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2014-11-28

State of emergency in Ukraine as Russia cuts off coal

Finnish Parliament approves same-sex marriage

For the first time since 1969 Germany has balanced its budget

Bavaria plans free wifi for 'whole state'

German unemployment rate falls to a record low

Mexicos President Announces Federal Takeover of Local Police Forces

Mexico: eleven bodies found dumped in state where 43 students went missing

Indonesia cracks down on deforestation in symbolic u-turn. Indonesias reforming new president is to crack down on the rampant deforestation and peatland destruction that has made the nation the worlds third largest emitter of climate-warming carbon dioxide.

Renewable Energy Overtakes Nuclear as Scotland's Top Power Source - Clean energy produced more power in Scotland than nuclear, coal or gas for 1st time, in 1st 1/2 of 2014 industry figures show

7 Mental Health Patients Died Waiting for Beds; 1 Killed His Mother - Investigation comes as mental health beds are being cut in England. Figures show over 2100 gone since 2011. NHS accused by many of failing to understand or prioritize mental health.

The first known FBI informant inside Wikileaks has plead guilty to embezzlement and fraud amounting to thirty million kronas.

Social Media sites like Twitter & Facebook are being told to simplify their terms and conditions because currently it's like reading hieroglyphics or shakespeare

Fracking risk compared to thalidomide and asbestos in Walport report. History presents plenty of examples of innovation trajectories that later proved to be problematic for instance involving asbestos, benzene, thalidomide, dioxins, lead in petrol, tobacco, many pesticides...

World Health Organization: men recovering from Ebola should abstain from sex for three months to minimize the risk of passing the virus on in their semen

Oil continues to collapse a day after OPEC stands firm on production

Yemen's main oil pipeline blown up; $4.5 billion has already been lost in infrastructure attacks over the past two years

French president announces 1.5-bln-euro fund to finance transition to green energy

TransCanada, the energy company behind controversial Keystone Pipeline, drops PR firm after a proposal to attack companys opponents leaked - Edelman planned for TransCanada to pressure its opponents by distracting them from their mission & causing them to redirect their resources

UN Torture Watchdog Urges US to Crack Down on Police Brutality - It's the panel's 1st review of the US record on preventing torture since 2006

Support for Isis stronger in Arabic social media in Europe than in Syria

Venezuela's representative storm out of meeting as Opec refuses to cut oil production. Prices slump to five-year low

Hong Kong protest leader alleges police sexually assaulted him

"Saudis block OPEC output cut, sending oil price plunging"

India has suspended the US entertainment channel Comedy Central for six days for showing showing women as a "commodity of sex" in two shows

Israel slams Turkey: This is no way for a NATO state to act

2014-12-01

Kim Dotcom walks Free After three days of hearings in Auckland

Iraqi army 'had 50,000 ghost troops' on payroll

Alberta pipeline spills 60,000 litres of crude oil into muskeg

'Picasso painting offered as kickback': A painting, believed to be a Picasso, was allegedly gifted to Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) president and FIFA executive member Michel Platini in return for his support for the eventually successful Russian bid for the 2018 global showpiece

Beginning of the end: AIDS is finally reaching a tipping point. The number of people newly infected with HIV over the last year is on the decline.

Thousands of Russians have staged marches in Moscow and other cities in protest at health reforms which include plans to close hospitals and cut jobs

Poland elects first openly gay mayor in elections

Arab-Jewish school, symbol of Jerusalem co-existence, torched

ISIS may possesss nuclear material stolen from Iraq, report says

Putin confirms support for independent Palestinian state; We believe that Palestines acquisition of national sovereignty on the common international legal base will be an important factor in ensuring a comprehensive, just settlement in the Middle East,

Indian ISIS "recruit" returns home. His role was to clean toilets and give soldiers water while they fought.

Hard drives, other sensitive equipment discovered missing from Mistral warship originally destined for Russia on day the deal was suspended

Russia to give Iran grain in return for oil

Germany says 300 jihadists facing trial, anti-terrorism laws working

Nigeria Parliament: Shell Should Pay $3.6 Billion For 2011 Bonga Oil Spill

Moody's cuts Japan credit rating

Deutsche Bahn sues airlines over price-fixing | German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) is filing a billion-euro lawsuit against more than a dozen airlines over allegations of running a 'global cargo cartel.'

Send our jihadis to Devil's Island! French politician demands Paris reopens 'Papillon' jail for terrorists

China warns British MPs they will be denied entry to Hong Kong

EUROPE - Dutch MP calls for removal of all mosques in Netherlands

Netanyahu's government on verge of collapse over controversial Jewish nation state bill

Switzerland voters reject immigration cap | Final referendum results show 74 percent voted "no" on limiting net immigration to fewer than 17,000 people a year.

Worlds Most Polluted City Urged to Close Schools on Bad Air Days - The rapidly worsening air quality in the Indian capital of Delhi has officials calling for drastic measures to address the growing public health emergency.

Fire causes shutdown at Belgian nuclear reactor

Oil hits five-year lows in longest losing streak since 2008 crisis

2014-12-02

A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn

Edward Snowden wins Swedish human rights award for NSA revelations | Whistleblower receives several standing ovations in Swedish parliament as he wins Right Livelihood award

Sony Drops FIFA Sponsorship Amid Corruption Scandal.

A british oil company is cutting its new CEOs pay by more than half, in a rare win for shareholders who had opposed the companys initial proposal for compensating chief executive Helge Lund.

Russia will hit recession in 2015 because of oil and Ukraine, Kremlin admits

Charles Darwin's notebooks in which he first jotted down his theory of evolution have been put online in one of the most significant worldwide releases of the naturalist's material - Over 12,000 images have been digitised by the University of Cambridge.

Indian tycoon throws mass wedding for fatherless women.

North Korea says U.S. created the Ebola outbreak

2013 homicide rate in Canada lowest since 1966

In Senegal, desperate mothers kill their own babies due to strict abortion laws and heavy societal pressure. "They leave the infants out in the middle of the forest to starve to death or get eaten by wild animals. Others strangle them or throw them in the septic tank," said one legal counselor.

Experts say they have achieved a scientific milestone - creating enzymes out of artificial genetic material that they made in their lab

The EU's top court has ruled that refugees who claim asylum on the grounds that they are homosexual should not have to undergo tests to prove it.

Lebanese army has detained wife of Islamic State leader Baghdadi and one of his sons at border crossing with Syria: Lebanese officials

At climate talks, UN calls fossil fuels 'high risk' investment. Oil price volatility "is exactly one of the main reasons why we must move to renewable energy which has a completely predictable cost of zero for fuel" once wind turbines or solar panels were built, she told a news conference.

Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind

Study finds that HIV may be evolving into a milder form

Iran Bombing Islamic State In Iraq, U.S. Official Confirms

Waterborne disease plagues ISIS occupied Mosul

Costa Rica celebrates 66th anniversary of the abolition of its army The Tico Times

1.7m Syrian refugees face food crisis as UN funds dry up

Putin cancels new natural gas pipeline to Europe in a surprise move

Russian jet nearly hits Nato jet over Norway

Iranian Phantom jet strikes the Islamic State in Iraq

Japan to Launch Asteroid Lander Tonight: Watch It Live

North Korean Government Thought To Be Behind Sony Pictures Hack

2014-12-03

British man found with nailbomb, weapons cache, and plans to mass murder immigrants, not charged with terrorism

Israel must give up Nuclear Weapons: United Nations Resolution

Ukraine PM discloses accident at nuclear plant: Reuters

Russian state TV's latest attempt to persuade viewers of the moral depravity of the West has left it with egg on its face. What it presented as a child in the USA being exposed to lewd homoerotica was quickly shown to be a fake pornographic parody taken off the internet.

DNA Confirms King Richard III's Remains Under Parking Lot

An Indian state has halted mass sterilisations at health clinics after a doctor was found using a bicycle pump to inflate women's abdomens.

North Korea Bans Name Jong-un for All but Leader: South Korean government officials said on Wednesday that North Korea had banned parents from giving their newborns the same name as the top leader. People who already have the name have been ordered to register with new ones

President Bashar al Assad of Syria says US-led strikes on Syria ineffective "You can't end terrorism with aerial strikes. ''Troops on the ground that know the land and can react are essential.''

French parliament votes to recognize Palestine as a state

Rise of Turkish Islamic schooling upsets secular parents | Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms that President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defense against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation.

Russian ruble in worst daily drop in 16 years

Global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars, planes, trains & ships combined, but global survey finds twice as many people think transport is bigger contributor - Fear of a consumer backlash is preventing action on getting people to eat less meat.

Soap, sunscreen and steroids found in Antarctic waters and wildlife | Range of pharmaceuticals found in fish, clams and sea urchins in waters around two research stations, says New Zealand researchers

Iran jets bomb Islamic State targets in Iraq - Pentagon

Sepp Blatter: Qatar World Cup workers welfare is not Fifas responsibility, companies are responsible for their workers - Hundreds have died on building projects

The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution criticizing Israel for refusing to join an international treaty against nuclear proliferation and calls on Israel to join nuclear treaty

Israel vents their fury with France after parliament votes to recognise Palestine as a state

Indian forces kill 6 militants crossing into Kashmir to disrupt vote

Melting Rate of West Antarctica Glaciers Triples: Study

Green Energy Sector Jobs Surpass Total Oil Sands Employment in Canada

Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood smuggling weapons into Israel

Questions raised over Queens ancestry after DNA test on Richard IIIs cousins - "the present Queen may not be descended from John of Gaunt and Edward III, the lineage on which the Tudor claim to the throne originated."

Topless Femen activist goes on trial in Cologne | Josephine Witt jumped up half-naked onto the altar of Cologne cathedral during Christmas mass last year, in protest against the Catholic Church.

West Antarctic Melt Rate Has Tripled: The total amount of loss averaged 83 gigatons per year (91.5 billion U.S. tons). By comparison, Mt. Everest weighs about 161 gigatons, meaning the Antarctic glaciers lost an amount of water weight equivalent to Mt. Everest every two years.

NASA has announced that a test launch of their Orion space capsule will take place on Thursday, in the first step of a mission that will take people to Mars by mid-2030.

2014-12-04

NASA officially announces Manned Mars Mission, test launch will begin tomorrow testing orbiter.

Vatican finds hundreds of millions of euros 'tucked away': cardinal

16 Major Cruise Lines Released Over a Billion Gallons of Sewage Into the Ocean in 2014 - Beyond 3 miles from shore, the cruise lines may dump wastewater directly into the ocean, & many of them rely on old & antiquated water-treatment systems.

Isis recruits are begging to be allowed to return home | Foreign recruits have been writing to their parents with feeble excuses "I'm fed up to the back teeth. My iPod no longer works out here. I have got to come home," one of the foreign IS recruits was quoted as saying.

Angela Merkel speaks against net neutrality

President Vladimir Putin warned Russians of hard times and urged self-reliance, speaking to both chambers in the Kremlin, Mr Putin accused Western governments of seeking to raise a new iron curtain around Russia.

Iran sentences blogger to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad

ISIS claims constructing dirty bomb after stealing 40kg of uranium

Pentagon fears blowback from humane Guantnamo video release

Pacific Fishing Nations Agree on New Rules to Save Pacific Bluefin Tuna, a Species that's Nearly Fished Out Due to Sushi Trade - Tuna down to just 4% of their historic levels. Only a tiny breeding stock now approaching the end of its lifecycle is holding population together.

An Emirati woman has been arrested over the fatal stabbing of an American teacher and a foiled plot to bomb the home of another U.S. citizen, UAE authorities said Thursday.

U.S. Army sending 100 tanks to Eastern Europe to deter 'Russian aggression'

Gorbachev: US 'Triumphalism' Fueling New Cold War

Israel nature reserve oil spill "one of country's worst environmental disasters" - 3 people hospitalized after inhaling fumes from oil gushing out of a breached pipeline near Evrona reserve. Millions of litres of oil gushing out of a breached pipeline flooded a desert nature reserve.

As many as 99% of Russian athletes are guilty of doping

$100 billion climate finance goal 'a very small sum': UN climate chief. She said $90 trillion would be invested in infrastructure over the next 15 years.

Worlds Biggest Cave in Threatened by Cable Car - Vietnamese are protesting plans to build cable car to carry 1,000 visitors an hr to cave. Researchers fear building towers to support car could damage fragile network of caves & put pressure on already weak ceiling, triggering collapse.

South Korea Will Build A Giant Christmas Tree On The DMZ To Annoy North Korea

U.K. Introduces the Google Tax: The government took aim at tech companies and other international firms, proposing a 25% tax on profits on economic activity that is shifted overseas

Cement Intended for Gaza Reconstruction Ends Up on Black Market

A Japanese artist who made a kayak modelled on her own vagina has been arrested again in a case that has sparked accusations of censorship.

Putin Vows to Punish Speculators Pushing Down Rubles Value

NASA's Orion: first test flight for Manned Mars Rocket postponed for 24 hours.

Iran has provided evidence to the U.N. atomic agency showing that documents on suspected nuclear bomb research by the country were forged

Life under ISIS Rule a 'Living Hell': Mosul (Iraq) Citizens Suffering from Lack of Clean Water, Medicine

2014-12-05

Orion deep space capsule launches.

Dozens of Chinese held in Kenya accused of preparing to raid the country's communications systems

Germany tries 20-year-old man who fought with ISIS in Syria and sentences him to 3 years 9 months.

Blame your boss, not China, for stagnant wage growth: ILO

France ordered to pay Somali pirates up to $5000 each for detaining them for 48 hours too long before appearing in a court.

Chinese researchers report that a common pantry pest harbors bacteria that can digest plastic.

China overtakes the US as world's largest economy

Tony Blair says politicians are underpaid

Snowden docs show NSA spied on global cellphone networks

An undercover police officer has been accused of encouraging and helping an animal rights campaigner to commit illegal acts which led to his being jailed for four years, according to legal documents

Putin: Under No Circumstances Will Moscow Stop Cooperating With Europe, US

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday condemned the United Nations Security Council for being an unrepresentative "Christian body," as well as the "biased" decisions of Norway's Nobel Prize Committee.

Charity in France Is Accused of Being a Front for Financing Terrorism in Syria

Land Mines Arent Killing As Many People As They Used To

Turkish PM implies that gender equality triggers suicides

Scientists find ancient case of human cancer in man who died 4,500 years ago

Corruption a 'problem for all,' latest global index shows

Islamic Militants Attack Grozny, Chechnyas Capital, Leaving 19 Dead

The new 42m Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, dedicated to the second world war Enigma codebreaker, is to be based at the British Library at the centre of a new Knowledge Quarter, George Osborne announced on Thursday.

Cameroons National Assembly has voted into law a bill tabled by government prescribing death sentence on individuals who stage public demonstrations. - deliberately defines the word terrorism to include citizens who carry out public protest against the regime.

U.K. to Repay World War I Loan - The War Loan, a slice of perpetual debt with no fixed maturity date and a 3.5% coupon, was issued in 1932 to refinance war debt first sold in 1917 amid a patriotic campaign to fund the war effort.

UK mass surveillance laws do not breach human rights, tribunal rules - Rights groups brought case against GCHQ after Snowden revelations on extent of electronic surveillance in UK and US

Latvian politician forced to step down after tweeting Thank God Nazis shot gays

Reports: Obama Mulling Sanctions on Israel

Putin tells Russia: Hard times are coming

2014-12-08

Mass surveillance exposed by Snowden not justified by fight against terrorism - Report by Nils Muinieks, commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, says secret, massive and indiscriminate intelligence work is contrary to rule of law

The body temperature of Polish toddler rescued from severe hypothermia this week had dropped to 12.7 C (55 F). It is the lowest survived body temperature ever recorded in a human with hypothermia.

Mexico says evidence proves missing students were incinerated

Sixteen British police officers have been charged with criminal and disciplinary offences after they ignored cries for help from a disabled Iranian national before he was murdered by his neighbor last year

The best-known liberal TV channel in Russia has been asked to quit its rented studios in Moscow for the second time in as many months. Rain TV (Russian: TV Dozhd) is a digital channel whose output contrasts sharply with state-run media, providing a platform for alternative views.

UBER banned in India's capital city New Delhi after a UBER driver was implicated in rape of a young girl yesterday

New Horizons robotic probe awakened, begins exploration of Pluto

Uber, the U.S. online ride-hailing service, has been banned from offering service in the Netherlands. Uber could be fined up to 100,000 euros ($122,000), while drivers could face fines of 10,000 euros, the court found.

Russia demands 'explanations' from Israel regarding alleged airstrike in Syria

NSA's surveillance a 'trade barrier' for EU companies: EU official

Merkel allies want immigrants to speak German at home

Australian researchers achieve record level of efficiency in solar panels (40.4%)

Finland, Scandinavia falling short in fight against radicalisation, expert says | Yle Uutiset

Thirteen killed in failed U.S. hostage rescue bid in Yemen

ISIS has released a video featuring an Ottawa man calling on his fellow Muslim countrymen to carry out lone-wolf attacks on Canadian targets.

Mother Sues France Over Underage Son's Syria Trip

EU parliament calls on Pakistan to abolish the death penalty for blasphemy

Turkish President Erdogan says that the new presidential palace has 1,150 rooms, not 1,000

In Canada, More Jobs in Green Energy than Tar Sands: 'The global clean energy revolution isnt a future scenarioit is underway right now,' declares Clean Energy Canada

Poland has long seen itself as stuck between the East and West, resulting in plenty of historical suffering. Russian aggression in Ukraine has many in the country fearing the worst.

Rome Mayor Defies Mobster Threats and Refuses to Quit

German Chancellor Angela Merkel accuses Russia of interfering in the affairs of Eastern European countries seeking closer ties with the EU

6 Arrested For Looting Antiquities From Israel's 'Cave Of The Skulls'

Ukraine to Allow Russian Electricity Imports After Coal Supply Falters

BC poultry farms have been placed under quarantine and more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens will be euthanized. At least seven countries have banned poultry products from either B.C. or all of Canada.

2014-12-09

Hackers tell Sony to halt the release of "The Interview"

Elephant Slaughter, Ivory Sales "Out of Control": Wild Elephants Could Disappear Within a Generation

Germany: Thousands join anti-Islam protest against European spread of ISIS and al-Qaeda

NSA warrantless bulk phone metadata spying continues unabated | Metadata snooping re-authorized a fourth time despite Obama's reform pledge.

Hong Kong protesters given Thursday deadline to clear sites, building up to a final showdown between pro-democracy activists and authorities backed by Beijing

Revealed: how the wealth gap holds back economic growth (the concept of trickle-down economics dismissed)

Oil drops $2 to five-year low on oversupply

CIA torture report: US raises security ahead of release

Hackers Dump Thousands of Rostov Police Documents on Internet; Evidence of Soldiers Wounded in Ukraine

Indonesia plans to remove moral and religious education from curriculum

Israel Indicts American Over Plot to Bomb Muslims

Another Anti-Polio Worker Is Killed in Pakistan

Maldives in crisis as water supply dries up: Tiny island nation enters fifth day without drinking water as government scrambles to repair desalination plant

IS militants use Australian recruits as 'cannon fodder': At least 20 Australians have been killed fighting alongside militants in Iraq and Syria, the Australian government has said.

Russia is not the only country feeling the pain of a low price of oil. Canada is getting nervous.

Ebola is still spreading quickly in western Sierra Leone and deep in the forested interior of Guinea and more foreign health workers are needed to help tackle the epidemic, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.

World Bank Predicts Russian Economy Will Shrink 0.7 Percent Next Year

Estonia Imports Gas From Lithuania: Estonia imported its first natural gas from Lithuania, via Latvia, last week in a move that reduces its energy dependence on Russia

Islamic State Claims Radioactive Device Now in Europe

Ecuador indigenous leader found dead days before planned Lima protest

Solar & wind energy backed by huge majority of Australians, poll shows - Renewables among top 3 energy choices and a separate review debunks fears of health damage from wind turbines

Moldova: 7 arrested suspected of uranium smuggling

Israel Oil Spill 4 Times Worse Than Initially Thought - Country's worst-ever environmental disaster.

Anger at plans to boost religious teaching in Turkey

Goal to end fossil fuels by 2050 surfaces in Lima UN climate documents. Campaigners in Lima are eyeing an inevitable end to the fossil fuel industry by mid-century

2014-12-10

UK: Porn protest to shock with mass face-sitting and fake sex

The CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn't work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no "ticking time bomb" information that prevented an attack, according to an explosive Senate report released Tuesday.

C.I.A. Kept Bush Ill Informed on Interrogation Tactics, Torture Report Says

UN official wants CIA and Bush administration officials prosecuted for torture and says any country can do it

Ebola Fighters Are TIME's Person of the Year 2014

Two psychologists who pushed torture program were paid $81 million for their work

Russian Billionaire buys Nobel Prize and hands it back to scientist

Ex-CIA Operative Says Prison Was Punishment for Whistleblowing on Torture | John Kiriakou is the only CIA employee connected to its interrogation program to go to prison. But he was prosecuted for providing info to reporters, not for actions that todays Senate Intel Committee report calls torture

Income inequality slows GDP | Today's economy would be bigger if the richest 10 percent hadn't increased their share of total income.

Greenpeace damages Nazca lines while setting up a banner.

Pirate Bay sets sail for Costa Rica following Swedish raid

CIA lied over 'brutal' interrogations.

Indian Government decriminalizes attempt to commit suicide, removes section 309

Extremists using immigrant gangs to intimidate in Denmark

NASAs Curiosity rover finds evidence of 3.5 billion year old Water Lake in Gale Crater

The CIAs post-9/11 embrace of torture was brutal and ineffective and the agency repeatedly lied about its usefulness, a milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee released on Tuesday concludes

Gorbachev calls for U.S.-Russia summit to defrost ties "This is extremely dangerous, with tensions as high as they are now. We may not live through these days: someone could lose their nerve," he wrote in a commentary entitled "To unfreeze relations" for government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

North Korea asks a former detainee to pay the bill for his stay

New leaked documents reveal more firms, including Skype and the Koch empire, use Grand Duchy for favourable tax arrangements, putting pressure on European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker

One in five Australian households now use solar

Pakistan's blasphemy laws backfire on religious groups

Kim Dotcom Is Not a Fugitive, Court Hears - In a new court filing Megaupload's legal team refutes the U.S. Government's claim that Kim Dotcom and his former colleagues are fugitives. The filing further reveals efforts to uncover the MPAA's involvement in the criminal investigation into Megaupload...

George W. Bush: The U.S. didn't use torture against suspected terrorists

British windfarms set new power production record. 43% of Britains homes were powered by wind last Sunday

Tanzania's albino community: 'Killed like animals'

2014-12-11

'Each time police shut Pirate Bay, well multiply other servers' | No matter how many times law enforcement cracks down on The Pirate Bay, it will find a way to re-open, the Berlin chairman of the Pirate Party said

World Wide Web inventor says Internet should be 'human right'

Google is closing Google News in Spain and removing Spanish media outlets from the service ahead of new law forcing Google to pay for using publishers content

A $104 million donation from Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has helped restore food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees as winter approaches.

