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2016-02-09

Australia introduces "Netflix tax" legislation to parliament. With hopes of placing a tax on all foreign digital goods.

Disbelief as Egyptian president rolls out four kilometre red carpet for austerity press conference

A smartphone application aimed at helping users avoid morality police units in Irans capital city, which became an instant hit just hours after its release yesterday, has been blocked in Iran.

Turkey detains 34 people with explosives, suicide vests at Syrian border - media

Physicists say theyve finally confirmed the existence of a 'four neutron-no proton' particle - ...were going to have to make some serious changes to current understanding of nuclear forces.

North Korea: Kim Jong-un 'executes chief of military on corruption charges' | Asia | News

Saudi Arabias Rosa Parks faces torrent of abuse over social media

Zimbabwe pleads for $1.5bn in food aid to prevent mass starvation - 25% of entire population is at risk of starving to death

Japan announces new sanctions on North Korea after satellite launch

Iraqi troops fully capture Ramadi, reopen road to Baghdad

IMF warns Ukraine it will halt $40bn bailout unless corruption stops

French plan advances to strip passports from those convicted of terrorism

India busts child trafficking racket to US

China confirms first imported Zika case: Xinhua

Stocks close slightly lower as oil plunges below $28 a barrel

No evidence that EU's illegal timber policy is working - Leaked review shows that EU law is failing to prevent $100bn a year trade in illegal timber - or that rules are even being implemented

Teenager finds gold bars in German lake, revives mystery of Nazi gold

Pregnant woman diagnosed with Zika in Australia

Music publisher agrees to pay $14m to end Happy Birthday song lawsuit

Documents indicate chemical leaks at U.S. base that were unreported to Japanese authorities have polluted Okinawa water supply

Several large nations consider levies on sweetened food and drinks to battle obesity and fatten government coffers.

North Korean satellite 'stable' in orbit after launch, US official confirms

Top Intel Official Confirms ISIS Made, Used Chemical Weapons

Israeli Parliament Suspends Arab MPs Who Met Attackers' Kin

Stock market rout intensifies amid fears central banks are 'out of ammunition'

2016-02-10

British ISIS fighter who called himself 'Superman' but returned to the UK because Syria was too cold is jailed for seven years

Animals reduced to cannibalism in Egyptian zoo after neglect

Grow a thicker skin, Germany tells Poland: The German government reminded Poland on Wednesday that it doesn't control political speech within its borders, after Warsaw complained about a Dsseldorf carnival float which mocked the leader of its governing party

At least 50 killed in a prison riot in Monterrey, Mexico

North Korea accuses South Korea of 'dangerous declaration of war' over Kaesong industrial complex dispute

Catholic bishops not obliged to report clerical child abuse, Vatican says

'British child' blows up Isis prisoners in new execution video

Saudi Arabia may deploy troops in Syria to counter Russia

Female suicide bombers kill over 60 people in northeast Nigeria: officials

Australia set to legalize cultivation of medical cannabis.

In rare admission, Pakistan recognises growing presence of Islamic State

A mammal's brain has been cryonically frozen and recovered for the first time - What the 21st Century Medicine team are trying to perfect is 'synthetic revival'

Asylum seekers given priority for hospital visits: An admission by Austrian health officials that asylum seekers have been given priority for hospital visits has been greeted by angry reaction.

Indian Soldier who was rescued after being buried under the snow passes away

Report on Syria conflict finds 11.5% of population killed or injured

UAE names female cabinet member as minister of happiness to make the Gulf State happiest in the world

Oil prices crash below $27 a barrel, 13-year low

Facebook board member Marc Andreessen offends India with colonialism tweets

Master forger arrested in Thailand over fake passports for migrants to Europe.

Scandinavias first women-only mosque with women imams is opening in Copenhagen, Denmark

Turkey's Leader Blames U.S. for 'Sea of Blood' in Region

N. Korea starts to feel neighbors' wrath over rocket launch

Pope Francis despatches 1,000 'super-confessor' priests

North Korea Expels South Koreans From Joint Park, Cuts 2 Hotline Ties

UK Junior doctors' contract set to be imposed

2016-02-11

Gravitational waves from black holes detected

Teen girl sent by Boko Haram rips off suicide vest, refuses to bomb refugee camp

South Korea cuts off power, water into Kaesong zone in North Korea

Families of Americans killed by Mexican cartels sue HSBC for laundering billions

Netanyahu's wife abused household staff, Israeli court finds

The European Union has given Greece three months to fix its border controls or face suspension from the border-free Schengen zone for up to two years.

Agreement reached at international talks on nationwide Syria ceasefire, US's John Kerry says.

Afghan Taliban flogs woman in public for going out with her brother-in-law to visit doctor

China now the world leader in wind power production: According to statistics released by the Global Wind Energy Council, China installed 30,500 megawatts of new wind power last year, compared to the world total of 63,000 MW

One of oldest cemeteries in Europe discovered, with graves dating back some 8,500 yrs. - Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered the bodies of children & 1 adult man who was buried, strangely, standing upright. Its rare for the Mesolithic to find multiple graves in 1 place.

Indonesia bans gay emoji and stickers from messaging apps

China Could Have a Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor Next Year

School shooting in Saudi Arabia: teacher kills 6 colleagues

Argentine and Brazilian doctors suspect mosquito insecticide as cause of microcephaly

Scientists Discover Hidden Galaxies Behind The Milky Way: "Despite being just 250 million light years from Earth--very close in astronomical terms--the new galaxies had been hidden from view until now by our own galaxy, the Milky Way."

UN official says Hamas has prevented a senior UN employee from leaving the Gaza Strip

Britain accuses China of serious breach of treaty over 'removed' Hong Kong booksellers

Bernie Sanders' British brother Larry Sanders appointed UK Green Party's health spokesperson

Britains biggest Roman structure uncovered 120-metre-long arcade provided a frontage to the Temple of Claudius. Archaeologists have known about it for 60 yrs, but demolition of office block shows it to be largest in Roman Britain. Closest rival in size is in France.

U.S. and Russia Announce Plan for Humanitarian Aid and a Cease-Fire in Syria

New report estimates 470,000 dead so far in Syria's Civil War and that more than 1 in 10 Syrians have been injured or killed

GSK fined after paying millions to inflate the price of anti-depressant Seroxat

A five-storey building has collapsed in central Istanbul, with fears that people may be trapped inside, Turkish media report.

Bahrain's king hands 'sword of victory' to Putin after Syria talks. He said "This [sword] was made under the kingdoms orders. Made from Damascus steel. We called it the sword of victory. For imminent victory, God willing.

Report: Iranian Official Says GOPers Tried To Stall Prisoner Swap For 2016 Election

2016-02-12

150,000 penguins killed after giant iceberg renders colony landlocked

U.S. to restore commercial air travel to Cuba

India 'disappointed' as US decides to sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan-I News - IBNLive Mobile

Medieval trading ship raised to surface 'almost intact' after 500 yrs on riverbed in Netherlands - The ship even has an oven and glazed tiles still preserved onboard

Four billion people face severe water scarcity, new research finds. Water shortages affecting two-thirds of worlds population for a month every year and the crisis is far worse than previously thought.

Pope meets Russian Orthodox head after 962-year split: Church reconciliation and the welfare of Christians in Middle East and Africa in the agenda of historic talks held in Cuba.

More than 5,000 pregnant women in Colombia have Zika virus, 31,555 total infections, country's national health institute says

Turkey spent 20 times more than international aid agencies on refugees

Saudi Arabia moves troops to Turkey as 'base for Syria invasion'

GCHQ hacking phones and computers is legal, including remotely activating microphones and cameras.

France says Facebook must face French law in nudity censorship case

British teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches

Exclusive: U.S. Allies Now Fighting CIA-Backed Rebels

Short story collection smuggled out of North Korea sparks global interest

Mysterious armed groups are on the prowl, targeting migrants in night attacks in Calais and elsewhere in northern France, sowing fear among the displaced travelers living in squalid slums and deepening concerns the city is becoming a tinderbox of anti-migrant, anti-Muslim rage

U.S., UK likely to charge multiple banks in Libor rigging: WSJ

Turkey says ready to join ground operation with Saudi Arabia against ISIL in Syria

Syria's President Assad vows to retake "the whole country"

Computer and smartphone hacking by spying agency GCHQ is legal, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal has said.Equipment allowed to be hacked includes -- but is not limited too -- computers, servers, routers, laptops, mobile phones and more.

US military deploys more Patriot missiles in South Korea

India just ruled that its ok to cut internet access when necessary

Israel, India to sign weapons deal

Syria's Assad: Europe Must Help Refugees Return.Syria's president says the West is responsible for the massive movement of refugees.

Newly invented Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation procedure wins Brain Preservation Prize: "Using a combination of ultrafast chemical fixation and cryogenic storage, it is the first demonstration that near-perfect, long-term structural preservation of an intact mammalian brain is achievable."

Saudi Foreign Minister says removal of Assad is crucial to defeat ISIS.

2016-02-16

Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person.

According to NASA data this January was the warmest January on record by a large margin while also claiming the title of most anomalously warm month in 135 years of record keeping

US stealth jets flying over S. Korea amid N. Korea standoff

A piece of Mozart music considered lost for more than 200 years has been performed for the first time since being rediscovered. It was co-written by him and Antonio Salieri, usually considered a rival, as well as an unknown composer, Cornetti.

Iranian Heavy Metal Band 'Confess' Reportedly Arrested for Blasphemy, Could Face Execution

Paedophile who led child sex grooming ring using human rights laws to try to block deportation

800 Bataclan survivors get to "finish the concert" last night in Paris with Eagles of Death Metal

Eagles of Death Metal perform again in Paris to honour victims - starts concert by performing "Paris s'veille"

In a first, new Egyptian schoolbook teaches peace deal with Israel

Nine out of 10 Britons on modest incomes under the age of 35 will be frozen out of home ownership within a decade, according to a study from a leading thinktank that lays bare the impact of surging property prices on the young.

