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2014-07-09

Germany destroy Brazil 7-1 as Miroslav Klose becomes the record scorer by netting his 16th finals goal in World Cup History.

Approximately 23 buses have been set ablaze in Sao Paolo, Brazil following the World Cup defeat to Germany.

British woman, 65, 'threw spear at officials' as she was arrested for allegedly running Philippines 'House of Horrors' where children as young as six months suffered abuse

There is a second Snowden - says Greenwald

Latest Snowden Leaks: FBI Targeted Muslim-American Lawyers

Another German Spy working for US

Israeli rockets strike at more than 400 Gaza sites

Bill Gates funds birth control microchip

A Ukrainian military officer was captured by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and is currently being held at a detention facility in the Russian city of Voronezh

Kidnapped Israeli teens were shot 10 times with silenced gun, according to U.S. official

Files on UK role in CIA rendition accidentally destroyed, says minister | Rights groups say FCO claim records of flights in and out of Diego Garcia missing due to water damage 'smacks of cover-up'

Central Israel under threat as Iron Dome intercepts rockets over Tel Aviv

Canadian Mark Emery due to released from federal prison after serving 5 years for selling Marijuana seeds

Live updates on the Israeli air raids on Gaza - 32 Palestinians killed in 'operation protective edge' including children

Because of Australian PM Tony Abbott's 'Stop the Boat' policy, 12 mothers seeking asylum in Australia 'attempt suicide' to give kids chance

China says it will punish journalists just for talking about state secrets

Second 'suspected spy' in Germany

UN issued with roadmap on how to avoid climate catastrophe | Report is the first of its kind to prescribe concrete actions that the biggest 15 economies must take to keep warming below 2C

Cocaine use in Scotland highest in world ahead of the US and Spain

Female Iranian journalist sentenced to two years and 50 lashes

Israeli peace conference cut short when rocket attack forces attendees to evacuate

Uncontacted tribe in Brazil ends its isolation

Edward Snowden has applied for extended asylum in Russia, his lawyer says

China's incredible high-speed rail system: Beijing has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build the world's largest high-speed rail system -- a feat accomplished in less than a decade.

Iraq forces find 53 corpses south of Baghdad

2014-07-10

Chinese hackers hacked into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees in March

Germany expels CIA official in US spy row

Books not considered 'Pro-family (1 father 1 mother)' to be destroyed by National Library Board in Singapore.

Islamist plot to blow up Eiffel Tower, Louvre and nuclear power plant foiled, say French police

New UK Law requiring all internet and phone companies to log usage to be enforced within a week

Chinese President Says Conflict With U.S. Would Be Disaster

US-Backed 'Moderate' Free Syrian Army Factions Join ISIS Terror Group

The scientists who conducted the study are still unsure why the magnetic field is weakening, but one likely reason is that Earth's magnetic poles are getting ready to flip, said Rune Floberghagen, the ESA's Swarm mission manager. In fact, the data suggest magnetic north is moving toward Siberia.

Synthetic cannabis 'not medicinal', EU top court says

Files on UK role in CIA abductions accidentally 'soaked in water'

Fatah joins Hamas and Islamic Jihad in missile launches

Russia writes off $32bn Cuban debt in show of brotherly love

Neonicotinoids linked to recent fall in farmland bird numbers

More than 50 bodies, including children, found in Iraq

"Emergency powers" to ensure police and security services can continue to access phone and internet records are being rushed through the UK Parliament, dispite the EU rejecting the plan.

Snowden's asylum in Russia runs out this month, asks for extension

Exclusive: Iraq tells U.N. that 'terrorist groups' seized nuclear materials

Israeli police officer to be charged in beating of Palestinian teen

India Earned 40 Million For Launching 15 Foreign Satellites - Business insider

Harper confirms Canadas support for Israel in conversation with Netanyahu

Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes "peer review ring."

China is selling $38 million worth of missiles, grenade launchers, machine guns and ammunition to South Sudans government, even as it pledges to help end a civil war in the country now on the brink of famine.

Judge compares incest and paedophilia to past attitudes towards homosexuality, claiming they might not be taboo anymore

Iron Dome racks up 90% success rate so far. Changes to civilian aviation as Hamas takes aim at airport; Iron Dome doing better than it did in 2012.

53 unidentified corpses were found south of Baghdad, all of them blindfolded and handcuffed, with bullets to the chest and head. Mass killings are becoming a regular occurrence again in Iraq for the first time since the worst days of sectarian and ethnic cleansing in 2006-2007.

2014-07-11

Putin writes off 90 percent of Cuba's debts to USSR | 90 percent of the debt of the Republic of Cuba to the Soviet Union will be written off.

Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge

HIV Returns In Baby Thought To Be Cured

Helsinki's Ambitious Plan to Make Car Ownership Pointless in 10 Yrs - Finland's capital hopes a 'mobility on demand' system that integrates all forms of shared and public transport in a single payment network could essentially render private cars obsolete

Judge in Australia says incest may no longer be a taboo and the only reason it is criminal is potential birth abnormalities, which can be solved by abortion

How a Mexican Cartel Demolished a Town, Incinerated Hundreds of Victims, and Got Away With It

China makes new electric cars tax-free | Buyers of fully electric, hybrid and fuel cell cars will not have to pay purchase tax from September to the end of 2017

Abbas slams Hamas over rocket attacks on Israel: What are you trying to achieve?

Thirty Ukrainian troops possibly killed in rebel grad missile attack

'100 killed' in Gaza as pressure builds on Israel to end military offensive

Scientists say they have developed the world's first vaccine against dengue fever seen to work in large-scale trials.

Report: Israel warns 100,000 Gaza residents to leave

UK Fast Tracks Emergency Surveillance Law

London student accused of trying to smuggle 20,000 cash to Syrian jihadists in her underwear

China's Communist Party Admits It Has a Big Corruption Problem - Its the result of a lack of checks and balances in Chinas government. No one can limit the power of the officials and the party."

India Sets Aside $1.6 Billion Fund For Startups

80-year-old Irish woman goes back to jail for protesting US use of Shannon Airport (x-post from r/Ireland)

Ukrainian forces launch an "all out attack" on Pro-Russian forces near Donetsk

The Afghan Taliban have urged Muslims to avoid extremism and remain united.

Soot-Stained Documents Reveal Firing Squad Executions Carried out by Rebels in Ukraine

FBI monitored Nelson Mandela in 1990s over perceived communist threat

Brics to Open Alternatives to World Bank, IMF

Amazon counter-attacks French ban on free deliveries

India Building World's Highest Railway Bridge

China Says It's up to US to Drive Global Economy

2014-07-14

Executive pay '180 times average', report finds: Executive pay has grown from 60 times that of the average worker to almost 180 times since the 1990s, according to a report.

Germany 1 - 0 Argentina. Germany win the 2014 FIFA World Cup!

Church of England votes in favour of women bishops.

Edward Snowden condemns Britain's emergency surveillance bill

Samsung has temporarily suspended business with one of its suppliers in China after finding "evidence" of illegal child labour at the plant.

Ukraine says plane shot down by rocket from Russia

In Iraqs disputed territory, minorities are embracing Kurdish control

Chinese hacker arrested, charged with hacking Boeing and US fighter jet planes

The clouds of black carbon soiling snow and ice in Finlands Arctic region have diminished since the middle of the 20th century, a change attributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the cessation of some of the most polluting industrial practices in Russia, according to a new study.

Natural Disasters including storms, floods and heatwaves have increased fivefold since the 1970s, UN finds

China bemoans its peoples behavior in Africaincluding undergarment ivory smuggling

Malware hidden in Chinese inventory scanners targeted logistics, shipping firms

Angela Merkel "does not want to complete full term as German chancellor and is considering quitting ahead of the 2017 elections--interested in UN Secretary-General or President of the European Council roles

34 killed in raid on alleged brothel in Baghdad - An AFP correspondent on the scene reported that the attackers left a message on a door: "This is the fate of any prostitution."

Pope Francis says about 8,000 pedophiles are members of Catholic clergy, including bishops and cardinals

Moscow 'considering targeted strikes' on Ukraine: report

Rebels have captured Lugansk airport. Rebel airstrike has destroyed 6 Ukrainian tanks

News from Israel and Palestine for July 13th / 14th

US father takes unclaimed African kingdom so his daughter can be a princess

The Chief Judge of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in August 2010 formally approved spying by the US National Security Agency on all countries except Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, according to reports published in the United States

Military transport plane shot down in eastern Ukraine

Eight killed in militant attack in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula

The Pope cites data suggesting that about 2% of Catholic priests are pedophiles, wrote that "I find this state of affairs intolerable."

BRICS nations rally around Russia: "Leaders of the BRICS nations will meet July 15-16 in Fortaleza in northeastern Brazil, in a gathering that sends a strong message about their refusal to isolate Russia"

Ukraine says Russian army officers fighting with rebels

2014-07-15

Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal GCHQ programs to track targets, spread information and manipulate online debates

Germany 'may revert to typewriters' to counter hi-tech espionage | Politicians claim communciations technology is mistrusted in wake of US spying allegations and NSA surveillance revelations

Iran sentences eight Facebook activists to total of 127 years in prison for 'criticising government'

India caps price of 108 more medicines

Hong Kong asks Beijing for greater democracy

Cheetah Smuggling Driving Wild Population to Extinction - Rising demand for cheetahs as luxury pets in the Middle East taking gruesome toll as 2/3 of snatched cubs are dying en route. Nations at both ends of the trade agreed urgent action is needed.

Moscow Metro derailment: 3 killed, over 80 injured in rush hour

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS nations) to launch World Bank and IMF rivals

10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs found in India

Germany pledges $1bn to UN climate change fund

Australia: George Brandis set to require internet, phone companies hold customer data for two years.

U.S. signs agreement for $11 billion arms sale to Qatar

The US has begun stage 1 of sending recent illegal immigrants back to their home countries

Australian intelligence agencies to be given new powers. "Australians would be wise to insist on very careful scrutiny of these proposals before endorsing them."

Chinese TV anchor vanishes from the screen in corruption investigation, viewers watching an economics programme on China Central Television on Friday saw only an empty chair with an unused microphone where Rui Chenggang normally sits

North Korea fires 100 artillery shells near border over US-South Korea naval exercises

WTO rules against US in trade spat with China and India

90% of mostly civilian aircraft destroyed by rocket shelling at Tripoli airport, Libya may now seek deployment of international force

UK's New Energy & Environment Ministers Opposed Green Energy - Energy minister, Matthew Hancock, signed letter calling for cuts to wind power subsidies & environment secretary, Liz Truss, claimed renewable power was damaging the economy

CNET attacked by Russian hacker group

Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens

Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy sentenced to death

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he will try to raise $2.2bn (1.3bn) in aid money to fight the spread of cholera in Haiti.

Russia has invited monitors from the OSCE to two of its border crossings with Ukraine as a sign of goodwill. Meanwhile, Ukraine has said shots that downed a military plane "probably" came from Russian territory.

TEPCO's rubble removal at Fukushima plant likely spread cesium to rice paddies 20km away

2014-07-16

NASA: Humans Will Prove We Are Not Alone In The Universe Within 20 Years

A U.S. military nurse has refused to conduct forced feedings of inmates at Guantanamo Bay

Giant hole appears at 'world's end'

Israeli naval ship 'bombs Palestinian children on Gaza beach', killing four... A journalist who saw the incident said some of the children who survived were running away when another shell seemed to be aimed at them.

Journalists will face jail over spy leaks under new security laws in Australia

Julian Assange May be Freed Today

660 paedophile suspects arrested in the UK - Paedophiles using the 'Dark Web'.

Tesla Motors magnate Elon Musk donates $1 mn to Nikola Tesla museum

Four-winged dinosaur is 'biggest ever': A new four-winged dinosaur has been discovered, with exceptionally long feathers on its tail and "hindwings". Changyuraptor yangi was a gliding predator which lived in the Cretaceous period in what is now Liaoning, China.

Former dictator Manuel Noriega sues Call of Duty publishers for portraying him as a kidnapper, murderer and enemy of the state'

900 Kurds enter Syria to defend Kurdish city against the Islamic State

Metropolitan Police officer was moved 'from child abuse inquiry' - A former senior Metropolitan Police officer says he was moved from his post when he revealed plans to investigate politicians over child abuse claims.

New UK 'Drip' data law will allow interception of internet traffic worldwide

Suicide Blast Kills 89 in Afghanistan

Federal and state police officers raided a group home Tuesday in the western state of Michoacan and rescued 458 children who were forced to beg for money and suffered sexual abuse while being against their will in filthy conditions

Georgian ambassador at time of 2008 war with Russia found dead

ISIS has ordered government workers to stop giving rations to Christians and Shiites in Mosul

Julian Assange: Swedish judge rules on lifting of arrest warrant live

Ukraine submits evidence of Russian covert action

Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have entered northern Syria to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of Ain al-Arab

Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a trade secret

Germany has criticised Russia for failing to meet commitments to end the violence in Ukraine, and said it might face further EU sanctions.

Leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations launched a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool on Tuesday in their first concrete step toward reshaping the Western-dominated international financial system.

As Border Tensions Rise, Ukraine and Russia Draw Nearer to Direct Conflict

UN's Pillay suggests Snowden should not face trial

2014-07-17

German footballer Mesut Ozil donated his 300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgery of 23 children in Brazil

Malaysian Plane crashes over the Ukraine

Mexico is going to war on the nation's obesity epidemic by banning television ads for soda and high-calorie foods

Australia becomes the first country in the world to go backwards on climate policy by removing a price on carbon

The U.S. Should Not Prosecute Edward Snowden, U.N. Official Says

Malaysian passenger plane crashes in Ukraine near Russian border [Reuters]

BBC News - LIVE UPDATES: Malaysian Airlines MH17 Crashes in Eastern Ukraine by Russian Border

Russian missile launchers filmed firing across the border into Ukraine

Rockets fired from Gaza two hours into temporary truce - Diplomacy and Defense

Report: Hamas proposes 10-year cease-fire in return for conditions being met

Met Police detective says he was taken off probe into child abuse claims after revealing he planned to investigate senior politicians

Russia to reopen spy base in Cuba as relations with US continue to sour - Decision to reopen signals intelligence facility south of Havana follows Russia forgiving 90% of Cuba's unpaid Soviet-era debts

Banned anal exam akin to torture still being used by police in Lebanon to determine if people are gay

UNRWA investigates after rockets found in Gaza school - Channel NewsAsia

The controversial Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill, which extends government and security services' surveillance powers, has been overwhelmingly passed in the House of Commons with all-party support

US Congress approves $351m in aid to Israel's Iron Dome

US widens sanctions against Russia

Israeli military takes out 13 Hamas terrorists who crossed into Israel from Gaza via underground tunnel

Massive tunnel infiltration into Israel from Gaza thwarted.

Reports: Israel Accepts Egypts Cease-Fire Plan, Hamas Rejects

Israel recognizes murdered Arab teenager as terror victim. Family will get benefits from the state & victim will be on list of names on Israel's Memorial Day.

Israel declares 'humanitarian truce'

Julian Assange Arrest Warrant Upheld

Australia repeals its price on carbon emissions

France 'bans pro-Palestinian rallies' as tensions increasingly mirror Israel-Gaza animosity: Thousands protested in Paris this week against rising Palestinian death toll in Israeli strikes, now French authorities reportedly imposed full ban on pro-Palestinian marches in several cities

2014-07-18

The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalization of drug use

Israel Ground Invasion of Gaza has Begun

As Putin blames Ukraine for MH17 tragedy, video emerges 'showing BUK missile launcher being driven into place'

US Intelligence Confirms Surface to Air Missile downed Malaysian Airplane

Dutch Senator killed in Malaysia Airlines crash

Russia Today London correspondent resigns in protest at 'disrespect for facts' over Malaysian plane crash

Family suffers tragedy twice. Kaylene Mann lost her brother Rod Burrows and her sister-in-law Mary with MH370 and her step-daughter Maree Rizk and her husband Albert were among the Australians on flight MH17.

Hamas hacks Israeli TV sat channel to broadcast pics of Gaza wounded

154 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysian, 11 Indonesians, six British nationals, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos and one Canadian were on board MH17. Nationality of remaining 47 still undetermined.

UN: 80 per cent of Palestinians killed in Israeli offensive are civilians

CNN reporter removed from Israel-Gaza after branding Israelis who gathered to watch bombardment 'scum' after they threatened her

Leading AIDS researchers/activists, WHO spokesperson reportedly on board Malaysian flight

MH17 death toll increased to 298 3 infants were on board

Turkish Prime Minister: "Israel threatens world peace. Israel threatens peace in the Middle East" ... "Israel is at the moment waging terrorism; Israel at the moment is carrying out genocide"

Germany is most energy efficient major economy, study finds

U.S. Senate Doubles Funding for Israel's Iron Dome

City workers in Seoul will be allowed an hour a day to nap during the height of summer, in a bid to boost productivity. Anytime between 1pm and 6pm, as long as they make up for it by arriving early or leaving late. Employees can use lounges, conference rooms and other places to rest.

Russian aircrafts violate Ukrainian air space 5 times during 24 hours

- Two months after ordering 2,000 trains that were too wide, a French transport company orders 30 too-wide escalators, which will cost millions to replace.

ISIS Threatens To Kill Creator of Muslim Superhero Comic Series The 99

Boko Haram Jihadists Massacre 38 Christians During Attack On Village, Three Churches Burnt

The Indian Prime Minister's flight was close behind the one that got shot down

Putin's Statement on Ukraine Plane Crash

Airline will not escape liability if act of war caused crash

Obama makes first remarks on plane crash in Ukraine

2014-07-21

Netherlands opens war crimes investigation into MH17 airliner downing

Russian Billionaires in horror as Putin risks isolation

President Barack Obama and the UN have called for an "immediate ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas as the death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip reached 508.

Human Rights Watch: Boko Haram kills 2,053 over the course of 6 months and the girls kidnapped in April are still missing and most likely scattered, in case anyone forgot

More than 700 killed in Syria in what may be the bloodiest 48 hours of fighting in the conflict to date

Most intense shelling in Gaza, streets littered with dead bodies, death toll climbs to 425 - The death toll on the Palestinian side included children and women, with over 2,500 injured and almost 61,000 displaced seeking refuges in 49 UN Relief and Works Agency run centres

At least 100 Palestinians from a single neighbourhood have been killed, as Israel continues its assault on the Gaza Strip.

Malaysia Air avoiding Ukraine, diverted flights over Syria instead

China shuts meat factory supplying McDonald's, KFC and others for mixing expired meat with new and of misleading inspectors - Australia Network News

Dutch forensic team gets access to MH17 victims' bodies five days after crash

David Cameron in furious phone call with Vladimir Putin over 'indefensible' Russian delays

64 public figures, 7 Nobel laureates, call for arms embargo on Israel

Snowden seeks to develop anti-surveillance technologies

Deaths as Israeli tanks shell Gaza hospital

MH17: UN draft resolution demands 'guilty should be held to account'

Bosnians bury ethnically cleansed victims: Thousands of Bosnians have gathered for a mass funeral for their loved ones more than 20 years after they were killed in the country's civil war. Many of the bodies were only discovered recently in a nearby mass grave.

Hundreds of Japanese hold silent protest for Gaza

Phone intercepts allegedly show Russia tried to seize MH17's black boxes

Carlos Slim calls for three-day working week to improve quality of lifeMexican billionaire says workforce could be spread over a full week, employees working up to 10 or 11 hours a day

Independent: Netanyahu says Hamas using rising death toll to make Israel look bad

Hamas armed wing stating they have abducted an Israel soldier.

KFC, Pizza Hut, and McDonalds are hit with a new China food scandal: expired meat products

US says recordings of Ukraine rebels admitting MH17 downing authentic

Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 hit by rocket is consumed by fire at Tripoli International airport

Pro-Palestinian protesters raid Jewish neighborhood outside Paris

2014-07-22

Delta cancels all flights to Israel indefinitely

Internet Piracy deciminalised in the UK. Only warnings will be sent in 2015 and no one will be disconnected.

Britain decriminalises online video game, music and movie piracy.

Gaza struggles to bury the bodies of the more than 550 dead. Morgues are overflowing, the freezers are full, and the living are too afraid of the Israeli offensive to hold proper funerals.

Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network.

The Great Barrier Reef is in the worst state it's been in since records began and will be "pretty ugly" within 40 years, Australian scientists say.

France's Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Paris Shops, Attack Synagogue

'No safe place for civilians' in Gaza, U.N. says

MH17 tributes in Moscow: 'Forgive us.' Despite denials by Putin of Russian responsibility in downing MH17, dozens of tributes have been left outside the Dutch embassy by regular Russians.

The bodies of MH17 victims to be taken to the Netherlands and the Black Boxes will be handed over to a Malaysian Team tonight.

Defying allies, France to deliver first warship to Russia

Cellphone Video Captures Gaza Civilian Shot and Killed By Sniper

MSNBC Contributor Accuses Network Of 'Biased' Coverage Toward Israel

Rebels in eastern Ukraine have handed over two flight-data recorders from the downed MH17 plane to Malaysian officials

Israeli ambassador to the US says IDF deserves Nobel Peace Prize for 'unimaginable restraint'

Russia's richest lost $1.7B Friday

Muslims show solidarity with Iraqi Christians in Baghdad rally

Quebec mayor, stung by wasps, dies.

11 parents of Nigerias abducted girls die: Since the mass abduction of the schoolgirls by Islamic extremists three months ago, at least 11 of their parents have died and their hometown, Chibok, is under siege from the militants, residents report.

Dutch expert says Ukraine body recovery team 'did a hell of a job' - "I'm very impressed about the work that was done over here," he said after inspecting the main crash site

World Health Organization Calls for Drug Decriminalization and Broad Drug Policy Reforms

North Korea appeals to White House to halt release of US comedy film - Telegraph

Emotional Al Jazeera Journalist Breaks Down During Gaza Report

Sinn Fein calls for expulsion of Israeli ambassador

Kuwait revokes citizenship of opposition activists including the owner of a pro-opposition satellite television channel and a daily newspaper

2014-07-23

North Korea requests that the Chinese Government take down doctored video of Kim Jong Un "Dancing", China unable to oblige

Pro-Russian rebels shoot down two Ukrainian fighter jets

Britain's porn-blocking filters are overwhelmingly rejected by the populace

"On Monday night, a strike hit an eight-story apartment building in downtown Gaza City an area where Israeli officials had urged Gazans to take shelter. The building collapsed as rescue crews were inside, killing more people. "

More Rockets found under unrwa schools

For civilians fleeing in Gaza, escape options are few - "Gaza is unique in the annals of modern warfare in being a conflict zone with a fence around it, so civilians have no place to flee."