New Leak Reveals Luxembourg Tax Deals for Disney, Koch Brothers Empire

New documents reveal Canadian Govt. opted out of nearly every resolution to protect endangered species at last CITES convention, filing more reservations in 2013 than Iceland, Japan, and the UK have over the entire 39-year history of the treaty.

We found an ancient lake on Mars a sign the planet may have once been habitable

Brazil president weeps as she unveils report on military dictatorship's abuses. Dilma Rousseff was herself tortured; 191 people killed; 243 disappeared. US and UK trained interrogators in torture during 1964-85 military rule

Mass online surveillance and censorship of what people see on the web appear to be getting worse, according to the latest report from Tim Berners-Lees World Wide Web Foundation

ISIS throw man off roof for being gay

Full scale of plastic in the world's oceans revealed for first time - over 5,000,000,000,000 pieces.

Peru indignant at Greenpeace stunt at ancient Nazca lines - Peru will seek criminal charges against Greenpeace activists who damaged the world-renowned Nazca lines by leaving footprints in the adjacent desert during a publicity stunt

China urges U.S. to correct ways after torture report

India, the worlds third-largest polluter, will spend at least $100 billion on climate-related projects but isnt ready to follow China and the U.S., the top two emitters, in promising to limit its fossil-fuel emissions.

Russia raises interest rates to 10.5%

U.S. Navy says new laser weapon is ready for action

Piles of bodies discovered in Sierra Leone as number of confirmed cases increases past 100 a day. - Ebola burial teams exhausted.

Russian-Indian reactor deal | Russian President Putin and Indian Prime Minister Modi have announced a deal for Moscow to help New Delhi build more nuclear reactors

More than 100,000 people show up in Dublin to protest the water taxes being forced on the Irish people.

US agency infiltrated Cuban hip-hop scene to spark youth unrest

A soldier in Somalia has avenged the killing of his wife by shooting dead five women related to militant Islamists, an official has said. He suspected that the women had colluded with the murderers of his wife, who was also a soldier, he added.

China's Urumqi bans Islamic veil, sparking rights concerns

Abe defends Japans secrets law that could jail whistleblowers for 10 years

Mexican citizen interrupts Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize ceremony

Palestinian minister autopsy reveals he died from heart attack

2014-12-12

Canada just made it legal for police to search your cellphone without a warrant upon arrest.

Untrained CIA Agents Were Just Making Up Torture Methods As They Went Along

A face-sitting protest is happening outside Parliament in the UK as people protest new laws banning many acts in pornography

ISIS releases horrifying sex slave pamphlet, justifies child rape

Notorious Islamic State Twitter propagandist revealed to be a Bangalore executive. He induced others to join ISIS but himself refrained from joining it due to family concerns.

Catholic Church in Australia concedes celibacy may have contributed to child sex abuse

US Senator Carl Levin says a claim used in 2003 to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq was based on "fiction"; claims an alleged al Qaeda-Iraqi meeting in Prague never took place.

US hid UK links in torture report at request of British spy agencies

ISIS leader: "If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no ISIS"

CIA attacks torture report; fears legal action around world

"The F-35 has no clear edge over three other fighter jets Canada is considering to replace its aging fleet, a declassified government-commissioned report says."

Dozens of shots fired at Israeli embassy in Athens

China's Xinjiang to ban burqas in public

Finnish intelligence: Most who leave to join Isis are Finns - Half of the Isis recruits have lived their whole lives in Finland while two thirds hold Finnish citizenship, security officials said on Thursday.

More than $31 billion worth of food is wasted every year in Canada and when energy, water and other resource costs are factored in the true cost could be up to three times that much, a new report suggests.

Island Nations Are Now Screaming It: Climate Change Will Sink Us

"For more than two years, a U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba's underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press."

Rhino horn trafficking surging out of control, say campaigners

London airspace closed by regulator

Court rejects attempt to allow Edward Snowden into Germany: Opposition parties wanted Snowden to give evidence in person to a parliamentary committee investigating NSA espionage

Food Prices In Russia Rise Considerably. Inflation has reached 9.4%.

Abbas: 'I support Egypt's measures against Hamas'

The most influential pro-Islamic State Twitter account to be followed by foreign jihadis - Shami Witness - is shut down after a Channel 4 News investigation uncovers the identity of the man behind it

New Sharia-Compliant Islamic Doll With No Facial Features Launched In Britain

Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner Asks Why Giving Guns is Easier Than Giving Books - Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but so weak in bringing peace?"

2014-12-15

Lindt Chocolat Cafe hostage drama in Martin Place, Sydney

Police storm Sydney Cafe, gunfire erupting, more hostages escape

Sydney siege: Sydney commuters volunteer to ride by Muslims side, hashtag #illridewithyou trends on twitter

High profile drug lord prisoners in Manila revealed to have hotel-like cells. Jacuzzis, home theater system, PS4, air conditioning, and a sex doll, among others, discovered.

Anonymous hacks Swedish govt emails over seizure of Pirate Bay servers

Chinese authorities vowed to severely punish Chinese travelers who threw hot water and noodles on a Thai flight attendant and threatened to bomb the plane after they became enraged over sitting arrangements.

Cheney says CIA interrogators were heroes | Ex-US vice-president insists CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques worked and says "I'll do it again".

Pope Francis Says Equating Islam With Violence Is Wrong. "You just cant say that, just as you cant say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups," he said.

Plastic-Eating Fungi Farm Turns Waste into Edible Treats: A team in Austria has created a system for using commonly uneaten parts of fungi to break down plastic while simultaneously producing a novelty food product

Scientist proposes basic evolution can be explained using physical laws, and the origin of life should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.

Stupid US sanctions wont undo my government, says Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro: Have you ever heard of such arrogance? Maduro asked angrily. As if we cared about visas to get in the United States. Idiots! he roared

Japan is working on doing for the hydrogen fuel cell what it accomplished with computer chips and cars in the last century, slashing costs to make them more appealing to consumers.

Shin Bet thwarts planned suicide attack in Tel Aviv

Mention of Israel banned at Irish national Holocaust memorial

Sydney Opera House evacuated.

Snowden Receives Human Rights Award in Berlin: Reports

Merkel in dilemma as German anti-Islam marches gain support

Palestinians say they will seek UN vote on resolution to end Israeli occupation

Hamas holds Gaza military parade, vows Israel's destruction

Belgium risks coming to a virtual standstill Monday as the biggest national strike for years grounds all flights, halts public transport and severs international train links in protest at the new government's austerity policies.

Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada, accounting for more than a third of total workplace death claims approved last year and nearly a third since 1996, new national data obtained from the Association of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada.

Chechnya human rights office set on fire after it criticised the Russian republic's president, 2 activists detained by police

Ex-Mossad chief: Peace will elude us until we treat Palestinians with dignity

Turkey arrests 27 journalists in media crackdown.

Germany 'sees rise in far-right extremism': Police note a significant rise in far-right extremism, as anti-Islam marches in Dresden draw high numbers.

2014-12-16

Pakistani Army school under siege by terrorists. over 35 injured and many dead. Over 500 students held hostages

Police request attendance list for people at fracking debate. University refuses.

Ruble Hits 100 Against the Euro As Currency Collapse Accelerates

Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America

Russian Ruble Crashes to World's Worst Performing Currency

CIA torture: health professionals 'may have committed war crimes', report says - Physicians for Human Rights called for federal investigation on CIA torture program participation, calling rectal feeding technique form of sexual assault

Russian governor ban the use of the word crisis in public | It is possible that the crisis exists, but we forbid the use of this word

Russian Bank Manager: 'This Is The End Of The Banking System'

U.S. Fights to Stop Release of Photos showing Soldiers Abusing and Sexually Humiliating Prisoners in Iraq

Same-sex Marriage now legal in Scotland

Three confirmed dead, including gunman, in Sydney siege

In his first major speech on the subject of immigration, French President Franois Hollande blasted the scaremongers "who dream of a smaller, more spiteful France". He also insisted Europe would go backwards if countries closed their borders.

Hostage hailed a hero in Sydney siege: Tori Johnson killed after he tried to knock gun from the hands of gunman

President Barack Obama:"We're going to destroy the Islamic State"

Russia Increases Key Interest Rate to 17% to Stem Ruble Decline

India launches crackdown on Islamic State

Russian public names Putin Man of the Year

Police raid homes of anti-Arab activists, 10 arrested - National Israel News

Erdogan tells EU to 'mind own business' in Turkey mass arrests targeting opposition media

Food Prices in Russia Soar as Ruble Tumbles Further: Food prices in Russia have grown by 20 to 25 percent since the beginning of the year and are expected to rise even further in 2015

Psychologist admits he waterboarded al Qaeda suspects.

Russian Politician Raids Gay Club With Cameras and Riot Police

The Sydney hostage-taker had fled Iran after a $200K fraud case

North Korea is asking the United Nations Security Council to put the CIA's harsh treatment of terror suspects on its agenda for debate.

Ruble hits 77 per dollar despite rate raise - BBC News

2014-12-17

The United States will normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba, open embassy in Havana

Iraq: 150 women executed after refusing to marry ISIL militants

Foreign exchange in Finland no longer recognizes rubles for trade.

Russia says Sweden smokes too much Weed and that there never was a "near miss" with airplane or submarine in Swedish waters.

About 15,000 people show up for Anti-Islam march in German city

Russians hurried to change their savings and pensions into dollars and euros while also stocking up on furniture and jewellery as the rouble's collapse accelerated | "None of us know what's happening. We're all worried that the currency will keep falling"

Iran had warned that Sydney attacker was unstable and a con-artist but Australia refused to extradite him for fraud

Pakistan Lifts Death Penalty Ban After Massacre

Two Blasts Outside Girls College Near Peshawar

Putin's cronies lose $50 billion

Drone Footage Shows Extent Of Greenpeace's Damage To Peru's Nazca Site

Nasa's Mars Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars - A gas that hints at past or present life on the planet

Russia grapples with shocking fall of the ruble: What happened yesterday is a catastrophe

Cuba frees American Alan Gross after 5 years in prison, radical change of US policy towards Cuba expected

Crisis-Struck Russian Stocks Now Worth Less Than Microsoft: The total value of all publicly traded shares on the Russian market is now less than the capitalization of U.S. software giant Microsoft

Pakistan airstrikes kill at least 22 militants in retaliation to school shooting

On national television today in Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed, one of the world's most-wanted men, blamed India for the massacre of children at a Pakistan school and vowed revenge

I may be the last, says Dalai Lama

Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud royal family are trying to adjust their relationship with the country's strict Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam as they increasingly view the teachings of some of its ultra-conservative clergy as a domestic security threat.

Putin Named Russia's 'Man Of The Year' For The 15th Time In A Row

Turkey announces national mourning over Pakistan attack

Sony hackers threaten terror at "The Interview" moviegoers

UN: More Reports Of Children Crucified, Beheaded & Stoned To Death By IS

A fire at a West Bank mosque last month was most likely caused by an electrical fault and not the result of arson

Italy says it'll oppose EU plans to scrap environment law - 11 member states signed letter opposing withdrawal of draft EU law on air quality & waste. EU plans to focus on jobs & economic growth instead.

2014-12-18

Iran this week unveiled a monument to Jewish soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and saw both countries suffer millions of casualties and billions of dollar in damage. Jewish community leaders and a number of Iranian religious officials took part in the ceremony.

Activists to Drop 'Interview' DVDs Over North Korea Via Balloon

Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars Rock, Finds Water

Vladimir Putin compares Russia to cornered bear, warning citizens to brace for recession that could last two years

Qatar hires "$8 fake fans" to fill empty stadiums | Migrant workers in Qatar get one dollar an hour for sitting in the stadiums and pretending to have fun, to applaud and to do the wave

Pope Francis played key role in U.S.-Cuba deal

Belarussian President Demands Russia Trade Be Carried Out in Dollars, Euros: Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has demanded that Belarus's transactions with Russia be settled in dollars or euros because of the slump in the value of Russia's ruble

Navajos reclaim sacred masks at Paris auction

Nearly 97 percent of the airstrikes against ISIL in Syria during December have been carried out by the United States alone, according to U.S. military data.

Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the main accused in the Mumbai terrorist attack is granted bail by a Pakistani court only days after the Peshawar massacre.

Russian officials try to quell rising panic concerning a possible bank run. "This is a very dangerous situation, we are just a few days away from a full-blown run on the banks," Russia's leading business daily wrote in an editorial Wednesday.

Swedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes

U.S. will bid for 2024 Olympics

The Pakistani military has killed 57 terrorists in airstrikes since Tuesday's school shooting

The bodies of more than 230 people believed to have been killed by Islamic State (IS) have been found in a mass grave in eastern Syria, activists say.

Oil from a wrecked tanker is creating a disaster in the waters of Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the largest contiguous tidal mangrove forest in the world and a haven for a spectacular array of species, including the rare Irrawaddy and Gangetic dolphins and the highly endangered Bengal tiger.

Dutch government officials have acknowledged the country's secret service sometimes taps the communications of lawyers who represent terrorism suspects.

Suspect in 2002 terrorist attack on Moscow theater, The Chechen Khasan Zakayev, has been detained while trying to cross from Ukraine to Crimea with a fake passport

North Sea oil industry 'close to collapse'

Venezuela President Maduro hails Obama's 'courageous' Cuba gesture

Swiss interest rates turn negative - Swiss National Bank cuts interest rate to minus 0.25%

FIFA Investigator Michael J. Garcia Quits in Dispute Over Report

Political opponent calls for Putin's exit as Russia slides into crisis

Ethiopian rabbis accuse Israeli rabbinate of racial discrimination

Under Abbas, Majority of Palestinians Say They Can't Speak Freely

2014-12-19

Claims that boys were murdered by VIP sex ring are credible and true - British Police

Kurds recapture large area from ISIS

Sydney's chief Islamic funeral director yesterday declared no Muslim funeral home would accept the body of terrorist Man Haron Monis and authorities should just dump his corpse at sea or chuck him in the bloody shithouse.

Apple is failing to protect workers in Chinese factories, according to an undercover BBC investigation. Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at a Shanghai factory. One employee had to work 18 days in a row despite repeated requests for a day off.

A suitcase-sized Canadian satellite whose funding has been eliminated by the Canadian Space Agency has co-discovered a new planet in another solar system

Ukraine forms 'ministry of truth' to regulate the media

Archaeologists working on a site near Stonehenge say they have found an untouched 6,000-year-old encampment which "could rewrite British history".

Seabirds 'steer clear' of offshore wind farms. British Trust for Ornithology finds 99% of birds avoid wind turbines, easing fears over the impact of blades

General Motor, Audi and Jaguar halt car sales in Russia on ruble's collapse |

80% of British Public Want Greens Included in TV Debate

UN Identifies Israel as Top Contributor Per Capita in Fight Against Ebola

Isis supporters 'offering cash to British girls as young as 14 to become jihadi brides in Syria'.

Boko Haram kidnaps 185 women and children, kills 32 people

Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program "Counterproductive": ...clandestine drone and assassination program was likely to produce counterproductive outcomes, including strengthening the very "extremist groups" it was allegedly designed to destroy

ISIL decapitates man in Iraq on charges of sorcery

Former Catholic brother Bernard McGrath will be extradited to Australia to face 252 child-sex abuse charges.

Putin falsely calls out drunk journalist - who is really a 2x stroke survivor

The UN General Assembly has called for North Korea to be referred to the International Criminal Court over alleged crimes against humanity, in a landmark resolution adopted by a strong majority.

Ireland Repays $11 Billion to IMF Years Early

Russian shopping frenzy has become so intense everybody from IKEA to Jaguar has run out of stock | Muscovites rushed to the shops this week after a plunge in the value of the ruble brought fears that imported goods would soon soar in price.

Gaza rocket hits Israel for second time since summer war

Sony hackers leaked more than 50 scripts from Sony movies

Record number of states vote for UN resolution on death penalty moratorium: 117 states voted for international freeze on executions, leaving the US increasingly isolated with 'no' vote

Putin says Russia's military doctrine 'remains purely defensive'

Pro-Taliban Cleric Now Wants Them Dead After Child Massacre

2014-12-22

Pirate Bay Domain Back Online, Waving a Pirate Flag

Argentine Court rules: Orang Utans are "non-human-persons" with human rights and therefore need to be released from zoo

Peru Is Now Giving Free Solar Power To Its 2 Million Poorest Citizens

New York Times calls for Cheney, Bush officials to be investigated and prosecuted for torture

Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from spiritual Alzheimers that has made them forget theyre supposed to be joyful men of God.

Polio has Almost Been Completely Eradicated in African Countries - We're getting close to a huge global health milestone.

CIA's how to be a travelling spy guide published by WikiLeaks | WikiLeaks has released two CIA documents offering tips to help spies maintain their cover while using false documents as they cross international borders.

NKorea threatens strikes on US, warned that its 1.2 million-member army is ready to use all types of warfare

North Korea Now Claims the US Government Made 'The Interview'

UK officials named in pedophile dossier

Greek MP says he was offered 2 to 3 million euros to vote for Greek president. I had two meetings that were recorded. They gave me 700,000 euros in cash as a first installment and following this an agreement for bank loans, as well as contracts with an ad agency

Reports that Sony will debut The Interview on Crackle are false, Mashable has learned.

Six people feared dead after bin lorry crashes into pedestrians in Glasgow city centre

Children are cleaning up a devastating oil spill in Bangladeshwith their bare hands

Australia's new Social Services Minister: Scott Morrison. His first act in new role, scraps funding for homeless and housing groups.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott names carbon tax repeal as his top achievement as Minister for Women

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) has filed criminal complaints against the officials of former US President George W. Bushs administration for running a state-organized program of brutal torture against foreign suspects

Report: India weighs dropping support for Palestinians at UN in wake of closer ties to Israel

Brown bears, wolves and lynx numbers rising in Europe | Environment

Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.

South Korea nuclear plant operator says hacked, raising alarm

Czech Republic sends 5000 anti-tank missiles to Peshmerga Forces

China sends first 700 strong infantry battalion to South Sudan for UN peacekeeping http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/22/c_133871006.htm #Africa

Wikileaks has released two classified documents instructing CIA operatives how best to circumvent global security systems in international airports, including those of the EU, while on undercover missions.

First Western journalist granted access to 'Islamic State' returns to Germany, says IS is "much stronger and much more dangerous" than the West realizes.

2014-12-23

North Korea's internet is offline; massive DDOS attack presumed

SAUDI OIL MINISTER: I Don't Care If Prices Crash To $20 We're Not Budging

ISIL sex slavery has pushed women and girls from Iraq's Yazidi minority to suicide

Ukraine votes to drop neutral NATO status

The United States on Monday slammed North Korea as a "living nightmare" for its citizens at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting on Pyongyang's dismal rights record. The unprecedented talks at the 15-member council opened after China, Pyongyang's ally, failed to block the meeting.

Oil spill sullies World Heritage Site home of the famous swimming Bengal tigers, some of the last of their kind in the world - The Sundarbans, part of world's largest mangrove forest, stretching across India & Bangladesh, have been tarnished by the 350,000-liter oil spill.

Russian diplomat: "Ukraine's renunciation of its 'non-aligned' Nato status it's an unfriendly step towards us"

$300,000 in gold missing from Ukraine Central Bank after swapped for lead bricks

Tunisia election: anti-Islamist party claims victory

US Corporations claim billion in Assets in Cuba. And now they want it back.

Google has now forgotten more than a quarter-million URLs agreeing to about 40 percent of the requested URL removals that it has received after EU's Court of Justice issued ruling that allowed EU citizens to have search results unlinked from their names online.

Algeria kills leader of jihadists behind Frenchman's beheading: TV

North Korea's Internet links restored amid U.S. hacking dispute

UN expert calls for prosecution of CIA, US officials for crimes committed during interrogations

Rock found in Russian mine containing 30,000 tiny diamonds.

Bedbug bait and trap invented by Simon Fraser University scientists

The police raids on Kim Dotcom's mansion were legal, the New Zealand Supreme Court has ruled

Kurdish group fighting Islamic State tells America: Stop calling us terrorists

NASA Takes Giant Leaps on the Journey to Mars, Eyes Our Home Planet and the Distant Universe, Tests Technologies and Improves the Skies Above in 2014

Iraq TV show makes 'terrorists' confront victims

Coca Cola to open Gaza factory

UN: Satellite images show 290 heritage sites in Syria, whose history stretches back to the dawn of civilization, have been damaged by war

A German author spends time with IS jihadists and sees how confident they are to carry out their brutal plan. "It is terrifying that a group could be so enthusiastic about killing hundreds of millions of people."

Alibaba spent $161 million fighting fakes since 2013

Top 500 companies' carbon emissions rise despite calls for cuts | Report on worlds biggest 500 firms by capitalisation shows emissions are not in line with UN calls to avoid dangerous climate change

2014-12-24

Death toll among Qatars 2022 World Cup workers revealed | Nepalese migrants building the infrastructure to host the 2022 World Cup have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014 despite Qatars promises to improve their working conditions

Fishing Supertrawlers to be banned permanently from Australian waters

Indian telecommunications company Airtel violates Net Neutrality, starts charging for VoIP calls(Skype, etc.) over 2G and 3G in India

North Korea's Internet is down again; second black out since last night's restoration of service

Jakarta to ban virginity tests for female civil servants.

Workers at Chinese iPhone factories are pressured into working 65-hour weeks, made to sleep on plywood beds in bleak dormitories. The work is so exhausting that some of the estimated 15,000 workers choose to sleep through their lunch breaks instead of eating.

Thousands in Spain protest ban on demonstrations, burning national flag

London activists occupy 5-storey former bank in London to provide shelter, clothing and food to Christmas homeless

Russian Inflation Passes 10%, Indicates Pricing is Growing Faster than Expected due to Depreciating Ruble

Australia records biggest emissions drop in a decade as carbon tax kicks in. Greens and conservation group say significant drop in annual emissions shows the carbon price, which was scrapped by the Abbott government, was effective

Elephant ivory smuggling 'kingpin' arrested in Tanzania

Ireland: US courts need our permission to view emails stored on Dublin server

Record numbers attend German anti-Islamization rally

Erdogan slams birth control use as treason

Gunman fires on Paris synagogue

Scientists discover oldest stone tool ever found in Turkey

ISIS claims capture of Jordanian pilot after plane shot down over Syria

Russian prime minister warns of 'deep recession' in 2015

Russia says France must fulfil Mistral contract or return money - agency

Secret flight linking Israel to the UAE reveals 'open secret' of collaboration - A private jet is covertly flying between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi, which are said to be engaging in high-level trade in the security sector

Ukraine temporarily cuts off power supplies to Crimea

Coalition plane 'crashes in Syria'

Across the world 'Silent Night' to honor WWI Xmas Truce

Elderly Nigerians Rounded Up And Shot Dead

Russia May Be Cut to Junk rating as S&P Says Its Considering Downgrade

2014-12-26

Saudis are eagerly awaiting the approval of a new draft law by the Shoura Council which prevents women under 18 from getting married. The draft law pending approval sets the age of adulthood at 18 and allows women under that age to marry only upon procuring a court order.