UK government to force all online porn users to identify themselves

Child abuse survivors raise $90,000 to see Australia's most senior Catholic official, George Pell, give evidence in Rome after he avoids flying to Australia and testifying in person to a child sexual abuse Royal Commission.

Young Saudis See Cushy Jobs Vanish Along With Nations Oil Wealth: For younger Saudis 70 percent of them are under age 30 the oil shock has meant a lowering of expectations as they face the likelihood that they will have to work harder than their parents, enjoy less job security

As India prepares to import corn for the first time in 16 years, it plans to import only GMO-free corn

TTIP could block Governments from cracking down on tax avoidance, study warns. Similar trade agreements have been used to facilitate apparent tax avoidance in the past

Germany will normalize ties with Iran after it recognizes Israel Merkel

China sends missiles to contested South China Sea island

Turkey's Erdogan: no intent to stop retaliatory shelling of Syrian Kurdish YPG

French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation in a probe into his campaign funding, prosecutors say.

Iran invites Indian investment in projects worth $8 billion, offers stake in Imam Khomeini airport

Iranian banks reconnected to global payments network

Saudi Arabia Launches unprecedented Military Exercise 'Thunder of the North'. Tensions rise in the area.

Hong Kongs popular, lucrative horror movie about Beijing has disappeared from theaters

Russian vodka exports slump 40% because of sanctions

The overconsumption of meat will inevitably push global temperatures to dangerous levels, a recent study has warned."Global consumption of meat is forecast to increase 76% on recent levels by mid-century. A protein transition is playing out across the developing world

2016-02-17

Colombian prison drain pipes yield over 100 dismembered corpses

Scientists warn of coming global disaster because of water inequality.We are revealing a global disaster in the making, yet we are seeing very little coordinated response.

Blast hits Ankara military building

ISIS beheads 15-year-old Iraqi boy for listening to pop music

N. Korea prepares for terror attacks on S. Korea: intelligence unit

Huge explosion hits Turkish Centre, Stockholm, Sweden

Fast-growing tumbleweed called hairy panic blows into Australian city - Dry grass piles up around homes in Wangaratta, north-east Victoria at times reportedly reaching roof height

New LSE report recommends 'War on Drugs' is replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals.The question now is not, whether to end the war on drugs, but what to replace its failed policies with,

Obama to travel to Cuba President Barack Obama is planning to travel to Cuba within the next month, becoming the first U.S. president to do so since Calvin Coolidge.

Vatican says abortion is 'illegitimate response' to Zika virus

Italy names Turkish president's son in money laundering investigation allegedly connected to political corruption | Europe | News

Syrian rebels say reinforcements get free passage via Turkey

Panasonic to recognize same-sex partnerships in rare step for conservative Japan

Former Dutch PM Balkenende smuggled beer into Arab palace

Our 1st sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 yrs ago - It was a 2-way street. Many carry Neanderthal DNA due to cross-species liaisons. Now it seems some Neanderthals carried our DNA too. 1 chunk of modern DNA found in Neanderthals was inside a gene linked to language development.

Six soldiers killed in southeast Turkey bomb attack

Swine flu: Three hospital wards closed in Leicester, UK after 14 cancer patients diagnosed with virus

Pentagon: North Korean special forces 'highly trained, well-equipped'

Lockheed Martin ready to manufacture F-16 jets in India, Lockheed supplied six C130J Super Hercules planes to India in 2011 and will be delivering another six helicopters in 2017

Ankara blast: Turkey PM says Syria Kurds to blame

Venezuela president raises fuel price by 6,000% and devalues bolivar to tackle crisis

El Nio has passed peak strength but impacts will continue, UN warns

Explosion hits another Turkish military convoy one day after Ankara attack

Pakistans parliament becomes first in world to run entirely on solar power | The seat of the government in the countrys capital, Islamabad, is now wholly powered by the sun

Cash for Life: Guaranteed Annual Income Gaining Steam in Canada

2016-02-18

Obama Going to Cuba; First Visit by U.S. President in 88 Years

David Cameron blocks compulsory sex education in classrooms across the UK

Uganda shuts down social media; candidates arrested on election day

Japanese TV anchors lose their jobs for lack of "fairness" reporting

Cairo court sentences 4-year-old boy to life in jail for murder, disturbance of the peace and damaging state property. Crimes that the boy alledgedly commited two years ago - Middle East

Finland starts non-stop flights from Helsinki to Baghdad for refugees who want to go back

Jerusalems Zion Square to be renamed for teen fatally stabbed at gay pride parade

Ocean levels in the Philippines rising at 5 times the global average - Globally, sea levels are going up, but there are big regional differences.

Pope: Bishops Who Reassign Suspect Pedophiles Should Resign

The Canadian government on Thursday delayed for a second time a ruling on whether waste from nuclear power plants can be permanently stored underground less than a mile from Lake Huron, a proposal that has drawn fierce opposition on both sides of the border

Jewish group attacks York University over anti-Semitic move to divest from weapons manufacturers

Australian Court rules Shenhua (a Chinese coal mining company) may destroy koala habitat for huge coalmine

150 allegedly 'burned alive by Turkish military' during crackdown on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

Venezuela raises gas prices 6,200%, still has the lowest gas prices in the world

Virgin Galactic is set to reveal its new space plane Friday

Seouls spy service says North Korea preparing attacks on South

On the Run from the Islamic State, Assyrians Are Trying to Save Their Heritage

U.S. Spurns Turkey Demand to Cut Kurdish Ties After Bombing

Isis sending children to die at unprecedented rate, report warns: Analysis of 89 deaths of minors finds 39% drove vehicles laden with explosives, while a third died as foot soldiers

The Hubble Space Telescope has given scientists their sharpest-ever look at a known galaxy containing an enormous black hole.

U.S. stationing tanks and artillery in classified Norwegian caves

First known sexual transmission of Zika virus in U.S. was eight years ago

Colombias top cop resigns amid male prostitution scandal. The Inspector General has vowed to investigate allegations that senior police officers were also pimping young cops to members of Colombias congress.

Kurds Warn Turkey of Big War With Russia If Troops Enter Syria

UN: Hamas tunnel threats not helpful for Gaza reconstruction

2016-02-19

Britain will vote on whether to remain in the EU on the 23rd of June

Venezuelans face a 6000% hike in gasoline price from $0.01 to $0.60

ISIS Terrorist Cell Dismantled in Morocco 'Planned to Use Biological Weapons'

Warming waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have increased the prevalence of diseases that are turning sea stars to mush and killing lobsters by burrowing under their shells and causing lesions, two new studies say.

Kurdish militant group claims responsibility for suicide bombing in Ankara that killed 28

First case of Zika virus confirmed in Canada

Russia warns Assad on vow to retake all of Syria

The German government has asked its intelligence agencies to investigate whether Russia is conducting a propaganda campaign in Germany

Germany migrant bus surrounded by protesters

500,000 Sign Petition Calling For National Animal Cruelty Register After Worst Ever Attack On Dog

Google moved over 28bn through Irish in tax scheme

A South African university had to shut down its campuses Friday after violent protests over the use of Afrikaans as an official teaching language a demonstration that echoed students' demands during apartheid decades ago

Saudi minister says Syrian rebels should get surface-to-air missiles

Scientists are floored by whats happening in the Arctic where temperatures are 4 C above average

Calais 'Jungle' migrants ordered to vacate by Tuesday or face being forcibly removed

Scientists studying mysterious boiling river straight out of Amazonian legend

Hollande's Attack On 35-Hour Workweek Angers French Socialists

Islamic State faces new trouble in Fallujah as Sunni tribesmen revolt--"Sunni tribesmen have attacked Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the Iraqi military and local officials said Friday, overrunning and burning one of their headquarters as resentment against the group grows."

Arabic Version of Saturday Night Live Hits the Middle East

Abbas's Fatah declares would-be attacker a 'heroic martyr'

3,000-Year-Old Wheel Dug up from Mud in the UK

South Africa Confirms First Zika Virus Case

Stanford scientists have found that chronically low levels of oxygen throughout the oceans hampered the recovery of life after the Permian-Triassic extinction, the most catastrophic die-off in our planets history. Global ecosystems collapsed as 90 percent of species perished 250 million years ago.

Lithuania President Says EU Deal Reached With United Kingdom

Iran will not tolerate Kurdish independence, ISIS and Israel benefit only

2016-02-22

WikiLeaks publishes docs showing that the NSA bugged meetings between Ban Ki-Moon and Merkel, Netanyahu, Berlusconi, between key EU and Japanese ministers discussing their secret trade red-lines at WTO negotiations, as well as details of a private meeting between Sarkozy, Merkel and Berlusconi

Montreal to ban plastic bags as of 2018

Zimbabwe park warns it may shoot 200 surplus lions now that big game hunters are staying home

Anti-vaccination campaigners blamed for measles outbreak in Melbourne suburb of Brunswick in Australia

Peacocks in China zoo die from shock after tourists pluck out their feathers

We can say with 95 percent probability that the rate of global sea level rise in the 20th-century was faster than any of the previous 27 centuries, and it's continuing to accelerate.

Israeli who burned Palestinian teenager alive ruled sane by psychiatrist

Egyptian four-year-old's life sentence a mistake, military says: "Spokesman Col Mohammed Samir said the court should have sentenced a 16-year-old with a similar name instead."

Brazil to fight Zika by sterilizing mosquitoes with gamma rays

On February 6th Nasa reported a huge explosion of seven meter space rock over the Atlantic ocean. It released energy equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT, which is the same as the energy used in the first atomic weapon that leveled Hiroshima in 1945.

Russia requesting to fly reconnaissance aircraft over the US using Open Skies Treaty

Colombia's Search for the Disappeared Unearths 28,000 Bodies.The search is part of a government initiative to locate disappeared persons after tens of thousands have gone missing, or been forcibly disappeared, in the over 50-year internal conflict in the country

DOD Opens Afghan Child Sex Abuse Probe

More than 800 Islamists leave Germany to join IS in Syria and Iraq

Syria ceasefire 'to start 27 February'

Kurdish special forces rescue teenage Swedish girl from Islamic State

People-smuggling gangs netted up to 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) last year, most of it from the traffic of migrants into Europe.