Putin passes law against protests

Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus: The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the government said.

The video of a young unarmed Gazan man shot dead was real. His family learned of his death through YouTube.

UN Chief: 'Israel Could Be Guilty Of War Crimes'

700 Syrians killed in two days of conflict

German protesters chant "Jews to the gas chambers during Anti-Israel protests

Argentina zoo refuses to move 'world's saddest polar bear' to Canada - Arturo the polar bear will not be moved out of sweltering heat in Argentinian zoo, despite petition gathering half a million signatures

New York Times reviews the raw footage of the video posted earlier, showing a wounded civilian shot to death in Gaza, says "it bears no apparent signs of manipulation".

I would fire rockets at Israel, tweets British MP

Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Pro-Russian rebel admits to shooting down plane

Israel asks U.S. for $225m for missing Iron Dome parts

Cockpit of MH 17 found sawed in half at crash site

Putin looking to enact a tax "solidarity tax" on Russia's 1% to help pay for the Crimean annexation

BBC Arabic reporter attacked on air in Ashkelon, Israel

Pope telephones Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end Holy Land hostilities

As many as 48 dead, 8 injured in Taiwan plane crash

Ukraine is officially in a war - assessment by The Red Cross

US: No evidence of direct Russian link to plane

Israel outraged over UNRWA turning over rockets to Hamas - 07/23/2014

2014-07-24

The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither concrete facts nor irrefutable evidence to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist

Air Algerie 'loses contact with plane from Burkina Faso'

White House is expected to release a version of a classified report on torture during the Bush years... the entire thing, five years in the making, clocks in at about 6,700 pages, making it the most exhaustive account yet of what really went on in secret CIA prisons around the world

Israel Bombs Gazas Only Power Plant as Toll Nears 650. Hospitals on the brink of collapse.

No, ISIS Isnt Ordering Female Genital Mutilation In Iraq

MH17 looting confirmed: Victims' phones answered by strangers, relatives say

Norway faces 'imminent' terror attack

Dutch mayor wants Vladimir Putin's daughter Maria deported

Christian leaders express shock at world silence after ISIS expels Iraqi Christians

More than 50 former Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nations reserve force, citing regret over their part in a military they said plays a central role in oppressing Palestinians

Ukrainian Rebels Admit they had BUK launcher at time of MH 17 incident

UN rights council launches probe into Israeli violations in Gaza - only US voted against it

The pacific island country of Palau is becoming the first nation to ban commercial fishing and bottom trawling in their waters in order to regenerate fish stocks around the globe.

Nato responds in depth to all of Russia's allegations

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says he is resigning

Brazil recalls Israel envoy to protest 'disproportionate force' in Gaza

Hamas leader says there will be no truce in Gaza without an end to the Israeli blockade

A teenager who was attempting to set a record by becoming the youngest person to fly around the world in 30 days died when his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

Europe's top human rights court has ruled that Poland violated the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing the CIA to imprison and torture two alleged terrorists on Polish soil.

German politicians question Russias suitability to host 2018 World Cup

'Massacre' at sea: Italy arrests five for killings of over 100 on migrant boat

Israel 'may have committed war crimes' as one child killed every hour in Gaza over last two days

American Quakers are Running an 'Underground Railroad' to Help LGBT Ugandans Flee

European Court Says CIA Ran Secret Jail in a Polish Forest

Ban Ki-moon expresses 'outrage' as rockets found in Gaza school go missing

2014-07-25

A U.S. cyclist who pedaled across 50-plus countries for peace and charity was run over and killed in Russia by a drunken truck driver

Obama blasts US firms for 'magically becoming Irish' in controversial tax switches

The U.S. says it has "new evidence" that Russian forces have been firing artillery across the border to attack Ukrainian military positions, and that Moscow is planning to ship powerful rocket artillery to the rebels it backs in the country's east.

World's 85 richest earn more than 3.5 billion poorest: UN report

Israel Bans Radio Broadcast Naming Children Killed in Gaza because it's "politically controversial".

First Ebola victim in Sierra Leone capital on the run - "The family of the patient stormed the hospital and forcefully removed her and took her away"

10,000 Palestinians protesting..walking from Ramallah to Jerusalem right now in Israel

Egypt sides with Israel in conflict with Hamas

Germany to 'spy on US and UK intelligence gathering' for the first time in 45 years | Germany orders surveillance of British and American intelligence gathering, according to reports.

Canadian group brings 1,000 litres of Canadian water to citizens in bankrupt Detroit, as part of protest

Gay man sentenced for twitter debauchery in Saudi Arabia -- A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced an homosexual man to three years in prison and 450 lashes for using his Twitter account to promote homosexual contacts

Vladimir Putin has offered to help mediate Palestinian - Israeli cease-fire

Russia offers over $100,000 to de-anonymize Tor

A US appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against banana grower Chiquita brought by at least 4,000 Colombians who accused the company of supporting paramilitary forces who killed or tortured their relatives

Thailands Military Government Thinks John Oliver Is a Threat to Its Monarchy

British inventor builds giant 'fart machine' to fire at France

U.S. Senate sets $225 million for Israel's Iron Dome in emergency bill

Israel-Gaza conflict: Israeli targeting policy under scrutiny after shellfire hits a mother and child, a school full of refugees and a doctors home

Officials: ISIS blows up Jonah's tomb in Iraq

Wikipedia chief enters internet censorship row: Private search engines such as Google should not be left in charge of "censoring history", the Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has said, after the internet company revealed it had approved half of more than 90,000 "right to be forgotten" requests.

Researchers Successfully Eliminate HIV Virus In Human Cells

UPDATE 1-U.S. says Russia firing artillery across border at Ukrainian military

Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians | Human Rights Watch

Hungarys new ambassador to Italy thinks Jews are agents of Satan who enslave mankind

Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinian demonstrators in West Bank protest

2014-07-28

Qatar World Cup: migrants wait a year to be paid for building offices. Migrant workers who built luxury offices used by Qatar's 2022 football World Cup organisers have told the Guardian they have not been paid for more than a year and are now working illegally from cockroach-infested lodgings.

Companies proclaim water the next oil in a rush to turn resources into profit: Mammoth companies are trying to collect water that all life needs and charge for it as they would for other natural resources

N. Korea threatens nuclear strike on White House

A 2nd American has now tested positive for Ebola.

Israeli Foreign Minister:"No more cease-fires. IDF will operate with full power"

Poll: 86.5% of Israelis oppose cease-fire

U.S. Airmen Banned from Drinking in 1st Month in Korea: The rule is part of a new introductory program for incoming troops and follows a string of rapes and other violent incidents involving U.S. Forces Korea personnel.

Pakistani mob kills two children including a baby and their grandmother after 'blasphemous' Facebook post: A seven-year-old and her baby sister were killed alongside their grandmother, police said, after another member of the Ahmadi sect was accused of blasphemy

Hamas chief: We cannot coexist with "occupiers".

The arrival of an Ebola-infected air passenger in Nigeria has airlines and airports scrambling to respond around the world

Hamas fired rockets in ceasefires

U.S. Releases Satellite Imagery That Shows Russians Shelling Eastern Ukraine

Japan wants to stage a robot Olympics alongside the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

'Freedom Flotilla II' set to sail for Gaza from Turkey, Turkish navy will provide protection

Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Bank of Nova Scotia have been accused of attempting to rig the price of silver, in a lawsuit filed in the US

Israel Blames Hamas For Gaza Hospital Strike

Germany tells citizens to get out of Libya

Fifth St. Petersburg LGBT pride event held without major incidents

Russia Wants UN Investigation Into Downed Malaysia Airlines Plane

MH17 Black Box Data Shows Evidence Of Missile Strike

Margaret Thatcher was warned of Tory child sex party claims

Moscow questions US allegations Russia shelling Ukraine

China criticized the U.S. for applying new tariffs on Chinese solar products following allegations that panels and cells were being sold too cheaply to the American consumer.

Leading scientists, including Lord Winston, an early pioneer of fertility treatment, have criticised the Department of Health for trying to play down a process that will for the first time allow the alteration of the DNA of future generations.

LIVE UPDATES: At least four Israelis killed, four wounded, in mortar shell fire from Gaza

2014-07-29

Japanese steel workers reveal that they saved their city from a nuclear bombing by burning coal tar to block view of US planes; story was kept secret for 69 years out of respect for Nagasaki victims, who were bombed instead

Russia may leave nuclear treaty

US: Russia Violates 1987 Nuclear Missile Treaty by Testing New Ground Launched Cruise Missile

Liberia closes borders. Trying to stop spread of the Ebola Virus.

Bankers Face World's Longest Bonus Clawbacks: Staff at British banks could be made to hand back bonuses more than six years after the money has been paid to them under a regime that will amount to the world's toughest rules on clawing back remuneration.

Malaysia Airlines may change its name in major rebrand after MH370 and MH17 disasters

Turkish deputy PM says women laughing in public is 'Haram'

France said on Monday it was ready to welcome Christians from northern Iraq who have been told by the al Qaeda offshoot group now ruling the region to either covert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face death.

Ebola Outbreak Spreads to Fourth African Country

'Women should not laugh in public,' says Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister in morality speech ... [The woman] will know what is haram and not haram. She will not laugh in public. She will not be inviting in her attitudes and will protect her chasteness,

Heavy casualties reported in Xinjiang terror attack

US "gravely concerned" about 15-yr-old American held in Israeli jail

U.S. and Europe Agree to Escalate Sanctions on Russia - NYTimes.com

Qatar World Cup: Fifa boss demands payment of migrant workers

Israeli airstrikes flattened the four-story home of Hamass top political leader in the Gaza Strip and destroyed offices of the movements radio and television station early Tuesday.

Palestinian gunmen infiltrate Israeli village near Gaza.

Fuel tank at Gaza city's only power plant hit by Israeli shells

Hamas declares that Israel's recent military operations has only reached a fraction of their tunnels.

Australia Approves One of World's Biggest Coal Mines & Rail Project Despite Concern Over its Potential Environmental Impact - Critics voice concern over local water use & impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

People actively resisting Ebola Treatment

Hamas has given North Korea a first payment on missiles to replenish arsenal, sources say

US Fuming Over Israeli Criticism Of Kerry

Children killed in Gaza playground shelling

Cameron cuts EU migrants' unemployment and child benefits

France offers asylum to Christians of north Iraq

2014-07-30

Malaria vaccine discovered

US unable to account for $626 million worth of weapons in Afghanistan | The Department of Defense cannot account for 747,000 weapons and auxiliary military equipment.

Israel bombs another UN school despite them telling Israel 17 times that the school housed civilians

Israeli Official To Obama: Leave Us Alone - CBS DC

Diabetic ex soldier dies with 3.44 to his name because his unemployment benefits were cut for missing an appointment. Corner says there was no food in his stomach.

South Korea sends chocolate snacks into North Korea via balloon

Top virologist doctor, Sheik Umar Khan, dies of ebola virus aged 39

Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'

World Faces "Insurmountable" Water Crises by 2040 - There will be no water by 2040 if we keep doing what were doing today. Wind, solar power increase needed to avoid global drought

The World's TigersThere are Only 3,200 Left in the Wild

Fear of Ebola Breeds a Terror of Physicians - "Villagers flee at the sight of a Red Cross truck. When a Westerner passes, villagers cry out, 'Ebola, Ebola!' and run away."

Hamas threatening journalists in Gaza who expose abuse of civilians

U.N. says more rockets found at one of its Gaza schools

Moscow Stock Exchange Suspends Trading

Belgium calls for clear labelling of goods from Israeli settlements

The space race for Mars is heating up. Russia confirms green light for super heavy lift rocket amid nuclear treaty talks.

Russia wants Apple, SAP to cooperate against foreign spying: Russia has proposed that Apple Inc and SAP hand the government access to their source code to make sure their widely used products are not tools for spying on state institutions.

WikiLeaks publishes 'unprecedented' secret Australian court suppression order

Over 90% of Jewish Israelis say Gaza op justified

Regulators want bankers to accept criminal liability under new plans

Poll Says Around 60 Percent Russians not in Favor of Military Interference in Ukraine

Gaza market air strike 'kills 15'

Pressure is mounting on France to ban a far-right Jewish group, described as violent and extreme by critics, following its involvement in clashes at a pro-Palestinian protest in Paris and the jailing of two of its supporters over a bomb plot

Palestinians accuse Hamas of executing Palestinians

CNN: Ukrainian government uses ballistic missiles against rebels

2014-07-31

Sierra Leone declares emergency as Ebola death toll hits 729

US condemns shelling of UN school in Gaza but restocks Israeli ammunition

Bolivia declares Israel a "terrorist state" and bans its citizens from entering the country without a visa

U.S. says North Korea should stop 'polluting the waters' with missile launches and instead focus on feeding its people

NATO bombed 5,000 civilians in Kosovo just because it was insulted; 27,000 Iraqi civilians were bombed during the American invasion because they posed a danger to the US; there is not a country in the world that can talk to us about morality. - Israeli MP

U.N. official breaks down on live TV over deaths of Palestinian children

Gaza Crisis: Isis Pledge to Join the Palestinian Fight Against 'Barbaric Jews'

Pentagon approves transfer of rocket launchers, grenades, and other weapons already stockpiled in Israel to IDF

A lake suddenly appears in the middle of Tunisian desert due to a seismic tremor

Senior UN Official: Hamas Fires Rockets From the Vicinity of U.N. Facilities

3 IDF soldiers killed in booby-trapped UNRWA clinic that housed a tunnel opening

Russia regains control of lizard sex satellite

Edward Snowden's lawyer blasts Australian law that would jail journalists reporting on spy leaks

Palestinian Authority to sign Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in effort to file suit against Israel for "war crimes" during Operation Protective Edge.

Egypt calls on Israel to immediately stop targeting civilians

Roughly 8,000 women in India died violent deaths because their families were unable to cough up the demands for more dowry, according to government statistics

American military aircraft violates Swedish airspace

Israeli Military Calls Up Another 16,000 Reserves In Effort To Widen Gaza Offensive

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay: strikes by Israel's military on UN buildings in Gaza "do not appear to be accidental"

Turkish women share smiling selfies after politician tells them not to laugh out loud

Israel destroys the only power plant in gaza

A wine-cup believed to belong to Pericles, Founder of the Athenian Golden Age, was discovered on Wednesday in an ancient tomb in Athens

Arab Leaders Silent, Viewing Israel as Better Than Hamas: Led by Egypt, a coalition of Arab states has effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas, posing new obstacles to efforts to end the Gaza conflict

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper blames Hamas entirely for what's happening in Gaza

Argentina defaults for second time

2014-08-01

The Swedish government announced that it plans to remove all mentions of race from Swedish legislation, saying that race is a social construct which should not be encouraged in law.

Uganda's constitutional court strikes down anti-homosexuality law

Asian-American couple held in Qatar for years as authorities refuse to believe their adopted African child is their own.

Ebola 'spreading too fast' - WHO

IDF soldier feared kidnapped in Gaza; cease-fire deal collapses - Diplomacy and Defense

Student starts global class action against Facebook: Austrian law student Max Schrems appealed to a billion Facebook users around the world on Friday to join a class-action lawsuit against Facebook's alleged violations of its users' privacy.

US and UN: Israel, Hamas agree to unconditional, 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire to begin Fri.

Judge rules seriously ill boy, 13, can be treated against mothers beliefs

Worlds Park Rangers Murdered in Widespread "Bush War" War underway in forests, grasslands & mountains rangers against poachers. If rangers win, tigers, elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos & orangutans will survive. If the poachers win, these key mammals, many other species & the rangers won't.

US calls Hamas attack 'barbaric' violation of Gaza ceasefire

Kurdish forces push ISIS out of Kurdish region in Syria amid fierce fighting, 35 ISIS fighters killed.

Brazilian President Accuses Israel of Carrying Out a Massacre in Gaza

Judge Rules Microsoft Must Let U.S. See a User's Emails Stored Overseas

Israel to resume Gaza operation

Amazon tribe makes first contact with outside world - Indigenous people crossed from Peru into Brazil looking for help to combat illegal loggers & drug traffickers

US: Israeli attack on UN school 'totally indefensible'

Russia enacts 'draconian' law for bloggers and online media

Canadian First Nation chief made $1M in salary twice the amount of the prime minister of Canada.

Snowden's asylum expires.

Massacre of uncontacted tribe in Peru revealed in new report

French government moves to ban militant extremist right-wing Jewish Defence League

Bank of America will pay a $1.3 billion penalty for mortgage fraud (x-post from /r/banksters)

U.S. aid to Afghanistan exceeds Marshall Plan in costs, not results

A Japanese judicial panel has recommended that three former executives of the utility that operates the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant face criminal charges over their role in the disaster.

Multiple gas explosions in Taiwan city: Cars overturned, 115 injured

2014-08-04

NSA hands Gaza targeting data to Israel, say latest Snowden docs

The Phillipines has reported the country's first suspected cases of the Ebola virus

62% of British public says Israel committing war crimes, as polls show sympathy for Palestinians

Ten firms say they will not represent clients that deny man-made climate change or seek to block emisson-reducing regulations

South Korea Sent 10,000 Choco Pies Over to North Korea in Balloons

Israeli Foreign Minister Suggests UN Takes Control of Gaza

Scientists discover vast methane plumes escaping from Arctic seafloor - aboard the icebreaker Oden currently north of eastern Siberia

Bodies of possible Ebola victims found in central Monrovia on the street for four days before being collected; gov says few hours

High winds expose previously unknown Nazca geoglyphs in Peru

Iran's elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back Islamic State

Obama: 'Russia doesn't make anything,' West must be firm with China

Terror attack in Jerusalem. 1 killed, 5 injured, terrorist shot dead.

"Five previous Ebola outbreaks have been linked to the handling of meat from gorillas, chimps and duikers... all these animals have been found for sale in the UK. Heathrow baggage handlers frequently complain about foul-smelling packages, some seeping blood"

Iran ready to fully support Palestine

Strong quake kills at least 367 in southern China

There are reports of the Islamic State executing dozens of Yazidis.

UK government reviewing 8bn of arms sales to Israel

Obama - 'Russia doesn't make anything': US president downplays Russia's role in the world, saying Vladimir Putin's actions will hurt country in the long-term.

Israel 'breaks ceasefire in minutes' as eight-year-old girl killed in air strike

Over 400 Ukrainian Military Personnel Request Refugee Status in Russia

"New Fears That 'Bush Meat' Could Spread Ebola Experts warn deadly virus could be carried through smuggled meat"..."While the meat is often disguised as beef, it is often found to be the meat of wild animals such as rat or antelope....7500 tons annually.

Police in China have detained six executives of a meat supply company that supplied long-expired meat to foreign fast food chains McDonalds and KFC-parent Yum Brands Inc, among many others

Indian police have arrested the chairman of state-run Syndicate bank, Sudhir Kumar Jain, and several others over allegations of bribery: The raids are being described as the first large scale anti-corruption moves since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office earlier this year.

More than 130 Palestinians killed in IDF's 'Hannibal' protocol

Israel declares 7-hour humanitarian cease-fire to take effect Monday in Gaza

2014-08-05

Obama signs bill giving Israel $225 million for missile defense system

Hamas militants caught on tape assembling and firing rockets from an area next to a hotel where journalists were staying.

Spain freezes arms exports to Israel over Gaza op- This is the second country to announce sanctions over weapons sale to Israel.

Beijing to ban coal use to curb pollution: Beijing will ban coal use in its six main districts by the end of 2020

Outspoken Russian journalist Timur Kuashev found dead.

Israel Announces Withdrawal of all Troops from Gaza

US to Give Kurdish Forces Air Support

Military jets escort passenger plane to Manchester Airport

2,100-Yr-Old Royal Chinese Tombs DiscoveredJade coffin & over 10,000 artifacts in mausoleum of 3 main tombs, 11 attendant tombs, 5 chariots, swords, spearheads, crossbow triggers, knives found. King's tomb has gold, silver, musical instruments, over 100,000 coins & a kitchen with food.

Pakistani secret service (ISI) planned attacks on US and Israeli consulates in India

Israel Flagged as Top Spy Threat to U.S. in New Snowden/NSA Document

German prosecutors say they would accept an offer of $100m (60m) from Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone to end his trial on bribery charges.

Ebola death toll in Africa reaches 887 (158 more than 4 days ago)

WikiLeaks: "Israel actively supported Hamas" | Documents allegedly show that Israel was interested in empowering Hamas in attempt to end the first Intifada.

Singapore's parliament has passed a bill proposing to fine companies that pollute the country's air, regardless of whether the companies operate on the island. Under the bill, companies found guilty of causing haze could be fined up to S$100,000 ($80,347) for each day they pollute ...

Israeli soldier arrested, suspected of stealing from Gaza home - Decision to investigate incident causes outrage among fellow soldiers

MH17 breakthrough as owner of Volvo truck that transported missile is found

Lady Warsi, British Foreign Office minister resigns over governments morally reprehensible stance on Gaza

Women's engineering colleges in India are closing. Women prefer co-ed colleges because they believe working alongside men improves their job prospects

Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus ruling Likud Party, Moshe Feiglin, has called for the use of concentration camps for the conquest of the entire Gaza Strip.

NZ parliament unanimously condemns Israel

The French Are Thinking About Arming Europe Instead of Russia | VICE News

Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, entered Sinjar, Iraq on Monday and have been engaged in house-to-house battles in some of the fiercest fighting since the fall of Mosul to ISIS in June

Worst forest fire in modern history ravages Sweden, covering over 10,000 hectars of forest and evacuating town after town

27 000 Russian tourists stranded abroad as travel company collapses after economic sanctions

2014-08-06

Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, has banned the support and endorsement of ISIS

Italy expels imam for preaching hatred against Jews

US officials say someone else is leaking documents in the wake of Snowden

Germany blocks the delivery of military parts to Russia

Canadians Cant Drink Their Water After 1.3 Billion Gallons Of Mining Waste Flows Into Rivers

Outrage in Saudi Arabia at appearance of female newsreader without headscarf on state television

Wikipedia has revealed that more than 50 links to content on its website have been removed from Google's search results under the controversial Right to be Forgotten ruling

Angry Palestinians Attack Hamas Official Over Gaza Destruction

NATO says Russia could be poised to invade Ukraine

Iraqi children die as ISIS targets Yazidi minority. Lawmaker Vian Dakhil, the only MP representing the Yazidi minority in Iraq's Parliament, said in an impassioned speech that 70 Yazidi children had died so far, that women were being killed or sold into slavery and that 500 men had been slaughtered.