Due to the fall in oil prices, Saudi Arabia is now running a $39 billion deficit.

Bill giving government the power to shutdown the internet for 24 hours to be voted in Turkish parliament.

A struggle for women's rights is brewing within Israel's deeply conservative ultra-Orthodox community, where women, largely shut out of politics, are beginning to demand greater representation in the country's parliament.

Putin cancels New Year's Holiday for government workers because of the ongoing financial crisis

Ireland is siding with Microsoft in its legal battle with the US over personal data stored on a company server in Dublin. Ireland says American justice should respect international law and national sovereignty.

More than 80 people including women and children killed in a terrorist attack in India

The Syrian Army has killed nearly 5,000 Islamic State (IS) fighters in the last three months

ISIS governor of Mosul killed in airstrikes

Court clears way for clinically dead pregnant Irish woman to be taken off life support.

A court in Mauritania has sentenced a man to death for apostasy for criticizing the Muslim Prophet Muhammed

A group of four women, along with their 13 children and grandchildren, are at risk of being murdered in Papua New Guinea after being accused of witchcraft, a missionary says.

China has stepped up efforts to reduce the number of coal mines, as it plans to shut down more than 2,000 mines next year and limit the number to within 10,000 by 2016.

Archaeologists Have Dig Licenses Revoked After "Million Mummies" Claim

German fossil fuel consumption and emissions at a record low

Senior UN officials expelled from Sudan following UN attempts to investigate a report that government troops committed mass rape of women and girls in a Darfur village

Mauritania journalist sentenced to death for apostasy

Kim Dotcom Makes Deal with LizardSquad to stop attacks towards Xbox Live and PSN

Ukraine peace talks called off

Tibetan protests reported in China's Sichuan

New Study Adds to Skepticism Among Security Experts That North Korea Was Behind Sony Hack

US relocates 3,000 MRAPs, other military gear to Kuwait ahead of expected anti-IS offensive

Russia's new military doctrine names NATO as a key risk.

Protesters in Mexico claim that German arms manufacturers exported rifles to a corrupt local police department implicated in the disappearance of 43 students

A leading Russian elected official on Thursday referred to as for an investigation of the United States' atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the course of World War II as a "crime against humanity.

2014-12-29

Solar Power Storage Prices Drop 25% In Germany In <1 Year

North Korea Hit Again By Internet Outage; Experts Now Doubt Its Hand In Sony Cyber Attack

ARCHAEOLOGY - Massive ancient underground city discovered in Turkey's Nevehir

Reopen investigation into Westminster pedophile whistleblower deaths MP

Taliban declare 'defeat' of U.S., allies in Afghanistan.

British Falklands defence review after military deal between Russia and Argentina. Moscow will swap 12 Su-24 supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft for Argentinian beef and wheat

Virgin Confirms Fault On Plane Circling Over UK

Photo of 'women murdered for refusing sex jihad is fake

The German chancellor's office has fallen victim to a hacking attack, according to a German newspaper. The Regin malware in question has been linked to British and US spy agencies.

Thirty-seven children whose parents were killed in the recent Israel-Gaza conflict have been prevented by Hamas from visiting Israel on a trip organised by peace activists.

One Dead And 15,000 Stranded In French Alps

IED blows up in Bangalore, high alert in India

Rise of Spanish populists overturns two-party system

Iran could become a "very successful regional power" if Tehran agrees to a long-term deal to curb its nuclear program, President Barack Obama said in an interview with NPR News.

Greek MPs have rejected the presidential candidate nominated by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, triggering a snap general election.

Islamic State executed nearly 2,000 people in six months

The leader of one of Mexico's first anti-crime vigilante groups was arrested along with 26 supporters over a shootout that killed his son and 10 others

Gmail has been blocked in China

Egyptian writer to face trial for 'insulting Islam'

Reports reveal scale of destruction of Syrias world historic heritage

Russia will supply coal and electricity to Kiev without advance payment

ISIS executes more doctors in Mosul

Russia shows first sign of recession as GDP contracts: he Russian economy contracted by 0.5% in November,

AirAsia plane likely 'at bottom of the sea,' says search chief

AirAsia Flight's Altitude Request Was Refused

2014-12-30

China businessman jailed for 13 years for buying and eating three tigers

AirAsia live: Emergency slide, plane door seen in search for missing QZ8501

AirAsia plane wreckage found, bodies being recovered

Scotland confirms case of Ebola - Ebola cases hit 20,000, death toll nears 8,000: WHO

Pope Francis to Catholics: It's time to take action on global warming

Oil hits five-and-a-half-year low below $57 on supply glut

"Lizard Squad" members who ruined Christmas for Xbox and PlayStation gamers exposed after giving interview to BBC

Two students in Thailand face up to 15 years in jail for insulting the royal family after performing in a play that featured a fictional king and his advisor

New Research Blames Insiders Not North Korea for Sony Hack

Russian ruble drops 7 percent as economy shrinks

Egyptian court permanently bans Jewish festival on moral grounds

Turkish anchorwoman detained for tweet about corruption

French Government Quietly Enacts Controversial Surveillance Law On Christmas Eve

Bosnian Police Raid Top News Website: Police raided the countrys most popular news website Klix after it published a recording on which it alleged that the Bosnian Serb prime minister spoke about 'buying' electoral support.

Possible Case of Ebola in Glasgow, Scotland

Turkey is being used as one of the primary routes for weapons smuggling to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Nusra, according to a United Nations report.

Swedish mosque set ablaze in second suspected arson attack in a week

Cybersecurity Firm Identifies Six In Sony Hack One A Former Company Insider

The U.N. General Assembly voted unanimously Monday to ask Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine new information about the mysterious plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mission to newly independent Congo in 1961

"The regime must be destroyed": Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader, calls for mass protests in Moscow after convicted on fraud charges that are considered politically motivated

Aleksei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, is convicted of criminal fraud charges and handed down a three-and-half year suspended sentence

Search area for Air Asia QZ8501 expanded, still no trace of aircraft found.

Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow | World news

AirAsia plane carrying 153 people overshoots runway in the Philippines

One of China's most industrialized cities has put a cap on sales of new cars with residents only permitted to acquire a new vehicle either by lottery or auction due to pollution

2014-12-31

AirAsia flight found at the bottom of the Java Sea

North Korean defector details 'human experiments' -- use of mentally and physically handicapped children in chemical weapons tests 'the last straw'

Korean Air ex-executive Cho Hyun-ah arrested - earlier she ordered a plane to turn back on the runway in New York after nuts were served in a bag, not on a plate

South Korean to drop Sony film "The Interview" in North Korea by balloon

U.S. opening of oil export widens battle: The Obama administration has opened a new front in the global battle for oil market share, effectively clearing the way for the shipment of as much as a million barrels per day of ultra-light U.S. crude to the rest of the world

FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the prepatrator

Indian Government Orders Blocking of 32 Websites Including GitHub, Archive.org, SourceForge

Russia annual inflation jumps to 11.4% as rouble falls

WikiLeaks claims employees Google mail, metadata seized by US government [Updated]

Militant mistakenly broadcasts his location

Armed bandits rob 300 tourists on Venezuela beach

Venezuela confirms recession, inflation hits 63.6 percent in Nov

Palestinian UN resolution fails

More non-Mexicans than Mexicans apprehended at U.S. border in 2014, new study finds

Belarus eager to normalize relations with West

Newly published NSA documents show agency could grab all Skype traffic

Britain says it cannot support new Palestinian UN draft resolution

Bolivias Morales: US 'Backs Drug Trafficking'

Euro zone politicians are not obliged to rescue Greece as the country is no longer of systemic importance to the single currency bloc, a senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party was quoted as saying.

Greece Dissolves Parliament to Prepare for Early Elections

German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a New Year's address deplored the rise of a right wing populist movement, saying its leaders have "prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts".

Al Shabaab leader killed in U.S. air strike in Mogadishu

New solar power material converts 90 percent of captured light into heat

China launches website laying claim to Senkaku Islands

At Least 33 Killed in Yemen Suicide Bombing

2015-01-02

Most cases of cancer are the result of sheer bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles, diet or even inherited genes, new research suggests. Random mutations that occur in DNA when cells divide are responsible for two thirds of adult cancers across a wide range of tissues.

Iran dismissed United States efforts to fight Islamic State as a ploy to advance U.S. policies in the region: "The reality is that the United States is not acting to eliminate Daesh. They are not even interested in weakening Daesh, they are only interested in managing it"

Poll: One in 8 Germans would join anti-Muslim marches

UK royal family's Prince Andrew named in US lawsuit over underage sex allegations

Some 40 asylum-seekers refused to leave the bus when they arrived at their destination in rural northern Sweden, demanding that they be taken back to Malm or "some big city".

Pakistani boat blows self up after India navy chase. All four people on board the vessel from near the Pakistani port city of Karachi are believed to have been killed in the dramatic episode in the Arabian Sea on New Year's Eve, according to India's defence ministry.

Sweden hit by third mosque arson attack in a week

940 cars set alight during French New Year

Salaries for top CEOs rose twice as fast as average Canadian since recession: study

Norway violated equal-pay law, judge says: Judge finds consulate employee was unjustly paid $30,000 less than her male counterpart

Imam wants radical recruiters of Muslim youth in Canada identified and dealt with

Saudi Arabia beheaded 83 people in 2014, the most in years

'A living hell' for slaves on remote South Korean islands - Slavery thrives on this chain of rural islands off South Korea's rugged southwest coast, nurtured by a long history of exploitation and the demands of trying to squeeze a living from the sea.

Worlds 400 richest get richer, adding $92bn in 2014

Rental Car Stereos Infringe Copyright, Music Rights Group Says

Ukrainian minister threatens TV channel with closure for airing Russian entertainers

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has entered into his most serious confrontation yet with Israel by signing onto the International Criminal Court. His decision on Wednesday gives the court jurisdiction over crimes committed in Palestinian lands.

Israeli security center publishes names of 50 killed terrorists 'concealed by Hamas'

The year 2014 was the deadliest year yet in Syria's four-year conflict, with over 76,000 killed

A Secret underground complex built by the Nazis that may have been used for the development of WMDs, including a nuclear bomb, has been uncovered in Austria.

Restrictions on Web Freedom a Major Global Issue in 2015

Austrian journalist Erich Mchel delivered a presentation in Hamburg at the annual meeting of the Chaos Computer Club on Monday December 29, detailing the various locations where the US NSA has been actively collecting and processing electronic intelligence in Vienna.

Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev

Chinas New Years Resolution: No More Harvesting Executed Prisoners Organs

Authorities Pull Plug on Russia's Last Politically Independent TV Station

2015-01-05

Moscow->Beijing high speed train will reduce trip time to 48 hours, from the current 7 days

Two ancient tombs were discovered in Egypt on Sunday, with one representing a symbolic burial site of the god Osiris while another is claimed to be a previously unknown pharaonic tomb.

China complains to Pyongyang after N Korean soldier kills villagers | World news

Scotland Headed Towards Being Fossil Fuel-Free by 2030 - Renewable energy projects combined with energy savings could decarbonise the countrys power sector. "We need to see the phasing out of conventional generation in Scotland."

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he will express remorse for Japans actions in World War II while highlighting the countrys bid to contribute more actively to world peace in his statement marking the 70th anniversary of the wars end in August.

Sex slave at centre of Prince Andrew scandal fled to Australia as a teen

Gay relative of Hamas founder faces deportation from Canada: Christian convert, 24, whose five uncles were jailed in Israel for terror activity, says hell be killed if forced to return to West Bank

The number of female drug addicts in Iran has almost doubled since 2007, with more than 50% starting between the ages of 15 and 19

After Decades of Searching, the Causeway for the Great Pyramid of Egypt has been Found

India lost 64 tigers in 2014

Lizard Squad hacking of Sony was "huge marketing" scheme to launch "Lizard Stresser", a paid hacking service.

Russia 'may face chaos' if extra sanctions imposed: Germany

The Saudi air and land forces carry out an attack on ISIS within its territory

ISIL is reportedly setting up a bank in attempt to 'legitimatise' itself as a nation state

Israel to brand anti-assimilation group Lehava as terrorists

The Islamic State has approved a 2015 budget of $2 billion, with an expected surplus of $250 million and has opened an Islamic Bank in Mosul. The budget reportedly includes monthly wages for the poor, disabled and families of individuals killed in airstrikes carried out by US-led coalition forces

Iceland To Withdraw EU Application, Lift Capital Controls

Blackfield Capital Founder Goes Missing: The value of the ruble isn't the only thing that is vanishing in Russia. A Moscow hedge fund chief executive has disappeared, along with all the money in the firm's accounts

Rocket stage crashes back to Earth in rural Chinese village.

2 Dead as Aircraft Bombs Greek Tanker in Libyan Port

Belgian murderer Frank Van Den Bleeken to die at own request. A Belgian murderer and rapist serving a life sentence is to be allowed to die by lethal injection next Sunday following a ruling under laws in Belgium permitting people to request euthanasia.

Czech President criticizes Ukrainian PM; says Yatsenyuk is 'prime minister of war'

3 Vietnamese jets join search for 16 missing Filipinos in Bahamian cargo ship sinking

France seeks end to Russia sanctions over Ukraine

China scraps rare earths caps

2015-01-06

US oil falls below $50 a barrel

Toyota gives away 5,680 fuel cell patents to build 'game-changing' car of the future

Young Indian couple who had been granted police protection because relatives did not approve are hacked to death when officers refused to carry out judges orders

A senior figure in Islamic States self-declared police force in Syria, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor

Fukushima rice passes radiation tests for 1st time since disaster

Nearly all Spanish parties guilty of financial crimes, Audit Court finds

King Abdullah to abdicate Saudi Throne

Taliban Commander Caught Networking On LinkedIn

Mexican missing students: mayor's wife charged with organized crime and money laundering

New York Times reporter James Risen refused on Monday to answer all but a few basic questions in court about his book detailing a failed CIA effort to undermine Iran's nuclear weapons program, in a case that has become a flashpoint for press freedom.

S. Korea sends sweet potatoes to N. Korea for nutritional aid

Turkey: Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink detained on 'terrorism propaganda' charges

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4 Islam prohibits its married men from being the homemaker in the family, the governments Malaysian Institute of Islamic Understanding (Ikim) has said

Iraqi MP:'Iran and their Top General, Qassem Suleimani, saved Baghdad from falling to IS'

Pakistan offers $100,000 bounty for Taliban leader

Thousands of Indians have fled from their homes as fighting between India and Pakistan spread along a 200-km (124 mile) stretch of the border in the disputed region of Kashmir.

Turkey sacks judges who oversaw Erdogan corruption probe--accused of abusing their authority

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch and recovery has been aborted. Next launch window could be as early as Friday.

CNN: Americans charged in botched Gambia coup

Islamic State 'Police' Official Beheaded.

Libya bans Palestinians from country to prevent entry of terrorists

A judicial inquiry was opened in France on Monday into how inmates at one of the countrys most notorious prisons were able to take photos of themselves posing with drugs, money and other contraband and upload them onto Facebook

Video has captured the moment a cameraman was hurled backwards as he filmed an exploding fireworks factory in a small town in Colombia.

Syria has complained to the United Nations that U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith entered the country without visas in violation of its sovereignty.

Tests over, India set to make the iris of biggest telescope ever

2015-01-07

'Shots fired' at French magazine HQ

90% of Bibi Netanyahus Campaign Funds From U.S.

ISIS behead street magician for entertaining crowds in Syria with his tricks

Denmark sets new world record in renewable energy production by covering 39% of the country's total electricity consumption in 2014 through wind power.

ISIS Closes Schools In Syria, Leaving 670000 Children Without Education: UN

The European Union wants Turkey to explain how human traffickers could have taken two cargo ships filled with migrants out of the country and towards the EU without the authorities noticing.

10 people have died in a shooting at the headquarters of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo

Most Earth-like planet ever discovered could be a cosy home for alien life | The planet, named Kepler 438b, is slightly larger than Earth and circles an orange dwarf star that bathes it in 40% more heat than our home planet receives from the sun.

New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship. The 28 pages. U.S. legislators pushing to know more about alleged Saudi role in 9/11

Massive hunt underway for gunmen in Paris terror attack

2014 Was Officially the Hottest Year on Record. And all 10 of the hottest years on record have come after 1998

Chinese authorities have isolated and separated families of Shanghai stampede victims to keep them from organizing; only allow them 5 minutes of mourning at the site and drag them away if they get too emotional

German anti-Muslim protesters rally despite Merkel plea

China encourages environmental groups to sue polluters :Groups that work to fight polluters judicially will gain special status and have court fees reduced, Supreme Peoples Court says

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Palestine will join international Criminal Court on April 1st.

Discovery of witnesss mutilated body feeds claims of state killings in Kenya | The gruesome murder of a man who had been due to testify in the ICC trial of Kenyas deputy president, William Ruto, has fed accusations that the government is orchestrating the killing of witnesses.

Radical Islam a growing threat to sub-Saharan Christians: report

Tony Blair may 'face war crime charges' over Iraq.The delay in the publication of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War has made people believe Tony Blair could face war crimes charges, ministers have been warned.

Benjamin Netanyahu says settlements unlikely to be dismantled if he's elected again as Israel 's PM

Tasmania moves to allow corporations to sue protesters for defamation

Indonesia search chief: Tail section of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 found - Flight recorders inside Tail section

North Korean Defector: "Bureau 121" Hackers located in Shenyang, China.

Female suicide bomber attacks police station in Istanbul.

IS to turn Syria schools into religious indoctrination centers | Over 670,000 children have been deprived of education after the Islamic State ordered schools to be closed. Schools will be reopened only after the curriculum is Islamicized, with religion replacing standard subjects.

Ebola vaccine trials in Halifax so far a success

2015-01-08

New Charlie Hebdo issue to come out next week: "It's very hard. We are all suffering, with grief, with fear, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win."

Ahmed Merabet, Cop Killed In Paris Attacks, Was Muslim

Youngest Suspect in Charlie Hebdo Attack Turns Himself In

Grenades thrown at a mosque in Le Mans, west of Paris

Danish newspaper to print Charlie Hebdo cartoons on Islam

Muslim politician from India offers $8M to Charlie Hebdo attackers

Vladimir Putin has condemned a deadly terrorist attack in Paris, and confirmed Moscows readiness to continue cooperation with France in battling terrorism. Putin also expressed his condolences to the victims' families and wished the injured a speedy recovery.

Turkey is trying to hide any evidence that holds Turkish leaders responsible for the support of terrorist groups, especially the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Turkish media is reporting.

Danish Paper That Published 12 Muhammad Cartoons Boosts Security

Two Charlie Hebdo attackers located in north France

French imam urges Muslims to protest over Paris attack

Policewoman shot by gunman near Paris dies: police

Shooting heard on the outskirts of Paris, 1 officer severely injured

Nobody was reported killed by fighting in Syria on Wednesday, the first day without casualties in three years, after a fierce winter storm quelled violence

Time to crack down on 'Islamophobia', Turkey's Erdogan tells EU

Thousands in Europe hold up Pens in Solidarity after terrorist attack

Journalists race to show solidarity with 'Charlie Hebdo' after terror attack

Antibiotics: US discovery labelled 'game-changer' for world medicine

The Charlie Hebdo attack condemned by Saudi Arabia, Iran, Arab League, and many other Muslim states, as well as by Union of Islamic Organizations of France.

Brisbane man wearing "I'm with stupid" t-shirt stands with LNP election campaigners, arrested by 10 officers for public nuisance

Fourth Russian General Commits Suicide in Less Than a Year: it bears a startling similarity to at least three other recent cases of retired Russian generals committing suicide last year

Meteorite turns night into day over Bucharest, Romania

Israeli doctors implant Syrian man with titanium jaw in pioneering procedure.

Unusual Metal Recovered from Ancient Greek Shipwreck39 ingots found in 2,600-yr-old wreck. Metal is being called orichalcum, a legendary metal philosopher Plato attributed to Atlantis. Nothing similar has ever been found. We knew orichalcum from ancient texts & a few ornamental objects.

Young mother let terrorists into Charlie Hebdo building after threat against daughter

2015-01-09

Muslim politician from India who offered $8M to Charlie Hebdo attackers has been booked for inciting violence.

Russia has listed transsexual and transgender people among those who will no longer qualify for driving licences.

French government donates $1.2 million to ensure Charlie Hebdo lives on

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: 'The Actions of Takfiri groups like Al Qaeda and The Islamic State offended Prophet Mohammad more than the Charlie Hebdo Cartoons mocking him'

Charlie Hebdo hunt: Shots fired as police chase car - possible hostages taken

Islamic State brags: We did Paris "tomorrow will be in Britain, America"

In wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks, secularist groups to seek end of Canadas blasphemy law

Saudi Arabia to flog man 1,000 times for insulting religion on Facebook

Websites of towns near Paris hacked, replaced with ISIS flag

Indian Government fires employee who skipped work for 24 years

Egypt's President Calls For A 'Revolution' In Islam

The UK is now more religiously diverse than ever but at the same time the number of people with no religion is at an all-time high

Britain's MI5 chief warns al Qaeda in Syria planning mass attacks on West

Top Iranian cleric condemns Paris shooting We strongly condemn the terrorist attack in France and believe that Islam does not allow the killing of innocent people, be it in Paris, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Paksitan or Afghanistan Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said

The US will send its highest-level delegation in decades to Havana later this month, for talks on migration and normalizing relations between the countries after decades of cold war hostility.

Israel won't recognize Armenian genocide, says ambassador

Bodies littered on the streets after Boko Haram attack on Baga

North Korea warns of 'war disaster' if US does not lift 'unreasonable sanctions'

Danish newspaper says won't print Prophet cartoons

Boko Haram Kills 100, Destroys 16 Villages In Borno

Two Islamist newspapers in Turkey have drawn ire on social media with their headlines that justified the deadly attack on a French satirical newspaper.

The head of MI5, Andrew Parker, has called for new powers to help fight Islamist extremism, warning of a dangerous imbalance between increasing numbers of terrorist plots against the UK and a drop in the capabilities of intelligence services to snoop on communications.

More Than 1 Million Flee, Ukraine Close to 'Humanitarian Catastrophe'

A German nurse has admitted to killing 30 patients while working at a hospital in the German city of Delmenhorst from 2003 to 2005 and is under further investigation for the possible killing of another 60.

China: 30 tombs, 28 chariots and 98 horse skeletons dating back 2,800 years found in Hubei

2015-01-12

World's largest indoor farm in Japan is 100 times more productive than outdoor fields, uses 99% less water, 40% less power and creates 80% less food waste

Egypt student gets 3-year jail term for atheism -- An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for insulting Islam

Saudi prince: $100-a-barrel oil 'never' again.