The DOD Has Finally Launched an Investigation of Pedophilia by Afghan Soldiers -"The Department of Defense inspector general's office is launching an investigation into the way that US military officials handled repeated allegations that Afghan security forces and police were sexually abusing boys."

Denmark opens first food waste supermarket selling surplus produce

Peru pipeline leaks in Amazon; Two rivers polluted, agency says

Muslim militants attack Filipino troops, more than 20 dead

Mexico's missing students: international investigators say they are being obstructed. Experts claim the government is limiting their access to new information, including videos, about the 43 teaching students who disappeared in 2014

India has overtaken China's air pollution levels in 2015 : Greenpeace

ISIS release the last 40 hostages of 230 Assyrian Christians kidnapped in Syria

Portugal wants more refugees to help revive dwindling population

2016-02-23

Fuel has gotten so cheap that ships are now choosing to take the long way around Africa rather then pay the fees to transit the Suez Canal.

Female student injures eight people in Canada school stabbing

Medical Marijuana Now Legal in Australia

It's official: Native Americans and Siberians are cousins

Puerto Rico Freezes Condom Prices To Prevent Zika Profiteering

Google, Red Hat discover critical DNS security flaw that enables malware to infect entire internet

Hungary will call referendum on EU's refugee quotas. Prime minister says planned quotas are an abuse of power and that Brussels has no right to redraw Europes cultural and religious identity.

Refugee arrivals in Greece exceed 100,000 in less than two months

ISIS captures Libyan port city used by refugees heading to Europe

Russia gives a gift of 10,000 automatic rifles to Afghanistan

India agrees to give landlocked Nepal secure transit to Bangladesh by road and rail

Ramon Castro, Cuban President's Older Brother, Dies

Explosion & Collapse at British Power Station

Former footbal star Hakan Sukur faces up to 4 years in jail for insulting Erdoan

Netanyahu asks for 'Israeli apartheid' tube posters to be removed from London underground

Germany blasts countries that won't take back migrants

UK downgrading of human rights sets dangerous precedent, says Amnesty

A controversial new study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics says nicking the genitals of young girls is an acceptable compromise for the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the West

Tunisian museum security guards failed to search two heavily armed gunmen before they shot dead 22 people including a British woman in a terrorist attack, an inquest heard.

South Africa will relax some of its tough rules on genetically modified crops so it can ramp up maize imports from the United States and Mexico to avert a potential food crisis amid a severe drought.

NASA is devising plans for a human outpost near the Moon

South East Asian plane goes missing in mountains with 69 on board

Syria conflict: Warring parties accept US-Russia truce plan

Kurds rescue Swedish teen from ISIS-held territory in northern Iraq

Latest Wikileaks documents: Irish citizen working for the UN Refugee Agency was targeted by the NSA

2016-02-24

Beijing now has more billionaires than New York

Brazil is building $250m-worth undersea cable linking directly Europe to avoid US espionage Tech giants like Google, Facebook likely to support

MH17 report identifies Russian soldiers suspected of downing plane in Ukraine

Pope suggests contraceptives could be used to slow spread of Zika

PSA Peugeot-Citroen, ninth largest car manufacturer in the world made a net profit of $989 million in 2015. It gave its employees a 2,000.00 pays bonus but no dividends to its shareholders.

A gay Iranian poet is seeking asylum in Israel. Homosexuality is illegal in the Islamic Republic and those found guilty of the crime face tough punishments, including death.

Canadian Federal Court allows medical marijuana users to grow their own cannabis

BBC TV host Jimmy Savile sexually abused 72 victims many under 16 years old at hospitals, stations premises for decades

China Stocks Plunge 6.4%. Down 47% last 8 months.

Polish scientists protest over plan to log in the ancient Biaowiea Forest - Researchers suspect motives for a planned increase in felling are commercial, but forest administration cites pest control. Govt claims there's no commercial benefit to leveling it.

Jihadis selling U.S. weapons intended for Syrian rebels on Facebook

Indian armed forces to open all combat roles to women

Italy asks US to explain NSA spying report

Hungarys Orban slams Germany for rude tone over refugees: "The quotas will change the profile of Europe from an ethnic, cultural and religious point of view," he said, warning that an uncontrolled migrant influx brought the risk of "terrorism, criminality, anti-Semitism and homophobia."

Indian Police Silence Survivors Of Mass Rape - Women were dragged out of their vehicles and allegedly raped in fields near National Highway

Serious failings at the BBC allowed Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall to sexually abuse nearly 100 people without detection for decades, according to two damning reports published on Thursday, which insisted that the corporation still had lessons to learn from the affair.

Russia, With Turkey In Mind, Announces Deal To Provide Armenia with $200 Million Credit to Buy Equipment: Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems, Anti-Tank Missiles, Handheld Antiaircraft Missiles and Tank Upgrades.

ISIS Is Losing Its Capital

France seeks 1.6 billion euros in back taxes from Google

US Passes Bill Banning Goods Produced by Child "Slave Labor" in Southeast Asia and Central Africa.

Russia seeks joint manned flight to Mars with India

China Warns U.S. After Trump Wins Nevada Caucus

Greece 'won't be Lebanon of Europe', says migration minister

Reports of hostage taking in London restaurant

Germany deports Afghan refugees in effort to deter new arrivals

2016-02-25

770,000 names deleted from voter register in change to registration rules as critics claim Tories are rigging the system

Ontario makes college tuition free for low income families making 50k or less a year. Increases grants for those making 83k or less a year.

Arctic warming: Rapidly increasing temperatures are 'possibly catastrophic' for planet, climate scientist warns | Dr Peter Gleick said there is a growing body of 'pretty scary' evidence that higher temperatures are driving the creation of dangerous storms in parts of the northern hemisphere

ISIS suddenly trapped as Syrian Army pushes to recapture Aleppo supply route

An 11,000-year-old pendant has been found, the earliest known piece of Mesolithic art in Britain, and it may have been worn by a shaman

Greenland: 'Ice sheet is now losing about 8,000 tons every second, year-round, day in and day out'

Coptic Christian teenagers sentenced to 5 years in egyptian prison for video mocking muslim prayer

UBS charged with tax fraud and money laundering in Belgium

The US Said India's Solar Power Plan Discriminates Against American Companies And the WTO Agrees

North Korea's state media has called for an attack on South Korea and the United States, as the allies gear up for their biggest ever joint military drills.

Report: thousands of refugees 'disappear' after registering in Germany

Islamists match Odins soldiers with Soldiers of Allah

Australia's biggest banks pump billions into fossil fuels despite climate pledges

Europe's free travel will end unless Turkey halts migrant flow, officials say

Obama Bans Imports of Slave-Produced Goods

David Cameron boasts of 'brilliant' UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia on the day the European parliament voted for an arms embargo

Jimmy Savile dressed as a Womble to rape 10-year-old boy

Saudi Arabia is reeling from falling oil prices. And it could get much worse.

Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims, supporters of the influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, have taken to the streets of Baghdad to protest corruption in the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

Social media helps fuel China's illegal craze for 'thumb monkeys' - Year of the monkey has sparked a trend for pygmy marmosets, the worlds smallest monkey, as pets. But conservationists warn the animals rarely survive in captivity.

Royal Malaysian Air Force plane crash-lands in shallow waters, only fatality was a fisherman who drowned while trying to help

Hitlers Mein Kampf is now a best-seller in Germany

The French government's plan to clear part of the Calais migrant camp known as the "Jungle" has been approved by a court in Lille.

A teenage recruit ordered to have sex with fellow soldier the night before she was discovered shot dead in Britains controversial Deepcut barracks

A Belgian judge charged Swiss bank UBS on Friday with money laundering and "serious and organized tax evasion," saying it directly sought clients in the country to help them skip taxes

2016-02-26

Saudi man gets 10 years, 2,000 lashes over atheist tweets

Ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler

Germany deems passports issued from IS territory invalid

Trade Officials Promised Exxon That TTIP Will Erase Environmental 'Obstacles' Worldwide. EU trade officials soothed the oil giant as it fretted about new regulations popping up in Global South

Japan Census: Population Fell Nearly 1 Million in 2010-15

Hussain brothers jailed for sexual exploitation of 15 teenage girls in Rotherham

Danish environmental catastrophe kept quiet | A massive fire in Fredericia Harbour earlier this month released thousands of tonnes of liquid fertiliser into the Little Belt strait but authorities didnt acknowledge it for three weeks, Metroxpress reported on Friday.

One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials is being compelled to testify this weekend in a public hearing about clerical sex abuse in an unusual demonstration of holding even the most senior Catholic bishops accountable for the scandal

Turkey turns off independent TV channel on 'terrorist' charge

Paul Sheehan apologises for failing to check story of gang-rape by Arabic-speaking men

Mining Director Busted for Elephant Poisonings - Getting to the bottom of gruesome elephant killings in Zimbabwe.

Afghan woman kills Taliban commander over privacy breach

Tony Blackburn fired after being critized for allowing stars like Jimmy Savile to abuse women and children for nearly 50 years.

Doctors Without Borders blasts $1700 price tag of Otsuka TB drug

S Korean terror bill filibuster in 5th day

Gianni Infantino elected Fifa president

EU shelves plans to ban kettles from homes amid fears of the U.K. leaving the EU

Monarch butterflies have made a big comeback in their wintering grounds in Mexico, after suffering serious declines. The area covered by the orange-and-black insects in the mountains west of Mexico City this season was more than three and a half times greater than last winter.

Dead pig found at German mosque building site: The animals corpse had the words Mutti [Mom] Merkel written on it in red letters

A diverse team of scientists have traced the origins of mysterious pockets of high ozone concentrations and low water vapor in the air above the western Pacific Ocean near Guam to fires burning in Southeast Asia and in Africa.