Member of Iraqi Parliament breaks down in tears: ISIL is exterminating my people (translation included)

Ebola outbreak: British experts urge US and WHO to give Africans experimental cure.

A US 2-star Major General was killed and 15 other soldiers, including a German Brigadier General, were wounded in an attack at a military academy in Afghanistan today. The major general would be the highest-ranking member of the U.S. military to die in hostilities in Afghanistan.

Rosetta satellite set to land on comet after 10 years LIVE

Putin bans agricultural imports from sanctioning countries for 1 year

North Korea plans to fire missiles at White House, Pentagon if US-South Korea continue military exercises

Perus New Cocaine - Illegal gold miningfarmers digging up ore & selling it on the black market, so that it may eventually end up wrapped around your fiances fingeris a major cause of rain forest depletion. It has devastated nearly 370,000 acres of the Peruvian Amazon.

France 24 Reporter Reveals Hamas Rocket Launcher Fired Near Civilians, United Nations Facility and Reporters

ISIS commander killed in Lebanon clashes

Putin spends 300 billion roubles from public pension savings to plug fiscal holes, second year in a row

More than 400 children have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza, and almost a thousand times as many are traumatized and face an "extraordinarily bleak" future, says top UNICEF official in Gaza

US spy plane photos reveal groups of girls believed to be those kidnapped by Boko Haram from a Nigerian boarding school

Between 35,000-50,000 Yazidis are completely surrounded by ISIS militants in Sinjar, Iraq

Iraqi Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst.

Leader in murder of Israeli teens arrested

2014-08-07

Campaign Mounts to Declassify 9/11 Reports References to Alleged Saudi Involvement

Snowden granted 3-yr residence permit

Chinese city bans anyone with Islamic clothing or a 'big beard' from boarding buses after terror attacks across the country

Israel proposes ceasefire extension; Hamas declines

Netanyahu: Hamas accepted the exact ceasefire they rejected three weeks earlier. 90% of all casualties could have been avoided

Russian Poacher Faces 7 Years in Prison for Killing Extremely Rare Amur Leopard. Fewer than 50 remain in the wild.

France Passes Sweeping Gender Equality Law - At a time when women in many parts of the world are seeing their rights restricted, violated, & disrespected, France has set an important example." 'Ensuring a womans right to control her fertility is fundamental to achieving gender equality.'

The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows

Isis seizes Iraq's largest Christian town

40,000 Iraqis stranded on mountain as Isis jihadists threaten death

Ecuador to open embassy in 'Palestine', president cancels visit to Israel

Turkey airdrops aid to starving Iraqi refugees stranded on mountain

Jimmy Carter slams Israel in pro-Palestine op-ed

'Help Israel avoid war crimes charges,' Netanyahu urges US lawmakers

New Hepatitis-C drug 99% cheaper in India

Ebola survivors shunned as zombies in Guinea

The CDC has issued its highest alert for an all-hands on deck response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Spacecraft catches comet after 10-year chase

Russia will ban all imports of food from the United States and all fruit and vegetables from Europe, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, a sweeping response to Western sanctions imposed over its support for rebels in Ukraine.

Russia publishes list of banned EU and US foods in sanctions response

EU proposes Gaza reconstruction for Hamas disarmament

IDF orders West Bank village land seized for settler road

40 Yazidi children killed in Islamic State attack

Russian Hackers Stole 1.2 Billion Passwords

Fukushima reactor 3 meltdown was worse than estimated: Tepco

2014-08-08

Obama authorizes targeted airstrikes in Iraq against Islamic militants, along with airdrops.

Man found wandering in northern Maine IDd as Rwandan gnocidaire whom Canada says helped kill 200 in hospital in 94

Ebola is declared an international health emergency.

US launches Iraq militant air strike

Hamas breaks ceasefire, fires rockets at Israel.

ISIS: 'We Will Raise The Flag Of Allah In The White House'

Russia bans anonymous public Wi-Fi.

Argentina sues US at top UN court over debt

Hamas: If Gaza blockade isn't lifted, we'll renew fire Friday

Archbishop: Hamas Fired Out of Our Church in Gaza

Australia's 'cruel' asylum regime must end, say 190 experts

China Irritated With Christianity, is Creating its Own Version

First Ebola case suspected in Greece

UK government announces plan to cut funding to schools that teach creationism; children as young as 2 must learn 'British values'

Ukraine considers stopping all transit from Russia, including gas as form of sanctions - PM

Kiev's Independence Square Is on Fire Again

Know your place you shameless woman, Erdoan tells journalist for The Economist

American Forces Said to Bomb ISIS Targets in Iraq

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister calls for 'Ending imprisonment for the possession of drugs for personal use'

Iraqi Airstrikes kill 130 IS Militants in Mosul

14-year-old girl reunited with her family after being swept away by tsunami 10 years ago

Kurdish Pershmaga transport large amount of Yazidi refugees to safe areas of Kurdistan

Israeli minister urges Germany and EU to send inspectors to Gaza

Ebola scare reaches Delhi, India - 3 under watch in Dwarka

RAF planes to drop food aid in Iraq

2014-08-11

At least half of the 40,000 people besieged by jihadists on a mountaintop in northern Iraq have escaped in the past 24 hours, aided by Kurdish rebels who crossed from Syria to rescue them.

The U.S. military has systematically covered up or disregarded abundant and compelling evidence of war crimes, torture, and unlawful killings in Afghanistan as recently as last year, according to a report by Amnesty International

Ukrainian government forces are preparing for the final stage of recapturing the city of Donetsk from pro-Russian separatist rebels.

North Korea plans report on human rights: North Korea, unhappy with a damning, in-depth United Nations sponsored study of human rights conditions in the country, is planning its own assessment.

Ambulance service in New Zealand fails to respond to critically ill patient for 1 hour and 10 minutes - despite being 5 minutes away from Auckland Hospital. The patient works for one of New Zealand's largest news agencies.

Kurdish forces retake 2 towns from ISIS in northern Iraq

NATO sees 'high probability' of Russian invasion as Ukraine troops close on Donetsk

Iraq crisis: US to arm Kurds - live updates

Ban Ki-moon secretly worked with Israel to undermine UN report into Gaza war crimes, says WikiLeaks

Australian MP listed as secret KGB informant in Russian archives

An artillery shell landed in a high-security prison in the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, sparking a riot in which 106 inmates escaped, local officials say.

Nuclear reactors closed after faults found at north England power plants - Defects found in boiler units by inspectors lead to 4 reactors being taken offline, 2 at Heysham 1 & 2 at Hartlepool

North Korea launch surfing tours on east coast

Head of Human Rights Watch denied entry after landing in Cairo ahead of release of report on mass killing of protesters.

20,000 Iraqis besieged by Isis escape from mountain after US air strikes

Hillary Clinton blasts 'unfair' world reaction over Gaza, cites anti-Semitism as factor

Police want right to see medical records without consent

Report: Hamas Executes Dozens of 'Terror Tunnel' Diggers

Fracking campaigners criticise 'censored' report on house prices. Government urged to publish sections cut from study into impact of shale gas wells on local communities

Desperate Christians in Iraq beg UK and US to send in troops

Ukraine says Russia has massed 45,000 troops on joint border | Reuters

Israel Finds Silent Backing Among Arab Nations Hostile to Hamas

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 International said Monday. NATO said it would review the report.

Erdogan wins Turkey's presidential election: Unofficial results show PM won Turkey's first directly elected poll with 52 percent as his main rival concedes victory.

US Bombs ISIS Again

2014-08-12

Norway joins the sanctions against Russia

Rob Ford says threatening email has given him 12 hours to resign or City Hall will be blown up

Icelandic Girls Can't be Called Harriet, Govt Tells Family- Authorities reluctant to renew passport of Harriet, 10, as name is not on approved list of 3,565

'Miracle' birth of world's first healthy panda triplets in China - Telegraph

A Spanish missionary who contracted the Ebola virus while working in West Africa has died in hospital in Madrid.

Swedish dad takes gamer kids to warzone

Madagascars National Assembly has quietly adopted a cybercrime law that provides for prison sentences for anyone insulting or defaming a state representative online

ISIS was too brutal for Osama bin Laden, letter reveals

U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil began drilling in Russias Arctic on Saturday, despite Western sanctions imposed on its Russian partner Rosneft, and was hailed by Russias president as an model of cooperation.

280 humanitarian aid trucks have left Russia for war-torn eastern Ukraine.

Russian aid convoy 'will not be admitted into Ukraine'

Israel allows Jews to immigrate with same-sex spouses

RAF fighter jets head for Iraq as Islamic State warns world 'has seen nothing yet'

China to start direct sales of fruit and vegetables to Russia

Israel-Gaza conflict: Petition to send Royal Navy hospital ship to Gaza reaches 50,000

India to add 10,000 MW of wind energy every year.

To date, more than 170 health care workers have been infected with ebola

Ebola: Nigeria now has 10 confirmed cases, 177 under surveillance

A U.S.-designated terrorist group is saving Yazidis and battling the Islamic State

Chinese city invests 5 million yuan ($813,000) building bridges for migrating macaque monkeys threatened by a reservoir

Israel To Allow Gay Jews To Immigrate With Non-Jewish Same-Sex Spouses

U.N. Names Panel to Investigate War Crimes in Gaza; Israel Slams It

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid calls on the international community to create a massive aid package for Gaza conditioned on the Palestinian Authority returning to power. Adds that if Hamas were removed, the blockade would end.

Israel says no white phosphorous fired in Gaza this time

Google Is Backing a New $300 Million High-Speed Internet Trans-Pacific Cable System between the US and Japan

2014-08-13

South Koreas firstand onlyastronaut just quit her job, ending the countrys manned space program

NSA was responsible for 2012 Syrian internet blackout, Snowden says

Iranian is first woman to nab highest prize in maths: The Int'l Mathematical Union has revealed the winners of the 2014 Fields medals, considered the highest honour in mathematics. The 4 young medallists including Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female winner since the prizes were established in 1936

ISIS brutally subdues rebellion in Syria, beheading and crucifying tribesmen who resisted their rule

Australia open to sending troops to Iraq to prevent genocide by Islamic State, Protecting people from murder at the hands of ISIL terrorists is a humanitarian cause ...and Australia has a long and proud tradition of assisting people in need

Brazil presidential candidate Campos in plane crash: source

Leader of the Conservative People's Party in Denmark: 'I'm gay, so what?'

Thorium-based 300 MW nuclear power plant in India to be commissioned in 2015

Egypt's top religious authority condemns ISIS describing it as a corrupt, extremist organisation that is damaging Islam

Russia accepts Ukrainian stipulations to hand over convoy of aid trucks to Red Cross before they enter country

Canadians spend more on taxes than on food, clothes and housing, study finds

Islamic State Supporters Hand Out Leaflets in Central London Promising 'Dawn of a New Era'

Archaeologists uncover Greece's biggest ancient tomb - The official said the Amphipolis site, about 65 miles north-east of Greece's second-biggest city, Thessaloniki, appeared to be the largest ancient tomb to have been discovered in Greece.

280-truck Russian aid convoy set to reach Ukraine border within hours

Israel furious as UN unveils Gaza probe team

Australias Treasurer Joe Hockey claims fuel tax increase wont affect poor people because they dont have cars

A landslide in eastern Switzerland has derailed a train in a "serious accident", police say, amid reports that carriages have plunged into a ravine.

China arrests North Korean defectors near Laos border, the group which includes women and children will be deported back to North Korea

UN report finds Gaza construction funding incorrectly handled by non-staff UN personnel

'US is sending 130 more military advisors to northern Iraq to help Kurds fight militants'

Hundreds of PKK Kurdish fighters poured into Iraq on Friday turning the tides against ISIS

Islamic State seizes towns near Turkish border -- "a significant expansion."

AP video journalist, translator killed in Gaza

UK to suspend military exports to Israel, if fighting in Gaza resumes

French town is resistant to changing their name from 'La-mort-aux-Juifs' which means 'Death to Jews'

2014-08-14

A group of North Korean defectors held by China on the Laos border is released to South Korea rather than repatriated in sign of a Chinese policy change

A Russian convoy carrying "humanitarian aid" has turned away from its route towards a confrontation with government officials at the Ukrainian border - and is now heading straight for rebel-held areas.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Passengers Bank Accounts Being Accessed Unknowingly, Money Goes Missing- Report

4 Billion Gallons of Mining Waste Pour Into Pristine B.C. Waterways

Coal generation down as Germany breaks yet another renewables record. Green electricity meets 28 per cent of demand in first half of 2014

Two hours before ceasefire set to end, and with parties still working in Cairo to extend lull, Gaza militants break truce, fire rockets at Israel.

Pesticide Ban Call to Save Bees - 'Scottish Wildlife Trust' reports 60% decline in bumblebees. Hoverflies & butterflies also at threat. Govt says it's "committed to taking a precautionary approach on the use of neonicotinoids".

US ground troops land on Iraq's Mt Sinjar to evacuate trapped Yazidis

The Australian government's chief business adviser says too much time has been spent focusing on global warming and as a result Australians are "ill prepared" to deal with the prospect of global cooling. He also states that global warming only persists because science has been made a religion.

Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak welcomes family of US soldier who died shielding a Pole from suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Father of US soldier: "I feel that he is not only a Polish soldier, but my brother and part of our family."

German public debt falls for first time in post-war era

Israeli official confirms US nixed arms sale to Israel

Ukraine rebel head Strelkov 'quits'

ISIS Shifts Tactics As US Bombings Begin, 'Blend Into' Population

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid in apparent shot at Netanyahu: "Crisis in US-Israel relations is a very concerning trend... Sometimes, you just have to know how to say thank you."

Pro-ISIS leaflets handed out on Oxford Street (London)

Seoul: N. Korea fires projectiles as pope visits

Restrictions on gay men donating blood outdated, says Tory MP

SAS sent in to Iraq as US troops land on Mount Sinjar

UPDATE 1-One child killed and two wounded in Sinai rocket attack

Hello Kitty, Japan's ambassador of cute, is on a government-funded mission to space: The project to launch Sanrio Co Ltd's white cat with a pink bow into orbit is part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to promote Japan's high-tech industry and engineer economic growth.

Nigeria fears Ebola spread to east by infected nurse who "disobeyed medical instructions"

Putin says Russia Should Aim to Sell Energy in Roubles

Norwegian Journalist: Hamas Expels Reporters Over Critical Coverage

Gaza conflict: Israel and Hamas agree to extend ceasefire by five days

2014-08-15

It could be the most exotic material on the planet. Seven particles of dust brought back to Earth by a spacecraft nearly a decade ago appear to have come from beyond our solar system. The specks have all the hallmarks of being created in interstellar space.

Malaysian police have arrested a bank officer and her husband over allegations they stole more than $30,000 from the accounts of four passengers aboard missing flight MH370

Two female Italian aid workers who ignored their parents' pleas and snuck into Syria have been kidnapped by Islamist militants

Hezbollah describes Islamic State as a growing "monster" that could threaten Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf states.

Ebola moving too fast, doctors say

Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine as aid convoy stops short of border

NATO confirm Russia 'incursion' in Ukraine

Hamas spokesperson: We deported foreign journalists for filming missile launches

Russia bans Ukrainian language from schools in Crimea

World's Rarest Dolphins Under Threat from Oil Exploration in New Zealand Sanctuary - The govt has to listen to the international scientific experts & give this species a shot at survival." Govt accused of threatening survival of Mauis dolphins, but it disagrees.

Hong Kong legal body votes to oust its pro-Beijing president

Finland's President Niinisto to Putin: "Sanctions bite both, let's discuss Ukraine"

Second group of Amazonian Indians makes contact with outside world

China rights lawyer malnourished after prison; can no longer speak intelligibly

Vatican Approves US Airstrikes in Iraq

Serbian mercenaries fighting in eastern Ukraine | Serbian fighters fight side by side with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. According to Belgrade, they're not the only ones active in Ukraine, either.

Rosneft asks Putin for $42bn loan

Russia amending list of banned EU products - Lactose-free milk products and specialty foods for food-allergy sufferers are being taken off the list of forbidden agricultural imports from EU countries into Russia.

Israel Braces for War Crimes Inquiries on Gaza

Russian aid convoy checked; military vehicles mass near Ukraine

Venezuela wants to offload Citgo, its American refinery and pipelines unit. It may be worth up to $15 billion, but the country will sell it for less because Maduros administration is running out of cash.

Poland puts on biggest military parade in years as tensions rise next door in Ukraine

Pastafarian- B.C. man is fighting the system for not allowing him to wear his religious headgear (colander) for his licence.

Crackdown on Fish Poaching in Wales Nets 139 Arrests in 1st 4 Months - Biggest concern is "foul hooking", which involves dragging hooks through water at high speed trying to impale fish, as it leaves more fish damaged & dying than are brought to shore

Ukrainians in Czech Republic called up to serve in war

2014-08-18

Residents of Beijing can use one of the citys 34 newly installed recycling machines to trade empty bottles for phone card rebates or free public transit passes.

Israel bars Amnesty, Human Rights Watch workers from Gaza

Canadian Doctors decline request from Health Canada to back Anti-Marijuana campaign.

Sweet victory for Mexico beekeepers as Monsanto loses GM permit

Saudi prince robbed in Paris after motorcade held at gunpoint

Six LGBT persons have been stoned to death in rural Uganda -- They were killed by stoning. One who survived (still breathing after stoning) was burnt alive using kerosene/paraffin and a match box

For 15 years, over $77 million in counterfeit $100 bills have flooded into the US from Israel.

Julian Assange 'to leave Ecuadorian embassy' and could surrender to police

Australian authorities are failing to protect Great Barrier Reef because of Australian PM Tony Abbott's approval of the dumping of dredge soil

E-cigarettes set to be banned in India soon

Israel may be accused of war crimes by UN council

Gaza's ruling Hamas placed dozens of activists from the rival Fatah movement under house arrest during the Gaza war and shot several in the legs for not staying indoors

Plans for one of Australias largest solar power stations scrapped - Decision to suspend Mildura solar power station comes amid speculation renewable energy target may be scrapped

British Muslim wants to renounce citizenship and move to the Islamic State

Inequality grows as pay gap for bosses and workers is higher than ever

Ukraine's flag raised over Luhansk

Russian sanctions create surplus of European produce | Russian sanctions have left farmers in Europe high and dry. If they put their produce on EU markets, prices would likely crash. So what is to become of this year's harvest?

Biggest oil discovery in 30 years found off Western Australia coast

Liberia confirms West Point patients missing: Following earlier denials, Liberia has admitted that 17 suspected Ebola patients are "missing" after a health centre in the capital was looted. The gov't had sought to reassure people, saying all the patients had been moved to another health facility.

U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a potent digital weapon for sale overseas

Australian Teenage supporter of Islamic State arrested for hate crime.

Israel's Shin Bet security service said Monday it had thwarted a Hamas coup attempt in the West Bank aimed at toppling Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Torture And Rendition: Diplomats 'Trying To Censor' US Senate Report On British Role In CIA Activities

A powerful volcano, Brarbunga, might erupt in the Highlands of Iceland. The Icelandic Met Office has upgraded its aviation alert status to orange, meaning that a "volcano shows heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption."

Hamas in West Bank 'planned to topple Palestinian Authority'

2014-08-19

Two sisters who kidnapped 13 young children and forced them to work as pickpockets before murdering them are to become the first women to be executed in India.

Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments To Look Like American Superheroes

100,000 elephants killed in Africa between 2010 and 2012, study finds

Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, said on Tuesday the militant groups Islamic State and al-Qaida were "enemy number one of Islam" and not in any way part of the faith.

Israel: 'Rockets From Gaza Break Ceasefire'

Pope: I have only two or three years left to live

North Korea Moves Tanks, Armored Vehicles to Chinese Border

Air France cabin crew are so concerned about the threat of the Ebola epidemic that unions have started a petition calling for flights to be stopped to those West African countries most affected by the disease.

Egypt calls for restraint in Ferguson

Three rockets explode in Israel, hours before truce to expire - Diplomacy and Defense

ISIS to America: "We Will Drown All of You In Blood" for airstrikes.

Hezbollah kills local Islamic State leader in Qalamoun, near the Lebanon-Syria border

Yazidis haunted by cries for help as militants bury victims alive

Liberian army told to 'shoot on sight' anyone crossing border as search for Ebola patients continues

Liberia: all 17 runaway Ebola patients found

No longer pinned down by U.S. air cover, Taliban fighters are attacking Afghan military posts in larger numbers with the aim of taking and holding ground a shift from the hit-and-run strikes with posses of gunmen, explosives and suicide bombers

An American Tribe Wants a German Museum to Return Native American Scalps - The German Museums Association says that scalps are not subject to the same ethical guidelines that govern other human remains

Five weeks out from an election, New Zealand is hit by a "Watergate" scandal implicating the Prime Minister.

Montreal firefighters trash city hall over pension dispute, police watch from sidelines

Australian Politician Clive Palmer releases Tirade, referring to the Chinese as "Mongrels" and "Bastards". China responds by labelling the verbal attack as "Absurd and irresponsible". Possible tensions for Trade Agreement between the countries that was set to be tabled by the end of the year.

US should mind its own problems, not meddle in others affairs Russian FM

Europe 'shot itself in foot' with Russia sanctions: Hungary PM

Hazelnut prices soar, fuelling fears of Nutella shortage

Nigerian woman suspected of Ebola dies in UAE on way to India

China liquor reported spiked with Viagra

2014-08-20

US Journalist, James Foley, beheaded by ISIS "Warning to America".

Maya Cities Found in Yucatan2 massive cities hidden by dense vegetation. "In the jungle you can be 600 ft from a large site & not suspect it." Both feature plazas surrounded by palace-like buildings & pyramids, one 65 ft high, & ball courts. Stele with date 'November 29, AD 711' found.

Isis fighter who beheaded US journalist appears to be British, Hammond says

The Islamic State Executes Female Dentist for Treating Men

Iran to produce 400,000 electric motorcycles to help reduce air pollution. Once the plan is implemented, only electric motorcycles will be allowed on the streets of central Tehran.

German development minister Gerd Mueller accuses Qatar of financing ISIS

Chinese coal consumption just fell for first time this century

The computers of high-ranking officials in agencies involved in the MH370 investigation were hacked and classified information was stolen.

Sierra Leone's 365 Ebola deaths traced back to one healer

North Korea says US Secretary of State John Kerry is a wild dog with a 'hideous lantern jaw'

Sea plankton discovered outside space station

Muhammad is now the most popular babies name in England and Wales, when its three main spelling variations are counted.