Boko Haram massacre is so big, survivors give up counting bodies

Bomb threat at Belgian paper that reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Benjamin Netanyahu ridiculed over appearance at Paris - He attended the Paris march despite Hollande's objection

At least one major oil company will turn its back on fossil fuels, says scientist. Oil companies are also realising it is no long morally defensible to ignore the consequences of climate change.

Nigeria 'needs same support as France' after Boko Haram attacks -- Archbishop Kaigama was speaking after another bloody weekend for Nigeria in which three female suicide bombers, including one thought to be as young as ten, killed at least 23 people in the restive northeast.

ISIS Issues Mandatory Conscription for the Men of Syria and Iraq

Oil hits a new five and a half-year low of $48.59/barrel

56 people die after drinking poisoned beer in Mozambique

Turkish imams in Germany to stand guard in front of media buildings in solidarity against terror

Cuba has freed all 53 prisoners as agreed in U.S. deal

Unpaid interns charged 300 for a job reference by thinktank

Anonymous blocks jihadist website in retaliation for Charlie Hebdo attack

Burqua ban approved by lawmakers in Muslim Uighur region of Xinjiang last month is set to go into effect; report says ban part of "effort to curb growing extremism"

Female genital mutilation now being done in hospitals in Africa: Health care providers now perform up to 18 percent of FGM cases and the trend is growing, according to the World Health Organization.

Feel free to breastfeed here, pope tells mothers in Sistine Chapel

Marching in Paris, yet blocking freedom of speech at home

London landmarks are lit in the colours of the French flag after crowds gather in Trafalgar Square in tribute to those killed in the Paris terror attacks.

After deadly Taliban attack that killed 132 children in Peshawar, Pakistan, Army Public School reopens

Boko Haram forces 10 year-old's to commit suicide bombings in Nigerian market

France to deploy 10,000 troops

Iran eclipses US as Iraq's ally in fight against militants

There is a lava flow in Iceland the size of Manhattan

2015-01-13

China has just banned the burqa in its biggest Muslim city

US and EU politicians use Charlie Hebdo attack to call for more Internet surveillance -- Fusion

Muslim Mayor of Rotterdam Tells Islamists To "F*** Off" On Live Television

This is Charlie Hebdo's first cover since the attack

Nigeria 'needs same support as France' after Boko Haram attacks kill over 2000: archbishop

UK may ban WhatsApp and Snapchat under new anti-terror laws

British prime minister: Fox News security analyst is clearly a complete idiot

Lesbians kicked out of Vienna caf for kissing. Student organization starts a "kiss-in" campaign with more than 5 000 attending.

6 Civilians dead as shell hits bus in Ukraine

Cameron says there should be no "means of communication" we "cannot read"

Russian Media, Turkish Politicians Suggest U.S., Israeli Involvement in Paris Attacks

US Central Command Twitter, YouTube feeds hacked by ISIS

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Edits Female World Leaders Out of Charlie Hebdo March

Expensive cancer drugs pushed off England's NHS list - Changes to England's Cancer Drugs Fund mean that from April, new cancer patients will no longer be able to receive a number of expensive treatments that have been available on NHS.

David Cameron wants to ban end-to-end-encryption for his surveillance plans

Nick Clegg will today condemn calls for the revival of the so-called snoopers charter following the Paris terror attacks with the warning: We do not make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

German 'anti-Islamization' march in Dresden draws record numbers

Scientists including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have signed a letter pledging to ensure artificial intelligence research benefits mankind.

Great Lakes teeming with tiny plastic microfibers - CBC

Pope Francis blames Paris attacks on deviant forms of religion amid new worries he may be ISIS target

People Starving in Eastern Ukraine as Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds

After attack, owner of Paris kosher market plans move to Israel

Anti-Islamist movement surfaces in Switzerland

Interpol issues global wanted notice for former Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovich

Number 2 on Al-Qaeda's Most Wanted List Sells French Fries in a Florida Mall Food Court

2015-01-14

Cameroon Army Kills 143 Boko Haram Fighters

Air France hands out copies of Charlie Hebdo on flights

Turkish president accuses 'the West' of being behind Charlie Hebdo attacks and deliberately 'blaming Muslims'

French comedian Dieudonn arrested as apologist for terrorism after Facebook post

Turkeys main opposition party, CHP, has called on Islamic countries to adopt secularism in order to end the roots of terrorism, denouncing last weeks deadly Paris attacks and stressing that killing innocent people has nothing to do with Islam.

Riding on the coattails of accusations that the international community has ignored African woes comes afriLeaks - a whistleblowing website dedicated to exposing corruption and abuses of power across Africa.

Internet an instrument for masses, so net neutrality is key: Indian telecom minister

I am a Marxist, Dalai Lama says

Twitter and Facebook face closure in Turkey after anonymous accounts published documents revealing illegal arms shipments by Turkish spy agency to opposition groups in Syria

"Russia will not cut itself off from the world because any return to the past would be a 'monstrous mistake', Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday [14 January 2015]."

New ISIS video appears to show child executing Russian agents

Turkish police raids daily newspaper Cumhuriyet to search and destroy possible Mohammed cartoons

North Koreans walk across frozen river to China to commit murder

Charlie Hebdo print run raised to 5m as copies in France sell out

3 Poachers Killed by Forest Guards in India's Kaziranga National Park

Peshmerga Kill Six Islamic State Leaders in 48 Hours

Mass Animal Die-Offs on Rise, Killing Billions & Raising Questions - Huge die-offs, with disease outbreaks & other stressors, happening more often. Mass die-offs are individual-events that kill at least a billion animals, wipe out over 90% of a population, or destroy 700m tons worth of animals.

Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cover goes global despite Muslim ire--Egypt's Islamic authority denounced the Charlie Hebdo cover: "This action is an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims."

Mosques fire bombed and pelted with pig heads in aftermath of Paris terror attacks

Oil prices below $50 per barrel will cost Russian budget $46 billion in 2015

A double agent reportedly stole a list which contained both the real and undercover names of 3,500 German intelligence employees. The Spy arrested last July on suspicions of working for the CIA. The stolen document could jeopardize more than half of some 6,500 agents of BND.

Russian Troops Stationed Near Finnish Border as Putin Begins Move on Arctic

Kim Jong-un Snubs China and Accepts Putins Invite to Moscow

Belgian arms dealer confesses to supplying Paris attackers

Fossil found by P.E.I. boy fills gap in reptile evolution

2015-01-15

Saudi man sentenced 10 years jail and weekly public canings for 5 months. He is guilty of setting up a public online forum for debate and discussion.

Children caged to keep the streets clean for the Pope: Police round up orphans and chain them in filth during pontiff's visit to Philippines

Paris shootings: 200,000 sign petition for Muslim hero who hid hostages to get French citizenship and prestigious Legion d'honneur

Indonesia to revoke passports of citizens who join ISIS

A Malian described as a "hero" after he helped hostages at a Jewish supermarket to hide during last week's Paris attacks will be awarded French nationality Tuesday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

Swiss franc jumps by 30% against Euro as the SNB (Swiss National Bank) scraps the exchange rate limit of 1.20

France sends aircraft carrier to battle IS

Saudi Arabia Is Building A 600-Mile 'Great Wall' To Shield Itself From ISIS

Data Privacy should be a human right, says EU:Electronic communications should be more secure in Europe, not less, according to a report from the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).

Baghdadi Executes 56 ISIL Members after Their Defeat in Southern Erbil by Kurds

Gay italian cook forced to go with prostitute to prove heterosexuality or lose job

Charlie Hebdo Writer Holds Up Muhammed Cover on Sky News; Network Cuts Away and Apologizes

Hamas: New Charlie Hedbo cover is Zionist lobby plot

Indian ruling party supports decriminalization of homosexuality

#JeSuisCharlie creator: Phrase cannot be a trademark - Millions have declared "Je Suis Charlie" on social media - but now over 50 people have tried to trademark the image in France alone, and the creator of the campaign is angry.

Solar at grid parity in most of world by 2017. Collapse in the oil price will do little to slow down the solar juggernaut.

International Space Station crew evacuated to Russian segment amid ammonia leak fears

Paris motorist deliberately runs down policewoman outside presidential residence

Muslims in Philippines march against Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo sells out, already on eBay for $117K

Target Canada to close all stores, files for creditor protection.

Nasrallah: Hezbollah prepared for war deep into Israel, beyond the Galilee

Carlos Slim (Mexican billionaire) becomes top New York Times shareholder

Ottawa Mosque concerned by sharp rise in young men converting to Islam

Nigeria: Satellite images show horrific scale of Boko Haram attack on Baga

2015-01-16

Saudi Arabia publicly beheads a woman in Mecca

Boko Haram Appears to Be Using Abducted Girls as Suicide Bombers

Imam says "As it is clear that the cartoons are to be published again, Muslims will be hurt and angered, but our reaction must be a reflection of the teachings of the one we love & are angered for. Enduring patience, tolerance, gentleness and mercy was the character of our beloved Prophet."

Three deaths in Anti-Terror Raid in Belgium

Guantanamo guard: CIA killed prisoners and made it look like suicide

BPs maximum fine for Gulf of Mexico oil spill is cut by billions

Woolly mammoth cloning attempt revives ethical debate

Protests flare in Armenia after family massacred: "Hundreds of Armenians took to the streets on Wednesday and Thursday, demanding that a Russian soldier who confessed to killing six members of an Armenian family be turned over to the Armenian authorities"

Top Russian Official 'Ashamed' Of Culture Crackdown, Quits Ministry

Scientists: Human activity has pushed Earth beyond four of nine planetary boundaries

Items lost in the Stone Age are found in melting glaciers

Lost Beagle2 probe found on Mars

Middle East is most violent area in the world for Christians, report says

On Thursday, a local source in Nineveh province said, that the A-10 Warthog aircraft which belongs to the U.S. Air Force has carried out four air strikes that killed and wounded dozens of ISIS elements, adding that the aircraft sparked panic in the ranks of ISIS.

Charlie Hebdo: Pakistani legislators chant 'death to blasphemers'

Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists :Humans are eating away at our own life support systems at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years, two new research papers say

Israel says Swedish foreign minister not welcome

David Cameron seeks cooperation of US president over encryption crackdown | The Guardian

Tanzania has banned witch doctors after dozens of albinos were murdered for their body parts, which witch doctors believe bring good luck and wealth.

Waiting in line for basic goods now a profession in Venezuela

Russia could soon run multiple Ukraine-sized operations. U.S. general: "Certainly within the next four to five years they will have the ability to conduct operations in eastern Ukraine and pressure the Baltics and pressure Georgia and do other things, without having to do a full mobilization"

Six Ukrainian soldiers killed, fighting rages at airport in Donetsk

Belgian government 'okays' deployment of army in cities because of terror threat.

Cuba opens up more to US travellers, trade starting tomorrow

There is no chance that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be invited to the next meeting of G7 leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will host the summit, was quoted as saying on Thursday

2015-01-20

Good News. Tiger Numbers in India up From 1,400 to 2,226 in 7 Years

Iranian newspaper shut down for showing solidarity with Charlie Hebdo

Pope says birth control ban doesn't mean breed 'like rabbits'

Kenya police tear-gas school kids protesting the removal of playground

Hundreds of anonymous Wikipedia edits made every month by a UK Government computer

Japanese government attempts to censor US textbooks that mention the Imperial Japanese Army's practice of keeping sex slaves

Presidential Palace in Yemen is under heavy fire

Canadian soldiers have fired on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, in what is thought to be the first confirmed ground battle involving Western forces.

No gunpowder traces found on Argentine prosecutor Nismans hands

Pakistani minister holds Saudi Arabian gov't responsible for destabilizing Muslim world through distribution of money for promoting it's Wahhabi ideology

Isis executions: Terror group throws 'gay' men off tower, stones woman accused of adultery and crucifies 17 young men

British intelligence intercepted emails from The New York Times, Reuters, BBC, and others

Five Russian nationals of Chechen origin have been arrested in France on suspicion of planning an attack, a French prosecutor revealed on Tuesday

IS Hangs 13 Youths in Mosul For Watching Soccer Game

Israel to allow sex change on ID cards without surgery

US diplomats prepare for first high-level visit to Cuba in 35 years | World news

Snowden refuses to use iPhone for security reasons

Australia trying to opt out of protecting 5 shark species - Wants out of commitment to work with other countries to ensure the 5 do not become extinct. Govt says it already has protections. 'Humane Society Int'l' calls move unprecedented act of domestic & international environmental vandalism.

The Russian Government is reportedly planning to supply modern and sophisticated weaponry to the Cameroonian Army to help it to better fight the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram.

Japan says jets scrambling at record pace to counter Chinese, Russian intrusions

New E.U. law lets nations ban gene-modified crops.

Iran sees no OPEC shift toward a cut, says oil industry could withstand $25 crude

AirAsia flight QZ8501 climbed 6000ft per minute before stalling: Indonesian Transport Minister

Russia outlaws films that 'threaten national unity' or 'defile culture': defiling the national culture, posing a threat to national unity and undermining the foundations of the constitutional order will not be allowed to be screened in cinemas

PEGIDA vows more anti-Islam rallies

2015-01-21

Ebola has killed off a third of the world's gorillas and chimpanzees

FIFA generated more than $4 billion in sales from the 2014 World Cup, and is Giving Brazil $100 Million After The Country Spent $15 Billion On The World Cup

Paris mayor: We intend to sue Fox News

Punjab province of Pakistan bans any glorification of terrorists

Russia hits back at Obama over SOTU speech "at the centre of the (U.S.) philosophy is only one thing: 'We are number one and everyone else has to recognise that' ... It shows that the U.S. wants all the same to dominate the world and not merely be first among equals." Lavrov told a news conference

Documents show Islamic State & Saudi Arabia prescribe near-identical punishments for crimes

Cuba Wants Off U.S. Terrorism List Before Restoring Normal Ties

ISIS executing 'educated women' in new wave of horror says U.N.

Irish Same-sex Marriage Referendum wording agreed by Cabinet: Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex

Several stabbed in Tel Aviv attack

Ukraine forces come under attack from Russian troops: Kiev military

Founder of German anti-Islamization movement Pegida under fire over alleged posing as Adolf Hitler, describing immigrants as cattle and garbage, posting KKK picture along with quote Three Ks A Day Keeps Minorities Away

Isis flags seen at anti-Charlie Hebdo protest outside French Cultural Centre in Gaza Strip

C.I.A. Report Found Value of Brutal Interrogation Was Inflated

Israel ignoring deaths of Thai workers on farms- Human Rights Watch calls on Israel to enforce labour laws after Thai workers tell of 17-hour days and being treated like slaves

Russia says Soldier who killed Armenian family will face trial in Armenia

If you fire on Canadian forces, they will fire back, Defence Minister says

35 economists urge cancellation of Greek debt and end of austerity program

Japan won't give in to demands for hostages.

Mystery radio signal picked up from beyond our galaxy: The Australian Parkes radiotelescope has given astronomers their only real-time view so far of the unexplained phenomenon known as the Fast Radio Burst

Hamas: Tel Aviv stabbing attack 'heroic act'

Putin Says Russia Must Strengthen Army to Defend Itself: Putin's comments reinforced his commitment to an expensive program to modernize the Armed Forces, which the Finance Ministry has signaled will be excluded from any budget cuts forced on the government by a growing economic crisis

Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last

First Patient in world fitted with Artificial Pancreas

NASA Spacecraft Closing In on Dwarf Planets Pluto and Ceres

2015-01-22

ISIS Suffers Heaviest Defeat in Iraq in a Single Day

Separatists have taken over Donetsk Airport, killing dozens of Ukrainian troops. Such a loss would mark Ukraines most significant and bloodiest tragedy since the battle for Illovaisk in August 2014, in which hundreds of Ukrainian troops were killed.

Statue of Irish sea god Manannn Mac Lir stolen in Derry, Northern Ireland. Wooden cross and a note saying 'You shall have no other gods before me' left in its place

Meth-filled drone crashes in Mexican border town

Secret negotiations were held to reach a deal in which Argentina would receive oil form Iran in exchange for shielding Iranian officials from charges that they orchestrated the bombing of a Jewish community center. Lead prosecutor found dead Sunday.

Swedish envoy to Turkey: Criticizing ISIL does not equal Islamophobia

Lawyers ask Prince Andrew to respond under oath about claims of sex with 17-year-old girl | Lawyers acting for the woman who alleges she was forced by a billionaire financier to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 are formally requesting that he respond to her accusations under oath.

Were running out of chocolate. Dry weather in West Africa and a nasty fungal disease have wiped out between 30 percent and 40 percent of global cocoa production. The gap between supply and demand is set to reach 1 million metric tons by 2020.

Italian Police Discover "Biggest Ever" Antiquity Collection - It's the biggest recovery in history, in terms of the quality & quantity. In fact, the size of the recovery is almost unprecedented.

British Soldier accused of Raping 6 year old girl

Group finds that punishments in U.S. ally Saudi Arabia nearly identical to those prescribed by U.S. enemy ISIS

Norway: Doctors defy new circumcision law

Chinese President Xi Jinping gives government officials pay raise, his own pay rising 62%

A network of anti-ISIS "commando cells" has carried out hundreds of guerrilla attacks in Mosul, a city seized by the Islamist militants, Iraq's vice president told NBC News.

Oil export losses to reach $300 billion in Middle East

White House Criticizes Netanyahu for Visiting Without Obama Invite

Hamas calls on Hezbollah to unite fight against Israel

43 of 50 of this year's "most dangerous cities in the world" in Latin America, 19 in Brazil

UN: Nearly 100 Drug Users Died in Crimea After Russia Closed Methadone Program

Ten Israeli tourists wounded in hours-long anti-Semitic attack in Argentina

Kim Dotcom releases Skype competitor MegaChat, but EU official backs plan to make firms hand over encryption keys

Former Miss Turkey arrested for criticizing President Erdogan online

ISIS gaining ground in Yemen, competing with al Qaeda

For five years Greece has been like a patient slowly bleeding

Dead Dogs Found Across Russia After Pup-Poisoning Campaign: After animal rights activists sounded the alarm over what was expected to be a nationwide campaign by "dog hunters" to poison stray dogs, reports have flooded in of dead dogs turning up in various cities

2015-01-23

Kurds Not Invited to Anti-ISIS Conference in London, Despite Leading the War against the Terrorist Organization

King of Saudi Arabia Has Died At 90

France admits soldiers have deserted to ISIS, including ex-elite special forces and French foreign legionnaires

Priest sentenced to 13 years in prison for pedophilia in Australia

Americans Offer to Take 100 Lashes Each for Saudi Blogger

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi said Thursday that Muslims need to adapt their religious discourse to the present and eliminate elements of their rhetoric that could foster violence.

Russia has accused Poland of engaging in a "mockery of history" after the Polish foreign minister credited Ukrainian soldiers, rather than the Soviet Red Army, with liberating Auschwitz 70 years ago

Obama declines meeting with Netanyahu

Australian David Hicks, former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was tortured for five years, is innocent, United States government tells lawyer

US officials thank Australia for helping kill 6000 Islamic State fighters including half its commanders

China is cracking down on VPNs After censorship system Upgrade

Paris Announces Plan to Promote Secular Values

Thousands of protesters have gathered outside Argentina's government palace in Buenos Aires, demanding a full investigation into the death of a prosecutor who was looking into allegations against the country's President.

Yemeni Government Collapses as President and Prime Minister Resign

Scientists move doomsday clock closer to midnight

France sees as many anti-Muslim acts in Jan as all of 2014

Portugal, which expelled Jews in 1536, are offering descendants of the local Sephardi community the right of return

Edward Snowden: Frances 'Intrusive' Surveillance Laws Failed to Stop Paris Attacks

Japan pledges $100m to rebuild Gaza.

Peshmerga forces captured several villages around Mosul from ISIS and shelled the city center for the first time

NATO says detects signs of increased Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine

Doomsday clock reaches 3 minutes to midnight. Only other instances of it getting this far were 1984 during the peak of the Coldwar, and 1949 when the Soviet Union tested it's first atomic bomb.

U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles

Russian Artists Ask Medvedev to Allow Swearing in Films Again

CNN: No truce with Ukraine, rebel leader says

2015-01-26

WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government

Almost 500 cases of female genital mutilation identified in just one month in English hospitals

Malaysia Airlines site hacked, displays 404 - Plane Not Found

Mass surveillance is fundamental threat to human rights, says European report: Europes top rights body says scale of NSA spying is stunning and suggests UK powers may be at odds with rights convention

Egyptian doctor sentenced to prison for female genital mutilation in landmark case after the death of a 13 year old

ISIS forced out of Kobane after Kurdish fighters seize full control of town.

Argentine journalist flees in wake of prosecutor's death -- "I am leaving because my life is in danger," Pachter said

Pro-Moscow rebels, backed by what NATO says is the open participation of Russian troops, pressed on with their offensive on Sunday after restarting the war in eastern Ukraine with the first all-out assault since a truce five months ago.

Russian Security Forces Raid Independent Crimean TV Station

Russian ruble tumbles after violence in eastern Ukraine escalates and oil continues to drop

Greek exit polls suggest Syriza win

Ukrainian army is foreign NATO legion, with geopolitical aims of constraining Russia - Putin

Kurds fly "flag of victory" over Kobane

The British government has said it is reviewing security procedures after a hoax caller claiming to be the director of Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency was put through to PM David Cameron.

'We are going to destroy the Greek oligarchy system' Yanis Varoufakis, tipped to be Syriza's new finance minister, says what his party would do if it gets into government in Greece

Abducted Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez found dead.

Syriza Rides Anti-Austerity Wave to Landslide Victory in Greece

Canada to unveil new security legislation after 2014 attacks: PM

Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney reaffirmed Canada's commitment to fighting anti-Semitism and promised a "zero-tolerance approach" for any attempts to delegitimize the state of Israel.

Parents in Taiwan are now legally obliged to limit their kids' computer time

BBC executive Tarik Kafala: Do not call Charlie Hebdo killers 'terrorists'

Euro tumbles on Greek vote results, approaching an 11-year low versus the U.S. dollar

Journalist who broke the dead prosecutor story flees Argentina in fear for his life

LIVE: India celebrates its 66th Republic Day

Kim Jong Un to Visit Indonesia Marking First Official Trip Abroad

2015-01-27

Greece's new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is Valve's former Steam Market economist

Hershey's has blocked British-made Cadbury chocolate from entering the US.

FBI arrests Russian spy in the Bronx

Regin Malware Unmasked as NSA Tool after SPIEGEL Publishes Source Code

Russia's Credit Rating Cut To 'Junk' By S&P

Anti-vaccination group encourages parents in Australia to join fake church to avoid "no jab, no play" childcare laws

Decapitation Marks the Beginning of Saudi King Salman Reign

MILF massacres 49 members of Philippine National Police - Special Action Force during an encounter at Maguindanao, Philippines

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announces plans to dissolve country's intelligence agency

Ukraine miners rescued after shelling left them trapped

A Costa Rican court acquitted seven men Monday accused in the brutal murder of environmentalist Jairo Mora and the rape of four volunteers who worked with him to protect sea turtles

Greeces new prime minister wants Germany to pay for Nazi war crimes

Iran is ditching the US Dollar.