Rape sentences in landmark Guatemala trial

European Parliament calls for Saudi arms embargo

Canadian Court Says Some Can Grow Marijuana at Home, With a Prescription

US to go ahead with F-16 sale to Pakistan, state department says

Swiss hold divisive referendum on deporting petty criminals

2016-02-29

China just announced one of the largest single layoffs in history. 1.8 Million people will lose their job.

More than $1bn deposited in Malaysian prime minister's account report | World news

Children sacrificed to bring luck in Uganda elections

Isis kills eight Dutch members for desertion | World news

ISIS hackers target the wrong Google: Caliphate Cyber Army hack small Indian firm 'Add Google Online' in apparent case of mistaken identity

Leaked plans reveals German intent to close borders on refugees unless EU leaders agree on a strategy

E-cigarettes are estimated to have helped 16,000-22,000 smokers in England to quit in 2014

Argentine prosecutor: Alberto Nisman, who died after accusing then-President Fernndez de Kirchner of covering up Irans role in the bombing of a Buenos Aires community center, was murdered

Sweden accuses Daily Mail of running anti-refugee propaganda campaign

India to pump almost $13bn into rural development

Bolkovac: 'UN tries to cover up peacekeeper sex abuse scandal': The UN have promised to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers in the CAR. Human rights investigator and whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac tried to investigate similar cases in Bosnia - and lost her job.

Mysterious bright flash and bang seen above Scotland

Final warning to Facebook by Frances data watchdog

Germany to lure more skilled foreign workers: Germany began testing a points-based immigration system on Friday in a bid to attract more skilled foreigners and end a chronic shortage of workers plaguing Europe's biggest economy despite a record influx of asylum seekers.

Dutch find 10 Syrian war crime suspects among migrants

Migrants break down Macedonia fence on Greek border

France: Rioting Breaks Out as Country Begins Clearing Refugee Camp in Calais, Officials Say

China deletes Weibo account of critic of President Xi Jinping

The Iraqi government and the US embassy in Baghdad have both issued urgent warnings about the possibility of the Mosul dam collapsing and sending a 20-metre-high flash flood coursing down the river Tigris, putting more than a million people at risk.

Cologne Airport evacuated after major security alert

Right-to-die report will call for prior consent in dementia cases.The Supreme Court ruled last year that the century-old law banning physician-assisted death was unconstitutional and that Canadians with unbearable and irremediable suffering could be eligible to end their life with a doctors aid.

Russian TV Silent Over Child Killed by Nanny in Moscow: The channels themselves decided to not show crazy people, Peskov was quoted by RBC as saying. But we support them."

Calais refugee camp evicted by police with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon

Chilean Attacked in Poland After Being Mistaken for Arab

Financial cost of major weather events rising for Canadian taxpayers.The costs related to cleaning up devastating floods, the carnage from hurricanes and the damage left in the wake of intense winter storms has exploded to nearly $900 million annually

2016-03-01

"A young British woman has become one of the first cancer patients to be injected with a new vaccine designed to stimulate the immune system so that it destroys tumours wherever they have spread in the body."

Magnitude 8.2 Quake Measured 763 Miles Southwest of Malaysian Capital

Mormon leader: 'There are no homosexual members of the church.'

Pentagon to sell $683 million in weaponry to Turkey in deal signed today

Russian Faces Up to Year in Prison for Denying Existence of God

Nato commander: Isis spreading like cancer among refugees

Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1m people

Study: British need to retire at 81 to get parents standard. The report says without significantly higher levels of engagement in pensions, we may be witnessing the death of retirement.

ISIS now deploying women in combat roles

South Korean opposition lawmakers have ended a parliamentary filibuster that lasted 192 hours, which is believed to have set a new world record. They were trying to block an anti-terrorism bill which they said threatened personal freedoms.

Hamas Commander, accused of theft and gay sex, is killed by his own

Anti-immigrant 'Soldiers of Odin' expand from Finland to Nordics, Baltics

Turkey: 1,845 cases opened for insulting Erdogan

Hamburg Is the 1st City to Ban Single-Use Coffee Pods - You wont find them in its govt buildings

China takes Philippine atoll: The Chinese have taken over another traditional Filipino fishing ground near Palawan where they have stationed up to five ships to keep local fishermen at bay, sources said.

UK spying laws: Government introduces law requiring WhatsApp and iMessage to be broken

Modern slavery widespread among East Asia migrant domestic workers - researchers

Gay Iranian poet seeking Israel asylum gets visa extension

Osama bin Laden's hand-written will reveals he left $40 million fortune to jihad instead of family

ISIS Burned Alive Their Own Fighters Who Didn't Fight To The Death After Lossing Ramadi Battle

19-mile razor wire fence built on Macedonia's border to stop a human tide of migrants as Greece is told it faces being 'sacrificed' to save the EU

Russian prosecutors say that a nanny accused of killing and then decapitating a 4-year old girl in Moscow was not acting on her own. Prosecutors told the court that they believe that individuals who incited her to carry out the slaying are still at large.

Rotherham child abuser's son guilty of witness intimidation

Russia and Syria are "weaponising" migration as an aggressive strategy towards Europe, the senior Nato commander in Europe has said

February Shatters Global Temperature Records

2016-03-02

North Korea launches short-range missiles into Sea of Japan hours after UN Sanctions

A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam on Thursday declared a new law that criminalizes violence against women to be "un-Islamic."

Two of the worlds biggest coffee companies, Nestl and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, admit that beans from Brazilian plantations using slave labour may have ended up in their coffee

Argentine Nobel Prize winner to Obama: Don't visit March 24, because it's the 40th anniversary of a coup that installed a military government that had U.S. backing

NASA: Drought in Middle East is the worst in 900 years

A TV ad aired by the Church of Scientology in the UK has been banned for misleading viewers with a claim the church gives aid to tens of millions of people.

Blackout hits Syria, leaving entire country without electricity

In Sydney, Australia, the penalties for cyclists who don't wear helmets or run red lights have gone up by 600%.

African elephants 'killed faster than they are being born': The new data, released on UN world wildlife day on Thursday, shows about 60% of elephant deaths are at the hands of poachers, meaning the overall population is most likely to be falling.

A senior Pakistani official has admitted publicly for the first time that the Afghan Taliban's leadership is living in Pakistan.

Internet "trolls" could face criminal charges for creating fake profiles, according to guidance being considered for prosecutors in England and Wales.

Berta Cceres, Honduran indigenous leader and Goldman Prize winner, assassinated in her home

Russia and Syria 'weaponising' refugee crisis to destabilise Europe, Nato commander claims

Problematic fossil turns out to be oldest known example of life on land - This 440 million-yr-old fungus helped life take root outside the oceans.

China set to surpass its climate targets as renewables soar

Digging into Dieselgate: EU parliament looks into emissions cheating -- It's not just Volkswagen: it's all car manufacturers that are cheating on emissions, if activists are to be believed. European parliamentarians now want to get to the bottom of what's been coined 'Dieselgate'

Islamic State (ISIS) is exploiting national banking operations in Iraq and could be making up to $25 million a month in Middle Eastern money markets

US Delivers 8 Black Hawks to Jordan for Its Anti-IS Battle

Egypt parliament expels MP for dining with Israeli ambassador

Nanny Who Says Beheaded Russian Child to Avenge Syria Strikes 'Mentally Unsound'

Adblocking is a 'modern-day protection racket', says culture secretary

Gang burns seven people to death over witchcraft claims in Malawi

Brazil reports 5,909 Microcephaly cases since October 2015 Zika virus outbreak

Only Russia wants Britain to leave the EU, says Philip Hammond

Debris in Mozambique Is Thought to Come From Malaysia Airlines Plane

2016-03-03

Kim Jong-un orders nuclear weapons to be made ready for use

Mexican Officials Pass Proposal To Ban Donald Trump From Their Country

Tens of thousands of Nigerian fishermen and farmers were given the green light to sue energy giant Shell in a British court on Wednesday for a series of destructive oil spills in the Niger delta over the past decade.

BP chief receives 20% pay package hike despite record loss and 7,000 axed jobs. At time of crisis for oil company Bob Dudley earned 14m last year, an amount the High Pay Centre describes as out of contact with reality.

UK, Facebook forced to pay millions more in tax after widespread controversy of only paying 4,327 in taxes last year.

Refugee crisis puts truckers lives at risk, says road transport lobby

World food prices fall 14.5%, even as Canadian food prices climb - Business

Monsanto has threatened to pull out of India if the government imposed a big cut in royalties that local firms pay for its genetically modified cotton seeds

Average temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere have breached the 2 degrees Celsius above normal mark for the first time in recorded history

Scientists 'find cancer's Achilles heel'

Pakistani police rescued a nine-year-old girl from being married off to a 14-year-old boy to settle a family dispute on Friday and arrested four village elders who had ordered the "compensation wedding".

French bill carries 5-year jail sentence for company refusals to decrypt data for police

The U.S. just sent a carrier strike group to confront China

Spain seizes 20,000 ISIS military uniforms

Russia's military intelligence chief killed in secret operation in Lebanon

Japanese women are being exploited and abused in Japans multi-billion dollar pornographic film industry, rights advocates said on Thursday, calling on authorities to strengthen laws to protect them

Brazil Petrobras scandal: Police raid former president Lula's home

NASA's Scott Kelly grew 2 inches while in space.

Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, in favour of decriminalising the sex industry.

Honduran Indian leader Berta Caceres, who won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for her role in fighting a dam project, was murdered Thursday. Caceres, a Lenca Indian activist, had previously complained of receiving death threats from police, soldiers and local landowners because of her work

Spain Seizes 20,000 Military Uniforms Bound for ISIS

Gulf nations declare Hezbollah a terrorist group

'Huge drop' in civilian deaths after Syria truce: monitor

Kremlin: Russia concerned by North Korea's readiness to use nuclear arms

Singapore Owner Recounts How Singapore Classified a Tesla as a Gas-Guzzler Equivalent and taxes him accordingly.