Earth sliding into ecological debt earlier and earlier, campaigners warn. World has already exhausted a years supply of natural resources in less than eight months, Global Footprint Network says

Qatar threatened Hamas leader Khaled Mashal that it would expel him if Hamas accepts the Egyptian ceasefire truce deal

ISIS Threatens the life of another U.S Journalist, Steven Sotloff, after alleged beheading of James Foley

Israel Reports HAMAS Military Chief Killed In Airstrike

Changes to Australian Security Laws Will Make Illegally Obtained Evidence Permisable in Court

200-Year-Old Alcohol Found in Shipwreck Is Still Drinkable

Reporting from Gaza: Criticism of Hamas slowly growing among population

Activists paint Moscow's 'Stalin Tower' with Ukraine colours

Curiosity rover in danger as wheels get punctured and badly damaged due to harsh terrain

'He deserves to die like bin Laden': Israel defends air strike that killed Hamas leader's wife and baby son as militant group warns: 'You've opened the gates of hell'

#ISISMediaBlackout goes viral following purported execution of James Foley.

Hamas claims responsibility for the rocket strike on central Israel. They claim they used a Fajr-5 rocket.

Saudi Arabia executes four for hashish possession

2014-08-21

ISIS Spokesman Who Promised To 'Raise The Flag Of Allah In The White House' Is Killed

Canadian government orders scientist not to disclose extent of polar melting

U.S. military announces 14 airstrikes in Iraq following James Foley execution

British Right-Wing party (UKIP) calls to strip Islamic State militants of their British citizenship

North Korean Internet users download American Porn, Violent video games and British TV show Top Gear

Suicide Tourism: Terminally ill Britons now make up a nearly one quarter of users of suicide clinics in Switzerland. Only Germany has a higher numbers of suicide tourists visiting institutions to end their own lives

A 111-year-old Japanese national has been certified as the world's oldest man. With this, Japan now boasts of having the world's oldest man and woman

Confirmed: Microbial life found half mile below Antarctic ice sheet

Earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source decades after the compound was banned worldwide

A 70-year-old Australian grandfather has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel, celebrating his feat by having a couple of beers "for medicinal purposes"

Gaza rocket fire hits new heights: 168 launched in one day

In first, Hamas official takes credit for kidnap and murder of Israeli teens

Obama addresses James Foleys beheading by ISIS: No just God would stand for what they did

James Foley death sparks manhunt to find British jihadist

Israel kills three top Hamas commanders

Shortly after Ugandas controversial Anti-Homosexuality Act was struck down by the courts on a technicality, a similar proposed bill in neighboring Kenya seeking harsh punishments for homosexuals was found unconstitutional

Ivory poachers killing elephants faster than they are being born, a new study says

Growing fears that Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano could be about to erupt, with around 1,000 earthquakes in the past 24 hours:

Three more Tibetans have died of untreated gunshot wounds after Chinese authorities fired on peaceful protesters last week in Sichuan Province and refused to treat the dozens who were injured and detained

Ecuador president confirms that the country has granted asylum to Julian Assange

Three top Hamas commanders killed in Israeli strike

Police warn sharing James Foley killing video is a crime under Britain's anti-terror laws. Even viewing the video may be a criminal offense.

Hundreds Rally in Ireland After Rape Victim Says Denied Abortion

Israel-Gaza conflict: Anti-Semitic incidents 'up 500%' in UK since start of bombardment of Gaza

James Foley captors first asked for $135 million ransom

2014-08-22

The president of Indonesia, the worlds most populous Muslim-majority country, deemed the actions of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group embarrassing to the religion and called upon Muslim leaders to unite in tackling extremism

Orangutan experts plead for Australian food manufacturers to reject palm oil - Apes, elephants, rhinos & tigers at dire risk if unsustainable palm oil plantations allowed in Sumatran reserve

Saudi Arabia has beheaded 19 people this month, including one for sorcery

Mexico says 22,322 people now 'disappeared'

The Syrian Army killed at least 70 Islamic State terroristis in Syria in the last 48 hours.

Muslims in Norway mobilize against extremists

Hamas Kills 11 Suspected Informers for Israel

Israeli boy, 4, killed by Gaza mortar in south; Rocket sirens wail in Tel Aviv

Hamas admits kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank

Top U.S. military brass warns ISIS has apocalyptic, end-of-days plan that cant be stopped without attacks in Syria

Hezbollah condemns beheading of American photojournalist James Foley, describing the killing as a savage crime executed by terrorist groups

Chinese Jet Threatened U.S. Intelligence Aircraft: "The defense officials said the Chinese Su-27 interceptor jet flew within 50 feet of the P-8 and then carried out a barrel roll over the top of the aircraft--a move described by officials as dangerous and meant to threaten the surveillance aircraft"

Ukraine president pledges to 'talk peace' with Putin. "The whole world is tired of the war."

Pentagon: Isis is 'beyond anything we've seen' and must be contained

Man Cured Of Ebola With Experimental Drug: 'Today Is A Miraculous Day'

Russia shuts down McDonald's branches in Moscow amid Ukraine row

Father hurt saving kindergarten kids from Gaza rocket

Iraqi Christians welcomed in France: Iraqi Christians reach France after fleeing Islamists

Seals carried tuberculosis across the Atlantic, gave it to humans. Disease was present in the Americas prior to European contact.

Russia to move Ukraine aid convoy

Shi'ite militias open fire in Iraqi mosque, killing 30 Sunnis

Mass surveillance of online communications allows Indian state to arrest people "pre-emptively" for piracy intent

Russian aid trucks cross border into Ukraine, without Kyiv's approval: "Frustrated by a week of delays, Russia sent dozens of aid trucks into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without Kyiv's approval, saying its patience had worn out with the Ukrainian government's stalling tactics"

NSA and GCHQ agents 'leak Tor bugs' - The Tor Project says it believes some NSA and GCHQ agents are surreptitiously leaking it information to protect anonymity on the net

The British jihadi who decapitated the U.S. journalist is thought to be an educated Londoner named John.

2014-08-25

Australia: Conservationists making last ditch plea to fed. govt to help prevent endangered black cockatoos from becoming extinct due to the felling of their pine forest - Perth people love their birds & this is an iconic species. We need the state & federal govt to take urgent action over this.

SAS, Delta Force, and Seal Team 6 forming hunter killer unit to 'smash Islamic State'

More than 720 whales have been harpooned in Norway in the most deadly hunting season since the Government began defying an international ban in 1993.

30 Metre Wide Sinkhole Appears in Durham, England - So deep its bottom can't be seen. Gaping void discovered by woman walking dog, still growing in size. "The sound was phenomenal. We could hear rumbling & smashing & crashing from down below."

Congo declares Ebola outbreak

Indias Untouchables Still Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand - Practice of forcing low-caste people in Indian communities to remove accumulated human waste from latrines is continuing despite legal prohibitions, according to new report.

A column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles has crossed into southeastern Ukraine

Mayor of London says Britons visiting Iraq or Syria should be presumed terrorists

Assange scheduled to help Kim Dotcom drop 'bombshell' on NZ prime minister 5 days before the NZ elections.

Iran Sends Tanks to Iraq to Fight ISIS

Burger King in merger talks with Canada's Tim Hortons

An American journalist kidnapped in Syria nearly two years ago has been freed and handed over to U.N. representatives after Qatari mediation helped lead to his release.

ISIS captures major military base in Syria using a child suicide bomber

7.0 Earthquake in Tambo, Peru

70 percent of Israelis living near Gaza have left | i24news

French PM presents government resignation

'Sex superbug': Concerns over spread of highly resistant gonorrhoea strain found in Australia

US 'set to launch air strikes' on senior Isis leaders in Syria

Tunnels as tall as the Eiffel Tower discovered under Antarctic ice

'Incredible' rate of polar ice loss alarms scientists

'Widespread methane leakage' from ocean floor off US coast

110 rockets fired at Israel since midnight as barrages continue

Ukraine border guards clash with rebels near Russian border: military

Hamas fires 23 mortars at crossing used for humanitarian aid supplies.

Jihad Made in Kosovo | Over the span of two days, 43 Islamic extremists were arrested in Kosovo. Dozens more are under watch, both at home and in the Middle East. As fears of terror attacks grow, Kosovo is clamping down

2014-08-26

A 22 yr old Australian Aboriginal woman who died in jail after twice seeking medical attention from authorities who deemed her healthy, was imprisoned over unpaid fines totalling just $1000

Russia admits its soldiers have been caught in Ukraine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approval rating hits 38%, down from 82% last month.

Burger King Worldwide Inc. has agreed to acquire Tim Hortons Inc. for about $12.5 billion in a deal and move its headquarters to Canada.

Malaysia Airlines flights are empty and the airline is burning $2Million per day

U.S. and Iran Hit ISIS, Ignore Each Other

Russian soldiers captured in east Ukraine crossed border "by accident"

ISIS Militant Who Loved Taking Photos With Severed Heads Killed In Iraq

Finland Says NATO an Option After Russia Violates Border Laws

'Ban E-cig use indoors,' says WHO

As many as 112 Indian nationals suspected to have been exposed to the Ebola virus are expected to land in Mumbai from Liberia on seven different flights Tuesday.

Putting the full blame for Palestinian situation on Hamas, Saudi foreign minister calls for Arab nations to strengthen ties with Israel

US shocked at UAE air strikes in Libya

NASAs New Horizons Spacecraft Crosses Neptune Orbit En Route to Historic Pluto Encounter

The Islamic State may be raising more than $2 million a day in revenue from oil sales, extortion, taxes and smuggling, according to U.S. intelligence officials and anti-terrorism finance experts.

Turkey struggles as 'lone gatekeeper' against Islamic State recruitment: "The Islamic State is here to establish the law of God ... Turkey is not being ruled based on God's law but as a secular state."

Pope Francis endorses use of force to "stop" unjust aggressor ISIS

French Cabinet Is Dissolved, A Victim of Austerity Battles: The collapse of the French government on Monday exposed widening divisions both within Frances leadership, and Europe more broadly, over austerity policies that many now fault for threatening to tip the eurozone back into recession.

Islamic States Own Photos Used to Find One of Its Training Camps

Charred U.S. dollars fluttering in street after Israeli missile blows up car with alleged Hamas money man inside

ISIS Demands $6.6M Ransom for 26-Year-Old American Woman.

China Is Building a National Operating System to Cut Out Microsoft and Google

Pakistan suffers heavy casualties as Indian govt gives troops free hand to retaliate against ceasefire violations.

ISIS developing 'sophisticated drones to launch attacks on Israel and US'

UK embassy apologises for 'burning White House' tweet

2014-08-27

Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, to go ahead with $244 million program that introduces religious chaplains to state schools and keeps secular workers out.

Terror suspects may lose Norwegian citizenship: The government is considering withdrawing Norwegian citizenship from individuals taking part in terror activities and wars abroad.

North Korea calls US a "human rights graveyard" over Ferguson.

American Douglas McAuthur McCain Killed Fighting for ISIS in Syria

Irreversible Damage Seen From Climate Change in UN Leak

Great Barrier Reef: Australian MP Says He "Got it Wrong" on Dredging Spoil - Admits he was wrong to support dumping of 5m tons of sediment into the Reef's marine park. Writes open letter, saying he's looking at options to dump dredging spoil on land.

All schools in Nigeria have been ordered to remain shut until 13 October as part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The new academic year was due to start on Monday.

Rotherham sex abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited by Asian gangs while authorities turned a blind eye - Telegraph

The Argentine government says it is revoking the operating license of a U.S. bank that has played a central role in the dispute that recently pushed the country into default

Nato plans east European bases to counter Russian threat

Astronomers: First Evidence Of Water Clouds Discovered Outside Solar System

London Metropolitan Police chief apologises for officer's unlawful use of CS spray on protesters - Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe admits officer used excessive force when he sprayed teargas into faces of UK Uncut protesters

NATO Plans More Visible Presence in Eastern Europe: It is safe to say that nobody had expected Russia to grab land by force. We also saw a remarkable change in the Russian military approach and capability since, for instance, the Georgian war in 2008.

The U.S. Coast Guard fired at an Iranian fishing dhow in the Persian Gulf after the Iranian boat pointed a machine gun at the American crew, the Navy said on Tuesday.

Egypt's Sisi says Qatar and Turkey are spending millions to spread chaos in Arab lands

16% of French Citizens Support ISIS, Poll Finds

The Ukrainian military said on Wednesday that more Russian soldiers had crossed the border into eastern Ukraine, entering the small town of Amvrosiyivka in five armoured infantry carriers and a truck.

Saudi Arabia busts cell of ISIS recruiters

Iran to military intervene in Iraq "with no restrictions" if ISIS captures holy Shiite cities of Karbala and Najaf

China Said to Consider $16 Billion Electric Vehicle-Charging Fund - Chinas central government last month set a target for electric cars to make up at least 30 percent of government vehicle purchases by 2016.

Syrian rebels take over border crossing with Israel | i24news

Advertising Standards Authority rules Peabodys clean coal ad misleading

Ukraine's PM says Russia has plans to block gas flows to Europe

Iranian General Threatens Surprise Attack on Israel; wants to "air its grievances with Israel on the 'battlefield' "

IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Under Investigation Over Fraud Charges

2014-08-28

NASA confirms that their rocket to Mars will have first launch in 2018

Russia has begun "full scale invasion" into Ukraine fighting now on two fronts.

Russian state/military aircraft have violated Finnish airspace for the third time in a week today.

Pablo Escobar's hitman released from prison after 22 years. Responsible for over 3k assasinations.

NATO releases satellite imagery showing Russian combat forces inside Ukraine

Putin's human rights adviser says Russia 'invading' Ukraine

Lithuania calls for UN meeting over Russian invasion of Ukraine

ISIS Says It's Burning Marijuana Fields in Syria

Superstitious People Are Dismembering Albinos in Tanzania - In one case, 3 men armed with machetes hacked a 15-yr-old girl's right arm off. A witch doctor had told them they could get $600 for it. Others are being killed to harvest their skin, bones, & hair.

The authorities in Brazil say they have dismantled a criminal organisation they believe was the "biggest destroyer" of the Amazon rainforest.

India launches banking for the poor - expected to provide banking services for 90 million people by Jan 15 it is aimed to serve as channel directly to people thereby reducing corruption. Account holder gets to have zero balance without risk of closure and provides life and accident insurance

Russian soldiers 'buried in secret'

Merkel asks Putin to explain reports of Russian troops in Ukraine

47 UN peacekeepers 'abducted by al-Qaeda linked Syrian rebels', Fears for the safety of UN peacekeepers reported missing during fighting on the Golan Heights involving Al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda linked group

Ukraine crisis: T-72 tank shoots hole in Russian denial

Poll: 89% of Gazans support rocket fire on Israel

Hamas's political leader emerges after cease-fire to proclaim Jerusalem as the goal

UN Security Council Meets on Ukraine Crisis

MH370: satellite phone call revealed as Australia gives update on search

Russia Says It Will Respond To NATO Troop Rotations In East

Egyptian soldiers kill Palestinian exiting tunnel near Rafah

U.N. calls emergency meeting on Ukraine crisis

EU lawmakers are threatening to block a multi-billion dollar trade pact between Canada and the European Union because it would allow firms to sue governments if they breach the treaty.

A British nurse infected with Ebola may have caught the deadly virus after playing with a one-year-old boy whose mother had died in a treatment centre but who himself had initially tested negative for the disease, a medical colleague has said.

ISIS Is Recruiting Child Soldiers, Committing War Crime, As It Gains Ground In Aleppo

2014-08-29

Ukraine to seek Nato membership

U.S. says Russia has 'outright lied' about Ukraine

Russian Army Wives Are Protesting For Russia To Come Clean About Where Soldiers Are

Russians start asking: are we at war?

Ukraine Asserts Russian Invasion and Reinstitutes Draft

Obama on Russian invasion: "Ukraine is not a member of NATO. But a number of those states that are close by are. And we take our Article Five commitments to defend each other very seriously."

WildLeaks: a whistleblower platform for poaching and wildlife crimes | Many witnesses of poaching or other wildlife crimes remain silent, fearing retribution. An anonymous whistlebower platform aims to change that. The WildLeaks project is turning information into action on the ground

Malaysia Airlines lays off 6,000 jobs

UK's terror threat level raised to 'severe'

A volcanic eruption has started in Iceland's Brarbunga

Renewable energy capacity grows at fastest ever pace- Green technologies now produce 22% of world's electricity

Finland Upgrades NATO Ties After Condemning Russian Tactics

The idea that the United States or any outside power would perpetually defeat Isis, I think, is unrealistic, Obama said.

Italy Steps Up Security Over Alleged ISIS Plot to Kill The Pope

Putin likens Ukraine's forces to Nazis and threatens standoff in the Arctic

Obama rules out US military action in Ukraine

Gene studies of Ebola in Sierra Leone show virus is mutating fast

MILF vows to stop spread of ISIS 'virus' in the Philippines

More than 100 Russian soldiers were killed in eastern Ukraine in a battle this month while helping pro-Russian separatists fight Ukrainian troops, two members of the Russian presidential human rights council said on Thursday, citing accounts of eye-witness and relatives of the dead.

U.K. Wants EU to Block Russia From SWIFT Banking Network

Senegal confirms its 1st case of Ebola

The Islamic State's Terror Laptop of Doom - Buried In a Dell Computer Captured in Syria Are Lessons For Making Bubonic Plague Bombs and Fatwas On Using Weapons of Mass Destruction.

'We anxiously await a Russian-produced map of Canada that shows an independent Quebec. It seems to be the way diplomacy is being conducted these days'.

Palestinian leader say Hamas caused prolonged war: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Hamas of needlessly extending fighting in the Gaza Strip, causing a high death toll.

Polish and Ukrainian scientists unearth 1,000 victims of Stalin in castle once used as secret police prison

2014-09-02

Captured IS Suicide Bomber in Peshmerga hands "When he is treated and well, he will go to prison and rot there for the rest of his life. He will be denied martyrdom. The Kurds want the foreign fighters to know that." - Sky News

Russian sex geckos die in orbit

Plans to dump 3 million cubic metres of material dredged from the ocean floor into the Great Barrier Reef area will be abandoned.

NASA is building the largest rocket of all time for a 2018 launch

German President Joachim Gauck: Russia has "effectively severed its partnership" with Europe and wants to establish a new order

Ukraine warns of great war with Russia the likes of which Europe has not seen since WWII

Egypt fatwa bans online chats between men and women: Egypts top Islamic authority has prohibited online chat between unrelated men and women, triggering a big controversy in the country.

Canada Misleads in Keystone XL Ads About Deep Cuts to Environmental Monitoring - Canada has cut nearly $3 billion in spending & up to 5,000 jobs from its science-based depts, according to federal scientists.

Gays not welcome in Crimea - "We do not need such people in the Crimea" acting PM Aksenov

Huge new Israeli settlement in West Bank condemned by US and UK

Israel cancels settlement plans due to international pressure

Denmark passes law allowing transgender people to obtain official documents reflecting their gender identity without needing to be diagnosed with a mental disorder or undergo surgeries resulting in irreversible sterilization.

Ebola Patient Flees Clinic In Search For Food: Video has emerged of Liberian ebola clinic workers dressed in contamination suits chasing an escaped patient through the streets after he left a treatment centre to visit a market.

Russian Investigators Seize Assets of Pro-Kiev Ukrainian Billionaire

Radioactive wild boar roaming the forests of Germany

Russia Has Threatened Nuclear Attack, Says Ukraine Defence Minister

Dutch organization, "Women on Web", sends abortion pills to women in countries that restrict or ban the procedure - Working to revolutionize access to the procedure, bypassing the clinic & turning to a novel method of delivery: the Internet.

Uber has been banned across the whole of Germany

AUSTRALIA will enter a historic partnership with NATO at the groups summit in Wales this week, giving the Australian Defence Force greater access to the planning and decision-making of the worlds most powerful military alliance

Sharks Off Menu & on Tourist Trail in Palau - World's 1st shark sanctuary here was so successful it's going to totally ban commercial fishing in the island nation's vast ocean territory by 2018. The unprecedented fishing-free zone in the Pacific is about the size of France.

Nuclear ban on muslim engineer (from accessing nuclear sites, citing his links with jihadist networks) upheld by French court - France

2 secret funders of British politician Nigel Lawsons climate skeptic group revealed - This is 1st time backers have confirmed contributions. Both are linked to a free-market think-tank, IEA, which takes money from oil firms & argues against climate change mitigation.

British jihadists to be forced to attend deradicalisation programmes, says Cameron

Nato to create high-readiness force to counter Russian threat - Spearhead force will be made up of around 4,000 troops with capacity to 'travel light but strike hard'.

EU threatens Israel with total ban of poultry unless it marks products from settlements

2014-09-03

Islamic State 'kills US hostage' Steven Sotloff

Malaysia Airlines has provoked a storm of controversy by asking customers to list the things they would most like to do before they die.

US claims it has rightful access to data stored on servers anywhere in the world.

Russian General Calls for Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO

Pakistan army kills 910 Taliban militants

Danish mosque declares support for Isis

Obama says US will 'degrade and destroy' Islamic State

'American forces are on the ground here': Kurds claim US commandos ARE fighting ISIS with them in northern Iraq, after Obama said no 'combat troops' would fight

Israel shows evidence of rocket fire from Gaza schools

Saudi Arabia's proposal to destroy Prophet Mohammeds tomb and move remains to anonymous grave risks new Muslim division

UK bans American Apparel adverts UK for 'Sexualising Schoolgirls' and 'Underage Porn'

Moscow has continued to deny direct involvement in the fighting in eastern Ukraine. But evidence to the contrary continues to mount. NATO says up to 1,000 Russian soldiers have joined the fray and the pro-Russian separatists have made a remarkable turnaround.

Jordan signs 15 year deal to import natural gas from Israel, estimated value more than $15bn

New drug cured 16 of 16 monkeys with a viral ebola relative.

Obama signs off on request for more U.S. troops in Iraq

President Obama: We will degrade and destroy ISIS

CDC: Window Is Closing on Containing Ebola

Forty-eight Kurdish intellectuals symbolically convert to Yezidi faith to protest Islamic State attacks

Putin's spokesman: Russia 'did not agree a ceasefire'

Mexican state of Coahuila legalises same-sex marriage

Kremlin is ready to release phone conversation about 'taking Kiev in two weeks'

ISIS said in a recent tweet it is forcing detained Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft

In an attack that felt like an earthquake, U.S. forces hit Islamic extremists in Somalia

Ukraine Retracts Announcement of Cease-Fire With Russia

ICC: Palestine is a state, can file war crimes complaints against Israel if chooses

2014-09-04

Russia warns NATO not to offer membership to Ukraine

France suspends plans to deliver warship to Russia amid Ukraine tensions.