North Korea slams shamelessness of Israel," calling it a rogue group that poses a nuclear threat and commits terrorist attack[s] against neighboring countries.

Chinese officials feasted on endangered salamander, then beat journalists: report

Assad: Erdogan is personally responsible for Syrian chaos

1.5M Lifted Out of Poverty in Ecuador under Correa

Ukrainian rebel attacks on city of Mariupol are condemned by the UN as a war crime

U.S. 'Cannot Stop' Russian Nuclear Missiles Deputy Prime Minister: Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who overseas Russia's military-industrial complex, boasted of unspecified breakthroughs in Russian military technology during a talk show on the state-run Rossiya 1 TV channel on Sunday night.

UK economic growth hits 2.6% in 2014, fastest growth since 2007

Militants attack top Libya hotel, ISIS claims responsibility

Greece debt repayment in full 'unrealistic' - Syriza

Greece's New Prime Minister Wants Germany To Pay For Nazi War Crimes

Canadian forces engage in two (more) gunfights with ISIS on the ground in Iraq

Ukraine turns to International Criminal Court over terrorist killings - President Poroshenko said today that he will give the EU ample evidence of who is behind the recent shelling of the city of Mariupol, in which more than 20 people died, and that he would refer this case and others to the ICC

2015-01-28

Key Hepatitis C Patent Rejected In India, Clearing Way For Generic Treatment Costing A Thousand Times Less Than US Price

Spain charges 12 priests with child sex abuse

Two weeks after Zuckerberg said je suis Charlie, Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad

Ancient planets are almost as old as the universe: Five small planets orbit an 11.2 billion-year-old star, making them about 80 per cent as old as the universe itself. That means our galaxy started building rocky planets earlier than we thought.

Obama challenges India on women's rights and religious tolerance: ...every woman should be able to go about her day to walk the street, or ride the bus and be safe and be treated with the respect and dignity that she deserves.

The Mormon church officially supports LGBT rights.

Putin ordered Alexander Litvinenko murder, inquiry into death told

Scientists in Switzerland have figured out a way to utilize Graphene in solar panel design, raising its efficiency to an absolutely staggering 60% a finally feasible amount.

Recording of Erdoan telling son to zero $1 billion in cash that was in their house is authentic, prosecutor says

3 tons of living cats caught on way from China to Vietnamese restaurants

Two American-made M-41 tanks found in police raid on stolen cars in Brazil

ISIS & Japan agree on hostage swap, Japanese journalist to be freed 'within hours'

Anti-tank missile strikes IDF vehicle on Lebanon border

Three more beheaded under new Saudi king

Rather than face ban in Turkey, Facebook blocks anti-Islamic pages

Cuba has an illegal 'Internet' that connects thousands of computers - called SNet, short for streetnet

South Korea, China warn Japan not to backtrack on apology over wartime past

Gorbachev blasts lawmakers suggestion to denounce Germany unification as rubbish

Kim Jong Un May Make First Foreign Trip to Russia, Interfax Says.

Germany Set to Open Up Autobahn to Self-Driving Vehicles

France wants to make Google and Facebook accountable for hate speech

Two IDF soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack

Ukrainian Students Call On Russian Counterparts To End 'Information War': "Check what you hear, doubt what you see."

Greece says "No" to EU statement on Russia

10,000 Palestinian teens graduate Hamas terror camp

2015-01-29

Boko Haram appears to have surrounded city of 2 million, threatening a 'big grave'

Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals. Skull found in northern Israeli cave in western Galilee, thought to be female and 55,000 years old, connects interbreeding and move from Africa to Europe.

ISIS To Obama: 'We Will Cut Off Your Head In The White House'

Israel fires into Lebanon, killing UN soldier

New anti-terror bill could put chill on freedom of speech

Documents reveal Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of downloads every day from global file-sharing sites to find "terrorists." "Every single thing that you do in this case uploading/downloading files to these sites that act is being archived, collected and analyzed."

Global democracy is at greater risk than at any time in the past 25 years, according to a landmark report by the independent watchdog Freedom House. Women are the main targets for repression, and that levels of brutality under authoritarian regimes are at an all-time high.

Raul Castro: US Must Return Guantanamo for Normal Relations

Huge blast at Hospital in Mexico City. 54 injured half of which are children.

Typo causes collapse of 124-year-old family business

Palestinians Attack Gaza UN Compound After Aid Suspended

Greek PM: We will no longer submit to the EU

Russia warns West support for Kiev could lead to 'catastrophe'

Samsung semiconductor workers: lymphoma, and no compensation

US nuclear scientist jailed for trying to sell secrets

Russia cuts spending, bails out banks

Russian mother of seven accused of treason over Ukraine

IDF confirms Spanish UN peace keeper killed from one of the mortar shells that we launched

Tech firms will be "considered complicit" if they publish hate speech, says Francois Hollande

Chinas Yuan becomes the fifth most widely used payment currency. The currency also known as renminbi (RMB) has overtaken the Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar.

King Salmans Shady History: The new king of Saudi Arabia has troubling ties to radical Islamists.

Malaysia today declared that flight MH370 was lost in an accident, killing all 239 passengers and crew members on board

Ebola virus mutating, scientists say

Sydney cafe siege hostage Katrina Dawson was killed by ricocheting police bullets, inquest confirms

Canadas leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents

2015-01-30

A rare megamouth shark just washed up in the Philippines. zoologist estimated its only the 60th confirmed human encounter with one.

Armed man demands airtime on Dutch broadcaster

Taliban Arrests ISIS Leader for 'Anti-Islamic Activities'

Jordan says it will hang its Islamic State prisoners if the terror group have killed pilot hostage

Britain summoned the Russian ambassador on Thursday and asked him to explain why two Russian Bear long-range bombers had flown over the English channel the previous day, a move that forced British authorities to divert civil aircraft.

US Army General says Russian drones causing heavy Ukrainian casualties

ISIS destroyed historic walls of the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq

Singapore will be jailing people for 6 months for holding a mobile phone while driving

Vice President of European Parliament: Kurds Deserve Independence

Scientists showed they can identify you with more than 90 percent accuracy by looking at just four purchases, three if the price is included - and this is after companies "anonymized" the transaction records, saying they wiped away names and other personal details.

Vatican to offer haircuts, shaves as well as showers to Rome's homeless

Mayor of London Boris Johnson: jihadis are porn-watching 'wankers'

Prince Charles: business must stop blocking action on climate change

Chad army retakes Nigerian town from Boko Haram

50-foot-long 'dragon' dinosaur species discovered in China

Bill Gates insists artificial intelligence is a threat to mankind - whatever Microsoft Research chief says

White House to Cuba: No Deal on Returning Guantanamo Bay Base

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has just received a series of 4 deliveries totaling over 100,000 new seeds, representing global crops as well as rare species from 100+ countries around the world.

Russian spy cell in NYC 'plotted Wall Street meltdown' like 2010 'flash crash'

Boko Haram to use goats, cows, donkeys and camels as suicide bombers

China says no room for 'western values' in university education: The party often brands concepts such as multiparty elections and the separation of powers as Western, despite their global appeal and application.

Saudi King Salman fires sons of late King Abdullah

VICE Exclusive: CIA Interrogations Took Place on British Territory of Diego Garcia, Senior Bush Administration Official Says | VICE News

Indian Woman Sues Uber in the U.S. Over Alleged New Delhi Taxi Rape

Gorbachev: West has 'dragged' Russia into new Cold War that could heat up

2015-02-02

Westminster child abuse scandal: KGB and CIA kept secret dossiers on Britain's VIP paedophiles; Both Russian and US intelligence knew about a group of powerful paedophiles operating in Britain and the KGB hoped to blackmail them in exchange for information

A new guard for Asgard: Iceland building first temple to Norse gods in 1,000 years

Pagan priest wants the theft of a statue of the Irish God of the Sea 'Manannn Mac Lr' to be treated as a hate crime

'Suppressed' EU report could have banned pesticides worth billions - Science paper recommended ways of identifying hormone-mimicking chemicals in pesticides linked to foetal abnormalities, genital mutations, infertility and other diseases including cancer

The 4 surviving copies of the 1215 Magna Carta brought together for 1st time in London for 800th anniversary - It's one of the 1st steps towards parliamentary democracy & includes the principle that no one was above the law, including the king

Tech pioneer Phil Zimmermann calls David Cameron's anti-encryption plans 'absurd' - PGP inventor rubbishes Tory plans to ban encryption and says modern commerce depends on it: End-to-end encryption is everywhere now

Thousands march for democracy in Hong Kong

ISIS getting 'desperate,' struggling to replenish fighters, says US-based advisory firm

Deforestation of the Amazon linked to Brazil's worst drought in history, causing many cities to start enforcing severe water rationing

Mugabe Dismisses Male-Female Equality: "Its not possible that women can be at par with men," said the incoming chairman of the African Union, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

Complaints against police reach a record high

American employee of Israeli defense firm Elbit mysteriously dies in Saudi Arabia. Saudi authorities say Chris Cramer committed suicide, but family insists he was murdered.

South Korea Wants Japan to Apologize to WWII Sex Slaves

Less Than A Week After Failing Last Attempt, UK Lords Try To Sneak Through Snooper's Charter Once Again

ISIS Is Handing Out Stolen U.N. Humanitarian Aid With Its Own Logo

The pro-Russian separatist leader in eastern Ukraine's rebel hub of Donetsk vowed Monday to mobilize 100,000 fighters for their latest offensive against Kiev forces.

Obama: Greece needs growth, not more austerity

One of two Russian bombers carried a nuke while flying over the English Channel - British MoD source

SpaceX and Google form joint partnership to bring Internet access to the world

Tens of thousands of longtime Palestinian refugees in a camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital have been cut off from United Nations emergency aid for nearly two months by armed groups that are preventing access

Fire Guts Major Russian Library, Destroying Millions of Books, documents - Vladimir Fortov, president of Russian Academy of Sciences', compares it to a "cultural Chernobyl"

8,700 people file lawsuit against Japanese newspaper's articles on 'Sex Slaves' of World War II arguing that they "damaged Japanese people's personal rights and honour"

Michelangelo bronzes discovered.

US considers providing arms to Ukraine as rebels step up attacks, says report

Syriza-led Greek parliament will never ratify TTIP

2015-02-03

NASA is planning a mission to Europa, one of the best candidates for alien life

Two-year-old Indian boy's heart beats in that of a Russian child - India's first paediatric heart transplant performed

Over 100 drugged and raped in Japan fake clinical study

CCTV footage exposes slaughterhouse cruelty: Sheep are punched, kicked and thrown in the secretly recorded video that has prompted an FSA investigation. Campaigners and MPs are calling for CCTV cameras at every abattoir after footage revealed extreme animal cruelty at a halal slaughterhouse.

Worlds most expensive drug which costs up to $700,000 per year too expensive: Canadas drug-price regulator has taken the rare step of calling a hearing into what is considered the worlds most expensive prescription medicine, accusing its manufacturer of exceeding the permissible price cap.

President Obama: "US deploying all available assets to free 26-year old American woman captured by Islamic State"

Kim Jong-un Says N.Korean Poverty Keeps Him Up at Night

French troops kill around a dozen Islamist militants in Mali

Their Relationships Are Criminal, But These Indians Still Marched In A Pride Parade: Hundreds of people took to the streets under rainbow flags for a pride parade in Mumbai, India on Saturday, despite a law that criminalizes homosexual sex

Norway banishes 'hate preacher' to remote village

Russia Plans Joint Military Drills With North Korea and Cuba

Egypt 'Covering Up' Protest Deaths, Human Rights Group Says

'If Ukraine conflict ends, EU might enter trade zone with Russia' - Merkel

Indian administration disconnects power supply to 98 tanneries stopped for polluting the Ganga river.

Only 8 of 74 Chinese cities meet pollution standards

Canada sends robots to Kurdistan to help clear ISIS mines

Police alerted to planned march against Jewification of north London borough

Head of U.N. inquiry into Gaza conflict to quit over Israeli bias claim

Casualties in shopping centre explosion in Perth.

US increasingly concerned that Russia is intent on partitioning Ukraine

An entire city is going to be wiped off the map in Egypt The city of Rafah is to be demolished to make way for a security 'buffer zone' in an attempt to stop militant activity and smuggling.

Barack Obama proposes over $1 billion civil, military aid to Pakistan

Head of UN Gaza inquiry quits, cites Israel's bias claims over consulting work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization

Suicides in Greece surged by a third after the country implemented an austerity programme in June 2011, health investigators said on Monday

Indian government launches its own low cost medicine brand - Jan Aushadhi (People's Medicine)

2015-02-04

Draft of Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutors Home

New allegations of Saudi involvement in 9/11

ISIS Burns Jordanian Pilot Alive

Jordan executes two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death.

The US has lost control of 400 million dollars worth of weapons in Yemen

Jets bomb Boko Haram in Nigeria's first major offensive

Taiwan TransAsia plane crash-lands in Taipei river

ISIS captors 'didn't even have the Quran,' says former hostage

Jordan to execute "within hours" jailed woman militant it had sought to swap for pilot killed by Islamic State

Isis set up giant screens in Raqqa showing Jordanian pilot burning to death cheered on by crowds

Putin asks Ukraine to repay a $3 billion loan because Russia needs the money to fight its financial crisis

ISIS throws gay Syrian man seven stories; the man survives, but is then stoned to death

The head of Sunni Islams most respected seat of learning has expressed his outrage over the purported burning to death by the Islamic State group of a captured Jordanian pilot, calling for the killing, crucifixion or chopping off the limbs of the militants.

Saudi prince to hunt rare bird in Chagai, Pakistan despite court ban .

Poland ready to sell weapons to Ukraine

'Missing Oil' from 2010 BP Spill Found on Gulf Seafloor.

China to ban Internet parody accounts, enforce real-name registration.

Sheikh of Al-Azhar calls to kill, crucify and dismember 'satanists of ISIS'

North Korea Threatens US With 'Final Doom'

Russia announces plans for joint military drills with North Korea

Moussaoui, former Al Qaeda Member, Calls Saudi Princes Patrons of Al Qaeda

Jordan will execute female failed sucide bomber on Wednesday

After ISIS execution, angry King Abdullah quotes Clint Eastwood to U.S. lawmakers

At least four people are reported dead after a shell hit a hospital in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Hamas Claims Egypt Opened Fire on its 'Military Posts' in Gaza.

2015-02-05

Jordan carries out air strikes in Iraq, killing 55 IS militants

Russian woman faces 20 years in prison for revealing Russian forces to be deployed to the Ukraine

No, Jordan's King Abdullah II is not personally flying planes against ISIS

Edward Snowden Is More Admired than President Obama in Germany and Russia

ISIS Treasurer Reportedly Steals $1M From Group, Flees To Turkey

UN claim: ISIS selling, crucifying, burying children alive in Iraq

Kurdish president: we are ready to go into the final war against ISIS

Great Barrier Reef set for surprise electoral win. Labor opposition's pledges include a "save the reef" policy that would remove subsidies for coal mines in the Galilee Basin

Scientists crack the code of viral replication, which may lead to erradication of the common cold.

Half of Danes want to limit [the number of] Muslims in Denmark

Japan is considering making it compulsory for workers to take at least five days paid holiday a year, in a bid to lessen the toll on mental and physical health in a country famed for its long hours.

Norway planning to criminalize not only beggars, but also those who help them in any way.

Pentagon 2008 study claims Putin has Asperger's syndrome

Argentina's President, Christina Fernandez, mocks Chinese for inability to pronounce "R" on her visit to China.

Russian Inflation Soars to Staggering 15 Percent

4,000-Strong Christian Militia Formed to Fight ISIS in Northern Iraq

It would take 100,000 ground troops to effectively respond to ISIS, says CIA insider

Westerners join Kurds fighting IS

ISIS Selling, Crucifying Children

Isis "dares" Jordan to avenge their pilot

Hamas leader calls for Lebanon, Syria branches to attack Israel

Pope Orders Bishops to Comply With Sex Abuse Commission

The "Berlin Patient," first and only person cured of HIV, speaks out - Medical News Today

Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts

Islamic State executes three of its Chinese militants: China paper

2015-02-06

Supreme Court of Canada strikes down ban on doctor-assisted suicide

ISIS bomb factory, compound in Iraq destroyed by Canadian fighter jets

Scientists have found a 10 million gallon 'bath mat' of oil on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico

U.S. considers declassifying report on Saudi funding of al Qaeda

As a curfew is lifted, Baghdad is at long last partying again Iraqi government abolished the nighttime curfew imposed on Baghdad by U.S. troops in 2003

Chinese farmer finds 7.85kg gold nugget worth $250,000 on the ground

10 Million Taxpayer Pounds Spent on Assange Stakeout - More Than UK Spent on Iraq War Inquiry

The Worlds Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke

Australian Prime Minister Abbott could lose his position in leadership spill

"We are upping the ante. We're going after (ISIS) wherever they are, with everything that we have," Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh tells news agency CNN

GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, rules UK's most secretive court. Access to intercepted information obtained by the NSA breached human rights laws, according to the Investigative Powers Tribunal

Amsterdam aims to give prostitutes shared ownership in brothels

2,089 billionaires in the world: Hurun Global Rich List releases list of who they are, where they live and how they made their fortunes

Kerry on the war in Ukraine We want a diplomatic solution but we cannot close our eyes to tanks that are crossing the border from Russia and coming into Ukraine. We cant close our eyes to Russian fighters in unmarked uniforms leading individual companies of so-called separatists in battle"

EU set to Ban lion hunting trophy imports. Only about 400 lions left in the wild in west Africa.

Hundreds of children, forced to work in "inhuman conditions", have been rescued from factories in southern India. At least 350 children were removed during raids on leather tanning and plastic workshops in Hyderabad, over a 10-day period. They were working long hours in deplorable surroundings

Turkey pulls out of Munich security conference to avoid Israeli delegation

Wales Says No To Fracking Until 'Proven Safe'

Australian prime minister Tony Abbott may be deposed after party revolt. Liberal MP who wants change in leadership says knighthood for Prince Philip was final proof of prime ministers disconnection with the people.

Jordan, Unabashed, Announces Latest Bombing Raid on ISIS Targets

Even Al Qaeda Condemns ISIS burning of pilot.

Russian taxpayers on the hook as oligarchs unload Sochi Olympics assets

"Fire Your Indonesian Maid Now" declared the advertisement for a vacuum cleaner in Malaysia. The Indonesians are not happy. Their ambassador wants it banned, denouncing the ad as demeaning and insensitive to his countrymen.

Norway, one of world's richest nations, drops plan to ban beggars

Finnish Defence Minister: Russian jets not trustworthy Minister Carl Haglund says he does not trust Russia at all and that he could not back Finlands purchase of Russian fighter jets.

2015-02-09

Huge Explosion at Chemical Plant in Ukraine

Jordan: Approximately 7,000 IS members killed in strikes

HSBC files show how Swiss bank helped clients dodge taxes and hide millions

India is now officially the world's fastest growing big economy

Report: Hooded gunmen fire on police in Marseille, France

Plane carrying Chile soccer stars found, 50 years later

Germany rejects Greek claim for World War Two reparations

Tony Abbott wins spill vote, will continue as Prime Minister

Italian policeman who posed as a host on the Couchsurfing website has been charged with drugging and raping a 16-year-old Australian girl

Russia is reportedly getting military bases in an EU state

EU warns Greece: don't assume euro zone will accept your demands

Britain: Putin acting like "mid 20th century tyrant" over Ukraine

Thousands of British Muslims protest against Charlie Hebdo magazine for publishing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed

Militants blow up Pakistan girls school

HSBC is in hot water in the UK and Europe after its Swiss arm was alleged to have helped clients evade millions of pounds in tax, with Belgium preparing to issuing a police warrant for the group's directors.

Australian Windfarms Face $13 Billion Wipeout from Political Impasse - Australia faces a $13.3 billion exodus of investment from its windfarm industry because of a political deadlock, threatening to kill hopes of meeting a self-imposed clean energy target

West 'caused Ukraine crisis' - Putin

French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect: Law that allows blockade of offending sites without a court order criticised by free-speech groups as circumventing judicial power

Palestinian illegally staying in Israel saved two Jews from a mob

Canadian army loses expensive GPS-guided shells while leaving Afghanistan

Moscow & Cairo to drop USD, use national currencies in bilateral trade Putin

Lithuanian president in Munich: To betray Ukraine would mean to betray ourselves

Mass grave with 62 bodies found in Colombia

Samsung Privacy Policy: Watch What You Say Around Your Smart TV.

France can now block suspected terrorism websites without a court order

2015-02-10

Mugabe falls: '27 bodyguards punished' after Zimbabwe president stumbles on carpet

Twitter says Russia repeatedly tried to erase tweets by critics of Putin.

Israeli who placed bomb at Palestinian girls' school released from prison early.

The Indian Supreme Court Just Told Muslims They Can't Have Multiple Wives

Young girls who choose to get the HPV vaccinewhich helps prevent genital warts, cervical cancer and a host of other deadly diseasesdo not suffer from higher rates of sexually transmitted infections, according to a new study.

American ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller Is Dead, Family Confirms

Retired Master Cpl. Paul Franklin, who lost both legs in Afghanistan to a suicide bomber in 2006, says every year he has to prove to Canadian Veterans Affairs that he still has no legs and needs a wheelchair.

Jordan Moves Thousands of Troops to Border With Iraq

India anti-corruption party routs BJP : Wins 95% seats in a historical win

ISIS recruiter, freed from Gitmo, killed in drone strike in Afghanistan

Obama Asks Germany to Stop 'Assuming the Worst' About NSA Spying

An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England.

Ukrainian soldiers seize Russian tank in nocturnal raid

Ukrainian journalist faces 15 years in jail after calls to boycott the draft

Aboriginals sue Canadian government over adoptions to white families during 1960s: Aboriginals who were adopted into white families during the 1960s Scoop are suing the federal government for the loss of their culture and emotional trauma.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be "severely damaged" if the government does not completely ban the dumping of dredge waste in the World Heritage-listed waters, a report commissioned by conservation group WWF say.

Samsung warn consumers not to discuss personal info in front of its voice activated TV's

ISIS suspect: ''The Turkish Intelligence Agency, MT, helped us smuggle arms to radical groups in Syria''

UK spent 300 times more on fossil fuels than clean energy despite green pledge

HSBC leak shows Venezuela among top clients in secret Swiss bank accounts

Obama 'may supply arms to Ukraine'

The Justice Department is pushing some of the biggest banks on Wall Street including, for the first time in decades, American institutions to plead guilty to criminal charges that they manipulated the prices of foreign currencies.