2016-03-04

China bans depictions of gay people, adultery, one night stands, cleavage and reincarnation on television

Peanut allergy risk reduced by up to 80% by consuming peanuts as an infant, research suggests

Philippines seizes North Korean ship

Refugee children at Calais 'Jungle' camp are being raped, aid workers claim

Italian City Bans New Ethnic Restaurants - Verona, home of Romeo & Juliet, stopping new eateries from opening that mainly serve kebabs, gyros & fried food. Mayor has tried to justify ban by saying its the best way to preserve the citys culture & traditions.

South Koreans kick off efforts to clone extinct Siberian cave lions

'El Chapo' entered US twice while a fugitive: report

Gunmen Kill Honduran Indigenous Environmentalist Leader Berta Cceres

Pakistan Admits Taliban Leaders Are Living There

Europes harsh new message for migrants: Do not come

Dairy Farm Accused of Beating Cows Finally Faces Charges After Two Years

Report: North Korean diplomats smuggling luxury goods through Mongolia

Gunmen Kill 14 at Nursing Home in Yemen Started by Mother Teresa

Crows and parrots have sophisticated thinking skills on a par with those of apes such as chimpanzees, researchers claim.

Malawi police chief issues shoot-to-kill order against albino killers - Criminal gangs, nicknamed albino hunters, have embarked on a reign of terror across Malawi, often killing albinos in broad daylight without mercy or remorse

A Turkish court has put Zaman newspaper - a vocal critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - under state control

Tibet boy who set himself on fire to protest China's occupation dies

UK to spend $900 milllion more on nuclear sub program

Reports: Fessenheim nuclear accident played down by French authorities - Reactor had to be shut down by adding boron to the pressure vessel, an unprecedented procedure in Western Europe

Terrorist Anders Breivik 'inhumane treatment' claim rejected by Norway

Loonie above 75 cents US for first time since November

The four largest Chinese banks have stopped yuan and dollar cash transfers to North Korea: The reported measure is part of rising international pressure on Pyongyang following its latest nuclear test and rocket launch earlier this year

Syrian Army defeats ISIS at the Deir Ezzor Military Airport

SpaceX rocket successfully delivers a commercial satellite into orbit, but couldn't quite manage to stick the landing during an audacious attempt to touch down on a drone ship at sea

Attack on Indian Consulate in Afghanistan; originated from Pakistan: Former President Karzai

2016-03-07

An indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon took at least eight public officials hostage to demand help from the central government after an oil spill polluted its lands, authorities said Monday.

Cannabis legalisation in the UK 'would raise 1bn a year in taxes' - Study calls for UK to follow lead of some US states & allow the sale of cannabis to over-18s in licensed retail stores

Netanyahu declines offer to meet with Obama: White House

More than 150 killed in Deadly US drone strike in Somalia

International Women's Day: Russia topped ranking of countries with the highest percentage of women in senior business roles

Turkish authorities have seized control of another opposition news agency

Hong Kong Home Sales Tumble 70% as Slowdown Intensifies

Venezuela: 28 miners apparently kidnapped, murdered and disappeared by government-related forces

One of Chinas most respected current affairs magazines has lashed out at Communist party censorship of its work, just weeks after the president, Xi Jinping, demanded absolute loyalty from his countrys media.

The United States wants to regularly rotate long-range heavy bombers through Australia, as concerns grow over China's military expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.

Thousands of refugees see border effectively closed: EU leaders said Monday said they had reached the outlines of a possible deal with Ankara to return thousands of migrants to Turkey, and also said that irregular flows of migrants along the Western Balkans route have now come to an end.

U.S. builds two air bases in Kurdish-controlled north Syria: Kurdish report

'Exceptional' woman's 2,500-year-old seal unearthed in Jerusalem

China exports plunge 25% from a year ago

While the rest of the world's glaciers are shrinking, Pakistan's glaciers are growing. A phenomenon called ' The Karakoram Anomaly '

China hints at global military bases

The Egyptian government has barred journalists from reporting on events in the troubled Sinai peninsula.

Iraqi migrants return after Europe disappoints

Almost 16 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern and that number could climb to almost 50 million

China Feb exports slump 25.4 pct, worse fall since May 2009

White House 'surprised' Netanyahu spurning offer to meet Obama

Actors and a production company are under investigation after creating "It's just a prank" videos where actors pretended to be suicide bombers.

Tunisia bloodied: 53 dead in clashes near Libyan border

Malaysian deputy PM says Daesh attempted to kidnap prime minister

One in three Arab women fears violence within family

2016-03-08

Russia has warned North Korea that threats to deliver preventive nuclear strikes could create a legal basis for the use of military force against the country

Egypt drafts bill to ban burqa and Islamic veils in public places

Google's DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory

China to block North Korea ships from returning home

Australian scientists found a new spider that can swim and catch fish

Danish 16-year old girl charged with planning to bomb Jewish school

Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau to join forces on climate change | Environment

Saudi Arabia is seeking a bank loan of between $6 billion and $8 billion, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in what would be the first significant foreign borrowing by the kingdom's government for over a decade

Almost half of Israeli Jews want ethnic cleansing, 'wake-up call' survey finds - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called the findings a 'wake-up call for Israeli society'

3 Israelis hurt in separate terror attacks in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva

Under pressure, India agrees to stop issuing licences for making cheap drugs - Firstpost

Palestinian attacks surge during Biden visit to Israel

France votes to penalize companies for refusing to decrypt devices, messages

Kim Jong-un says North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warhead

North Korean Cargo Ship Turned Away From Rizhao, China Following New Sanctions

Islamic State's de facto 'minister of war' possibly killed: U.S. officials

1,000-year-old 'lost' medieval village found under highway

NGO wants right to toilet as a fundamental right

Murdered Honduran activist Berta Cceres buried as others vow to continue fight: A total of 991 land and environmental defenders were killed from 2002 to 2014

Press freedom in Turkey is 'under siege', says watchdog group

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that a raft of new laws regulating the court are unconstitutional. With its ruling Wednesday, the county's top legislative court weighed in on a legal crisis that has upended politics in the country

China is building a big data plaform for precrime; Using online profile and movements, government aims to catch "terrorists" in advance.

Court Orders One of Japan's Two Operating Nuclear Plants to Shut Down

The US' Top International Drug Official Has Said That Countries Have Every Right to Decriminalize Drugs

Hong Kong Bookseller Voiced Fears About China Agents Before He Disappeared

2016-03-09

Apple: 'FBI could force us to turn on iPhone cameras and microphones'

America has captured ISIS scientist in charge of chemical weapons

Google's DeepMind beats Lee Se-dol again to go 2-0 up in historic Go series

Isis files leak will throw group into 'crisis mode' as thousands of fighters' names and personal details revealed | Middle East | News

Chinas solar and wind energy capacity increased by 74% and 34%, respectively, in 2015, while coal consumption dropped by 3.7%

Irish economy grows at fastest pace since 2000 at 7.8%

A deadly algal bloom has hit the world's second biggest salmon exporter, Chile, where nearly 23 million fish have already died and the economic impact from lost production is seen soaring to $800 million.

One of ISIS's top commanders that the US likely just killed was a 'star pupil' of US-special forces training

Australian Prepaid mobile plans are increasingly expiring after 28 days, not 30 days, meaning customers pay for a 13th "month" in a year.

$81M stolen from Bangladesh central bank in online heist (additional $870M transfer blocked)

China signals interest in denuclearization talks without North Korea

Former paid agent of Swedish Security Police dictated Amnesty Swedens stance against Assange - celebrated Swedish activist turns out to be government spy

Migrant crisis: Macedonia shuts border

The Saskatchewan government bought one-way bus tickets to Vancouver B.C. for homeless men denied funding to stay at a homeless shelter

Nearly 500000 migrants reached Greece in quarter four - EU border agency

Iran Told to Pay $10.5 Billion to Sept. 11 Kin, Insurers

Paris withdraws threat to recognize Palestine if peace confab fails

US to employ bank fraud law in VW emissions probe: The US Justice Department has reportedly issued embattled German carmaker Volkswagen a subpoena under a financial fraud law, which observers regarded as an escalation in the VW emissions cheating probe

Climate change contributes to worst drought in Middle East in over 900 years

Record number of African rhinos killed in 2015

Finnish physicists tap into the dark state, produce 'qutrits' for a promising alternative approach to quantum computing

Coca-Cola has spent $1.7 million funding Australian health groups over five years

N. Korea fires two short-range missile into East Sea

Biden criticizes PA for not condemning terrorism

Peru Indigenous Group Releases Officials Over Oil Spill Demands.The Peruvian government recently declared a state-of-emergency after 16 Amazon rainforest communities were adversely affected by extreme environmental damage following a series of major oil spills

2016-03-10

The robots sent into Fukushima have "died". As soon as they get close to the reactors, the radiation destroys their wiring and renders them useless,

South Sudan lets fighters rape women in place of wages: UN

China Has Unblocked Internet Searches That Refer to Kim Jong Un As a Pig

Prof Stephen Hawking and 150 other scientists have called for Britain to stay in the EU, saying that a Brexit would be a "disaster for UK science".

It is "outrageous" to describe people who are worried about the impact of migration as racist, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said

Scientists have found a species of bacteria that eats the type of plastic found in most disposable water bottles. The discovery could lead to new methods to manage the more than 50 million tons of this particular type of plastic produced globally each year.

Spelling mistake prevented hackers taking $1bn in bank heist

Former Putin aide died of 'blunt force trauma'

Night-Flying Drones Fight Poachers in Africa - unmanned aerial drones to expose illegal hunting and help re-establish stability in the tourism industry, gravely impacted by the deaths of wild animals.