Deep sea 'mushroom' may be new branch of life

The pace of Ebola infection has accelerated, and there were close to 400 deaths in the past week alone. The UN says $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight the outbreak.

Canadian beekeepers sue Bayer, Syngenta over neonicotinoid pesticides for over $400 million

Nova Scotia to ban fracking

ISIS Capture Russian Jets In Syria, Tell Vladimir Putin Hes Next

Obama casts Russia as threat to peace in Europe -- Vows to defend all NATO states, specifically reassures the baltic states will be defended.

France raises possibility of military action on Islamic State

South Africa refuses Dalai Lama visa for Nobel summit

Israel bars 13 Members of the European parliment from visiting Gaza

British hostage captured by Isis is experienced aid worker who helped Muslim communities in the Balkans - The British hostage threatened with death by Islamic State (Isis) militants was an experienced aid worker who spent years trying so hard to help communities ravaged by war in the Balkans

Ukraine army on alert to repel possible rebel attack near Mariupol - military source

Islamic State officially outlawed in Israel

In Estonia, Obama pledges to defend Baltic States, calls for a unified NATO to help Ukraine strengthen its forces

IS militants 'killed up to 770 Iraqi troops' in single atrocity

Two UK researchers investigating migrant worker treatment 'missing' in Qatar

Sky Films Troops 'In Russian Gear' In Ukraine

Canada prepared to act with allies against Islamic State: Harper

France faces huge Mistral bill for halting Russia deal: The decision to suspend delivery of a Mistral naval assault ship to Russia risks costing France at least 1bn euros (800m), officials say.

A hail of U.S. missiles aimed at the leader of Somalia's al Shabaab militants may have left a gaping hole in the group's leadership, potentially the biggest challenge to its unity since it emerged as a fighting force eight years ago.

French spy who sunk Greenpeace Ship has wildlife photograph published in Greenpeace calendar

Guinea detects Ebola in new region as U.S. warns outbreak out of control

Iraqi soldier survives Isis mass execution by playing dead for hours to escape militants who massacred hundreds

ISIS threatens to liberate Chechnya and Caucasus; Chechnya threatens to destroy ISIS

2014-09-05

After convincing China to give up shark fin soup, Yao Ming sets out to save Africa's elephants from the ivory trade

Lego is now the worlds largest toymaker, as kids choose bricks over Barbie

Anti-ISIS flag-burning campaign launched by a trio of fearless Lebanese teens have ignited an Internet anti-terror sensation

Photographs show Amazonian tribe capturing and stripping illegal rainforest loggers: The tribes have sent out their warriors to expel all loggers they find, setting up monitoring camps in the areas that are being illegally exploited.

Three top ISIS lieutenants killed in US bombing raid

British jihadists fighting in Syria are increasingly disillusioned and want to come home, it has been reported | Dozens of them are reported to want to return to Britain but are afraid they will be locked up for years if they do so.

Estonia intelligence officer abducted by gunpoint and taken to Russia

Iran's Supreme Leader has approved co-operation with the US as part of the fight against Islamic State in northern Iraq, sources have told BBC Persian.

A group of indigenous people in Brazil's Amazon region have detained and expelled loggers working illegally in their ancestral lands.

Korean 20 year old dies in military service after a month of systematic beating, military is accused of covering up bullying

Prominent Imams Denounce ISIS, Prohibit Muslims From Joining. According to the fatwa, British and other EU citizens should not only avoid joining the extremist group, but should also "actively oppose its poisonous ideology."

New dinosaur discovered! Ancient behemoth: Meet Dreadnoughtus, a supermassive dino

Ukraine ceasefire deal 'signed'

The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it has seen releases of steam and water indicating that North Korea may be operating a reactor, in the latest update on a plant that experts say could make plutonium for atomic bombs.

British jihadists want to come home, say they made 'mistake'

Archaeologists Make Spectacular Discovery Off Denmarks Coast: Stone Age boat & settlement foundBoat has repairs. It split 6,500 yrs ago & they tried to fix the crack by putting a bark strip over it & drilling holes on both sides. The most exciting thing is there's sealing mass in the holes.

US confirms al-Shabab leader killed

World-first experiment achieves direct brain-to-brain communication in human subjects

Large asteroid to pass "very close" to Earth on Sunday

NATO allies to supply Ukraine with lethal military equipment

Russian TV shows funeral of soldier killed 'on leave' in Ukraine

Japan transfers $1 billion in frozen oil money to Iran

Thirty-four Bosnian coal miners trapped underground after earthquake

US, S Korea reportedly to set up wartime unit to destroy North's nukes

US doctor infected with Ebola heading to Nebraska

2014-09-08

A Chinese boy has made the discovery of lifetime by stumbling across a 3,000-year-old bronze sword in a river in Jiangsu Province. Archaeologists have dated the 26cm (10in) weapon to either the Shang or Zhou dynasties - the dawn of Chinese civilisation - based on its material, size and shape.

'Meteorite' smashes into Nicaraguan capital

NASA space submarine to explore oceans in Titan, one of Saturns moons

Whistleblower Edward Snowden released a document Friday that shows that U.S. intelligence planned to spy on foreign companies to outline 'future threats' to U.S. economic predominance.

Arab League joins US-led coalition against Islamic State

Russia reopens criminal cases against Lithuanians who refused to serve in Soviet army

British female jihadis are running an "ISIS Police Force" to punish women for "un-Islamic behaviour".

The German government has strongly criticized nightly patrols in the city of Wuppertal by men calling themselves "Sharia police."

EU sanctions defy Russia warning and will take effect on Tuesday

Russia says it could close its airspace to Western airlines if new EU sanctions are imposed

Palestinian president threatens to break off alliance with Hamas unless Islamic group gives up power in Gaza

Al Jazeera Pulls Story Suggesting ISIS Videos Of Foley, Sotloff Were Fake

CIA 'tortured al-Qaeda suspects close to the point of death by drowning them in water-filled bat

Activists promise biggest climate march in history. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of New York, London and eight other cities worldwide in a fortnight to pressure world leaders to take action on global warming

Three Italian nuns raped and killed in Burundi, one beheaded

Four NATO allies deny Ukraine statement on providing arms

Three German men suspected of being members of the Somalian terrorist organization al-Shabab were arrested at Frankfurt airport as they attempted to re-enter the country

Hilton Hotel in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, under quarantine after woman falls ill.

Peacekeepers in Somalia use aid to rape women and buy sex for $5 - Human Rights Watch

Pope accepts resignation of head of scandal-plagued Irish church

Scottish independence: Ed Miliband raises prospect of guards along the border if Scotland votes 'Yes' in referendum

Israeli company says it can produce experimental Ebola drug

Norwegian MP says Norway should arrest Snowden if he wins the Nobel Peace Price.

Obama: U.S. military to provide equipment, resources to battle Ebola epidemic in Africa

Starving Ebola patients escape Liberian medical centre by threatening to infect security; one dies on the street

2014-09-09

New Report: World Leaders Call For Ending Criminalization of Drug Use and Possession and Responsible Legal Regulation of Psychoactive Substances

Another victory for Kim Dotcom, he's getting all Megaupload data back - Neowin

ISIS Kidnaps 50 Civilians After They Burn Islamic State Flag

MH17 crash: Dutch experts say numerous objects hit plane

Russian agents raiding homes of Muslims in Crimea

2,300 year old mysterious tomb discovered in Amphipolis, Greece.

Russia Reports Troop Deaths In Ukraine, But Calls Them 'Volunteers'

Steven Sotloff Was Sold To ISIS By 'Moderate' Rebels, Family Spokesman Tells CNN

Spain opens door to ban on burqas: Spain's interior minister Jorge Fernndez Daz on Wednesday said the Spanish government would consider including a ban on burqas as part of a packet of planned new security reforms.

USAF rotates F-16s in Poland as tensions with Russia continue

Russians 'operated BUK' in MH17 area

Dalai Lama Blasts Putin's Self-Centeredness

Fury in Germany over Sharia Police Patrols: the "Sharia Police" patrolled the streets in attempt to stop people from listening to music, drinking, and gambling. The government said that the Sharia Police would not be allowed to replace the actual police and that Germany did not want Sharia law.

Pakistan mosque collapses on worshipers

Russian military plane circles HMCS Toronto in Black Sea

6 Elephant Poachers Caught in Mozambique Reserve During the early morning raid, 12 tusks & 2 rifles were confiscated. 2 of the tusks, 23 kilograms (57 lbs) each, were from an elephant about 40 yrs old. The tusks were worth over US-$150,000.

ISIS-Affiliated Twitter Account Calls For Assassination Of Twitter Employees, Twitter Investigating

Ebola spreading exponentially in Liberia with many thousands of new cases expected in next three weeks, WHO says.

MH17 shoot-down suspects 'were Russian' claim eyewitnesses

Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic

4.5 Million Fish Dead in Environmental Disaster in Mexico (Unbelievable Pictures)

Iran arrests 'Afghans and Pakistanis joining Islamic State'

Israeli defense minister: Turkey is openly supporting terrorism

Germany TV displays Ukrainian soldiers bearing Nazi insignia

Russia Threatens to Bankrupt Western Airlines by Closing Its Airspace

2014-09-10

There are now over 4268 Ebola cases, with over 2288 dead

Anxiety and sleeping pills linked to Alzheimer's disease: benzodiazepine use for three months or more was linked to an increased risk (up to 51%) of dementia.

ISIS declares war on Twitter: Terror group warns employees they will be assassinated for closing down Islamist propaganda accounts

David Attenborough to return for new BBC series about Great Barrier Reef

Ukraine says Russia withdrawing forces from east, sees boost for peace

Suicide has claimed more than one million lives over the past 20 years in Russia

Digital mapping uncovers super henge that dwarfed Stonehenge

Putin sacks governor for rally against Russian invasion of Ukraine

British-Iranian woman imprisoned for two months for trying to watch volleyball game in Tehran

Saudi anti-Christian sweep prompts calls for US involvement. The West should demand that its strategic ally, Saudi Arabia, release the Christians at once and allow them to pray according to their own faith traditions.

Ebola outbreak "threatens Liberia's national existence"

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Western countries of creating the Ukrainian crisis and using it to revive NATO.

Cameron Tells Scotland There Will Be No Going Back

Nato expansion unlikely before late 2015, Finland and Sweden could walk in within a week

Nurse who survived Ebola returning to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone

A snail once thought to have been among the first species to go extinct because of climate change has reappeared in the wild.

As climate change debate heats up, UN experts warn we are running out of time We know without any doubt that our climate is changing and our weather is becoming more extreme due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General said

ISIS Forms All-Female Al-Khansaa Brigade To Hunt Down Spies Disguised As Women In Burqas

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $50 million to support emergency efforts to contain Ebola epidemic

Video shows Islamic Jihad digging new Gaza tunnels

5 million compromised Google accounts leaked

Some of the world's biggest banks have gone on red alert on the increased chance that Scotland might secede from the United Kingdom

More young people in Spain are NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) than anywhere else in the EU, with graduate unemployment also tripling the OECD average.

Venezuela's inflation rises to 63.4%

China tells Dalai Lama again to respect reincarnation

2014-09-11

France ready to join USA in airstrikes against ISIS

Famous dominatrix kicked out of Canadian Senate hearing after threatening to expose politicians who hire prostitutes

Oscar Pistorious found NOT guilty for premeditated murder

China sees big drop in carbon emissions: Premier. "There is no turning back in China's commitment to a sound eco-system. We have declared war on pollution and earnestly fulfilled international responsibilities,"

Gates Foundation commits $50 million to fight Ebola in West Africa

Russia has warned that US air strikes against militants in Syria would be a "gross violation" of international law.

North Korea 'backs Scottish independence'

Ukraine Starts Building Wall to Keep Russia Out

US drone strike kills 14 afghan civilians including women and children

ISIS proposing plans to go to Mexico and enter Southern US states across the American border; the Mexican Drug Cartels will likely not permit ISIS activity because they do not want the US Military to retaliate against ISIS and begin operations on the Mexican border.

Obama prepared to authorize air strikes in Syria against Islamic State

500 Bodies Found in IS Mass Grave in Northern Iraq

Ebola fatality rate is ~80%, not ~50% as previously assumed

She's a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift to an ISIS commander; heres how she escaped

Half of Europeans want to tackle international issues without US meddling

For Many Iranians, the Evidence Is Clear: ISIS Is an American Invention

Scientists: 'Extreme' solar storm heading to Earth that could interfere with power grids, satellites and radio transmissions

North Koreans 'back Scottish independence because of fondness for Scotch whisky'

Around 5 football fields of tropical forest illegally cleared every minute between 2000 & 2012 - Most illegal deforestation for commercial agriculture is in Brazil & Indonesia. Demand for agricultural products driving 'shock' tree loss.

Two stunning caryatid statues have been unearthed holding up the entrance to the biggest ancient tomb ever found in Greece

12 km demonstration in Catalonia making the letter "V" to demand the right to vote in a referendum

Dalai Lama Refuses to be Reborn If Tibet Is Not Free

The U.S. and European Union are poised to halt billions of dollars in oil exploration in Russia by the worlds largest energy companies in sanctions that would cut deeper than previously disclosed

Ultra-orthodox Jewish sect engaged in human trafficking and tied up disobedient teens: Police warrants

Hamas higher-up in Gaza pulled trigger on teens' abduction, coordinated with Hamas member in Turkey

2014-09-12

Germany officially makes helping Islamic State (IS) a crime

Oscar Pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide

British Female Jihadists 'Are Running Brothels Full Of Captured Sex Slaves For Islamic State Militants'

Ecuador to tax fast food in effort to halt soaring obesity rate People are dying from bad food, not a lack of food. People will stop eating so many McDonalds and Burger King hamburgers [with this tax]. This favours the production of our traditional gastronomy." President Correa told journalists.

Archaeologists in Siberia have discovered a suit of armour made of animal bones which they believe could be aged between 3,500 and 3,900 years old. The sheath, found in "perfect condition", is made of the bones of an unidentified animal. The armour may have been built for an elite warrior

Virologist: Fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia is lost

Russian ruble hits record low as sanctions loom

Pilot rescues baby elephant who survived massacre by flying it home in four-seater plane "We were able to confirm about 100 animals had indeed been massacred at that site in a national park in Chad, when we found the baby elephant he was tied up to a tree where he had been for the last 3-to-4 days."

NASAs Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain

U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft flew more than 2,700 missions to combat Islamic State in Iraq even before President Barack Obama announced an expanded military campaign against the Sunni extremists

In the dead of night, Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed rebel forces exchanged 67 prisoners who had been captured during fighting in eastern Ukraine, part of a cease-fire deal that has struggled to succeed

Israeli intelligence veterans refuse to serve in Palestinian territories. They say actions not consistent with a democracy

Philippines displays ancient maps to debunk China's sea claims

Jordan alarmed over Obama plan to arm 'moderates'

Germany bans ISIS symbols and propoganda.

The US government has imposed new sanctions on major Russian banks, defence and energy firms over Russia's support for separatists in Ukraine.

Italys first Muslim councillor flees the country in fear of her life after a series of death threats

President Barack Obama said on Thursday the United States will join the European Union in imposing tougher sanctions on Russia's financial, energy and defense sectors

Experts worry Ebola could mutate to spread by air

Turkey Will Refuse US Permission to Use Air Bases For Attacking ISIS

Police raid homes of Latvians connected to pro Russia rebels in Ukraine, weapons found

Cuba sending dozens of doctors to fight Ebola

Cuba Sends Drugs, Medical Supplies to Gaza | Hamas thanks Cuba for 'noble gesture,' after it sent six tons of drugs and medical supplies to Gaza.

Department of Justice: Hewlett-Packard Russia Pleads Guilty to and Sentenced for Bribery of Russian Government Officials. HP and Subsidiaries Will Pay $108 Million in Criminal and Regulatory Penalties

Scientist who identified Ebola virus calls for 'quasi-military intervention'

2014-09-15

Former Auschwitz guard, 93, charged with accessory to 300,000 murders in Germany

Edward Snowden: "If you live in New Zealand you are being watched" | The first of the documents have landed on the website of Greenwald

Gaza landlords refusing to rent to Hamas, official says

WikiLeaks releases previously unseen information on FinFisher (formerly part of the UK based Gamma Group International until late 2013), a company which produced weaponised surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others.

27 Christians in Saudi Arabia Arrested for Using House As a Church

2 young British tourists found murdered - stripped naked and bloodied - at beach on Thai island of Koh Tao

Mass murder reported off Malta, 500 drowned

Russia concerned about rights of Russian speakers in the Baltics

NATO countries have begun arms deliveries to Ukraine: defense minister

The Chinese sturgeon, thought to have existed for more than 140 million years, is now on the brink of extinction. No wild sturgeon reproduced naturally last year in the Yangtze river, according to local media. It was the first time since researchers began recording levels 32 years ago.

The joint military exercises of Ukraine and NATO begin today.

Germans will soon be getting 30 percent of their power from renewable energy sources, by far the largest industrial power to reach that level in the modern era.

Swedish Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeldt concedes defeat

WikiLeaks has today released parts of the FinFisher surveillance suite, as well as a customer list that it claims includes the police forces of the Netherlands and New South Wales, and the intelligence arms of the Hungarian, Qatari, Italian, and Bosnian governments

Ukraine Authorities Raid Newspaper Offices in Kiev

WikiLeaks: Australian Police use hacking software to spy on computers and smartphones

Russia to provide military, other assistance to Iraq, Syria in combating terrorism

NATO Countries Have Begun Arms Deliveries to Ukraine

Al Qaeda group in India on first mission mistakenly attacks a Pakistani Navy frigate instead of a US aircraft carrier

Scotland's referendum: the "no" is winning

The Queen hopes Scots will ''think very carefully'' before voting in the independence referendum - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Russia creates emergency fund to deal with Western sanctions

New Zealand dismisses Snowden's claim it planned mass domestic spying

Russia 'testing Polish resolve' with cut in gas supply: They are requesting the maximum, and we are only able to supply closer to the daily minimum says Gazprom spokesperson.

Germany and Turkey refuse to take part in bombing ISIS

2014-09-16

Al-Qaeda appeals to Islamic State to release British hostage Alan Henning: Al-Qaeda believes Henning is an innocent aid volunteer who was genuinely trying to help suffering Muslims, and kidnapping him was a step too far

Five hundred people drowned off the coast of Malta last week after people traffickers deliberately sank their ship

A female member of Saudi Arabias National Society for Human Rights has reportedly been fined for driving herself to the hospital. When police pulled her over, Aliyah Al Farid said she had a medical emergency and there was no one available to drive her to the hospital so she took her husbands car.

Plans for a major rewriting of international tax rules unveiled on Tuesday could eliminate structures that have allowed companies like Google and Amazon to shave billions of dollars off their tax bills. The draft proposals announced have been agreed by all G20 members and OECD members ...

ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution In Schools

China creates cell phone lane for 'zombie pedestrians' who want to text and walk

Ruble falls below .38 against the dollar for the first time in history.

Cell-Like Structure Found in Martian Meteorite

NASA: Hottest August Globally Since Records Began in 1880 - Last month was the warmest August globally since records began being kept in 1880, NASA reported Monday. The globe just keeps warming.

NASA Unveils World's Largest Welder to Build New Mega-Rocket

Study: 40% of European Jews hide their religion

Ebola crisis: Obama administration to ask Congress for $1 billion to fight outbreak, sources say

14 year old Arab Israeli murdered in honor killing in Upper Galilee village.

Fixing Climate Change May Add No Costs, Report Says: When the secondary benefits of greener policies like lower fuel costs, fewer premature deaths from air pollution and reduced medical bills are taken into account, the changes might wind up saving money

Japan: 'Solar Islands' Replace Nuclear Power

U.S. Hits ISIS Position Near Baghdad in New Phase of Strikes

Almost half of China's wealthy are considering relocating to North America or Europe within the next five years to find better education and job opportunities for their children

Soldiers Killed in Suicide Attack at U.S. Base in Kabul

First dolphins of hunting season slaughtered in 'The Cove' in Taiji, Japan

Ukraine rebels to get self-rule, amnesty

Millions of banknotes sent to Scotland in case Yes vote sparks run on ATMs

Turkey Is a Steady Source of ISIS Recruits

Passengers eject Pakistani politicians out of plane for causing delay

Belgian murderer Van Den Bleeken wins 'right to die' - Unable to control his violent sexual urges, Frank Van Den Bleeken, who is 50, argued he would never be freed.

The Discovery of Mexico's First Coca Plantation Could Upend the Cocaine Business

2014-09-17

Hepatitis C drug in India to cost 1% of the US price

German Muslim community announces protest against extremism in roughly 2,000 cities on Friday - "We want to make clear that terrorists do not speak in the name of Islam. I am a Jew when synagogues are attacked. I am a Christian when Christians are persecuted for example in Iraq."

France switches to Arabic Daesh acronym for Islamic State "I do not recommend using the term Islamic State because it blurs the lines between Islam, Muslims and Islamists. The Arabs call it Daesh and I will be calling them the Daesh cutthroats foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists

France arrests 5 for belonging to a ring that recruits young women to join Islamic militants in Syria

Pope Assassination Imminent, Iraq Ambassador To Vatican Warns; "What has been declared by the self-declared Islamic State is clear - they want to kill the Pope. The threats against the Pope are credible," Al Sadr said during an interview with Italian newspaper La Nazione

Boeing, SpaceX poised to build 'space taxis' for NASA

BP caught using 'college' tricks to cheat page count in court document.

Russian Travel Agencies Bankrupted as Demand Falls Up to 50%

Kurds retake Christian villages from Iraq jihadists: Kurdish peshmerga forces on Tuesday recaptured several Christian villages in northern Iraq in clashes with Islamic State jihadists

Islamist Rebels in Iraq Resorting to Chemical Weapons: At least 14 members of the Islamic State jihadist group were killed near Baghdad by a rocket that exploded as they were filling its warhead with chlorine gas, which the insurgents operating in Iraq appear to be seeking to weaponize

Soviet Monuments in Lithuania Spray-Painted in Ukraine's National Colors

Gaza mortar shell lands in Israel for first time since war

Angry mob throw Ukraine MP into rubbish bin

Colossal squid weighing 350kg pulled from Antarctic

The UN says Brazil is now rich enough to feed itself

SHOE COMPANY: Our CEO Just Disappeared And Most Of The Money Is Gone

Pentagon: US ground troops may join Iraqis in combat against Isis

Russia Sending New Stealth Submarines to Crimea

7.1 earthquake strikes 21 miles off coast of Guam

As many as 36 children were on Tuesday night reported to have died excruciating deaths after receiving tainted measles vaccines under a United Nations-sponsored program in the rebel-held north of Syria

Ebola is NOT Likely to go airbourne, says a Scientific American article citing top experts.