Obama: If Putin Really Wanted Ukraine, He Could Take It

Obama Says Russia Has Clearly Violated Agreement On Ukraine

Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange MyCoin has allegedly shut its doors and stolen HKD 3 billion ($386.9 million) in the process

2015-02-11

Obama sends Congress draft war authorization that says Islamic State 'poses grave threat'

Puerto Rico considers fining parents of obese children up to $800

Meteor explodes over New Zealand

Pagan 'Sea God' statue to be replaced and reinforced after global support

Tesla only sold 120 cars in China in January, CEO Elon Musk Threatens to fire Executives

Sharia4Belgium trial: Belgian court jails members. The judge called the organisation "a terrorist group" and sentenced leader Fouad Belkacem to 12 years in jail.

Turkey investigating computer game Minecraft for being "too violent"

USA: Guantnamo 9/11 military hearing halted after defendant claims court interpreter worked at CIA black site

French govt allowed to block sites featuring terrorism with no court order

Italy To Supply Kurdish Peshmerga with Advanced Weapons, Including Kurdistan's First-Ever Military Helicopter

Pakistan likely sheltered Osama Bin Laden: Ex-ISI chief

The Palestinians will open an embassy in Stockholm Tuesday night, cementing closer ties just months after Sweden became the first western European Union country to recognize Palestine as a state.

US army to start training Ukrainian troops, commander says

US plans to establish military base in Kurdistan

Thousands of Muslims protest Charlie Hebdo cartoons in London. 100,000 British Muslims sign petition against drawing of Mohammed

Watching Assange is sucking our resources, U.K. chief says as police weigh costs

Poachers kill rare Mali elephants - 19 Gourma elephants have been killed in the past month. There are estimated to be just 350-500 elephants left.

Sweden has announced a 1.5 billion kronor ($180 million) Palestinian aid package.

The leader of the French conservative UMP partys youth wing has stepped down after a newspaper revealed his residency permit had expired, and that he was therefore an undocumented immigrant in the country

Australian mammals on brink of 'extinction calamity' - It's lost 1 in 10 of its native mammals species over the last 200 yrs in what conservationists describe as an "extinction calamity". No other nation has had such a high rate of loss of land mammals over this time period.

US Deploys A-10s to Europe Amid Debate to Arm Ukraine

More Israeli aid set to reach Kurdish Yazidi, Christian refugees of Islamic State

Pakistan's main intelligence agency probably knew where Osama Bin Laden was hiding and hoped to use him as a bargaining chip before he was killed by US forces in 2011, a former spymaster has said.

Unemployment causes 45,000 suicides a year worldwide, finds study :Researchers say unemployment linked to more suicides than recession and that risk among jobless is stronger where more people are in work

U.S Closes Embassy in Yemen.

2015-02-12

England bans smoking in cars containing children.

Ukraine: 50 Russian tanks and 40 missile systems rolled into the country while Putin talked peace

Russian President Vladimir Putin announces ceasefire for eastern Ukraine to start on 15 February

Paris Votes To Sue Fox News

King of Spain takes 20-per-cent salary cut in push for modest monarchy

Two Sydney Men With Islamic State Flag Give Terror Threat In Video, Get Arrested Minutes Before Attack

Lawyer moved Halliburton subsidiary bribes through secret Swiss HSBC accounts: Files open new window on $182 million Halliburton bribery scandal in Nigeria

Turkish parents complain of push towards religious schools

Dominik Hasek will give his olympic gold to whoever will return czech children taken by norwegian authorities to their mother

Vietnamese police catch poachers with endangered Pangolins. The poachers were fined, but the live animals were then sold to local restaurants

Beating heart cells created in Simon Fraser University lab

Kim Jong-un urges N. Korean troops to get combat-ready

Toxic orange cloud spreads after chemical blast near Barcelona

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches

10 people from Quebec who contracted measles from the Disney Land outbreak were all unvaccinated

European Parliament to investigate CIAs torture and rendition operations in EU

70% of Kuwait has just been hit with an electrical power outage.

Ex-Korean Air executive gets 1 year in prison over 'nut rage'

Pro-Russian Rebels Refuse to Sign Peace Agreement

US weapons to Ukraine 'would be matched by Russian arms to rebels' -- International Institute for Strategic Studies warns that Moscow could arm separatists more quickly than US could reinforce Ukraines forces

Network of 250 Spanish butchers and phone shops funding jihadists in Syria - ISIS sympathizers using hawala system to secretly transfer money to terrorists, say police; Spanish police conducting 368 investigations into Islamist terrorism

ISIL executes 23 of its members in north Iraq

Japans nuclear regulator on Thursday cleared a second set of reactors for restart, another step toward returning the country to nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster of 2011 led to the shutdown of all units.

Israels Intelligence Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz warns that Israel might act unilaterally against Iran if Nuclear Deal goes ahead

Over 100 neolithic cult sites containing sexual carvings, graves and human-like figures, and dating back roughly 8,000 years, have been found in the Eilat Mountains in southern Israel.

2015-02-13

'Operation Death Eaters': Anonymous Wade Into Child Sex Abuse Scandal And Threaten To Expose High Profile Abusers

Google waited six months to tell WikiLeaks it passed employee data to FBI | Tech giant facing renewed questions about user data as WikiLeaks lawyer says The question I have is: what caused this six-month delay?

Every ocean now has a massive plastic garbage patch

Isis: Eight would-be suicide bombers killed while entering Iraqi base hosting US forces

Vatican mulling new department to tackle environmental issues. Pope Francis has said that man is destroying nature and betraying God's calling to be stewards of creation.

Revenge porn, posting sexual images without consent, outlawed in Britain - CBC News

Chess to be taught in Spanish schools: Spains government is set to add chess to the school curriculum after politicians of all stripes unanimously agreed on the proposal.

Iceland jails former bank bosses; Four bosses of fallen bank Kaupthing sentenced to 4 - 5 1/2 years in prison for market abuse after failed appeal.

One year in prison for Korean Air heiress whose tantrum over macadamia nuts delayed flight

Canadian Prime Minister vows to appeal court ruling allowing women to wear niqab during citizenship oath, calls it offensive

Elderly woman filmed confronting ISIS militants and branding them 'devils'

Scientists at a US science conference have said it is now time to actively try to contact intelligent life on other worlds.

Unemployment Is Killing 45,000 People Each Year - The number of suicides related to unemployment remains stubbornly high despite the improving economy, according to a study published this week.

Study: World dumps 8.8 million tons of plastics into oceans

Brazilians Hoard Water, Prepare for Possible Drastic Rationing

Turkish police use water cannon on protestors decrying religion in schools

Kill Dolphins, Whales To Reduce Competition For Fishermen, Suggests Mayor Of Beachside Town In Philippines

Ukraine: Provenance of Photos Showing Atrocities Questioned [NSFW]

Rosetta stone-style stele unearthed in the Mediterranean coast

Fracking will be allowed under national parks, UK decides

Woman linked to Paris attacks appears in ISIS propaganda

Saudi Arabia engineered oil crisis: Dallas Fed chief

United Nations Envoy: 'President Bashar Al Assad of Syria is part of the solution'

Boy flogged 60 times in town square for calling ISIS the wrong name

Islamic State Claims To Have Abducted 21 Coptic Christians In Libya

2015-02-17

An Australian learner driver who stitched his own chainsaw wound and drank gin for the pain before driving to hospital has lost a Supreme Court appeal against a drink-driving charge.

Ukraine Truce 'Broken 139 Times' On First Day

Magnitude 6.9 earthquake recorded in Northern Japan, tsunami warning issued

71% of Chileans Approve Legislation to Decriminalize Abortion

Mexican Marijuana Production Slumps in Face of US Legalization

Japans conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday his government would uphold Tokyos official apology for the damage and suffering it inflicted on its neighbors during World War II.

Major war likely in Ukraine, says Prime Minister of Slovakia.

CIA Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons: CIA purchased nerve-agent rockets from sellers part of an undisclosed effort to ensure remaining chemical weapons did not fall into terrorists hands. The arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006.

Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq'

Robert Mugabe's birthday party cooks up elephantine storm before it starts -- Donation of meat from elephants, buffalo, sables, impalas and a lion for Zimbabwean presidents 91st angers more than just conservationists

A Palestinian rap band has threatened to take legal action against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party for releasing a campaign ad in which their song is associated with ISIS

All 6000 of Jodrans mosques to run on solar energy.

China: Reporters attacked for snapping police chief feasting on rare giant salamander

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Islam has ordered Muslims to treat the followers of other religions with fairness and justice.

France debates ban on Muslim veils in universities

Greece rejects EU bailout offer as "absurd"

Scientists identify drug that could block multiple sclerosis

Vicente Fox Stumps to Legalize All Drugs Worldwide

5 French teens held for vandalizing Jewish graves

The president of Egypt has called on the UN to authorize an international coalition to fight "Islamic State" in Libya. El-Sissi said the coalition that fought Moammar Gadhafi.had "abandoned the Libyan people."

At least 18 dead in Haiti Carnival accident

Russian Prosecutors Seek 10 Year Sentence for Putin Critic Alexey Navalny

Turkey women share harassment stories after grim murder -- Women dress in black, take to streets and post stories of harassment online after murder of student

Hezbollah leader denounces mass beheading of Egyptian Christian hostages in Libya, says Israel's Mossad and CIA behind Islamic State

Putin Fires Medvedev Ally as Kremlin Rift Grows

2015-02-18

Malawi bans child marriage, lifts minimum age to 18

Ineffective homeopathic alternatives to vaccines should be taken off the market because they are a dangerous distraction, Canadian public health officials urge as infectious diseases such as measles make a comeback.

15 year old girl strip searched at Canadian school; Education minister defends practice, says it is OK if done "respectfully"; girl feels "violated and destroyed".

Thailand To Give Chinese Tourists Etiquette Manuals

Norwegian Muslims volunteer to protect synagogue

Nigeria kills 300 Boko Haram militants in recapture of 11 towns: military

Four members of a polio immunization team have been found murdered after being kidnapped in southwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.

Italy Fears ISIS Invasion From Libya

UK parliament calls for Internet to be classified as a public utility

After searing tragedy, Everests deadliest route is now off-limits. The mountain has been deteriorating rapidly the past three years due global warming and the breakdown in the Khumbu Icefall is dramatic

France Is Getting More Intolerant and Racist, According to Human Rights Report

Germany's army is in very bad shape: Soldiers painted broomsticks black to replace missing machine gun barrels during Nato manoeuvre in Norway.

Using nanoparticles to simulate the way the sky diffuses sunlight, an Italian company has developed a new type of artificial lighting that is indistinguishable from natural daylight to the human eye, cameras or computers

The massive plume on the surface of Mars no one can explain

Claims ISIS are now organ harvesting after shallow mass graves contained bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys

Ukraine retreating from siege town

Study finds 'the principal drivers of political violence are rooted not in poverty, but in experiences of injustice: discrimination, corruption and abuse by security forces.'

CNN/ORC poll: Majority of Americans oppose Netanyahu invite

Polands complicity in CIA torture programme confirmed as European Court rejects Warsaws appeal

Putin tells Kiev to let troops surrender as Ukraine ceasefire unravels

U.S. says 'proxy war' with Russia not in Ukraine's interest

Suicide Bomber Kills Up to 8 in Xinjiang, China

Peter Oborne Quits The Daily Telegraph Over Newspaper's 'Fraudulent' Coverage Of The HSBC Scandal

ISIS launches major assault on Kurdish front

Quebec education minister says students can be stripped search in schools without police present

2015-02-19

Lenovo Caught Installing Adware On New Computers

Israeli Prime Minister Candidate Isaac Herzog says in an interview the country's people are "fed up" with Benjamin Netanyahu's "politics of fear." If elected, he says he wants to "reignite" the peace process and is prepared to negotiate with the Palestinians.

Netanyahu humiliated after he tries to play down wealth with video recorded in his decrepit home... which is revealed to be his servants' quarters

Poverty in Germany at its highest since reunification. Some 12.5 million Germans are now classified as poor.

Tens of thousands of people demanding justice marched Wednesday despite pouring rain in Buenos Aires to mark a month since the suspicious death of a prosecutor who was ready to accuse the Argentine president of a massive cover-up.

Germany rejects Greek loan request

Uk defense minister: "Mr Putin is as great a threat to Europe as Islamic State" | "You have jets being flown up the English Channel and you have submarines in the north sea, it looks to me like the cold war it's warming up"

UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications - Intelligence agencies have been monitoring conversations between lawyers and their clients for past five years, government admits

So Paulo Is Running So Low on Water People Might Be "Warned to Flee"

Cheering for the Islamic State on Facebook can get you jailed in the UK.

Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said that Mecca and Medina are the main targets of IS, not Jerusalem, pointing out that its caliphate cannot prevail without the Two Holy Mosques. Calls on Saudia Arabia and Kuwait to end the Sectarian rifts and to join forces to combat IS

Google warns of US government 'hacking any facility' in the world.

Hamas prevents Arabic fiction award finalist from leaving Gaza

Australian David Hicks held at Guantanamo says he was tortured for five years.

NATO urges Russia to 'withdraw all its forces' from eastern Ukraine

There was another star in the solar system when humans first spread from Africa

Germany's army under-equipped; Europe's armies only have one tenth of the strength of the U.S. Army

Kyrgyzstan detains imam for 'encouraging followers to fight for Isis

UK: Russia's most advanced anti-aircraft artillery system is being used in Ukraine

RAF jets scrambled after Russian aircraft seen off Cornwall

During the trial of the Islamic State militants who attacked Turkish forces at Nigde last year, court files revealed that Turkey, beyond supplying opposition forces with weapons and ammunition, had also given artillery support to Al Qaeda affiliated groups that captured Kassab in Syria last year.

Nearly A Third Of Canadian Netflix Users Pretend To Be American

ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe as a 'psychological weapon'

Hundreds of thousands march in argentina, to honour the death of prosecutor nisman and to protest the goverment

Pope Francis strongly criticizes gender theory, comparing it to nuclear arms

2015-02-20

Everest College, a U.S.-owned chain of 14 private career schools, shut down in Ontario, Canada by provincial government after allegations of falsified job placement and grade data

Another atheist sentenced in Egypt. University reported disbelieving student to the authorities

NSA/GCHQ hacked into world's largest manufacturer of SIM cards, stealing encryption keys

Family of girl strip-searched at Quebec school to sue school board

Finnish President Signs Same-Sex Marriage Law

Drug-resistant malaria has been detected at the Myanmar-India border and now poses an "enormous threat" to global health, scientists have said.

Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have broken a days-old ceasefire more than 250 times since it went into effect earlier this week, a US official said Thursday

President Zuma to white South Africans : "We're a rainbow nation and nobody will chase you away. We'll fight against those who will say so, so there must be no fear at all"

US Military Reveals Massive Plan To Attack, Retake Mosul From Islamic State

Israel 'crucial and loyal ally in fight against Boko Haram,' says Nigerian gov't spokesperson

Thousands of cats smuggled from China buried in Vietnamese cull. First reports suggested that many of the cats were buried alive but Hanoi police later issued a statement denying this happened, insisting they were crushed to death with a dump truck before being buried.

German academics wait till Hitler's copyright expires to publish annotated version of "Mein Kampf"

Ireland has just given Malta a naval ship, instead of selling it: The Irish Government has donated the recently-decommissioned L AOIFE to Malta to help the Mediterranean country deal with the ongoing refugee crisis in the region

Iran has stopped questionable nuclear centrifuge testing: IAEA

Georgia condemns Russia, South Ossetia deal as step toward annexation

US Embassy: Turkey, US sign deal to train, arm Syrian rebels

Thailand bans foreigners from paying Thai women to be surrogates, after high-profile cases spark debate - Case of boy with Down's syndrome put its surrogacy industry in the spotlight. His Thai surrogate said his Australian parents abandoned him, but took his healthy twin sister home.

Israel increases Gaza exports and exit permits for merchants - COGAT increases quota for Gazan merchants traveling to West Bank, eases travel restrictions, and expands agricultural exports.

Obama rejects as 'ugly lie' notion that West at war with Islam

Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Say Caracas Mayor Arrested

Tel Aviv bus stabber who injured 17 indicted: Palestinian terrorist wanted to become a martyr, kill as many Israelis as possible, court documents show

2 Strong Cyclones Hit Remote Parts of Northern Australia

NATO Urges Russia To 'Withdraw All Its Forces' from Eastern Ukraine

The Islamic State caliphate is in danger of losing its main supply route

Belarusian President Lukashenka, the last dictator of Europe, says his country is ready for a constructive dialogue with NATO | said the fighting in Ukraine has shown that Belarus must have an army capable of protecting "its national interests"

2015-02-23

The family of the codebreaker Alan Turing will visit Downing Street on Monday to demand the government pardons 49,000 other men persecuted like him for their homosexuality.

There's a massive new leak of confidential spy files from MI6, Mossad and the FSB

China to credit Ukraine for $3.6 bln to reduce dependence on Russian gas

Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour wins Oscar

Report: ISIS leader gunned down in Mosul.

Egypt's President: It's time for an Arab coalition against ISIS

Reuters bureau chief found dead in Islamabad

Measles kill toddler in Berlin

The vice principal of a Turkish high school who raised eyebrows after suggesting the formation of harassment teams to prevent female students from wearing short skirts, has been relieved from administrative duty and reappointed to another school as a plain teacher

Israel is to purchase 14 F-35 stealth fighters from US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin at a cost of around $110 million each

Thirty Jihadis return home to Australia after being foreign fighters

Indias Largest Bank Commits $12.5 Billion For Renewable Energy Funding

Homeless Britons Are Turning To The Sikh Community For Food

Grand Imam of Egypt's top Islamic Institution has called for a radical reform of religious teaching to tackle the spread of islamic extremism.

Large Hadron Collider scientists gear up to discover new particle with a recent upgrade--a new particle could be detected this year that is even more exciting than the Higgs boson.

Girl as young as seven kills herself and five others in Nigeria suicide bombing by Boko Haram

Ukraine's army refuses to start withdrawing heavy weapons. A Ukrainian military spokesman told reporters on Monday that the move will not start before rebel attacks stop completely.

The leader of an ISIS brigade in Qalamoun was shot dead by a senior official of his own group, in a disagreement over allegiances and relations with the Nusra Front.

Putin approved Ukraine invasion before Kiev government collapsed: A Russian newspaper claims to have an official government strategy document outlining the invasion of Ukraine that was prepared weeks before the Ukrainian government collapsed last year

ISIS Destroy Virgin Mary Church and Central Library of Mosul

Great Britain: Baroness Warsi gave official roles to people with links to extremist groups

France deployed an aircraft carrier in the Gulf as part of the US-led military campaign against the Islamic State

Israel asks UN to condemn Iran Holocaust cartoon contest

Hindus urge Pope Francis to discipline Derry priest who warns of risk involved in yoga

'Hamas-Fatah rift hindering efforts to rebuild Gaza,' Arab League says

2015-02-24

The city of Edmonton is considering adding an eleven kilometer (seven mile) 'freezeway' that will allow residents to skate to work, with a pilot project planned for as early as next winter.

New Zealand to enter the war against ISIS

70 firms "named and shamed" after refusing to pay their worker the minimum wage

Kim Jong-un calls for full combat readiness for war with US

Turkey paid Muslim Brotherhood $1 million dollars to eliminate Armenian Genocide documents.

Japanese crown prince says country must not rewrite history of WW2 -- Naruhito makes rare statement on importance of correctly remembering Japans role in war as right wing attempts to downplay issue of sex slaves

Al Jazeera Leaks: Spy Cables reveal Mossad concluded that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons, after PM sounded alarm at UN in 2012.

Nine killed in Czech Republic shooting

NSA director defends plan to maintain 'backdoors' into technology companies

HSBC worlds 2nd largest bank apologizes for helping wealthy elite break domestic laws to evade taxes.

Turkish Men Are Wearing Miniskirts to Fight for Womens Rights

ISIS kidnaps 90 Christians in Syria

CIA attempted to contact Hamas despite official US ban, spy cables reveal

A US court in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for attacks in Israel, the jury awarded victims of the attacks more than $218m.

Canada's proposed "anti-terror" bill raises alarm bells with former Prime Ministers and Supreme Court justices; PM Harper refuses to budge on lack of oversight of sweeping new powers.

NSA chief declines comment on spyware reports, says program are lawful

Putin: War with Ukraine 'unlikely'

National Security Officials Have Been Notified of Suspicious Tunnel Found Near 2015 Pan-Am Games Venue (Toronto)

New Charlie Hebdo issue (Headline: "Here We Go Again!") marks return to business as usual

Amur Leopard Doubles in Population. Now number at least 57 cats (up from just 30 cats in 2007)

One fifth of Germans want revolution: report

A 94 year old SS Medic has been charged with 3,681 counts of murder in connection to Auschwitz.

More Siberian methane blowholes found in permafrost

Russia offers Iran modern missiles despite UN embargo

Inside an ISIS Handbook for Foreigners Running to the Islamic State

2015-02-25

ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul

Satellite image research proves Russian artillery strikes into Ukraine, a fact previously denied by the Russian government

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden didnt mince words during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session on Monday when he said the NSA and the British spy agency GCHQ had screwed all of us when it hacked into the Dutch firm Gemalto to steal cryptographic keys used in billions of mobile SIM cards worldwide.

Jamaica passes act decriminalizing possession of up to 2 oz of pot, paves way for medical marijuana

Canadian PM Harper urges swift passage of "anti-terror" bill; says public strongly supports bill, so little scrutiny of it is needed

UK stuns Europe by sending troops to Ukraine

U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border

The majority of British Muslims oppose violence against people who publish images depicting the Prophet Muhammad, a poll for the BBC suggests. The survey also indicates most have no sympathy with those who want to fight against Western interests.

A-10 Warthogs return to Germany as situation in Ukraine deteriorates

A prominent bishop accused Turkey of preventing Christians from fleeing Syria while allowing jihadists responsible for their persecution to cross its border unchecked. "it allows through lorries, Daesh fighters, stolen oil, wheat & cotton: all of these can cross the border but nobody can pass over"

First ever baby woolly rhino unearthed: 18-month-old 'Sasha' is found in the Siberian ice after being buried for 10,000 years

Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Reprinted in Germany for First Time Since WWII

First day with no troops killed under Ukraine truce

Brazil's environmental agency says it's detained a land-grabber thought to be the Amazon's single biggest deforester.

Workers got a shock when they unearthed a rusted can labeled "Zyklon B" the deadly poison gas used by the Nazis in Auschwitz

McDonalds avoided paying over 1 Billion in European corporate taxes between 2009 and 2013, the report 'Unhappy Meal' released Wednesday by a coalition of trade unions and civil society organizations shows.

Sec. of State John Kerry: Russia is lying to my face about having troops in Ukraine | Russia has engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that Ive seen since the very height of the Cold War

Radioactive Fukushima Water Leak Was Unreported for Months: Official.