Mikhail Lesin, Ex-Putin Aide And RT Co-Founder Died Of "Blunt Force Injuries To The Head"

Myanmar is quietly experiencing its largest uprising in years

Report: Abbas rejected new U.S. peace initiative presented by Biden

China strongly rejected U.S.-led criticism of its human rights record at the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying the United States was hypocritical and guilty of crimes. "The U.S. is notorious for prison abuse at Guantanamo prison, its gun violence is rampant, racism is its deep-rooted malaise"

India cuts Monsanto cotton seed royalties despite threat to quit

Gas pipeline from Israel to Jordan to begin operating in 2017

Carbon dioxide levels 'exploded' last year to reach record highs not seen since end of Ice Age, scientists warn.The last time there was such a sustained increase in carbon dioxide concentrations was at the end of the last Ice Age, between 17,000 and 11,000 years ago.

The first comparison of foetal abnormalities between Zika-positive and Zika-negative pregnant women has been published. Of those who tested positive, abnormalities were detected in 29% of foetuses. No abnormalities were detected among women without the virus.

Zero-hour contracts banned in New Zealand

Russia plans to close U.N. rights office in Moscow

57 Different Pesticides Found In Poisoned Honeybees

Fossil fuels 'probably dead,' says Canadian Pacific Railway's CEO

Gujarat Nuclear Plant Shut Down After Major Leak, All Workers Safe

Manitoba First Nation declares state of emergency over suicide epidemic - 6 suicides in 2 months, 140 attempts in last 2 weeks.

Finnish farmers protest new legislations by driving over 300 tractors to Helsinki Senate Square.

Refugee crisis: Balkan route 'permanently' shut -- Minister says refugees should not be fed false expectations, as thousands are stuck in squalid conditions in Greek camp.

2016-03-11

U.S. says North Korean submarine missing

AlphaGo beats Lee Se-dol again to take Google DeepMind Challenge series

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday a constitutional court ruling that led to the release of two detained newspaper editors was a step against the country and warned the court that repeating such actions could bring its very existence into question.

Irans Supreme Leader: We Must Have Relations With Whole World, Except America and Zionist Regime

Before her murder, Honduran activist Berta Cceres singled out the former U.S. Secretary of State for criticism of her support for the Honduran military coup government.

US zoos secretly fly 18 elephants out of Swaziland ahead of court challenge

'You've completely failed' angry Macedonia tells Berlin

Russia minister: Rio Olympics ban would be 'no tragedy'

'Distracted' David Cameron helped turn Libya into a 'mess', Barack Obama says

More than 8m UK adults have problem debt.8.2 million adults, or 16.1% of the population, live with problem debt with younger adults, larger families, single parents and renters particularly at risk.

Former Latin American leaders urge world to end war on drugs 'disaster' - Former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico write op-ed on outdated drug policies and denounce UN for secrecy ahead of special assembly on drugs.

Paris attackers 'named in IS files'

Ten Years the Hong Kong movie, that Beijing wants obscured, disappears from cinemas

Zimbabwe's Mugabe Goes Missing After Cancelled India Trip

Ethics watchdog for Norway's $830 bln wealth fund sees increase in bans on firms."Most of the corruption cases come from the industry studies within defence, telecoms and energy. Those three (sectors) seem to keep us very busy,"

Arab League officially designates Hezbollah 'terrorist' organization

UK supermarket giant Tesco to give all its leftover food to charity by 2017

EasyJet flight aborted after passenger spots spanner wedged into wing

China Will Build an Extensive Port City in Sri Lankas Capital

Canadas unemployment rate creeps up to 7.3% in February

Food labelling and product safety laws in jeopardy under TPP says Choice

Irish call for reunification poll should British leave EU

ISIS declares war on UAE, reports

Report: Turkish Airstrikes in Iraq Kill 67 PKK Militants

Turkey provides Kurdistan Region with $200 million emergency fund

2016-03-14

Italy changes law to make all supermarkets give unsold food to needy

Putin orders most troops out of Syria

Google's AlphaGo AI beats Lee Se-dol again to win Go series 4-1

Israeli hiker finds 2,000-year-old gold coin the second of its kind to ever be found: The coin, from the year A.D. 107, bears the image of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. It was minted as part of a series of coins honoring Roman rulers.

'Shoot-out' during Brussels raid - following anti-terror raid

Mother Teresa to be made a saint, Pope Francis announces

Two Canadian Soldiers Stabbed in Toronto, Possible Terrorist Act

China will release water from a dam in its southwestern province of Yunnan to help alleviate a drought in parts of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam.

Turkey's Erdogan wants to broaden definition of terrorists to include supporters

Citing the murder of Indian journalist Karun Misra, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said every time a journalist is killed anywhere in the world and the press is silenced, the rule of law and democracy get weaker.

Iran's legal vetting body has approved a bill that will see female victims of road traffic accidents paid the same compensation as men, in a small step toward gender equality in the conservative Islamic country.

Drug Cartels Are Taking Over the Tortilla Business in Mexico

Prison Officer in Belfast bomb attack dies. Attack claimed by the New IRA

Military 'invisibility cloaks' could breach Geneva conventions

Royal Brunei Airlines' first all-female pilot crew lands plane in Saudi Arabia - where women are not allowed to drive

Macedonia sends back refugees who pushed their way in

Shipwreck Discovered from Explorer Vasco da Gama's Fleet: A 16thcentury shipwreck found off an island in Oman is the earliest-known example from Europe's Golden Age of Exploration

Damning report reveals Church of England's failure to act on abuse

Whistleblower lawsuit says there is evidence Volkswagen deleted documents for three days after initial EPA allegations

[India] From 1050 Tonnes Of Plastic Garbage A Day To Zero: Bangalore To Introduce Plastic Ban

Extreme temperatures in Brazil are causing desertification and drought in certain parts of the country, threatening the lives of over 35 million people. Since 2012, more than 1,000 municipalities have asked the federal government for help to deal with the extreme drought.

New dinosaur species in tyrannosaur family discovered

February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' amount

Antarcticas ice is being carved up from below - The warm ocean water thats undermining West Antarctica from below may also be weakening its ice shelves. It appears to be slowly carving deep channels into their bases, cavities ranging from 50 to 250 meters in vertical extent.

Iran says US court order on 9/11 compensation 'ridiculous'

2016-03-15

FIFA admits to World Cup hosting bribes, asks U.S. for return of money

President Erdogan wants to change definition of terrorist to include journalists and politicians

North Korea Sentences US Tourist to 15 Years in Prison

The world's first solar airport no longer pays for electricity; 45 acres of panels supply approximately 50,000 kilowatt hours

Argentina sinks Chinese vessel, cites illegal fishing

Puppy frozen in time for 12,400 years is thawed by scientists in remarkable footage

Germany bans neo-Nazi group, carries out sweeping raids

Denmark world's happiest country, Burundi least: new report shows

Israel seizes 234 hectares of West Bank land

Netherlands votes to ban weapons exports to Saudi Arabia

NSW, Australia: Anti-coal seam gas protesters could be jailed for seven years under laws described as a crackdown on democratic rights

More than 40 civilians killed in Yemen market by Saudi-led coalition air strike, health officials say

Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xis resignation

Rescuers: Female suicide bombers kill 22 at Nigerian mosque

Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi accused of treason for suggesting his team gets a warmer welcome in India

Blood Lions documentary exposes controversial canned lion hunting industry in South Africa within which captive-bred, often hand-reared lions are placed in enclosed spaces on private hunting reserves guaranteeing a kill for a trophy hunter for $50,000

A powerful Syrian Kurdish political party is planning to declare a federal region in northern Syria, a model it hopes can be applied to the entire country

NASA will intentionally start a fire on a cargo ship in space

Saudi Arabia-led coalition kills 41 civilians in strike on market in Yemen

400,000-year-old fossils from Spain provide earliest genetic evidence of Neandertals

Belgian police hunt gunman after Brussels anti-terror raid - Shots fired during raid on house by officers investigating Novembers terrorist attacks in Paris

Canadian woman who successfully sued province for wrongful sterilization when she was a teen dies.

Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is likely to accept a position in his successor's cabinet, according to media reports, in order to protect himself from prosecution in a corruption case involving the state-run oil company, Petrobras.

British academic detained in Turkey accused of 'making terrorist propaganda'

Saudi Arabia 'planning Nato-like military alliance of Muslim states'

2016-03-16

US State Dept declares ISIS is committing genocide in Iraq, Syria

Brazilian Federal Police releases tapped phone call between Rousseff and Lula

Muslim-majority Pakistan set to declare Holi, Diwali and Easter as public holidays in a landmark decision

Russia reveals plans for 2018 test of nuclear engine that could get cosmonauts to Mars in six weeks

Feel Free To Leave India, Says Government to Monsanto In GM Cotton Row

Hiking on New Zealand glaciers banned because of rapid melting. Fox and Franz Josef glaciers have been melting at such a rapid rate that it has become too dangerous for tourists to hike onto them from the valley floor, ending a tradition that dates back a century.

More than a dozen U.S. military personnel have been disciplined but face no criminal charges for mistakes that led to the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital that killed 42 people in Afghanistan last year

Nigerian lawmakers voted down a women equality bill citing the Bible and Sharia law

The Kurds Are Planning to Declare Their Own Autonomous Region in Syria

Protests erupt in Brazil after Lula appointed minister

Syrian Kurds declare federal region in the north

Brazil's Lula takes Cabinet post in bid to save Rousseff

Coke, Pepsi plan to fight Montreal on a possible plastic water bottle ban

The Vatican is replacing its controversial ambassador to the U.S., who arranged the meeting between Pope Francis and antigay Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis last fall.

Dugong mother and calf found chained in ocean cage

[Israel] Knesset pushes stiff limits for bank CEOs' pay - would limit CEO pay to NIS 2.5 million ($641,000) a year, or 35 times the salary of the lowest-paid worker, whichever is lower.