Bill Clinton: Netanyahu 'not the guy' to strike lasting Middle East peace deal. Former US president recorded going off-message in criticising the Israeli governments unwillingness to seek peace.

Russia, Egypt seal preliminary arms deal worth $3.5 billion

No court-martial for nurse who refused to give forced-feeding at Gitmo - A Navy commander has chosen not to court-martial a nurse who refused to conduct forced feedings of hunger strikers...

John Key says Edward Snowden may well be right about NSA spying on NZ

2014-09-18

Police foiled plan by IS supporters in Australia to "snatch a random member from the public, drape them in an IS flag, and behead them on camera"

Angry passengers throw Pakistani politician off plane after getting stuck on tarmac waiting for him for two hours

North Korea Leads the World in Human Rights, Says Report by North Korea

Man from Texas arrested for trying to swim to North Korea because he wanted to meet Kim Jong-Un

Indian Army rushes 3 battalions to its borders as nearly 1,000 Chinese soldiers enter India.

The group of young Iranian men and women who released a YouTube video showing them dancing to pop star Pharrell Williams hit song Happy has been sentenced to six months in jail in addition to 91 lashes, their attorney is quoted as saying by the IranWire news agency.

BBC Crew Attacked and Beaten Up While in Southern Russia, Investigating Reports of Russian Servicemen killed in Ukraine

Voting begins in Scottish referendum

Liberal professor of islamic studies in Pakistan shot dead, was accused of being an apostate and issuing fatwas allowing muslim women to marry non-muslim men

Liberian ship docking in New Orleans reports several ill passengers. CDC to respond. All on board will be hospitalized.

Archbishop of Canterbury admits doubts about existence of God

Islamic State forces backed by tanks capture 16 Kurdish villages in Northern Syria

Venezuela on alert over mysterious, deadly disease

Nigeria has 'torture officers' - Torture has become such an integral part of policing in Nigeria that many stations have an informal torture officer, Amnesty International says.

Russia: Free Syrian Army No Longer Exists; Rebels Are Coordinating With Terrorists

European Parliament calls Russia to release the abducted Estonian citizen immediately

ISIS release new video of British hostage.

The black market for Ebola survivors blood:Ebola has infected nearly 4,800 people. It has killed more than 2,400. And a black market for the blood of its survivors is emerging in the epicenter of the outbreak in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Al Qaeda Offshoot Says It Hijacked A Pakistani Navy Ship to Attack U.S. Vessels - gCaptain Maritime & Offshore News

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has malignant tumour: Doctor

Putin: My troops could reach Warsaw in two days (as well as Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn and Bucharest)

Kiev says Russia masses troops in Crimea on the border to Ukraine

NSA shared Americans' private communications with Israel: Snowden

Hubble Discovers Supermassive Black Hole

Russia opens new airport on Japan-claimed Etorofu Island off Hokkaido

2014-09-19

Scotland votes to remain in the U.K.

Bodies of 8 Ebola workers (including 3 journalists) found at the bottom of a latrine in Guniea after locals attacked them.

Polls close in Scotland - Results expected in hours

Russia calls foul over Scottish referendum

US Airstrike kills 40 Islamic State fighters

A Muslim academic has opened a gay-friendly mosque in South Africa, despite receiving death threats and fierce criticism from parts of the local Muslim community

45% of Russians Believe Shadowy Group Controls Humanity

After 5 years of painful austerity Ireland's economy is the fastest growing in the EU at 7.7%

France Launches First Airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq

China insists wealthy countries should improve emission targets if a global pact on climate change is to be reached next year. A much-anticipated UN summit will be held in Paris aiming to produce most ambitious deal yet in fight against global warming.

Swedish airspace has been violated by Russian aircraft.

WHO: 700 new Ebola cases emerge in one week

Mysterious Millionaire Will Pay $30M to Know Who Exactly Shot Down MH17 - Bing News

Japan claims southern ocean whaling has led to 666 peer-reviewed papers, but international court says there are just 2

Iranian blogger found guilty of insulting Prophet Mohammad on Facebook sentenced to death

Archaeologists unearth hidden death chambers used to kill a quarter-million Jews at notorious camp "...the discoveries didnt end with the gas chambers. Thousands of items that belonged to those murdered were also left buried in a well the Germans had plugged."

Russia detains Lithuanian fishing vessel

Turkey opens borders to thousands of fleeing Syrian kurds. Refugee numbers are now over 1.5 million.

Iranians who YouTubed themselves dancing to Pharrell's "Happy" sentenced to 91 lashes

Poland Wants United Nations to Limit Russias Influence

Russian stocks fall as economic concern mounts

British Fighter Jets Intercept Russian Planes

Scotland First Minister, Alex Salmond, to resign

Ebola Deaths Doubled in a Month, WHO Says

Turkey stops 3,000 Kurds from escaping Islamic State militants

2014-09-22

Kids as young as 13 have left Germany to join ISIS

Scottish Independence: 70,000 Nationalists Demand Referendum be Re-Held After Vote Rigging Claims

The worlds largest beaver dam, buried in the thick wildness of northern Alberta and once thought to be inaccessible, has been reached by an amateur explorer from the United States.

Ebola outbreak: Collapse of three African states possible

Over 340 global investors who represent more than $24 trillion agree that aggressive climate action will help the global economy

"For some time to come, the delicate balance between freedom and security may have to shift," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott warns.

Turkeys president refuses to reveal how he secured release of 49 hostages from ISIS without a single shot fired

Peta's Call to Muslims to Observe Vegetarian Eid Misfires & is Met with Violent Protests Monday - "We are offended by this move of PETA. This is a direct attack on our religious beliefs." PETA supporters fled the scene.

ISIS audio urges Muslims everywhere to kill 'unbelievers'

ISIS urges jihadists to attack Canadians

ISIS Destroys Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor

NASAs Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet

Turkey closes borders, preventing Kurds from returning to defend their villages from ISIL

Thousands evade Ebola lockdown in Sierra Leone. Health officials in Guinea said people were coming in waves through the bush, fearing they would be taken away if they were found to have the disease.

Iraqi Army Uses Russian Anti-Tank Guided Missile Systems Against IS for First Time. Five armored Islamic State vehicles with gunmen were destroyed.

Scotland leader says voters were 'tricked' into rejecting independence by a last-minute vow

India's Low-Cost Mars Mission Completes Crucial Engine Firing Test, Prepares To Enter Mars Orbit In Two Days

Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide.

Islamic State fighters using women captives as 'human shields' in face of Western air strikes

Belgium has been put on edge over potential Islamist terrorist attacks for the second time in four months amid reports that a man and woman who had returned from the war in Syria via Turkey were plotting an assault on the European Union's main offices in Brussels.

Russia to provide up to 8 nuclear reactors to S. Africa

Nationalists push for Irish unity vote after 'inspiring' Scottish referendum -- Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said Scotland's "inspiring" referendum on independence would accelerate a vote to unite Ireland

US approves sale of advanced AGM-158 cruise missiles to Poland: Poland will use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defence.

Poll shows Egyptians favour democracy and stoning for adultery

DuckDuckNo: The privacy-focused search engine is blocked in China

2014-09-23

Liberia to become 1st nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid - Norway will pay the impoverished country $150m to stop deforestation by 2020.

US Airstrikes Under Way in Syria

Google will stop supporting climate change science deniers, calls them liars

Netflix refuses CRTC demand to hand over subscriber data

World Wide Web inventor slams Internet fast lanes: Its bribery.

King Abdullah of Jordan offers the US to send Jordanian ground forces to attack ISIS in Syria

Germany will introduce caps on rent rises in densely populated areas in the first half of 2015, the government announced on Tuesday, in what it said was an attempt to keep homes affordable for people on average incomes.

CDC scientists predict there could be a staggering 550,000 to 1.4 million ebola cases by late January.

Turkey allows girls as young as 10 to cover hair at schools: Turkey has lifted a ban on the Islamic-style headscarf in schools, allowing girls from the fifth grade and up to cover their hair in a further easing of generations-old restrictions on the public expression of faith.

ISIS kidnaps French tourist in Algeria and threatens to execute him within 24 hours if France intervenes in Iraq

Man Bitten by Ebola Patient Flown to Switzerland

France wont stop fight in Iraq despite kidnapping

Russia will add 80 new warships to Black Sea Fleet: fleet commander

New Deep Web Service Will Leak Your Documents If You Get Killed, Jailed, Or Injured

German Muslims condemn Islamic State in nationwide day of prayer

Over 1/2 the World's Population Still Can't Connect to the Internet

Hong Kong students take to streets in mass strike over China's refusal to grant full democracy

Xi Jinping asks Chinese Army to be ready for a regional war

Israel approves Intel's $6 billion investment in chip plant

Coal has no future in the world's energy mix, UN warns, ahead of New York summit

Putin Considers Throwing Russia Into ISIS Fight: Report

WHO: Ebola 'contained in Senegal and Nigeria'

Ukraine will get drones and sniper rifles from the USA

Australia will launch airstrikes against ISIS

Rhino poaching kingpin arrested in South Africa

2014-09-24

Native tribes from the U.S. and Canada signed a treaty Tuesday establishing an inter-tribal alliance to restore bison to areas of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains where millions of the animals once roamed.

India's Mangalyaan has now successfully entered the Mars orbit.

A Nervous China Is 'Interested' In A Possible Role In The Fight Against ISIS

China applauds India's Mars mission as "pride of Asia"

Vatican arrests former archbishop on paedophilia charges

Canada formalizes joint space operations with Australia, U.S. and U.K.

South Australia commits to 50 percent renewable energy target by 2025

Nato has observed a "significant" withdrawal of Russian troops from eastern Ukraine.

Woman secretly films life under Isil in Raqqa, Syria

Kim Jong-un missing from public view (xpost /r/NorthKoreaNews)

400 ISIL militants killed in int'l alliance attacks

Chinese radicals from Xinjiang join Islamic State

Europe's Muslims stand up to IS: the continent's Muslims are hitting back with mass peace demonstrations and a Twitter campaign to say not in my name

Brazil refuses to sign UN pledge to save the rainforests

Bin Laden's son-in-law sentenced to life in U.S. prison.

Elephant killings are now on an industrial scale in Mozambique

People worldwide think CEOs should make a tiny fraction of what they do

Journalist Michael Scott Moore Released in Somalia After Nearly Three Years as a Hostage

A university professor who has become the most visible advocate of peaceful resistance by ethnic Uighurs to Chinese government policies was sentenced to life in prison

500 Chinese Fishermen Shut Down a Shipyard to Protest Pollution, Though Protesting is Illegal

Rise of Islamic Schools Causes Alarm in Secular Turkey

The United States informed Iran in advance of its intention to strike Islamic State militants in Syria and told Tehran that it would not target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a senior Iranian official told Reuters.

Turkish electric car travels 2,500 kilometers for only $17

Indias Mars mission set for attempt to enter orbit

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged North Korea Tuesday to close its secret prison camps: "You should shut this evil system down."

2014-09-25

Terror laws clear Senate, enabling entire Australian web to be monitored and whistleblowers to be jailed

UAEs first female fighter pilot likely dropping bombs on ISIS militants in Syria [now confirmed]

The European Space Agency's satellite array dubbed Swarm revealed that Earth's magnetic field is weakening 10 times faster than previously thought, decreasing in strength about 5 percent a decade rather than 5 percent a century. A weakening magnetic field may indicate an impending reversal.

16-Year-Old Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair 2014 With World-Changing Crop Yield Breakthrough

The son of the heir to the Saudi Arabian throne has personally put the royal seal of approval on the attacks against Isis, by taking part in bombing runs.

Turkeys turtle beach, saved from bulldozers in the 1980s, faces new threat from developers - The 91-yr-old Englishwoman who famously saved the beach a key nesting site for loggerhead turtles 25 yrs ago, launches petition to protect it from new plans for tourist development

French Tourist Herve Gourdel Beheaded in Algeria by ISIS-linked Militants

Netherlands to send F-16s to fight Islamic State in Iraq, alongside the US and France.

Edward Snowden was among the winners Wednesday of a Swedish human rights award, sometimes referred to as the "alternative Nobel," for his disclosures of top secret surveillance programs.

Muslim Scholars Release Open Letter To Islamic State Meticulously Blasting Its Ideology

ISIS plot uncovered to attack New York, Paris subways, Iraq PM says

China to send 700 troops to South Sudan to assist UN mission - fighting has threatened Beijing's oil investments -

Holland and Belgium join fight against ISIS, send jets

India's spacecraft beams back first Mars photos

Australian power company caught overcharging customers to recoup losses due to increase in residential solar.

Fatah, Hamas agree to cede control of Gaza to unity government

Bodies of Ebola Victims Being Thrown Into Rivers

Dutch Military Personnel Told Not to Wear Uniform on Bus or Train For Fear of Radical Muslim Attacks

Four Peruvian Anti-Logging Activists Murdered

Nigerian military allegedly kills Boko Haram Cheif and over 260 of their fighters surrender.

Kim Jong Un absent from second session of 13th Supreme Peoples Assembly

One of the leaders of the Armenian Church is filing a lawsuit against the Turkish Government for all the property confiscated during the Armenian Genocide

Ukrainian Army picks up random civilians for prisoner exchange.

Incest a 'fundamental right', German committee says: Anti-incest laws in Germany could be scraped after a government-backed group said relationships between brothers and sisters should be legal

Over 1,000 arrested in unprecedented swoop: Europol

2014-09-26

Anil Agarwal, the billionaire founder of Vedanta Resources, said he & his family decided to donate 75% of their wealth to charity after meeting Bill Gates, the worlds richest person What we earn must be returned for the greater good of society. Life is not only about wealth. the billionaire said

Obama declares world's largest marine preserve. Measures almost 500,000 square miles, fishing, undersea mining, and other commercial activity will be banned in the protected area.

No One Has Seen North Korea's Leader In Three Weeks

Ultra-Orthodox Jews cause chaos on flight to Israel by demanding segregation of men and women

ISIS Overruns Iraqi Army Base Near Baghdad, Executes 300 Soldiers

China removes more than 100,000 'phantom' government officials who were paid but did no work

North Korean TV acknowledges leader Kim Jong Un's health problems

Russia Tells Iraq It's 'Ready' to Support Fight Against ISIS

The discovery of a branched carbon molecule 27,000 light-years from Earth suggests the building blocks of life may be ubiquitous throughout the galaxy

Mars Rover finds Ball

Womens Rights Activist Executed by ISIS in Iraq

UN Climate Summit: A 'game-changer' for global warming? "When the family that built the very first multinational oil company says it's time to get out of fossil fuels, this is an important moment,"

China extends Japan a helping hand to resolve North Korea abductions: After the North backtracked on its promise to investigate within months the fate of Japanese abducted decades ago, an apparently impatient China said it would host a meeting next week between the two countries.

Man found with 51 Turtles stuffed in his pants.

Islamists Destroy 7th Century Church, Mosque in Tikrit, Iraq

More than 130 members of the Boko Haram terrorist group have surrendered to Nigeria's military. Mohammed Bashir, a man who had posed as the groups leader Abubakar Shekau in numerous videos, has also been killed in clashes.

More Scandinavians joining Isis: The number of Europeans fighting for the Islamic State has increased dramatically in the past month with fears that Danes, Swedes and Norwegians are among them.

Italy seizes assets of Putin ally and judo partner Rotenberg worth 30 million euros, including a hotel in the centre of Rome

Russian draft law would allow seizure of foreign property

Earliest Sign of Human Habitation in Canada May have been Found - Possible 13,800-yr-old fishing weir found in ocean near B.C.'s Haida Gwaii islands

Hungary Suspends Gas Supplies to Ukraine "Indefinitely" - Ukraine has been receiving gas from Hungary, Poland & Slovakia since Russia cut off supplies to Ukraine in June in a dispute over unpaid bills

Incest Is 'Taboo' but Shouldn't Be Illegal, German Experts Say

Canadian teacher suspended for slapping 'I'm gay' sticker on student

Sierra Leone quarantines 2 million to fight Ebola

Argentina uses drones to root out wealthy tax evaders - Drones deployed by tax inspectors near Buenos Aires found 200 mansions and 100 swimming pools that hadn't been declared

2014-09-29

Vatican Paedophilia Scandal: Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski Stored Over 100,000 Child Porn Videos

Makers of animals torture videos Crush Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

Obama: 'They Don't Call Moscow' When There's Trouble In The World

Woman saves three relatives from Ebola. Her protection method is being taught to others in West Africa.

Hong Kong citizens step up democracy protests as riot police withdrawn | Roads blocked, banks and schools closed, as thousands join unprecedented demonstrations disrupting daily life

China Warns UK: Don't 'Interfere' Over Hong Kong

Saudi Pilot Arrested for Refusing to Bomb ISIS in Syria

Instagram has reportedly been blocked in mainland China as protests in Hong Kong intensify

Dutch seize passports of 49 suspected jihadists

Climate change is no longer viewed by mainstream scientists as a future threat to our planet and our species. It is a palpable phenomenon that already affects the world, they insist. And a brief look round the globe certainly provides no lack of evidence to support this gloomy assertion

Ukrainians in Kharkiv topple their square's statue of Lenin to cheers and anti-Russian chants.

Philippines 'breaks world tree-planting record'

Hong Kong's democracy protests turn violent; 26 hurt

India PM Narendra Modi wows 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden with a promise to transform India and declares removal of archaic laws and announces new visa laws. Slated to meet CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in the coming days

Beijing Blocks Reports on Hong Kong Democracy Movement

Solar energy: a sunflower solution to electricity shortage and desalination. IBM says it will install its first two devices for free in 2016 and has asked towns around the world to put their names forward to be the first to have a solar sunflower erected on their land.

Qatari Donates $2 Million for ISIS Suicide Bomber Program...

Schools and banks closed as Hong Kong paralysed by protest

Sepp Blatter tried to silence Fifa executive committee members who demanded release of 2022 World Cup corruption report

Thai university hospital claims to have developed an Ebola vaccine

17 year old Hong Kong Democracy leader faces "battle" against Chinese government: "Mainland China is a tinderbox that's been physically suppressed by the authorities, and Hong Kong is a seed of fire...maybe the Chinese government will one day send troops onto the streets, or even tanks."

Iran set to execute Rayhaneh Jabbari, woman charged in killing attempted rapist

Ruble Sinks to Historic Low Against Currency Basket

Spain government asks court to declare Catalonia vote illegal

Statue of Lenin pulled down in Ukraine's Kharkiv

2014-09-30

Iraq Kurds attack ISIS jihadists, retake villages

"Extremists" will have to get posts on Facebook and Twitter approved in advance by the police under sweeping rules planned by the UK Conservatives. They will also be barred from speaking at public events if they represent a threat to "the functioning of democracy"

Earth lost 50% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF | Species across land, rivers and seas decimated as humans kill for food in unsustainable numbers and destroy habitats

Sister of slain scientist says Iran killed him because he would not agree to help weaponize peaceful nuclear activities.

MH370 search reveals vast underwater world with huge volcanoes and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon

ISIS has reportedly surrounded the Turkish territory in Syria the Tomb of Suleyman Shah. 36 Turkish soldiers are reportedly located at the tomb where they defend the territory.

Global Survey: We're Eating Better, But Our Diet is Unsustainable - More people eating local & organic foods, but it's not enough. India, ranking 1st in food sustainability, came out far ahead, thanks to its cultural eating habits. Nearly 1 in 4 Indians is a vegetarian.

World's fourth largest sea dried up completely: NASA

Indian Prime Minister ends Central Park speech with I salute you may the Force be with you.

Apple faces billions in fines in tax avoidance probe

Hong Kong Protesters Connect Without Cell or Wi-Fi Networks: Pro-Democracy Protesters Are Downloading a Fast-Growing App Called FireChat to Stay in Touch

Facebook Will Sell Users' Data to Serve Ads on Sites Across the Web

Indian Spacecraft Snaps Spectacular Portrait of Mars (Photo)

Russian TV presents pictures from MH17 as mass graves of civilians killed by retreating Ukrainian troops

Isis an hour away from Baghdad - with no sign of Iraq army being able to make a successful counter-attack - and US air strikes are making little difference

A former psychologist has been executed for heresy in Iran after eight years in detention, human rights groups said, in the latest example of what activists say is a worrying rise in the use of death penalty by the Islamic Republic.

Afghanistan signs pact to keep U.S. troops in the country beyond 2014, secure billions more in aid

Drug use will spread if religion classes are not required, says Turkish President Erdoan

Canada Demands Google, Netflix Data, Sets Deadline - Broadcast regulator on Monday gave American companies Google & Netflix 3-day deadline to turn over subscriber data or have their testimony expunged from a major public hearing.

Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Chris Alexander, has asked Pakistan to stop supporting insurgency, stating that there were no doubts of Pakistan being a terrorist safe-haven.

Hong Kong's mass protest is networked. Activists are relying on a free app that can send messages without any cellphone connection.

Iran executes man for heresy

Brazil's Silent Abortion Dilemma - The risks faced by Brazilian women seeking an abortion has been highlighted by the brutal death of a 27-year-old woman. It's only legal under the most exceptional circumstances in Brazil - a traditionally Catholic country. Yet 1 in 5 have an abortion by age 40.

Mining firm Vale sets up beehives housing 350,000 on a remediation site in Copper Cliff, Ontario, in order to promote pollination and accelerate the re-vegetation process. They have also pledged to plant 3.3 million trees around the Sudbury area.

Hong Kong: Fake Occupy Central app targets activists smartphones with spyware -- Suspicious behaviour by the application included recording audio and obtaining the location of the device. "It's a malware with spy behaviour"

2014-10-01

An estimated 35,000 pacific walrus have been spotted ashore on a beach in north-west Alaska. Unlike seals, the mammals cannot swim indefinitely and are now coming ashore in record numbers as they struggle to find sea ice for resting in the Artic.

Reuters: Australia passes new security law vastly expanding the government's power to monitor computers; journalists could be imprisoned for up to ten years simply for reporting on national security matters.