Iranian cruise missiles blow up life-size replica of American aircraft carrier

British Infantry to train the Ukrainian army and provide tactical intelligence In training mission

Swedish Police Mistake '21' Birthday Balloons for ISIS Initials

Report: Saudis might help Israel attack Iran in exchange for progress in peace process

Pentagon will be deploying a small number of troops to Ukraine to provide combat medical training to forces there who have been battling Russian-backed separatists

Egypt Interior Minister tells security forces to machine-gun protesters in new leaks

France says Russia would face more sanctions if Mariupol attacked

2015-02-26

The HSBC bank is accused of systematic involvement in tax evasion and money laundering to the tune of more than 100 billion euros.

Actress Emma Thompson and her husband refuse to pay 'a penny more' in taxes until HSBC tax evaders go to jail

HSBC bosses reject calls to quit after 'terrible list' of problems

IS militant 'Jihadi John' named as Mohammed Emwazi from London

One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger | The survey found that more than 60 percent of Germans believe there is no genuine democracy in their country because industry has too much political influence and that the voice of the voters plays only a subordinate role.

China bans ivory imports for 1 year to protect elephants

Kerry Reminds Congress Netanyahu Advised U.S. to Invade Iraq

McDonald's accused of avoiding 1 billion euros in taxes in Europe

Apple ordered to pay $533 million for patent infringement

ISIS losing ground to Kurds -- Fears for 150 Christians abducted by the group grow as an ISIS supply line cut

The death risk from smoking may be much higher than previously thought - tobacco kills up to two in every three smokers not one in every two, data from a large study suggests.

U.S. deserter needs Iraq war crimes evidence to be refugee: A U.S. soldier who deserted because he thought the Iraq war was illegal could have grounds for seeking asylum in Germany but only if he can show he would have been involved in war crimes, Europe's highest court said

Poland to Send Troops to Help Train Ukrainian Army

India calls for UN Security Council reforms this year: "It is ironical that calls for democracy and the rule of law are being made in a Council that itself embodies the undemocratic stranglehold of the privileges of a few, forged by a wartime alliance that no longer exists."

ISIS Kidnaps 150 Christians in Northern Syria

Adultery is no longer illegal in South Korea; 5,500 people formerly arraigned on charges in the past six years.

Islamic State is selling looted Syrian art in London to fund its fight

TTIP: Transatlantic trade deal text leaked to BBC

Catholic diocese raided in Oslo by police. Bishop suspected of wrongfully claiming as much as USD 13 million.

US gifts military equipment to Poland

The first Australian fighting with the Kurds against ISIS has been killed.

ISIS militants destroyed 3,000-year-old Iraqi artifacts with sledgehammers

British schoolgirls are sneaking off to Syria via Turkey in pursuit of fun, adventure and the possibility of becoming wives of IS fighters

After NSA Hack China Stops Buying Major US Tech Brands

NATO commander warns about deteriorating situation in Ukraine: fighting is "getting worse everyday".

2015-02-27

France wants imams to learn secular values as part of new anti-radicalisation push: the French government will push imams to take university-level civics classes.

American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh

The big melt: Antarctica's retreating ice may re-shape Earth. Over at NASA, ice scientist Eric Rignot said the melting "is going way faster than anyone had thought. It's kind of a red flag."

German tank battalion to be activated amid russia crisis | Germany plans to activate a tank battalion that exists only on paper as it seeks to increase the country's military capability. The DM spoke of a changed security situation amid the conflict in Ukraine.

Outrage over a school strip search of a 15 year old girl causes Education Minister who said such searches are OK if done "respectfully" to quit.

14 year old girl with cystic fibrosis pleas to Chile's President to be euthanized.

Islamic campaigner who today defended ISIS executioner Jihadi John as a 'beautiful, kind young man' was filmed calling for jihad outside U.S Embassy

Rare Intact Roman Tombstone Found in England: Made from Cotswold limestone, the 1,800-year-old inscribed stone was found in a grave -- directly above an adult skeleton. Its the sort of thing archaeologists only find in places like Pompeii, the archaeologists, Neil Holbrook, told reporters.

Argentina: President Cristina Fernandez case dismissed

Under U.S. Pressure, PayPal Nukes MEGA For Encrypting Files

Al-Jazeera retracts and apologizes for false story on Gaza flooding

Russia's Khodorkovsky: Putin is a 'naked king' facing economic ruin

Islamic State destroys 8th Century B.C. statue, among many other ancient and priceless ones.

Dozens of new craters suspected in northern Russia: Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'

FIFA strips Qatar of the 2021 Confederation Cup

Press Digest: EU unveils new Energy Union to avoid Russian gas blackmail

Assyrian Christians crowdfund an army to reclaim homeland from ISIL -- Financed by a vast diaspora and trained by US vets, the Nineveh Protection Unit wants to 'cleanse' homeland of ISIL

Saudi Arabia to allow Israel use of its airspace to strike Iran report

Argentine Judge Rejects Criminal Case Against President

Russia to tap $50 billion from Reserve Fund as deficit balloons

Suspected Israeli nationalists torch Christian seminary in Jerusalem

Worlds first grid-connected wave power station switched on in Australia

Quebec judge refuses to hear single mother's case: You are not suitably dressed'

The Siberian crater saga is more widespread and scarier than anyone thought

Colombian police confiscate 3.3 tonnes of cocaine and flaunt it for the cameras

2015-03-02

Thousands in Moscow chant Russia without Putin

Charlie Hebdo now has 25 times as many subscribers as before deadly attack

PayPal stops accepting payments for Kim Dotcom ' s Mega service because it uses encryption

Russian chessmaster Kasparov: Now there's 'no chance' for a peaceful transition beyond Putin

Africa's medicine men key to halting Ebola spread in Guinea: "More and more patients are coming to health facilities after a referral from their healer," says World Health Organisation.

Even at $10/barrel, oil cant match solar on cost. The report from the National Bank of Abu Dhabi says that while oil and gas has underpinned almost all energy investments until now, future investment will be almost entirely in renewable energy sources.

2012 Delhi bus rapist blames his victim, says it was accident

Bush, Cheney, former CIA director and several congressmen banned from Venezuela

Ukranian pilot Savchenko, detained in Russia for over 8 months without trial and on hunger strike for over 80 days, could "die within days"

The Svalbard "doomsday" vault - widely known for protecting global food crop seeds - has accepted its first delivery of forest tree species seeds.

Top Hamas general says group prepping for war with Israel

Exclusive: King Abdullah calls ISIS 'outlaws' of Islam

Pro-NATO Reform Party beats pro-Russian Centre Party in Estonian elections

UK plans to generate electricity from the world's first series of tidal lagoons. The six lagoons will capture incoming and outgoing tides behind giant sea walls, and use the weight of the water to power turbines.

Killing of yet another journalist in Ukraine a gruesome reminder of alarming safety situation for journalists, OSCE Representative says

"Let them slash their wrists". Undercover footage shows conditions in immigration detention centre

Riot police sealed hundreds of Myanmar student protesters inside a monastery on Monday in a tense standoff, activists said, blocking their planned march to Yangon to call for education reforms.

More than two hundred skeletons discovered in mass grave beneath Paris supermarket

North Korea fires two missiles into the sea, South Korea reports.

Toronto "mystery tunnel" builders identified

One of the main US-backed Syrian rebel groups just admitted defeat

Australia bans travel to Iraqi city of Mosul under new law. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the Mosul district in northern Iraq had been declared a designated area under a section of the Criminal Code created in October last year.

Saudi Arabia gives top prize to cleric who blames George Bush for 9/11

Kerry: Anti-Israeli bias is undermining the UN Human Rights Council

Report: Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets, forcing Israel to abort 2014 strike on Iranian nuclear facilities

2015-03-03

American jailed in United Arab Emirates for Facebook posts made in the USA

France wants companies to make appliances that last longer

Islamic scholar Zakir Naik, who said Muslims can have sex with female slaves, gets Saudi Arabia's highest honour

Snowden ready to go to US if he gets fair trial - whistleblower's lawyer

Court lets child porn MP Edathy off with fine

India: 400 men cut off their testicles to 'get closer to God' following advice from 'guru'

Britains Elite Still Enjoying a Tax Break 100 Years Old.

World: Too Much Human Poo on Mount Everest, Says Nepal

Nasdaq closes above 5,000 for 1st time in 15 years

Russia's Gulag Museum Shuts Doors Amid Mounting State Pressure: A museum commemorating the victims of Soviet-era political repressions is closing down after months of government pressure

Russians to Spend More Than Half of Their Income on Food

Lost City Discovered in Honduran Rain Forest

Obama: "Netanyahu made all sorts of claims. This was going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting $50 billion worth of relief. Iran would not abide by the agreement. None of that has come true."

Canadian Conservative MP James Lunney tweets against evolution: Member of Parliament advises on Twitter to just 'stop calling evolution fact!'

The chief witness in the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the Ukrainian model who was girlfriend, was able to leave Russia and is now on her way to Kiev

Russia Prepared To Give China 50% Stakes in Oil And Gas Fields

Iran rejects US demand for 10-year freeze on nuclear program

Ukraine's central bank raises key interest rate to 30% from 19.5%

Plastic garbage is being eaten by coral mistaking it for food in the Great Barrier Reef, raising alarm over possible ecosystem damage

The Syrian Army captures more than 20 villages and towns from The Islamic State in Northern Syria

Venezuelan government has responded to increased pressure from Washington by revoking visa rights for former US politicians such as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, described by President Nicolas Maduro as terrorists against the peoples of the world

Officials: Mom Knew Her Son Mohammed Emwazi Was 'Jihadi John'

The Argentine government officially nationalized the countrys railway system today, a measure announced by President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner yesterday. The private concessionaries will not be compensated

ISIS will carry out '9/11 in Europe within two years', claims Gaddafi's exiled cousin

Christian militia in Syria defends ancient settlements against Isis -- Fighters try to protect last pockets of Assyrian Christians after Islamic State kills dozens, captures 300 hostages and forces thousands into exile

2015-03-04

UK should begin decriminalising drugs, say Richard Branson and Nick Clegg

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi asks Indonesian President and heavy metal fan Joko Widodo to stop execution of Australian drug smugglers

Paraguay Next to Legalize Marijuana Says President of Congress

Putin has called for an end to "shameful" political killings in Russia

UK: Sex gangs may have abused hundreds of girls; children have suffered on an "industrial scale" says PM

Some 12,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine supporting rebels: U.S. commander

American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship, the Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by US forces

Benjamin Netanyahu didn't offer 'viable alternatives' during Iran speech: Obama

Harper government won't let former Prime Ministers testify on "anti-terror" bill C-51 in Canada, but will hear from US Homeland Security's Jeh Johnson.

An ancient tomb belonging to Amenhotep, guard of the temple of Egyptian deity Amun, has been discovered in the southern city of Luxor, the Egypt's antiquities ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said the tomb probably dates to the New Kingdom's 18th Dynasty (15431292 BC).

A European first: Ireland passes laws banning branded cigarette packets

A sign of the times: References to Stalin's crimes removed from Soviet Gulag prison museum

The leader of one of Mexico's most notorious drugs gang, the Zetas cartel, has been captured by security forces, officials say

A Delhi court has banned a documentary film about the December 2012 fatal gang rape of a woman over concerns about derogatory comments made by one of the rapists but its filmmaker has said it will be released as planned.

German NSA inquiry chief's phone hacked, then interfered with in transit by 'persons unknown'

A former Royal Marine has become the first Briton to be killed while fighting alongside Kurdish forces against Islamic State in Syria

US Soldiers Readying for Ukraine Deployment: The US Army is preparing to send approximately 300 troops at a time to train Ukrainian forces in western Ukraine, according to documents posted on a government contracting site.

TASS: Russia - Car tied to Nemtsov killing belongs to enterprise serving government bodies

An Al Jazeera journalist has been fined 1,000 (725;$1,120) for flying a drone in Paris last week in the midst of a security alert sparked by unexplained drone sightings across the city.

Afghan Army lost 40000 personnel to desertions and casualties in first year after NATO left

Canadian government pushing First Nations to give up land rights for oil and gas profits

Illegal elephant tusk vendor convicted with help of radiocarbon dating: Toronto company fined after dating technique used for 1st time.

509 essential drugs get cheaper in India

Indian state bans the possession and sale of beef, imposing fines and up to five years in prison for violations.

Afghan army suffers heavy combat losses: US

2015-03-05

Study Confirms That Abstinence Education Has Utterly Failed At Preventing AIDS In Africa

The father of a woman who died after a savage gang-rape in Delhi said he thought everyone should watch a documentary about the attack broadcast by the BBC but banned in India "If a man can speak like that in jail, imagine what he would say if he was walking free," said the father of the victim

The car used in Putin critic's killing belongs to an 'in-house security service'.

The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has reacted to Binyamin Netanyahus speech to the US Congress by saying that the world and the American people are too intelligent to take advice from an aggressive and occupier regime that has itself developed an arsenal of nuclear weapons.

India's government has asked YouTube to remove all links to a controversial documentary about the gang rape and murder of a woman in Delhi after banning its broadcast.

Iran: We saved the Jews three times; Netanyahu should learn history

A report outlining the extent of Russia's military involvement in Ukraine, which was being prepared by Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov before his murder a few days ago, will be completed and published, opposition activists say

The Green Party in Germany is proposing a draft law to legalize cannabis

Snowden says U.S. not offering fair trial if he returns

Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged.

Jihadi Johns Father Says His Son Is A Dog And Can Go To Hell

China tries to ditch its coal addiction, reduce energy intensity. Country would aim to raise wind power capacity to 200 gigawatts (GW) and solar to around 100 GW by 2020, up from 95.8 GW and 26.5 GW respectively at the end of 2014.

#snowdenNZ : Leaked documents show New Zealand spies on its Pacific friends and sends the data to the US | GCSB collects phone calls, emails and internet data from NZ's closest and most vulnerable neighbours, secret papers reveal

Chemical fire in Vancouver port. People told to close windows and stay home as far away as Burnaby.

UK Police Admit Their Money Laundering Investigations Only Hit the 'Tip of the Iceberg'

Britain's advertising watchdog banned an Israeli government tourism advert for suggesting that the Old City of Jerusalem was part of Israel on Wednesday.

India threatens BBC over rapist interview

Remains of First Known Human Found in Ethiopia: The 2.8-million-year old remains consist of a fossil lower jaw and teeth. They were unearthed at the Ledi-Geraru research area at Afar Regional State, Ethiopia.

A court in Moscow has convicted a Russian police officer on charges of spying for the United States and sentenced him to 15 years in prison

US ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert injured by armed attacker while giving lecture, local media report.

Putin Sounds the Alarm Over Budding 'Color Revolutions' in Russia: President Vladimir Putin urged Interior Ministry officials on Wednesday to focus on smothering budding color revolutions, thus bolstering the current political climate by reinforcing a widespread fear of domestic enemies

Edward Snowden says Canadian spying has weakest oversight in Western world

The US military's top officer, General Martin Dempsey, told lawmakers on Wednesday it was possible special operations forces could eventually be sent to Syria to back up American-trained rebels

300 staff working for lawmakers have lobbying interests, analysis reveals

Iran's supreme leader has terminal cancer

2015-03-06

Lockheed Martin Claims Sustainable Fusion Is Within Its Grasp

Nasa finds evidence of a vast ancient ocean on Mars

Astronomers Observe Supernova and Find They're Watching the Same Star Explode Over and Over Again

Nasa, has confirmed that its Dawn probe has gone into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Indian mob breaks into jail, beats rape suspect to death

Ex-Mossad chief calls Netanyahu's Iran speech 'bullshit'

A Russian official has accused US fast food giants McDonalds and Coca Cola of waging "war" against citizens by aggressively marketing "unhealthy" products to them

New study says SSRI antidepressants need to be added to list of drugs that induce withdrawal symptoms upon discontinuation. SSRI withdrawal symptoms include depression and anxiety which are being confused with relapse of original illnesses and causing people to stay on drugs longer than needed.

Quebec resident Alain Philippon charged at Halifax airport for not giving up phone password

Snowden says he'd like to return to Geneva. Edward Snowden has made a public appeal for Switzerland to grant him asylum, saying he would like to return to live in Geneva, where he once worked undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency.

U.S. ambassador gets 80 stitches after knife attack

ISIL commander treated in a hospital in western Turkey, Governors office confirms.

Dutch jihadists should die before returning to Netherlands: Prime Minister Rutte

New Zealand Customs propose that it be given blanket authority to force people to disclose passwords to their computers and smartphones at the border. Failure to do so without a reasonable excuse would result in up to 3 months prison.

NASA Spacecraft Set for Historic Arrival at Dwarf Planet Ceres Today

Chemistry teacher jailed 6 years for trying to join Islamic State

Iran blinds acid attacker in 'eye for an eye' punishment. Man has eye gouged out by medics in first known case of retribution five years after he blinded another man.

Adidas is Closing 200 Stores in Russia

Police Chief says of tunnel near York University that stoked unfounded "terrorist" fears: "Maybe this is just the coolest fort ever", as man comes forward to say it was just a mancave built to chill and have bbq in.

Syrian warplanes kill 13 senior leaders of al Qaeda affiliate

ISIS fighters bulldoze ancient Assyrian palace in Iraq

Nisman former wife: Alberto Nisman did not commit suicide, he was murdered

Tajik opposition leader Umarali Kuvatov, who had been living in exile in Turkey, was killed by a single shot to the head in the Turkish city of Istanbul, opposition sources

Suspected terror attack in Jerusalem; 3 officers hurt

French Authorities ID 3 Palestinian Suspects Responsible for 1982 Terror Attack in Paris' Jewish Quarter

2015-03-09

Indian news channel NDTV left its screen blank for an hour on Sunday evening in protest of the ban on Indias Daughter, a documentary about the 2012 Delhi rape.

Two California Tourists Arrested For Engraving Their Names In Rome's Colosseum And Taking A Selfie

Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed he planned the annexation of Crimea four days before unidentified gunmen appeared in the region.

India wants global ban on gang rape documentary

Giant tomb of a Iron Age Celtic prince discovered just 100km from Paris in Champagne, contains exceptional archaeological treasures fitting for one of the highest elite of the end of the first Iron Age

Of Canada's "anti-terror" bill C-51, BC Premier Christy Clark says: "When you give up personal freedoms, it's very hard to get them back."

Unidentified gunmen kill more than 12 Islamic State militants in eastern Syria

German professor cites rape culture in India to refuse student internship : India, News

Liberia's last ebola patient is out of the Hospital.

'He Stabbed Me, Darling,' Indian Techie Killed in Sydney, Told Husband on the Phone

German Teenager Dies Fighting ISIS in Syria

Report: German Official Says Saudi Arabia Top Terror Exporter In Middle East

Swedish Minister 'Silenced' by Saudis at Arab League

Russia jails five Chechen men in killing of Putin critic Boris Nemtsov

All Canadians would be trapped in anti-terror legislations web, warns privacy commissioner, saying it is excessive, and safeguards against abuse are seriously deficient.

Students of the Technical University of Crete have built a hydrogen car that has won international awards, yet Greek legislation prevents production of the vehicle

Canada bringing back Buffalo to Banff National Park, a species that once roamed the plains of Western Canada by the millions.

Putin describes secret operation to seize Crimea

Over 2 Million Migratory Birds Killed in Cyprus - to feed an illicit taste for the delicacy. Study shows "a dramatic situation of this illegal activity sadly taking place," with number of nets used almost doubling in 2014. Lime sticks trap birds, leaving them to dangle helplessly.

Saudi Arabia rejects human rights criticism after flogging of blogger Badawi

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been attempting to show off his feminist credentials - by handing out make-up during an airbase visit on International Women's Day.

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman: "Those [Palestinian citizens] who are against us deserve to have their heads chopped off with an axe."

Facebook atheist risking jail seeks to flee Egypt: Karim al-Banna, who on Monday could hear an appeal court uphold his three-year jail term for "insulting" Islam with his atheism, wishes he could live anywhere but his native Egypt.

Over 25,000 test positive for Swine Flu in India, 1370 deaths so far

UN report says Australia's treatment of asylum seekers breaches torture convention

2015-03-10

The White House on Monday sharply rebuked nearly four dozen Republican senators who sent a letter to Iranian leaders just as nuclear negotiations reach a pivotal moment, characterizing the correspondence as an illegitimate interference in President Obamas foreign policy.

U.K. Parliament says banning Tor is unacceptable and impossible

Ecstasy, ketamine and crystal meth are currently legal in Ireland due to a ruling in the Court of Appeal on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 this morning.

Qatar should be stripped of the 2022 World Cup in order to rectify the mistake of awarding them the tournament, the outgoing Fifa executive committee member Theo Zwanziger has said.

CIA hacked iPhone, iPad and Mac security Snowden documents reveal extent of privacy invasion

ISIS call for demolition of Egypts Sphinx, pyramids

Time to 'move on' from Snowden surveillance revelations, says UK foreign secretary - Foreign secretary says debate sparked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden cannot be allowed to run on forever

President Vladimir Putin awarded a state honor to a man suspected by Britain of using radioactive polonium to poison Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London

Iran's Foreign Minister To U.S. Senators: 'The World Is Not The United States'

Putin Signs Amendments Lowering Penalties For Bribes

Britain's divided decade: the rich are 64% richer than before the recession, while the poor are 57% poorer

Ten dead, including French sporting stars, in helicopter crash in Argentina -- Olympic gold medalist swimmer Camille Muffat and Olympic boxer Alexis Vastine among those killed as reality TV show filming ends in disaster

President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Monday declaring Venezuela a national security threat, sanctioning seven individuals and expressing concern about the Venezuelan government's treatment of political opponents.

Bank Records Reveal Saudi Elites Gave Millions to Boston Marathon Bombers' Mosque

US army tanks arrive in Baltics amid mounting Russian invasion fears

Earth entering period of fastest climate change seen in last 1,000 years

Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, challenging the government's mass surveillance program.

China warns Canada not to allow Hong Kong democracy leader to speak to Canadian parliamentary committee

Pakistan: Jampur Police torture rape victim, family for protesting

Parents who praise children too much may encourage narcissism, says study. Researchers following more than 500 children say parental warmth may be a better strategy than inflating the ego

A blaze at a mosque in Eskilstuna in central Sweden that injured five people on Christmas Day was caused not by a firebomb but by an overheated deep fryer, a police source told a local newspaper.

NZ Prime Minister John Key Retracts Vow to Resign if Mass Surveillance Is Shown

Report: Saudi Arabia accuses western media of attacking its sovereignty

Pro-Russia fighters have withdrawn weapons, says Ukraine president

Amnesty International warns anti-terrorism bill could target activists

2015-03-11

Pope Francis has called for greater transparency in politics and said elections should be free from backers who fund campaigns in order to prevent policy being influenced by wealthy sponsors.

Britain may broadcast Putin's financial secrets to Russia

Homeopathy not effective for treating any condition, Australian report finds

The Euro has lost 35% of its value since last May, and is continuing to drop

Russia says has right to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea

India Launches Its First Indigenous Rotavirus Vaccine. At $1, It Is The Cheapest In The World

Boeing 3d prints 20,000 aircraft parts and files a patent for their 3d printing method.

