside, Brazil have rarely sparkled at…
Scientists have worked out the anatomical secret to giraffes’ long and spindly – but strong – legs. Researchers from the Royal Veterinary College(RVC) of London found that a supportive ligament is protected by a groove in the animals’…
The sister of Spain‘s King Felipe, PrincessCristina, is appealing against charges in a tax fraud and money laundering case, court officials say. Lawyers for the princess say they are seeking to overturn the charges, which were formalised by a…
VOA News BAGHDAD — Iraq‘s Prime MinisterNouri al-Malikisaid on Wednesday that he hoped to overcome the challenges blocking the formation of a new government, a day after the new parliament’s first session ended without agreement on top…
2 July 2014 Last updated at 10:01 BSTScottish driver SusieWolff will become the first woman to take part in a Formula 1 race weekend session in 22 years when she takes to the track at Silverstone in free practice on Friday. She spoke to BBC…
Alleged Bigfoot hair samples had believers of the mythical yeti monster clamoring to see whether science might prove Bigfoot does indeed exist. However, DNA testing this week has unfortunately made a discovery that is decidedly less interesting;…
Reuters — JPMorgan Chase & Co CEOJamie Dimon has told the bank’s employees and shareholders he has been diagnosed with curable throat cancer, Dow Jones reported today. Dimon said the cancer was caught quickly and is confined and that he will…
2 July 2014 Last updated at 10:01 BSTScottish driver SusieWolff will become the first woman to take part in a Formula 1 race weekend session in 22 years when she takes to the track at Silverstone in free practice on Friday. She spoke to BBC…
Alleged Bigfoot hair samples had believers of the mythical yeti monster clamoring to see whether science might prove Bigfoot does indeed exist. However, DNA testing this week has unfortunately made a discovery that is decidedly less interesting;…