Kim Jong-un is recovering from 'ankle surgery' after fracturing both ankles

Hong Kong Police Chief Inspector Committed Suicide

Under a new Russian law, Google, Facebook and Twitter must register as "organizers of information distribution," and store all data on Russian users in data centers on Russian soil

Hong Kong pro-democracy protests spread live updates | Thousands defy call to leave streets on Chinas national holiday as protests spread to new front

Essen (City in western Germany) will start a controversial project today to employ alcohol and drug addicts to clean the streets in return for beer, tobacco, food and small amounts of cash.

Indian Female Boxer Sarita Devi Refuses to Wear Asian Games Bronze, Weeps on Podium after the controversial decision

Germany will bulldoze a 500 year old village to mine fossil fuels, attempting bridge the energy gap created by planned nuclear shutdown.

Chinese Hackers Are Targeting Pro-Democracy Protestors In Hong Kong Through Their iPhones

Grindr urges LGBT community to hide their identities as Egypt persecutes nation's gay community

Air Canada to come down hard on cockpit porn

Deadly shelling hit playground in east Ukraine on first day of school

Scores of students still missing after ambush by Mexican police and gunmen. The search continued on Tuesday for dozens of students missing since municipal police and unidentified gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses in the southern Mexican city of Iguala over three days before.

The 10,000 pigeons released in a ceremony for China's National Day underwent unusual scrutiny, with each having its feathers and anus checked for dangerous materials, state-run media reports say.

LIVE - India can emerge as a major world power, says US President Barack Obama

Cecilia Malmstrm, recently proposed as EU's Commissioner for Trade, and the one who will lead TTIP negotiations with US, has been helping US lobbying against the EU data protection/privacy law

Britons spend more on drugs and prostitutes than beer and wine

White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths

World's first microbe 'zoo' opens in Amsterdam

Erdogan: Turkey will fight ISIS, wants Assad gone | News , Middle East

Mexican Police Recover Burned Remains of Kidnapped Congressman

India not to join coalition against ISIS

First case of MERS virus confirmed in Austria

Belgium launches its biggest Islamist extremist trial: Belgian prosecutors accused 46 members of Islamist group Sharia4Belgium on Monday of belonging to a terrorist organization and brainwashing young men in Belgium into fighting a holy war in Syria.

2014-10-02

Germany Just Abolished College Tuition Fees | ThinkProgress

Hong Kong leader's daughter creates controversy with Facebook post saying that her diamond necklace was bought on "silly" tax payer's money.

The World Summit of Nobel Peace laureates, due to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, later this month, has been cancelled. Six of the peace-prize winners have already withdrawn from the event in protest at the South African refusal to grant a visa to Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

India, U.S. Agree to Joint Exploration of Mars

Islamic State militants in Iraq have carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used children as fighters, in systematic violations that may amount to war crimes, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's adviser believes that Australian meteorology scientists are involved in "temperature manipulation". He calls for a government-funded inquiry into climate change.

Enough Ice Has Melted in Antarctica to Alter the Earths Gravity

The sharp rise in income inequality across the world is one of the most worrying developments of the past 200 years, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), said on Thursday

Russia halts student exchange program with US

Asian Games: Controversy taints home team victories as India, Thailand, Iran and Japan complain against South Korea

UK legalises music and film ripping

Beijing Warns of Chaos if Hong Kong Protests Persist

30 children killed in Syria school bombing Two car bombs exploded in the central Syrian city of Homs in a neighbourhood dominated by minority Alawites

Mexico captures top drug lord Beltran Leyva

Muslim sheep slaughter to be banned in Moscow during Eid al-Adha feast

Hong Kong Protests: Mainland Chinese media has blamed foreigners for Occupy Central protests as the city's massive protest movement for universal suffrage entered its fourth day yesterday.

Nude selfie celebs were 'dumb', EU commissioner says

Ebola outbreak: 'Five infected every hour' in Sierra Leone

US OKs $1.75 billion arms sale to Saudi

94 to 9, Denmark votes yes to join the Anti-Is coalition, seven F-16 fighter jets took off for Iraq from the Karup Air Base and 160 advisers will be sent in Kuwait to train Iraqi and Kurds ground forces

Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the countrys largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed in an American television interview that there was no limitation on freedom of expression in Egypt.

Sudanese Women Mad Over Oppression, Food Costs - Their anger mounts as they bear brunt of increasing Islamisation. The govt is interested in controlling everything related to women Women are sent for trial on a daily basis, ranging from the dress they put on to the time they go to work.

World Bank bonuses raise eyebrows amid austerity drive

Burqa wearers banned from Australian parliament's open public galleries

Argentinian opposition politicians have accused the countrys president of being completely out of touch with reality after she gave a rambling televised address in which she claimed the US may be behind a plot to overthrow her government and possibly even assassinate her.

2014-10-03

Turkish President Erdogan: 'I am increasingly against the internet every day'

Former Top Official Says Kim Jong-un Is No Longer in Control of North Korea.

Russia adds 243 nuclear warheads to northern fleet near Norwegian border.

Oslo Pulls Bid for 2022 Olympics. IOC Outraged.

Pro-Beijing protestors encircle, attack protestors in Hong Kong.

Pope Francis Favored to Win Nobel Peace Prize for Poverty Focus

LIVE: Police struggle to keep order as street fights break out in Mong Kok -- "...Several hundred anti-Occupy Central protesters broke through police lines and started smashing up protest tents and attacking students..."

Turkey OKs military hits on ISIS

Hackers are using Reddit to control 17,000 Apple computers

North Korea capital 'under lockdown' amid rumours of threat to Kim Jong-un

NBC News Freelancer in Africa Diagnosed with Ebola

Canada Is The Only UN Member To Reject Landmark Indigenous Rights Document

Archived samples of HIV's genetic code have traced the origin of the Aids pandemic to the 1920s in the city of Kinshasa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists say

ISIS beheads two of its own fighters

Catalan government says it will hold vote for independence from Spain on November 9

Judge rejects White House plea to keep Guantanamo force feeding hearings secret

After political dispute with Russia, Canadian satellite to be launched by India

Estonia arrests former KGB officers

Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner charged in an emotional address that domestic and US interests were pushing to topple her government, and could even kill her.

Mysterious outbreak of hemorrhagic fever syndrome in Venezuela kills ten

BBC News - Japan stocks rattled by $617bn 'fat finger' trading error

Anti-ageing drugs may have been developed - Biomedical science is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and a raft of modern drugs and technologies appear as though they may be capable of extending human life by 10 years.

US criticises Israel over settlements; Washington says the move will distance Israel from even its 'closest allies'

British parliament to vote on recognizing Palestinian state

JPMorgan hacked: Personal information of 83 million customers exposed in cyber attack

2014-10-06

Mexico hit by student massacre: At least 17 anti-corruption protesters 'rounded up, murdered and dumped in a mass grave' - and another 26 are missing.

Dubai Police Will Wear Google Glass With Facial Recognition Software to ID Crooks

A female Kurdish fighter blew herself up at an Islamic State position killing a number of jihadists who have surrounded Kobane and are battling to seize it.

83,000 boo Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott at sporting event.

100 disillusioned british jihadists abandon the Islamic State but they are stuck in Turkey because they are too scared to come back to Uk

North and South Korea agree to talks

Madrid starts fining users of Uber 'taxi' app: After Barcelona announced plans to impound the vehicles of people caught using the app-based chauffeur service Uber, Madrid's regional government has launched a crackdown that will allow police to fine drivers and passengers up to 18,000 ($22,600).

"Concubine" with Ebola causes outbreak of Ebola with Liberian soldiers.

Turkish police fire tear gas point blank into BBC news car setting it alight near Syrian border

Norwegian woman infected with Ebola

New proposal would allow Australian intelligence agency to secretly detain citizens without charge, conduct "coercive questioning", and jail them for refusing to answer questions.

Mystery of 1,000-year-old child's jawbone found on beach near Sydney - The jawbone of a young child discovered on a beach in Australia has been matched to a 1,000-year-old skull which washed up on the same beach six years ago.

No sign of Kim Jong-un as North Korea welcomes home Asian Games athletes

More than 200,000 Indians volunteer to join effort against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria

Russia Cancels Exchange Program After a Student Seeks U.S. Asylum

CDC director: To keep Ebola away, fight it in Africa

Mexican officials fear mass grave holds remains of 43 students allegedly 'slaughtered' by local police

Netanyahu: White House criticism of Israeli settlement construction "is against American values"

Massive blast reported at suspected Iranian nuke facility

NATO can put troops wherever it wants, new secretary-general says

2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine to John OKeefe, May-Britt Moser & Edvard Moser for discovering the brain's positioning system.

A group of Cuban migrants drank their own urine and blood after the engine of their homemade boat failed, leaving them adrift in the Caribbean for three weeks without food or water. Only 15 of the 32 passengers survived, making it one of the most tragic Cuban migrant disasters in decades.

Goldman Sachs 'charmed Gadaffi-era sovereign wealth fund employees with girls and alcohol' in trip to Morocco

28 ISIS militants killed by Iraqi forces in Hamren, Diyali

ISIS Ammunition Is Shown to Have Origins in U.S. and China

2014-10-07

Scientists discover cancer-fighting berry on tree that only grows in Far North Queensland: "in 75 per cent of cases, the tumour disappeared and had not come back"

The Clorox Company voluntarily decides to disclose all ingredients in their cleaning products, which may act as allergens in certain people, despite a legal loophole allowing them to avoid doing so. "We know people are interested in more sustainable products, and they want to know what's in them."

Nurse 'infected with Ebola' in Spain

North Korea declares 2015 year of unification, boosts readiness for all-out war

Trojan Horse: ISIS militants coming to Europe disguised as refugees, US intelligence sources claim

Indian Student facing life imprisonment for refusing to stand up during National Anthem at a movie theater

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for sweeping changes to Britain's "idiotic" policy on drugs | The Liberal Democrat leader said addiction should be treated as a health problem not a criminal issue.

Great Barrier Reef dredge approval "suicide" for reef authority - Scientist says 'Marine Park Authority' lost its credibility & budget cuts have gutted it. Weve lost our prime place in the world as leaders of reef research; were no longer able to provide the science needed to protect it.

Value of Russian ruble crashing

About 100 Kurds storm into Dutch Parliament to ask attention for the ISIL advance into Kobani, Syria

White House pushes back against Netanyahu, stands by rebuke of new Israeli settlements

Total lunar eclipse on Wednesday will be a rare 'selenelion'

Sword removed in Australian Counter-Terrorism Raids turns out to be a common plastic ornament

ISIS warns professors who left their jobs to return within 10 days

Eight cases Marburg, a Ebola-like illness that is 80% fatal, have broken out in Uganda.

A South Korean naval ship fired warning shots on Tuesday after a North Korean patrol boat crossed a disputed sea border off the peninsula's west coast and fired shots back before retreating

Putin Bans Protests at Night as Controls on Dissent Grow

Survivor of Mexico Student Massacre: 'It Was Terrifying'

NASA to put mars-bound astronauts on prolonged sleep

Goldman Sachs banker took Libyan fund staff on lavish trip, high court told

Bulgaria Plans to Ground Its Russian-Made Fighter Jets to Reassert Its Independence From Moscow

ISIS just entered Koban

Israel sending mobile clinics to Africa to fight Ebola

Vietnamese oil tanker carrying 18 crew and 5,226 tons of oil goes missing

Russia's hidden workers: the slaves of Dagestan | A man who claims to have been held as a slave labourer for 18 years in Russias Northern Caucasus region has reportedly escaped.

2014-10-08

North Korea acknowledges reform camps for first time - AP

'I touched my face with gloves': nurse with Ebola

Burned bodies of 28 Mexican teaching students pulled from mass graves: "Forty-three students went missing September 26 after they were attacked by police while commandeering buses to take them to a demonstration against cuts in funding for their school."

Ugandan MP says Uganda is losing the fight against AIDS because "condoms are too small for Ugandan men"

Japan and the United States are revising their mutual defense guidelines for the first time in nearly two decades to respond to China's military expansion and increase Japan's role in regional defense.

ISIS is Cutting Off Water to Uncooperative Villages - In parched Syria & Iraq, water is a weapon

India strikes 37 Pakistani outposts, kills 15 in a severe escalation of hostilities along the border

Russia's finance minister has said that the country could no longer afford a multi-billion-dollar revamp of the armed forces approved by President Vladimir Putin, stepping up a campaign to trim spending as sanctions over the Ukraine crisis bite.

Banker admits Libor fraud conspiracy. A senior banker from a UK bank has admitted conspiring to defraud over manipulating the Libor lending rate.

US Air Force fighter jet crashes in UK during exercise

ISIS document discloses plans to seize Iran's nuclear secrets

Spanish Ebola nurse reported symptoms many times before being quarantined: Teresa Romero Ramos says when she first told health authorities of her symptoms she was given only paracetamol

Hackers are stealing millions from ATM worldwide using a new malware called as Tyupkin. This malware, which once installed on an ATM, allows the criminals to steal huge amounts of money by simply entering a series of codes

Turkish Inaction on ISIS Advance Dismays the U.S.

Russians attacked in Moscow for wearing 'Western' symbols

UN official statement "The world, all of us, will regret deeply if ISIS is able to take over a city which has defended itself with courage but is close to not being able to do so. We need to act now"

Chile's Supreme court on Tuesday suspended the development of El Morro mine owned by Canada's Goldcorp after siding with indigenous groups that oppose it on environmental grounds

The UK parliament will be voting on a motion to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel on 13 October.

Demonstrations break out across Iran in support of Kobani Kurds. Iran op-ed calls for Qods Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, to intervene to defend Kobani

Syria admits it has four more chemical weapons plants, says UN official. The disclosure heightens fears Damascus has not been open about its programme and that extremist groups could seize lethal chemicals

Spanish Ebola case: 'I am due to treat the patient. But I have no idea what to do'

Islamic State terror group identified its next target, a former U.S. Army Ranger who was captured in Lebanon last year during a relief mission to help Syrian refugees.

News - Islamic State group flier claims responsibility for Gaza terror attack

Canadian Parliament officially approves airstrikes against ISIS.

Canadian-made Ebola vaccine moving ahead to trial stage

2014-10-09

Estonia becomes first ex-Soviet country to legalize same-sex partnerships

Ebola Cases Reach Over 8,000

Global response to Ebola has failed miserably, says World Bank chief

Australian Federal Police (AFP) will now be allowed to secretly search a terrorism suspect's house, enter through an innocent neighbours property and impersonate people, under the governments anti-terror bill

14 wounded as Kurds and 'radical Muslims' clash in Germany

NASA is inviting the public to send their names on a microchip to destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars. Your name will begin its journey on a dime-sized microchip when the agency's Orion spacecraft launches Dec. 4 on its first flight, designated Exploration Flight Test-1.

Canada's largest mental health and addiction treatment and research centre is calling for the legalization of marijuana, with strict controls that would govern who could buy weed, from where, and in what quantity.

Phones held by police remotely wiped. All the data on some of the tablets and phones seized as evidence is being wiped out, remotely, while they are in police custody.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has warned its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could be hit by tsunami as high as 26.3 meters and cause 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape

Poland to honor Wikipedia with monument

Chinese State-Run Media Has Started Attacking North Korea

India among top 5 financial contributors to Ebola response.

Hong Kong government says it has called off a meeting on Friday with student leaders of the pro-democracy movement

At least 21 people were killed in riots in Turkey where Kurds rose up against the government for doing nothing to protect their kin.

Turkey - Former deputy PM defends ISIL in tweet, says ISIL does not torture

WHO says no signs spread of Ebola is slowing and says almost half of Ebola patients in West Africa have died warning the disease could spread

Most Russians Believe Foreigners View Country Favorably, Poll Shows

Lego ends Shell partnership following Greenpeace campaign

Masked voice of Islamic State war criminal restored, north American accent revealed

China is on the hunt for a Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media said on Thursday, after the animal roamed across the border, likely in search of food.

Nigeria succeeds at containing Ebola

Queensland nurse hospitalised after showing symptoms of Ebola --Sue Ellen Novack, who has been working in Sierra Leone with Ebola victims, returned to Australia on Tuesday and this morning reported a low grade fever.

French archaeologists have discovered some 200,000-year-old Neanderthal human remains in Normandy in an extremely rare discovery in northwestern Europe. The remains are attributable to the Neanderthal lineage - in the Middle Pleistocene era - and are aged between 236,000 and 183,000 years.

Venice plans to build $180 million island to keep giant cruise ships from invading historic city

Turkey imposes curfew after 18 killed in pro-Kurdish protests

2014-10-10

4 ISIS militants were poisoned after drinking tea offered to them by a local resident.

Bulgaria Rejects Russia's Charge of Disloyalty For Wanting Western Jets - "Bulgaria is a member of the EU and NATO and it does not owe explanations about its sovereign decisions to third parties."

About 130 football fans have been detained in Belarus after the entire stadium joined in chanting a well-known song insulting President Vladimir Putin. After the match, they were taken to the local KGB station, on suspicion of using "obscene language", and are expected to receive 5-day sentences.

ISIS within 8 miles of Baghdad airport, and armed with MANPADs

Elephants Worth More Alive Than Dead - Tourism revenue outweighs profits from poaching. New report finds they're worth about 76 times as much alive. Tusks sell for about $21,000 on black market, whereas a live elephant brings in over $1.6 million in ecotourism dollars.

Nigerian hoax 'drink lots of salt water to avoid ebola' Results in Two Deaths

First Ebola Vaccine Trial Starts in Africa

Thousands return to Hong Kong streets in protest

Koreas 'exchange artillery fire'

Liberia passes law restricting Ebola coverage, journalists can be "arrested and prosecuted if they fail to get written permission before contacting Ebola patients, conducting interviews or filming or photographing healthcare facilities"

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has claimed that he and his staff have received death threats from Isis

Kim Jong-un absent at anniversary celebration of Worker's Party of Korea - an event he usually attends.

Controversial Cold Fusion Reactor Seems To Work According To Third Party Researchers.

Remember that video posted by Greenpeace with a message to Lego a couple months ago? The Lego company responded by not renewing its partnership with Shell and promising to find and use an alternative to plastic by 2030.

Spain: Nursing staff resign from their posts to avoid treating Ebola cases

'Our youngest martyr yet' - Isil boasts about death of 10-year-old - Telegraph

Two police officers shot dead in Turkey as tensions rise with the local Kurdish population.

Thousands in Mexico demand action over missing students

Romania may nationalize Russias Lukoil refinery

US Air Force Pilots Say They're Flying Blind Against the Islamic State

Australian Ebola case found to be negative.

Teenage girls in the Kingdom of Swaziland, South Africa, will be paid 200 rands (11) per month if they refuse to have sex, according to reports.

Meat, Eggs Outlawed: Indian City Becomes First Vegetarian City in the World

Four more mass graves have been found near the southern Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing last month, officials say.

Gorbachev hospitalised, 'determined to fight for life'

2014-10-13

Tony Abbott says "coal is good for humanity" while opening mine - "Coal is vital for the future energy needs of the world, so lets have no demonization of coal"

Denmark to ban sex with animals

Turkey OK's use of airbases for US airstrikes against ISIS.

Birth control pills in waste water can decimate fish populations, study warns

Secret space plane X-37B to finally land after record 667 days in orbit

Edward Snowden: state surveillance in Britain has no limits | Whistleblower and former NSA analyst says UK regulation allows GCHQ snooping to go beyond anything seen in US

German deputy speaker: NATO must stop Turkey support for ISIS

Directors 'earn 120 times more than average employee' - Directors of the top 100 listed UK companies now earn 120 times the average sum earned by their employees, according to a report by Incomes Data Services (IDS).

1000-year old Viking treasure hoard found in Scotland

ISIS states its justification for the enslavement of women

Millions of Voiceprints Quietly Being Harvested

China, Russia sign $25 billion local currency swap

Hong Kong police remove barricades, say protesters can remain

The Australian government has been accused of bullying the Australian National University after criticising it for divesting from a number of fossil fuel companies

UN chief Ban: Israeli occupation led to Gaza war

Turkey denies allowing US to use bases for anti-ISIS strikes

Kurds hold off Islamic State in Kobani

Colombian farmers sue BP over pipeline's environmental impact: FT

Campaign to put ecocide on a par with genocide in attempt to curb environmental destruction - Although it was one of the five core crimes covered by the Rome Statute that set up the ICC, ecocide mysteriously vanished from negotiations at the United Nations.

Vatican Proposes Dramatic Shift In Attitude Towards Gays, Same Sex Couples

Australian PM Tony Abbott vows to 'shirtfront' Russian president Vladimir Putin at Brisbane G20 summit

Toxic fallout from US war produces record child birth defect rates in Iraq

Turkish Government arms extremist groups including ISIL, AK Party founder says

Qatar pledges $1B for Gaza Strip reconstruction

Healthcare workers in Liberia, the country hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic, will go on strike from Monday to demand hazard pay for treating patients infected with the deadly disease, their union leader said

2014-10-14

Doctors Without Borders loses 9 medics to Ebola

Protesters burn state capital building in Mexico over the disappearance of 43 young people believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel.

Reporter shot dead while investigating illegal logging

ISIS Declares Itself Pro-Slavery

Mark Zuckerburg donates $25 million to help fight Ebola.

Netherlands says OK for biker gangs to fight Islamic State

Kim Jong-Un makes first appearance in public since 3rd September

Two Air France pilots were asleep before fatal 2009 crash as one woke to say 'F**k, we're dead'

Ultra-secret 'White Shroud' group striking terror in ISIS militants

Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, says report

Anger as wounded Syria Kurds die stranded at Turkish border "He spent the next four hours watching them die, one by one, from what he believes were treatable shrapnel wounds, while Turkish border guards refused to let them through the frontier."

India plans to mine Helium 3 from Moon for developing hypersonic technology.

7.4 earthquake off the coast of El Salvador.

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK rebels

Google rejects 58% of 'right to be forgotten' requests

India becomes first country in South Asia to ban import of animal-tested cosmetics

Mexican activist, who led Displaced Persons of Picachos group, killed on air during radio show in Mazatlan

Survivors Describe Police Attack in Mexico: 'If You Moved, They Fired. If You Yelled, They Fired'

Ireland to close double Irish tax loophole

Joe Hockey ridicules suggestion Australia is among top emitters of greenhouse gases in the OECD, despite the fact it tops the OECD rankings of greenhouse gases per capita - Treasurer emphatically rejects comment from interviewer

Mexican activist gunned down during live radio broadcast

Kissinger: Iran Is a Natural Ally of the United States

Russian Sandworm Hack Has Been Spying on Foreign Governments for Years

The Ebola epidemic threatens the "very survival" of societies and could lead to failed states, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned

"If we run and they kill us, so be it. But we have to run now." The Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram.