Russian Military 'Killed No Civilians In Syria', Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko Says

Australian golden orb spider blows over the Tasman Sea to land in a New Zealand town

Drug cartels are taking over the tortilla business in Mexico

Magnitude 2.2 artificial quake detected in N. Korea

Migrants arriving on Greek islands to be sent back to Turkey within days if deal goes through

US urges immediate release of student sentenced to hard labor in North Korea

2 out of 3 Indians drink milk laced with detergent, urea and paint

Ukraine could be a month away from becoming the only country in the world without protection from polio because of delays in licensing a new vaccine, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

New North Korea sanctions issued by President Obama

2016-03-17

TTIP: secrecy around talks is 'profoundly undemocratic', MPs say. A German MP said she was given only two hours to read 300 pages

China's 'Man-made' sun produces longest plasma pulse at 50 million degrees

One of the worlds largest advertising agencies has been accused of helping Saudi Arabia whitewash its record on human rights following the kingdoms largest mass execution for more than 30 years.

Brazilian judge blocks appointment of ex-leader Lula as chief of staff, hours after he was sworn in to the post

Ukraine tears down giant Lenin statue, live on YouTube

Obama Sends Letter on the First Mail Flight to Cuba in More Than 50 Years

Scientists discover secret chambers in the Tomb of King Tut. Scan reveals the chamber contains metallic and organic material which archaeologist Nicholas Reeves believes could be the remains, and possible grave goods, of Queen Nefertiti.

Pizzeria owner who tried to recruit for ISIS gets 22 years

Russian Sanctions to Remain Until Crimea Returned to Ukraine U.S.

February shatters heat records. Worldwide, February was warmer than 125 of the last 136 Marches, when temperature records first started being kept.

TTIP: Big business & US to have major say in EU trade deals, leak reveals - Exclusive: Document obtained by campaign group shows legislation will be influenced before it reaches European Parliament

German Spy Found Guilty of Treason and Sentenced to 8 Years for Selling Classified Documents to CIA

North Korea Releases Footage of 21-Year-Old Captive's 'Crime Against the State'

Cameroon sentences 89 Boko Haram members to death. First terror related death sentences since new law passed in 2014 allowing it.

Invasion of the American lobsters: Sweden asks EU for help - Swedish environment ministry says Maine lobster could wipe out European species with deadly diseases

Italy Will Adopt New Law Requiring All Unsold Food to Be Donated to the Needy

Ebola outbreak: Guinea confirms two new cases

The Saudi Aramco Oil Company now owns 100% of the biggest refinery in the US.

The US Postal Service has restored direct mail to Cuba

Scientists find evidence that Alzheimers lost memories may one day be recoverable.

ISIS claims to have killed five Russian soldiers near Palmyra, displays captured bodies

Chinese City Publicly Shames Migrant Workers Who Protested Unpaid Wages

EU calls for more countries to impose sanctions over Crimea

Japan strongly condemns North Korea's missile launch - PM Abe

Gay sex not a crime, says RSS, raises hopes of govt rethink - Times of India

2016-03-18

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam shot and wounded in Brussels anti-terror raid

Passenger Boeing From Dubai Crashes in Rostov On Don

Russia: Those guilty of insulting Vladimir Putin face six years in prison under proposed law

'Shots fired' in new Brussels raids.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will postpone publication of the Iraq war inquiry report until after the European Union referendum, leading to accusations that he is deliberately delaying controversial announcements.

Heinrich Himmler's stash of books on witchcraft is discovered in Czech library after being hidden for 50 years

Australia: No jail for mum and midwife found guilty of female genital mutilation of young girls

US Military Personnel To Be Punished For Bombing Doctors Without Borders Hospital In Afghanistan - I can tell you those individuals most closely associated with it are suspended from duties & referred for administrative action. spokesman for US central command.

France moves towards full ban on pesticides blamed for bee losses

Security Researcher goes missing after investigating Bangladesh bank cyber-heist -- Zoha met with a friend at 11:30 PM on Wednesday night, March 16. While coming home, a jeep pulled in front of their auto-rickshaw, and men separated the two, putting them in two different cars

Vatican Will Replace Archbishop Who Set Up Kim Davis Meeting With Pope

UK Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has resigned citing pressure to make cuts to disability benefits. It comes after mounting controversy over 4bn of planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments, expected to affect 640,000 people

US officials: 1 North Korean missile blew up shortly after launch

Pentagon chief: Obama wants to defeat ISIS by end of his term

Turkey: Academics Jailed For Signing Petition

Brazil judge strips Lula of office amid mounting political crisis. Supreme court justice Gilmar Mendes says Lulas appointment appeared designed to prevent him being charged with corruption.

Assisted Dying Canada: First Person In Ontario To Get Legal Permission Dies

Former UN official accuses world body of 'colossal mismanagement'

The Saudi Coalition Killed More Than 100 Civilians in a Yemeni Market, Says the UN

Australia's emissions rising and vastly underestimated, says report. Land clearing surge in Queensland since 2012 could create emissions roughly equal to those saved by the federal governments emissions reduction scheme

Toothfish poaching vessel Viking blown up by Indonesian authorities

As recession bites and land disputes hit Brazil's agricultural heartland, indigenous people face land grabs and assaults by violent gangs." .Tauli-Corpuz called for immediate measures to be taken to protect indigenous leaders, 138 of whom were killed in 2014

Denisovan DNA Found in Pacific IslandersThey've traces of it from Neanderthals & Denisovans, the only species of archaic humans we know less from fossil evidence & more how their genes show up in modern humans. So far, their DNA has only been found in those from Oceania.

Brazil Supreme Court Justice Blocks Ex-President Lula's Cabinet Appointment

Bahrain: Alarming spike in expulsion of citizens arbitrarily stripped of their nationality

2016-03-21

Netherlands will once again need to close prisons due to falling crime rate and lack of prisoners.

Reports of explosions at Brussels airport

Two explosions at Brussels airport

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called on Muslims across the world to unite and fight against terrorism posing a threat to the region and the globe.

Belgian nuclear plant evacuated

Turkey says 3 ISIS suspects planning "sensational" attack

By 2025, some 1.8 billion people will face absolute water scarcity, and an estimated two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water-stressed condition

Ship carrying 331kg of weapons-grade plutonium, enough to make 50 atomic bombs, leaves Japan for US

Russia says it will unilaterally start using force against those violating the partial truce in Syria, if the US does not agree to joint rules by Tuesday.

Ethnicity bias - French Canadian referees call significantly more penalties on English Canadian players: university study

1.8m vip paedophile ring probe closed without single arrest

Scientists think lead ink from scrolls may unlock library destroyed by Vesuvius - 100s of scrolls, part of classical worlds best-surviving library, have tantalised scholars since found in Herculaneum in 1752. About 200 have never been read. X-raying begins in July.

Flashdrives for freedom? 20,000 USBs to be smuggled into North Korea

Astrophysicists detect ultra-fast winds near supermassive black hole: "We're talking wind speeds of 20 per cent the speed of light, which is more than 200 million kilometres an hour. That's equivalent to a category 77 hurricane."

South Korea confirms first Zika case

Brazil descends into chaos as Olympics looms

The mayors of 20 European cities including Madrid, Paris and Copenhagen, but excluding London, have called for more stringent regulations to be put in place across the continent to tackle the deadly levels of air pollution caused by diesel vehicles

Corrupt European countries costing EU nearly 800bn a year, says study

Castro urges return of Guantanamo land, after meeting with Obama

Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko given 22-year sentence

Thousands protest in Okinawa over alleged rape of Japanese tourist by U.S. serviceman

LGBT festival in Ukraine abandoned after clash with far-right activists

Seeking better ties with Egypt, Hamas removes Muslim Brotherhood billboards in Gaza

Alibaba to soon overtake Wal-Mart to become worlds No.1 retail platform

Scientists remove HIV-1 from genome of human immune cells.

2016-03-22

The International Criminal Court Recognises Rape as a War Crime

Former Controversial Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Has Died

Tony Blair on extremism "one of the problems with the West is that it constantly can be made to feel guilty about itself"

U.S. strikes al Qaeda training camp in Yemen, killing dozens

IS claims responsibility for Brussels attacks.

IS flag and bomb found during a house search in Schaarbeek linked to the Brussel attacks.

ISIS threatens UK with 'harder and more bitter' attack than Brussels after claiming responsibility for bombings which killed 34 people

Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries

Rare Sumatran rhino sighted in the wild for the first time in 40 years

Massive Bleaching Event Hits the Great Barrier Reef: Warm ocean temperatures have impacted large swaths of the Great Barrier Reef in the last month, part of a worldwide coral die-off

Terror suspect on the run after 34 killed in Brussels attacks

Protesters from some of the poorest communities in Ecuador took to the streets and to social media Tuesday World Water Day, in order to demand that multinational Veolia stops dumping raw sewage into the Saldo Estuary of the littoral city of Guayaquil where they live.

The worlds tallest building the Burj Khalifa in Dubai lights up in black, yellow and red to show solidarity with Belgium amid terror attacks.

Australia's spending $3.3 million to study 'wind turbine sickness' - despite no evidence it exists

Chile Harvests First Legal Marijuana Crop

Hydrogen car smashes world records in six-day demonstration around London's M25

Obama to Castro: Cuban embargo is going to end

Millions more Russians living in poverty as economic crisis bites. Nearly 20 million now surviving on wages which are below the poverty threshold according to latest state statistics

Ash tree set for extinction in Europe.

British state TV BBC reporter forced off air amid disability rally in parliament - people protesting against disability benefit cuts, chanting Cameron killer

ISIS goes global: 75 attacks in 20 countries have killed 1,280 people - CNN

The German far-right NPD party has taken the highly unusual step of praising refugees for their humanity, after a group of Syrian asylum-seekers administered first aid to one of its candidates involved in a car crash.

Police find nail bomb in Brussels anti-terror raids

Trudeaus first budget aims to spur growth with $29-billion deficit

Netanyahu 'willing' to discuss two-state solution now

2016-03-23

Japan's whaling fleet returns from Antarctic with 333 minke whales including pregnant females

Brazil descends into chaos as Olympics looms

Rockefeller Family Fund divests from fossil fuels, which built family's fortune | It will eliminate holdings of Exxon Mobil Corp, saying the oil company associated with the family fortune has misled the public about climate change risks

One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings was deported from Turkey twice last year and the authorities warned their European counterparts that they suspected him of being a militant fighter

Poland refuses to accept refugees after Brussels attack

Karadzic jailed for Bosnian genocide. 40 years.