State Dept. hack the 'worst ever': "Russian hackers, likely working for the Russian government, are suspected in the State Department hack."

Somali families living in Britain and the United States are bringing their daughters to Kenya to secretly undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) as their home countries crack down on the internationally condemned practice.

New Island emerges in Pacific Ocean

ISIS sympathizer arrested after plotting to bomb U.S. consulate in Toronto: CBSA

About 80 children rescued from a Boko Haram camp in Cameroon cannot remember their own names or origins, according to an aid official who visited them.

Varoufakis unsettles Germans with admission Greece won't repay debts

Greece's justice minister on Wednesday warned that German property could be seized in compensation for wartime atrocities, in an escalating war of words with Berlin over Athens' current EU loan deal.

Bibi in big trouble: New poll shows Israeli PM in danger of losing bid for fourth term

ISPs block Pirate Bay proxy sites in battle against online piracy

Newfound Egyptian Tomb Has Colorful Murals of Man and Wife

The world's strongest teenage girl, 15-year-old Russian powerlifter Maryana Naumova, asks 'Terminator' to save Russia-U.S. ties

As many as 15 attackers have stolen millions of euros' worth of jewels from two high security vans at a French motorway toll booth

Jeremy Clarkson 'punch': Top Gear episodes to be dropped

Iran aims to ban vasectomies and cut access to contraceptives to boost births

Greece to demand WWII reparations from Germany

Athens threatens to seize German assets over WWII reparations

Gang suspected of using forced labor & illegally dumping tens of thousands of tons of rubbish across England arrested

Obama Said to Resist Growing Pressure From All Sides to Arm Ukraine

2015-03-12

A 42-year-old woman running for mayor in a violent southwestern Mexican state has been kidnapped and decapitated.

More than 200 witchdoctors and traditional healers have been arrested in Tanzania in a crackdown on the murder of albinos for their body parts. The latest victims include a one-year-old albino boy, killed in north-western Tanzania a few weeks ago.

Richest man in US Congress would be 166th richest in China's congresses

Boko Haram Surrounded on All Sides by United-Military Forces

The Wikimedia Foundation believes it can win its case against the NSA because it has evidence that mass surveillance had caused it harm, co-founder Wales said | "We have proof that it's actually impacting us from the Snowden documents. Wikipedia was specifically targeted for upstream surveillance"

Town in Canada bans spitting, swearing, and gathering in groups larger than 3; Lawyers' group claims law unconstitutional, will defend those charged for free.

Second ex-Mossad chief joins chorus criticizing Netanyahu

Dalai Lama says he may not reincarnate. China: "Decision-making power over the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama... resides in the central government of China."

World: Putin Responsible for Murder of Boris Nemtsov Says Daughter

Alzheimer's memory loss reversed by breakthrough treatment using ultrasound, scientists in Australia discover.

Scientists will be reopening the LHC after increasing its energy output by 62.5%. They're hoping it will show evidence for Supersymmetry, a theory that fills in gaps with the standard model that were previously not possible to achieve.

New Iran laws reduce women to "baby-making machines" - Amnesty

An Afghan artist has been forced into hiding after receiving death threats for dressing in a metal suit featuring exaggerated breasts and buttocks. Kubra Khademi wore the unusual armour in a performance on the streets of Kabul to highlight the problems of sexual harassment faced by women.

The U.N. torture investigator accused the United States on Wednesday of stalling on his requests to visit its prisons where 80,000 people are in solitary confinement and to interview inmates at Guantanamo on his terms.

Norwegian Researchers Are Crowdfunding to Make Psychedelics and MDMA Free for Global Medical Use | VICE News

New Zealand Witnesses Protests Against Trans Pacific Pact: Critics Allege TPP Is Harmful To Common Man

250-Year-Old Pretzel Unearthed by German Archaeologists

The main suspect in the murder of Nemtsov says he confessed under torture

30 Feared Dead in Shopping Center Fire in Russian City of Kazan

A number of British intelligence staff have been sacked for inappropriately accessing personal information, it has emerged. The revelation came as the results of a long-awaited report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) were published.

Google algorithm changes allow company press releases to top news searches

Reporters Without Borders Unblocks Banned News Websites

U.S.-trained and armed Iraqi military units, the key to the American strategy against ISIS, are under investigation for committing some of the same atrocities as the terror group

Czech secret services have found three russian spies

China interested in Athens Airport - Plans to make it main "Gateway" of China into Europe with 50+ million Chinese entering per year

2015-03-13

German anti-vaccer wagers 100,000 to anyone proving the existance of the measles virus. Researcher sends him articles proving the virus' existance and takes him to court where he's ordered to pay the full amount.

Iran: The letter by American senators indicates the collapse of political ethics in the United States

The Euro and the US Dollar are now worth the same amount

Canadian school takes 21 students out of school as parents refuse to vaccinate them while a measles outbreak reaches 119 cases

Penis transplant declared successful for the first time in history

NASA Finds Warm Underground Ocean Beneath Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon (pictures/in-depth resources)

South African mercenaries--seen as relics of apartheid after officially being banned in 1998--are now back in action in Nigeria, where they're covertly "whacking" Boko Haram in nighttime raids

German FM: US Republican Iran letter 'not helpful' an 'understatement'. "It is creating the advantage for the Iranians. It is hurting our position in the negotiations.

Statues destroyed by Islamic State in Mosul were copies

Finland: Two-third of parliament candidates favor basic income

Chilling Syrian numbers: 83% of electricity cut, life expectancy drops 20 years

New mystery 'suicide' in Ukraine - A former regional governor has been found dead in Ukraine, the latest in a series of deaths involving allies of deposed President Viktor Yanukovych.

Australia bans hunting 'trophies' from lions entering or leaving the country - Lion body parts used as trophies from hunting will no longer be allowed to be imported or exported, environment minister Greg Hunt says

Canadian soldiers didn't fire back when Kurds Kurdish allies suddenly and unexpectedly swivelled their weapons away from ISIS targets to shot at the Canadian troops

Nearly 13,000 tortured to death in Syria

Cuba allows launch of first known free, public Internet service at Havana cultural center

Spain puts 'gag' on freedom of expression as senate approves security law

Greek PM says Germany owes Greece more than $170bn for atrocities committed during the Nazi occupation

Banned BBC documentary on Nirbhaya gang rape in shown by activist in slum where four of the convicts in the case used to live

Egypts New Capital City Revealed

Indian man responds to documentary on Indian rape with his own documentary on British rape

Islamic State 'using chlorine gas' in Iraq roadside bombs

Remains of a necklace or bracelet made by Neanderthals have been found in Croatia. The artifacts, described in the latest issue of the journal PLOS ONE, add to the growing body of evidence that Neanderthals had their own rich culture and meaningful symbols long before Homo sapiens came to Europe.

First Active Hydrothermal System Found beyond Earth

Swedish prosecutors offer to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London on sex assault allegations.

2015-03-16

Anonymous released 9,200 ISIS supporter Twitter account names to apply pressure on Twitter for suspending them

World waits to see if Putin turns up

Putin Orders Northern Fleet to Full Alert for Combat Readiness Exercise, include 38,000 military personnel, 3,360 pieces of equipment, 41 ships, 15 submarines, and 110 airplanes and helicopters

Russia's Putin appears in public for first time since March 5

Islamic State fighters caught fleeing battlefield dressed as women

Three teenagers who were stopped from travelling to Syria from Turkey have been flown back to the UK and arrested

Montreal march against perceived police brutality declared illegal

Tens of thousands of Brazilians are marching in cities demanding President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and blasting what they say is deep government corruption

Ukraine president calls on allies to boycott 2018 World Cup in Russia

President Vladimir Putin has said he was ready to put Russia's nuclear weapons on standby during tensions over the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea

Britain is likely to pass a tougher tobacco control bill on Monday that would bar cigarette makers from using their own logos on products and instead require all manufacturers to use a uniform design.

ISIS fighters dress as women in desperate attempt to flee battlefield

Ancient Statues Destroyed by ISIS were Fake - The ancient statues that Islamic State militants smashed in Mosul last month have been proved to be exact replicas of precious artifacts of Iraqi heritage. The real masterpieces of antiquity are said to be in Baghdad.

Christians riot in Pakistan after attacks targeting churches kill 14 - Washington Post

US Accuses Venezuela Oil Company of $2 Bn Money Laundering Scheme

Hezbollah to send 800 of their most elite fighters to Iraq to fight the Islamic State in the decisive upcoming battle for Mosul.

The police watchdog is investigating alleged corruption in the Metropolitan Police, including claims it covered up child sex offences because of the involvement of police officers and MPs.

Saudi beheading takes 2015 execution tally to 45

Putin was surprised at how easily Russia took control of Crimea - Washington Post

A Chechen mother has kidnapped her two Dutch young children, aged 7 and 8, and has taken them to Syria to join Islamic State, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday, in the first known case in the Netherlands of kidnapping by one parent to join the militant group.

Venezuelan president Nicols Maduro given power to rule by decree | World news

Cyclone Pam has "wiped out" development in Vanuatu, its president said, amid ongoing concern over residents of the Pacific nation's outlying islands.

An annual report delivered recently to the US Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, removed Iran and Hezbollah from its list of terrorism threats, after years in which they featured in similar reports

Turkish jets intercept Russian military plane near Turkeys airspace

Silk Road moderator Samesamebutdifferent pleads guilty, faces life in prison

2015-03-17

Irish no-frills airline Ryanair confirmed its board has approved plans to start flying low-cost transatlantic routes starting from $14 in the next five years.

Strip-searched girl can't return to her school, Quebec judge rules . In the strip search, the girl was asked to remove all her clothing, including her underwear. No drugs were found.

Netanyahu: If I'm elected, there will be no Palestinian state

France aims to criminalize advertising with anorexic models

Frenchman hides Russian wife in a suitcase to sneak her into EU - Polish border guards have detained a French citizen who packed his Russian wife in a suitcase, attempting to smuggle her over the Belarus border. Officials noted later that she would've been able to enter EU legally.

Canadian universal drug plan would save billions, UBC researchers say: $1-$5.4 billion annual public cost offsetting $8.2 billion annual private sector cost

South Korea reduces water supply to North Korea

Ex Mossad head predicts dramatic improvement in US-Israel relations if Netanyahu loses election

ISIS Vows To Blow Up The White House, Big Ben And The Eiffel Tower

Spain finds Don Quixote writer Cervantes' tomb in Madrid

Germanys goal: Restoring Russia-annexed Crimea to Ukraine Its important despite, or because of, this to work for a peaceful solution and not rest until the full sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine is restored, and of course this includes Crimea, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday

Russia says it would not hand back Crimea to Ukraine, despite warnings by the United States and European Union that they will not drop sanctions over the Black Sea peninsula's annexation a year ago

Mexico set to allow armed U.S. customs officials within its borders

Alert after 200 metal balls coated in cyanide stolen in raid at UK industrial firm

More coal plants are being cancelled than built. The number of cancelled coal projects across the world has outstripped those completed at a rate of two to one since 2010

Myanmar court jails three over 'insult to Buddhism' -- The men had used a picture of Buddha wearing headphones for an online promotion

Saudi Arabia says it will want same enrichment rights as Iran if nuclear deal is done | Prince al-Faisal: "I've always said whatever comes out of these talks, we will want the same."

France, Germany, and Italy to join China-led Bank.

Adelaide, Australia Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson has been charged with concealing child sexual abuse

In slow opening of Cuban Internet, govt allows a public Wi-Fi network: Less than two months after Netflix opened up its services to Cuba, the island nation now apparently has a new, free public Wi-Fi space

US to maintain Crimea sanctions until Russian rule ends

Democratic Republic of Congo wants to open up Virunga national park to oil exploration - DRC government to consult Unesco to explore judiciously in Africas most biodiverse park and a world heritage site

Latvia reports two Russian black hole subs and research ship on edge of territorial waters

Red Cross: People in Vanuatu 'desperate' for food, water and shelter

ISIS kidnaps 20 medical workers in Libya

2015-03-18

Pentagon loses track of $500 million in weapons, equipment given to Yemen

Mexico Offered Sony $20M in Tax Breaks to portray country better in Bond film

Egyptian woman who disguised herself as a man for 43 years in order to make a living was honored Tuesday by the government as the ideal mother

Vagina piercings to count as female genital mutilation in the UK, even if they are consensual

Britain's Shame: Evidence Mounts of Child-Abuse Cover-Up

Canadas Largest Food Retailer To Sell Ugly Produce At Low Prices To Cut Food Waste

Gunmen attack Tunisian parliament, may have taken hostages

Mexico Bans Animals From Circus - Searching for homes for 2,000 tigers, elephants, giraffes, zebras & other exotic beasts that'll be banned from circuses.

France cut welfare benefits for 290 jihadists last year

Germany riot in Frankfurt targets new ECB headquarters | Dozens of people have been hurt and some 350 people arrested as anti-austerity demonstrators clashed with police in the German city of Frankfurt.

Almost a quarter of major Japanese companies are considering adopting the governments proposed merit-based pay system: the so-called white-collar exemption system to pay workers based on achievement rather than work hours.

Egypt is serious about abandoning Cairo as the capital, with a $45B city to be built from scratch

Joe Biden: "If you're wearing orange [a Protestant], you're not welcome in here" - Democratic Unionist Party call on US Vice President to apologise for his comments

Netanyahu Defeats Chief Rival in Israeli Elections

Netanyahu's shock re-election leaves Israel's pollsters red-faced

In Mexico journalists get as much respect from drug cartels as they get from the Mexican Government. What both don't want, both kill. Carmen Aristegui, a top journalist who exposed conflict-of-interest deals of Pres. Enrique Pea Nieto, his wife and their mansions, is now off the air.

Israel Elections 2015: Exit polls give Zionist Union 27, Likud 28 or in tie

The EU plans to oblige member countries to share details of tax agreements made with big companies and end the practice of secret sweetheart deals: legislation would require countries "to automatically exchange information on their tax rulings" every three months.

Egypt demolishes 1,020 Rafah homes for Gaza buffer zone

Palestinians Say Election Results Prove Israel No Peace Partner

Netanyahu says US money driving high Arab voter turnout

Nigerian army recaptures all but three areas from Boko Haram who is "running with their tail between their legs" according to Mike Omeri, the national security spokesman

Women with vagina piercings to be classed as suffering from FGM. [Even where the women is an adult and has consented]

Russia, India to join hands in space monitoring

A 15-year-old's design for the new 1 coin has been chosen ahead of more than 6,000 entries

2015-03-19

New Alzheimers treatment fully restores memory function - Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques

The Pirate Party is now measured as the biggest political party in Iceland

US removes Iran and Hezbollah from list of terror threats

A former ISIS militant has revealed that young Muslim women travelling to Syria to marry jihadists are being passed between men at the rate of one husband a week.

BBC News: Indian students caught 'cheating' in exams - large-scale practice

Iran offers to "reward" US Oil Companies that position against GOP letter signed by 47 Senators

Russian treaty with South Ossetia breaks international law: NATO

UN: Mass Grave Found In Iraq, ISIS Suspected Of Genocide

Pearson, the worlds largest maker of textbooks and academic materials, has admitted monitoring the social media use of students using its tests

Greece adopts anti-poverty law despite alleged EU row: The legislation calls for households that were cut off because they could not pay their bills to be given a capped amount of free electricity. Up to 30,000 households would also get a housing allowance and 300,000 would receive food subsidies.

Saudis halt Sweden visas in 'major escalation'

Poland says it will match Russia's diplomatic hostility

A US drone strike has killed the mastermind of the Westgate Mall massacre

Twitter puts trillions of tweets up for sale to data miners

White House 'Deeply Concerned' About Rhetoric from Netanyahu's Party

New York to Cuba: first direct charter flight takes off

The French parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a law allowing terminally ill patients to cease treatment and enter a deep sleep until they die.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and her Japanese counterpart Akie Abe announced plans Thursday to deepen cooperation in helping girls in developing nations finish their educations, vowing to help them attain goals that many in wealthy countries take for granted.

As U.S.-led coalition forces confirm they shot down an ISIS drone this week, experts warn the extremists could soon adapt the technology for battle purposes.

Obama snubs Netanyahu and criticises Israeli PM's 'divisive rhetoric': President has yet to call Israeli PM to congratulate him on his election victory, as White House says it will have to re-evaluate its approach to peace talks

Britain, France, Germany, and Italy have decided, over the objections of the United States, to join the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, a new international-development institution, set up by China, that is poised to become a potential rival to the World Bank.

Amazon rainforest soaking up less carbon as trees die young

Israeli election still not completely decided - 200,000 "double envelope" votes are yet to be counted.

Australia's tobacco plain packaging laws successful, studies show

"Ten companies directly responsible for third of Australia's greenhouse gas pollution, Australian Conservation Foundation report finds"

2015-03-20

France decrees new rooftops must be covered in plants or solar panels. All new buildings in commercial zones across the country must comply with new environmental legislation

The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion

The Australian government just passed a bill that forces ISPs to store and allow police warrantless access to the internet browsing history of all Australians

Today there was an 98-99% solar eclipse in Iceland. Today they also started building the first pagan temple to be built in a 1000 years in Europe.

Fracking costs outweigh benefits for Germany and Europe, study says. For only a ten year supply of energy, fracking in Europe would contaminate drinking water, cause severe environmental damage and create vast industrial landscapes

US threatened Berlin with intel blackout over Snowden asylum.

1 in 10 wild bees face extinction in Europe - "If we don't address the roots of the decline in wild bees, and act urgently to stop it, we could pay a very heavy price indeed"

Ex-Canadian astronaut on Mars One: Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years

High-end Laos resort serves up illegal wildlife for Chinese tourists - Shocking undercover investigation finds restaurants offering live bear cubs to eat on request washed down with tiger bone wine in the lawless playground of Laos Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone.

77 dead in Mosque bombings in Yemen

137 Killed, 345 Injured in Suicide Attacks on Yemen Mosques

Crystal with "Forbidden Symmetry" Found in 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite - Based on experiments with X-rays, the newly discovered quasicrystal has a structure that resembles flat 10-sided disks stacked in a column. This 10-fold symmetry is an impossible structure in ordinary crystals

A mob in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed a woman and set her body alight for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran.

US President Barack Obama has told the Iranian people that a deal to transform the relationship between the two countries could be within reach.

Violence cost Mexico $233 billion, or 17% GDP

600 Indian Students Expelled for Cheating on School Exams

Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation: The brutal murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country

@the_intercept: New Zealand used NSA's surveillance system to target officials and an anti-corruption campaigner who published leaks

Netanyahu to NBC: I want a peaceful two-state solution

China to build $1bn solar power plant in Ghana

Lithuania Reintroduces Military Conscription Amid Concern Over Russia

Three officials in China have resigned after an endangered Siberian tiger cub leapt to its death from an 11th floor apartment in Qingdao, eastern China, state media have reported.

The Vatican announced Friday that a Scottish cardinal has resigned over allegations of sexual misconduct the first time someone of that high office in the Catholic Church has resigned since the 1920s.

Reuters became the latest website blocked in China, joining the New York Times, Bloomberg News, and Wall Street Journal

Pitcairn Islands to get world's largest single marine reserve - UK govt gives go ahead in the 2015 budget to a vast marine protected area in the Pacific thats home to more than 80 species of fish, coral and algae

2015-03-23

U.K. Government rejects immunity for public officials who blow whistle on child sex abuse

Ex-cop claims a royal was in paedophile ring but inquiry was closed to shield Buckingham Palace from scandal

Scotland Yard Investigated for Protecting Pedophiles in U.K.

Suspected Nazi hide-out found deep in Argentine jungle

Singapores first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91

Oil spills keep devastating Niger Delta: Amnesty International is blaming two oil giants for more than 500 oil spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta in 2014

Rhinos with poison-infused horns are roaming the bush in South Africa, frightening away poachers who dont want sell a toxic product to their clients

Japan to build huge, costly sea wall to fend off tsunamis

Russian Official Tells London to 'Have a Twix' and Rethink Crimea

Shell oil drilling in Arctic set to get US government permission

Polish Army summons reservists

Bronze Bust of Putin as Roman Emperor to Be Unveiled

Oil price unlikely to rebound - Saudi official

McCain: Congress could defund UN if US backs Palestine bid

Documents Reveal Canadas Secret Hacking Tactics

Paris ends smog-fighting traffic restrictions after one day

Australian PM's Great Barrier Reef plan slammed

English 'car park king' Richard III gets final burial. The discovery was confirmed by a DNA match with Richard's closest living relative Canadian carpenter Michael Ibsen, who fittingly has now made the monarch's oak coffin.

UN warns world could have 40 per cent water shortfall by 2030

Afghan woman, Farkhunda, killed for burning Koran laid to rest; investigator says she was innocent

The UK will no longer tolerate the behaviour of Islamist extremists who "reject our values", Home Secretary Theresa May has said.

A Sydney theatre has refused a booking from a Jewish cultural group in a potential breach of race-discrimination laws: "Our policy does not support colonialism/Zionism. Therefore we do not host groups that support the colonisation and occupation of Palestine.

Greek PM wrote to Merkel warning of impossible debt obligation

Saudi's Opec governor: "Oil price unlikely to rebound"

New Zealand's GCSB spies monitored diplomats in line for World Trade Organisation job | Exclusive - Secret document reveals Five Eyes software used for surveillance on candidates for WTO job.

2015-03-24

Airliner crashes in French Alps

White House chief of staff: 50 years of Israeli occupation must end- U.S. cannot pretend Netanyahu didn't say no Palestinian state would be established on his watch, Denis McDonough tells J Street conference in Washington.

North Korea demands Obama to return Nobel Peace Prize

Indian Supreme Court strikes down law that allowed the government to arrest people for posting offensive statements online

Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution

Cuba booming as tourists flock there before Americans come.

US troops driving through Poland get warm welcome

Report: Israel spied on US nuclear talks with Iran

Wild African elephants on verge of extinction, say experts - The African elephant population dropped by 80,000 from 2006 to 2013, largely because of poaching

Snowden should be allowed a public interest defense, say European lawmakers | A call to extend whistleblower protection to those working in national security.

The Swedish air force intercepted four Russian military jets flying without transponders along Sweden's east coast on Tuesday morning

Huge unexploded WWII bomb found in London

The Great Barrier Reef is under siege. About half of the reefs coral died between 1985 and 2012.

Yemen 'on the brink' of civil war

British Royal family member was investigated as part of paedophile ring before cover-up, ex-cop says

Top-secret documents obtained by the CBC show Canada's electronic spy agency has developed a vast arsenal of cyberwarfare tools to hack into computers and phones in many parts of the world, including in friendly trade countries like Mexico and hotspots like the Middle East.

Australian Senator Scott Ludlam reveals Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's phone number in protest against new surveillance laws likely to be passed Friday

The Ukrainian government has given the private army of billionaire Dnepropetrovsk governor Igor Kolomoysky a day to lay down their weapons, after they occupied and erected a fence around the headquarters of the national oil company.