2014-10-15

The UN says the ebola outbreak must be controlled within 60 days or else the world faces an "unprecedented" situation for which there is no plan. The United Nations made the stark warning as it warned the disease "is running faster than us and it is winning the race".

Iconic 2,500 year old Siberian princess 'died from breast cancer', reveals MRI scan. Preserved by ice, the 25 year old ancient woman covered in tattoos used cannabis to cope with her ravaging illness.

Hong Kong Police filmed beating protester

There is an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is unrelated to the outbreak in West Africa.

A millionaire couple who kept a girl from Pakistan as a slave in their Salford home have been ordered to pay her 100,000 in compensation

Italy lifts out of recession thanks to hookers, drugs: Italy learnt it was no longer in a recession on Wednesday thanks to a change in data calculations across the European Union which includes illegal economic activities such as prostitution and drugs in the GDP measure.

Lockheed Claims Breakthrough on Fusion Energy

Activists use GPS to track illegal loggers in Brazil's Amazon rainforest: Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon.

1/2 Earths Wildlife Gone, Govts Meet to Save the Rest - 1000s of representatives of govts, NGOs, indigenous peoples, scientists & private sector at Pyeongchang conference working to speed up a global 'Strategic Plan for Biodiversity'. Wildlife populations have declined by 52% since 1970.

Ebola cases now over 8900, death toll rises to 4,447, says WHO

Eccentric Billionaire Saudi Prince Warns Falling Oil Prices Could Be A 'Catastrophe'

Victoria has become the first Australian jurisdiction to erase old criminal convictions of people who were prosecuted for engaging in consenting homosexual sex

Planet Sees Warmest September Ever Recorded: NASA

US-led airstrikes reduce Islamic State's oil production by 70 percent: strikes are frustrating the Islamic State's ability to both sell oil on the market and produce fuel for its tanks and vehicles. This has severely hurt the jihadists' finances.

US, Russia vow intel-sharing on Islamic State

None of the bodies found in five mass graves in southern Mexico belonged to 43 teachers college students who have been missing for nearly three weeks since a clash with police

Marijuana to be grown by Italian army in order to bring the price down

Ebola outbreak killing 70 percent of victims - WHO

Embryonic stem cells have been used to restore vision in a landmark study

Japan Airlines flight turns back after an attempted rape

US calls for major reinterpretation of international drug laws

Mexico Bodies Do Not Match Lost Students

Turkey Decides to Hit Kurdish Rebels Instead of ISIS

France Says Will Recognize State of Palestine If Talks Fail

French FM: If peace talks prove impossible, we'll recognize Palestinian state

2014-10-16

Wind blows away fossil power in the Nordics, the Baltics next. The arrival of wind power on a large scale has pushed electricity prices down, eroding profitability of fossil power stations.

Rhino horn demand in Vietnam drops by more than 33% in one year | Information campaign successfully changes minds of people who think rhino horn has medicinal value

"Don't threaten or warn us", says India to China after unveiling plans to construct roads all the way up to Chinese border to match troop and infrastructure build up by the Chinese.

Doctors Without Borders: We've 'Reached Our Ceiling,' Maxed Out Ebola Aid Resources

Saudi Arabia to reward outstanding teachers with BMW cars and cash gifts

A solar car built by Australian students has broken the electric vehicle world speed record

The Islamic State militant group has been driven out of most of the northern Syrian town of Kobane, a Kurdish commander tells the BBC. Baharin Kandal said IS fighters had retreated from all areas of the border town, except for two pockets of resistance in the east.

The Islamic State has seized three trucks with school textbooks for Iraqi schools at the country's border with Jordan and is demanding $108,000 for their passage

Colombian farmers sue BP for $29M over land degredation - Our water has been damaged by sedimentation since the pipeline was laid & I've lost cattle. I can no longer keep pigs or chickens. We have hope & faith the high court in London will deliver justice to us.

Three Dutch members of the infamous motorbike gang No Surrender have gone to Iraq to help fight ISIL.

France gives China 12m-high Fire-Breathing Dragon Robot to Celebrate Anniversary of Diplomatic Ties

Lockheed: We'll Build Compact Reactor in a Year.

Caribbean Island St. Lucia: No visitors from Ebola-stricken nations

Isis 'behead their own fighters' for spying and embezzlement in Syria

Kurdish Activists Stage ISIS Sex Slave Market in Central London

Plane from Paris isolated in Madrid over potential ebola case

A case in which 100 Colombian farmers are suing British oil giant BP for environmental damage opened in the High Court in London

The Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone has announced that deadly Ebola has come to the last untouched district in the nation.

Putin Vows to Protect Polar Bear Habitat as Russia Militarizes Arctic

Muslim Leader Denied Entry To Jamaica In The Interest Public Safety

US: Strikes near Kobani have killed hundreds of Islamic State fighters

Chinese medical research group claims to discover 'virological penicillin'. Plant microRNA, MIR2911, which is enriched in honeysuckle, directly targets influenza A viruses (IAV) including H1N1, H5N1 and H7N9.

Hong Kong's top media official shared fake photo of beaten cop

Toronto child porn case triggers scandal in Britain - Toronto police sent the British authorities the names of about 2,000 men in July 2012 as part of a sweeping investigation spanning 90 countries

Officials: Egyptian warplanes are bombing positions held by Islamist militias in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi

2014-10-17

Nearly 500 new female genital mutilation cases identified in England last month.

Lithuania to ban sale of energy drinks to minors. WHO said Lithuania will prove to be an example for all other European Countries.

Britain may use a mediaeval law dating to 1351 to charge citizens with treason if they go to fight with Islamic State insurgents in Iraq and Syria, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.

Giant inflatable 'sex toy' sculpture in Paris is meant to be a Christmas tree

In a decision that could mark the end of Europes most violent neo-Nazi force, a Greek prosecutor has demanded that Golden Dawns entire parliamentary group stand trial for criminal offences

Jamaica imposes ban on travelers from Ebola-stricken countries

Colombia cancels flights from West Africa because of Ebola

Only 12% of drone victims in Pakistan identified as militants: report

Full horror of the Yazidis who didnt escape Mount Sinjar: UN confirms 5,000 men were executed and 7,000 women are now kept as sex slaves

Russian HIV vaccine ready for phase two clinical trials

Glenn Greenwald: UN Report Finds Mass Surveillance Violates International Treaties and Privacy Rights

For the first time in its 500-year history, visitors will see the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo in full color. Starting this month, the Vatican is installing 7,000 LEDs to more vibrantly, fully and accurately illuminate the space than ever before.

Nigeria and Boko Haram 'agree ceasefire' and are releasing the kidnapped school girls

NZ is now in the UN Security Council

Spanish authorities reported four new patients with suspected Ebola symptoms on Thursday, including a feverish passenger who started shaking on an Air France flight to Madrid and a Spanish priest who had recently been in Liberia.

BBC to publish Google 'right to be forgotten' removals list

Dark matter may have been detected streaming from the suns core

ISIS captured 3 Syrian fighter planes

NASAs Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic Magnifying Glass

Pakistan court upholds blasphemy death sentence of a Christian woman

Crimeans given three months to voluntarily hand in banned literature [TRANSLATION]

Police launch dawn raid to clear Hong Kong protest zone

Russian Defense Budget to Hit Record $81 Billion in 2015

U.S. Calls for Probe Into Beating of Political Activist by Hong Kong Police-- "In the video, Tsang is arrested before being taken around a corner and beaten while on the ground with his hands bound by a plastic tie."

Russia And China Want To Build The Longest High-Speed Railway In The World To Connect Them

2014-10-20

WHO Declares Nigeria Ebola-Free After 42 Days With No Cases

Pacific islanders on canoes blockade Australia coal export terminal saying fossil fuels are contributing to rising sea levels that threaten their countries' very existence

Israeli President Rivlin: Time to admit that Israel is a sick society that needs treatment

Jack the Ripper: Scientists who claims to have identified notorious killer has 'made serious DNA error'

Britain is on the brink of becoming a nation permanently divided between rich and poor, poverty commission warns

Press TV reporter killed in suspicious car accident in Turkey 3 days ago Turkish intelligence agency had accused her of spying

Spanish nurse who became first person to contract Ebola outside Africa tests negative for the virus

Paris opera ejects woman in Muslim veil after cast refuses to sing

Japan 'not ready' for invasion of redbacks as venomous Australian spiders reach Tokyo

U.S. tug boat rescues drifting Russian cargo ship, ending fears of an oil spill off the B.C. coast

Police move to clear Occupy protesters from Parliament Square

Canada develops ebola vaccine that is effective on animals - 800 vials of the vaccine are being shipped to the WHO for further testing

Mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies is corrosive of online privacy and threatens to undermine international law, according to a report to the United Nations general assembly.

Hamas claims it is rebuilding infiltration tunnels into Israel

Confirmed: Israel to Supply Gas to Egypt in $4 Billion Deal

Ebola: Liberias President writes moving letter to the world

India set to become $2 trillion economy this year

US airdrops arms and supplies to Kurdish opposition fighters in Syrian town of Kobani

Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals | Data indicates 190% rise in land clearance in August and September compared with same period last year

Fire exposes illegal Chinese factories in Italy

Islamic State: Turkey to let Iraq Kurds join Kobane fight

McDonalds Says Russia Inspecting More Than 200 Outlets

Swedish Navy's Rear Adm. Anders Grenstad said it had no information about any emergency messages suggesting a Russian mini-submarine had run into trouble in Swedish waters

Poll: 75% of Israeli Jews oppose Palestinian state on '67 lines

Priests race to save manuscripts from jihadists in Iraq

2014-10-21

Australian Whistleblower who leaked a secret scholarship for Tony Abbott's daughter to be sentenced this week

Hong Kong has too many poor people to allow direct elections, leader says

World-First, FDA-Approved, Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trial for Diabetes is Launched, After Diabetes is "Cured" in Mice.

Oscar Pistorius receives a prison sentence of 5 years for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp

Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant - Geoff Raisman said: "It would be my proudest boast if I could say that no patient had had to pay one penny for any of the information we have found."

2 Biggest Tuna Fish Brands in UK Backtracking on Commitments - Leaked documents show they're likely to opt out of commitments to end FAD fishing methods. 'Thats unacceptable. It's a truly devastating method of catching tuna. It catches a huge array of species, including sharks, rays & turtles.'

Sweden ready to use force to surface sub

Man stones daughter to death in Daesh video

CEO of oil giant TOTAL dies in crash of private jet at take off in Moscow

Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland - Polish ex-minister

The $103 million taxpayer funding of New Zealand's intelligence agencies is effectively a membership fee for joining the Five Eyes surveillance club with the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, according to a de-classified report.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has hit an all-time high despite years of counter-narcotics efforts that have cost the US $7.6bn

Former Australian PM Gough Whitlam who brought in sweeping changes that transformed Australia has died at age 98

Russia Prepares for Ice-Cold War with Show of Military Force in the Arctic - Vladimir Putin sends troops & jets to oil & gas-rich region coveted by Canada, US, Norway & Denmark

The Ukrainian Army appears to have fired cluster munitions on several occasions into the heart of Donetsk, unleashing a weapon banned in much of the world into a rebel-held city with a peacetime population of more than one million

Poorly paid Nepalese porters found frozen in flip flops and trainers

Japanese man gets 2 year sentence for making guns using 3-D printer

UK wind industry sets new generation record as it nears 25 per cent power share - wind power outperformed nuclear power throughout the whole weekend and into Monday morning, and allowed a number of coal power plants to be taken offline.

John Kerry praises Cuban role in Ebola fight

Russia Wont Accept Terms to End Sanctions Over Ukraine

Russian artist cuts off earlobe in protest at use of forced psychiatry on dissidents

Known terror suspect in Canada runs over two soldiers; is gunned down by police

Palestinians file UN complaint accusing settler of killing schoolgirl

Sweden's Second AP Fund has just divested $116 million from oil, coal and gas companies - the first national pension fund in the world to do so

South Sudan sexual violence 'rampant,' two-year-old raped: U.N.

2014-10-22

Shots fired at Parliament in Canada

The Obama administration has until early December to detail its reasons for withholding as many as 2,100 graphic photographs depicting US military torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal judge ordered on Tuesday.

'Why is the world allowing a holocaust to happen again?' Brave North Korean shares harrowing story of escape - Independent.ie

The Walking Dead's Laurie Holden goes undercover to fight against underage sex trafficking and helps to save 55 young girls.

Hungary to impose internet tax in 2015 - as high as ~$0.6 per gigabyte

Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai to Obama: ...send books instead of gunschange the world..."

Italian police uncover 1.7bn corporate fraud.

Sweden gets two new sightings, as hunt for undersea intruder goes on

Russians Pull $5 Billion Out of Banks as Ruble Plummets

Man Who Killed Canadian Soldier With Car Was Radical Muslim on the RCMP watchlist

Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online For Free (500 manuscripts and 600 incunabula available now)

Australian Government says, website blocking is not Web filtering.

Greek archaeologists made another find on Tuesday as they unearthed the missing head of one of the two wingless sphinxes guarding the large and mysterious burial site in Amphipolis, in Greeces northeastern Macedonia region.

Polands speaker backs down from claim Putin proposed dividing Ukraine

Spanish nurse with ebola has been cured and given all clear.

Press freedom in the Americas has 'worsened'

Brazil Creates Amazon Rainforest Reserve Larger Than Delaware. The new reserve, called Alto Maues, has 6,680 square km (668,000 hectares or 1.65 million acres) of mostly untouched forests that are not known to have human presence, the Brazilian Environment Ministry said.

The Ukrainian military has used cluster munitions numerous times in its conflict with pro-Russian separatists, likely scattering deadly bombs that did not immediately explode and putting civilians at risk, Human Rights Watch said in a new report

Russians More Afraid of U.S. Than Islamic Terrorism, Survey Shows

Cuban medics arrive in Liberia to fight Ebola: More than 50 doctors land in Monrovia as WHO officials say they hope to develop serum from recovered patients' blood.

Hong Kong protests: government can't deny 'something huge has happened'

About 50 young Cambodians have offered to join the fight against ISIS. In return they want US help to fight the Vietnamese and liberate an island off Cambodia that's been Vietnamese for at least 150 years.

Hungarian goverment plans to introduce a ~0.5EUR/GB Internet tax next year for all ISPs

Teenagers' heavy cannabis use 'impairs intelligence'

17th-C. Dutch Warship Discovered Off the Coast of TobagoHuis de Kreuningen, largest ship in fleet, sunk by the Glorieux March 3, 1677 battling invading French fleet in Caribbean. To find the Huis de Kreuningen undiscovered & untouched for over 300 yrs was an exciting moment.

2014-10-23

'We are a proud democracy, a welcoming and peaceful nation, and a country of open arms and open hearts. We are a nation of fairness, justice and the rule of law. We will not be intimidated into changing that'. - Justin Trudeau - Canadian MP

North Korea has banned all tourism in the country in fear of Ebola outbreak

'Canada will never be intimidated,' PM Stephen Harper addressed the Nation.

Former Blackwater guards found guilty in 2007 shootings of Iraqis

Suspected gunman in downtown Halifax, Canada. Schools and businesses on lockdown.

A Saudi court has sentenced 13 people to prison for plotting an attack against U.S. forces.

Artifacts Dating Back Thousands of Yrs Destroyed by ISIS Militants in Iraq - What it hasn't destroyed, ISIS is selling on black market. 1000s of yrs before birth of Christ, people of Mesopotamia mastered 1st writing system, mathematics, astronomy, literature & law.

Mexican Prosecutor Says Mayor, Wife Ordered Attack on Students

Ottawa shooting: Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers hailed a hero for shooting rampaging gunman

China furious after Kenny G appears to back Hong Kong protesters

Iran, Russia create joint operations headquarters to fight the Islamic State

Mexico's government has ordered the arrest of the mayor of the southern town of Iguala, where six people died and 43 students disappeared after clashing with local police last month.

South Sudan women suggest sex strike to end civil war

Fighters scrambled as Russian spy plane violates Estonian air space

Senior Al-Qaeda jihadist urges ISIS to free U.S. hostage who gave him medical treatment

Chinas coal use is actually dropping for the first time this century

Facebook paid no UK corporation tax for the second year in a row in 2013, while employees received shares in the company worth tens of millions of pounds.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad salute Jerusalem terror attack

US condemns 'despicable' Jerusalem terror attack that killed baby, injured 7 others

Saudi kings nephew admits to Riyadh support for ISIL

U.N. rights watchdog calls for open elections in Hong Kong

Boeing sells first parts to Iran since 1979

Spanish Woman Who Beat Ebola Mourns for Her Slain Dog

Human Rights Watch releases fresh report detailing the 'Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates.' With no labor law protections for domestic workers, employers can, and many do, overwork, underpay, and abuse these women.

Denmark provides an additional 10 million kroner, overall reaching 74 million kroner donated to the ongoing Ebola crisis in west Africa

2014-10-24

U.S. threatens sanctions on buyers of ISIS oil

Canada attack 'not linked to IS'

Poll: 74 percent of Denmark's citizens want to outlaw circumcision

World's Longest Snake Has Virgin Birth1st Recorded in Species - "We didn't know what we were seeing. We had attributed it to stored sperm. I guess sometimes truth is stranger than fiction."

Lebanese MP Nicolas Fattoush repeatedly punches office worker, in front of many witnesses, after she refuses to let him jump a queue. He is being allowed to keep his job and no charges are to be brought.

"Since church ministers declared Ebola was a plague sent by God to punish sodomy in Liberia, the violence towards gays has escalated. They're even asking for the death penalty. We're living in fear,"

Sixty more women and girls reported kidnapped in Nigeria

Canada to toughen terror laws

Poland bans junk food in schools

A 45,000-year-old leg bone from Siberia has yielded the oldest genome sequence for Homo sapiens on record revealing a mysterious population that may once have spanned northern Asia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised on Friday what he called the United States' "unilateral diktat" in global affairs and said the "so-called" winners of the Cold War wanted a new world order that suited only them.

Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Donates $100M to Fight Raging Ebola Epidemic -- "Paul Allen one-upped his good friend, co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates, with an even bigger donation"

The largest city in Brazil is running dangerously low on water

Drug mule left to die in airport over Ebola fears

UK computer users who damage national security could face jail - Govt. plan for computer users deemed to have damaged national security, human welfare, the economy or the environment to face a life sentence has been criticised by experts who warn it could be used to target legitimate whistleblowers

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation "stonewalled" Snowden story, says Greenwald

ISIS School of Jihad trains small children how to behead, torture and use AK-47s

Russian president Vladimir Putin says West to blame for Ukraine crisis, US trying to 'remake the whole world'

Heavy clashes between the Syrian Army and the Islamic State resulted in a defeat for the Islamic State in Eastern Reef Homs and the Syrian Army took over an Oil well

World-first dead heart transplant at Sydneys St Vincents Hospital a game changer

Muslim groups fear angry response from Canadian public

China Launches First Privately Funded Moon Mission Today

Vitaly Churkin, Russias Permanent Representative to the United Nations has announced that Russia will back a resolution calling for a Palestinian state, if one is presented.

Russia still has troops in Ukraine, NATO says

Queensland government passes legislation that will see people who attack nurses, doctors, and paramedics face a 14 year jail term

2014-10-27

Protest against the world's first internet tax in Hungary

A disabled 12 year-old girl in the UK has been 'allowed to die' after a court case fought by her parents made legal history

Oil price will fall to $70 a barrel in 2015, Goldman Sachs says

4 Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over Cartel Behavior

Last US Marines, British combat forces officially end operations in Afghanistan after 13 years

The federal government is shamelessly exploiting last weeks extremist attacks to dismantle liberties and core principles of justice, says journalist Glenn Greenwald.

Harper Named World's 'Worst Climate Villain' After Damning Report

Police cars overturned, Water-cannon used as 5000 Anti-Islamic Rioters take to Central Cologne

German spies warn ISIS has anti-aircraft rockets to shoot down passenger jets

Embedding Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules - "The Court ruled that embedding copyrighted videos is not copyright infringement, even if the source video was uploaded without permission."

The Vatican is digitizing thousands of its rarest texts | News

Tesla boss Elon Musk warns artificial intelligence development is 'summoning the demon'

Rwanda bans BBC over genocide film

Australian teenager in ISIL video an 'idiot', says family

New blotter test can spot Ebola in 30 minutes

Dilma Rousseff re-elected Brazil's president

Lithuania's first floating LNG terminal breaks Russian monopoly

Japan vows to continue its whaling program, despite an international ruling ordering it to stop

Israel okays over 1000 new settler units

Iranian President Rouhani says "most severe punishment awaits" perpetrators of acid attacks against Iranian women as government appoints probe chief to lead investigation

Woman beheaded for killing ISIS member who attempted to rape her

Belarus Wants to Criminalize Unemployment

A 20-year old Spanish kid pretended to be a government official, infiltrated the Spanish political elite.

Israeli president calls 1956 massacre of Arabs a 'terrible crime'

Pro-Democracy Movements Vote in Hong Kong Abruptly Called Off

2014-10-28

Nobel Peace Prize Winners Want Barack Obama to Release Torture Report

Heroin use is so high in Myanmar that syringes now serve as currency Along parts of the Myanmar-China border, where heroin addiction is appallingly common, fresh needles are now so coveted that shopkeepers dispense them as change.

Pope says evolution doesn't mean there's no God; In an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope explains that God is not some sort of wizard.

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Purges 10 Officials From His Ruling Workers Party for Watching South Korean Soap Operas, Yonhap Says

90% of journalists' murderers across the world get away with it - report

ANYONE who forces a child to wear a burqa in public could be jailed for a year and fined $68,000, under a draft law to be introduced by Jacqui Lambie.

Mexico unearths 'second mass grave'

US banks vow not to fund Great Barrier Reef coal port - US banking giants Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, & JPMorgan Chase are latest big financiers to rule out funding a major coal port expansion in Queensland, activists say

Five-year-olds learn coding as Britain eyes digital future

Nigeria sues Coca-Cola for half-filled cans

In historic Ukraine election, the Communist Party fails to gain a single Parliament seat

Japanese scientists warn that volcano near a nuclear power plant is ready to erupt

Irish politician to take abortion pill in Dublin in defiance of Republics ban

U.S. says Israel's decision to push forward housing plan in East Jerusalem is 'incompatible with peace' EU says future ties with Israel hinge on engagement to peace based on two states

Russia to recognize election results of separatist Ukraine regions

Ethiopia ruthlessly targeting and torturing Oromo people, says Amnesty | Damning report says thousands of people from countrys largest ethnic group subjected to abuse including rape and killings

1,800 radical German Muslims now in Syria, Iraq