Flag referendum: New Zealand to keep current flag

Archeologists who scanned the grave of William Shakespeare say they have made a startling discovery: His skull appears to be missing.

With cross-party support in the nations Parliament, Denmark may strip radical imams of their citizenship

Nearly half of Englands teachers plan to leave in next five years

Turkey had previously deported one of the Brussels terror attackers, notified Belgian authorities, Pres. Erdoan says

What were doing to the Earth has no parallel in 66 million years, scientists say If anthropogenic emissions rates have no analogue in Earths recent history, then unforeseeable future responses of the climate system are possible, the authors write.

Turkish people are sharing a cartoon asking where the sympathy was for Istanbul and Ankara for their recent terror attacks

In a trash can in Brussels, police found a computer with a document suggesting that the attackers acted out of a sense of urgency and desperation after the capture on Friday of Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving direct participant in the Paris attacks.

Obama announced the declassification of new documents from the period of the Argentina's Dirty War, when as many as 30,000 Argentines were killed or disappeared. Thousands of records were previously declassified, but for the first time military and intelligence records will be declassified as well.

Russia to lose Olympic and World Championship gold medals: Russia will lose two World Championship gold medals and an Olympic gold after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal by the IAAF over selective doping punishments imposed by the countrys anti-doping agency

ISIS trains 400 fighters to attack Europe in wave of bloodshed

Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank Estimate

MH370 search: Mozambique debris 'almost certainly' from missing plane

Operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State is currently underway, according to Iraqi army officials

Poland PM Szydlo says migrants cannot be settled in Poland now

Dutch shut diplomatic post in Istanbul after threat

France detects first case of mad cow since 2011

Argentine court: Death of Alberto Nisman, who accused Pres. Kirchner of cover-up in AMIA bombing, to be investigated as political murder

China plans to more than triple solar power capacity by 2020 to as much as 143 gigawatts to help reduce carbon emissions

2016-03-24

Russian soldier surrounded by ISIS calls in airstrikes on himself

ISIS's Second-in-Command Killed in Raid

France arrests man in 'advanced stages' of attack plot

Pope washes feet of Muslim migrants, says We are brothers "In his homily, Francis said: 'We have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace.'"

Imam at Scotland's largest mosque praises extremist killer

16 people are missing after a Chinese news site ran a letter asking Xi Jinping to resign

UN gives Qatar a year to end forced labour of migrant workers

Brussels attacks: 'Explosion and gunfire heard' during police operations in Schaerbeek

The Ukrainian lawyer of captured Russian soldiers has been kidnapped, robbed, shot dead and buried

Islamic State video calls for jihad after Brussels blasts - "Every Muslim who is well aware of the history of Islam, knows that the holy war against infidels is an integral part of Islam, and those who read history would know."

Car bomb hits Turkey, multiple casualties

A U.N.-backed report says global investments in solar, wind and other sources of renewable energy reached a record $286 billion last year. For the first time the developing world accounted for the majority.

International medical experts call for global drug decriminalisation

Two students convicted for London terror plot

Blasphemy cases rise in Egypt and Christians bear the brunt

Intel: North Korea "Probably" has a Miniaturized Nuclear Warhead

Israeli soldier arrested after being caught on video fatally shooting wounded Palestinian attacker

In Twitter blitz, Dubai security chief opposes Palestinian state, urges coalition with Israel

FlyDubai crash pilot 'was due to leave job over fatigue'

Paris terror plot: Man arrested in 'advanced stages' of plan to attack French capital | Europe | News

Clean energy is winning the race against fossil fuels but the planet is still losing

Russia's special forces officer killed in Syria: Interfax

Scotland Just closed its Last Coal Plant - Longannet ceased operations Thursday. Once was largest in Europe, it shut down before those gathered in the main control room. Ok, here we go, said a worker pressing a red button that stopped the turbines that generated electricity for 1/4 of homes.

Hungary proposes "temporary" totalitarianism during high terrorist danger levels - anti-terrorist package proposed by cabinet includes altering constitution, army on streets, surveillance of any suspect, ISP record-keeping and forced decryption, absolute eminent domain rights, closed borders.

Brussels attacks: Belgium fears Isis seeking to make dirty nuclear bomb

2016-03-28

An aerial survey of the northern Great Barrier Reef in Australia has shown that 95 per cent of the reefs are now severely bleached and about half of the corals are expected to die in the coming month.

Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs & maybe go even further - Their report comes ahead of a special UN General Assembly Session on drugs to be held next month

Japan Loses Contact With New Space Telescope

Saudi Arabia Cracks Down On Peaceful Dissent, Sentences Journalist To 5 Yrs In Prison - over a series of tweets, in what human rights organizations are calling the latest crackdown on free expression by the oil-rich kingdom.

Saudi Arabia doesn't need elections even though Syria does, ambassador claims: Elections are unnecessary in Saudi Arabia because its people are happier with the current system of government than almost any other country in the world, the kingdom's UN ambassador has claimed.

Most British workers are spending longer at their workplace for little or no gain in productivity, according to a landmark study being released this week. More than two-thirds of employees say they are working longer hours than two years ago, but only 10% believe they are more productive.

Turkey is deliberately 'unleashing' Isis terrorists into Europe, says Jordan's King Abdullah

Palmyra ruins mostly intact, Syria antiquities chief reports after regime forces recaptured the desert oasis from the Islamic State group.

Fidel Castro to Obama: We don't need your 'presents'

Preserved ice age puppies recovered from Siberian permafrost awe scientists - dating back 12,460 years has mobilized scientists across the world.

Belgium releases terror murder suspect

Russia is considering building a naval base on islands off northern Japan, an area that includes territory at the center of a long-running spat between Tokyo and Moscow

Thousands of protesters have clashed with police near parliament in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, against the execution of a man charged with murdering a governor for his criticism of blasphemy laws.

Brazil seizes abortion drugs sent to women living in fear of zika virus

Chinese Scientists Say They Have the Ability To Clone Humans

Unemployment in France reaches new high

Israel urges citizens to leave Turkey ASAP

Scores killed in blast at family park in Lahore aimed at Christians

London Priest loses 500K meant for refugees gambling

Another Nation Trims Meat From Diet Advice: "The Netherlands Nutrition Centre says it is recommending people eat just two servings of meat a week, setting an explicit limit on meat consumption for the first time."

NSA director made secret visit to Israel last week

Dutch arrest Frenchman suspected in planning attack

Taliban faction says carried out suicide bomb attack on Pakistan park, says Christians were target

Moldova: Thousands march for reunification with Romania

Suspect arrested in Honduran activist Nelson Garca's murder: Environmentalist was killed near his house just days after colleague Berta Cceres was fatally shot but critics are accusing government of a cover-up

2016-03-29

EgyptAir Domestic Flight From Alexandria to Cairo Hijacked, Lands in Cyprus

Israel passes law to cap bankers' salaries: Israel has introduced one of the worlds toughest curbs on bank executives salaries in an effort to narrow a big pay gap between bosses and workers. It was approved in parliament overnight in a 56-0 vote and will take effect in six months.

U$1bn poured so rapidly into Malaysian PM's personal bank accounts that it rang money-laundering alarms

Many millions of Muslims 'fundamentally incompatible with the modern world', says Tony Blair

ISIS planning imminent attack on Jewish schools and kindergartens

North Korea Tells Citizens To Prepare Themselves For Famine

Canada has imposed sanctions on North Korea.

Palestinian fabricated 'Jewish terror attack', now faces charges.

2nd major skyscraper fire in 3 months - UAE residential tower engulfed in flames

Falkland Islands lie in Argentinian waters, rules UN commission

Indian Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a Muslim woman's petition seeking to declare 'Triple Talaq' and polygamy in Islam unconstitutional, despite strong opposition from influential Islamic bodies of judicial scrutiny of Muslim personal law practices

Japan's retirees turn to crime for a better life in prison

Egypt's state-run news agency says the president has dismissed the country's top auditor who earlier had said corruption has cost the country billions of dollars

CIA used nude photos as sexual humiliation on post-9/11 terror suspects: report

"Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company will soon be unable to farm alfalfa in its own parched country to feed its 170,000 cows. So it's turning to an unlikely place to grow the water-chugging crop -- the drought-stricken American Southwest."

China editor resigns over media censorship

Russian weapons exports expected to receive $6bn-$7bn boost as result of marketing effect of bombing campaign in Syria

Putin Faces Information Attack on Wealth, Friends, Russia Says:The Kremlin accused a group of international journalists of preparing an information attack on President Vladimir Putins wealth and his ties to billionaire oligarchs

Terrorists who targeted park filled with children are 'cowards', says Pakistan PM

North Korea Fires Another Missile, Just as Obama Prepares for Trilateral Meeting

Turkey summoned German ambassador over satirical report: Spiegel

Saudi Economy Shows Deepening Signs of Strain as Spending Drops

Arctic sea ice sets wintertime record low thanks to global warming. Arctic temperatures this winter were up to 15 degrees higher than average, according to NASA.

ISIS executes 12 of its members relatives over intel links

Brussels attacks: 'Fight the westerners' text sent to youths in Molenbeek

2016-03-30

Hundreds of thousands of leaked emails reveal massively widespread corruption in global oil industry

Using Adblock Plus to block ads is legal, rules German courtfor the fifth time

Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Bernardino killer's iPhone

'War on Drugs' has made no difference to number of users & actively harms public health, major study concludes - Report authors call for "scientifically grounded" policies, including regulated markets for cannabis

Fracking Triggers 90% of Large Quakes in Western Canada

Turkey 'demands deletion' of German video mocking Erdoan

90% of Indigenous in Brazil's Amazon Suffer Mercury Poisoning

Satire spat: Germany tells Turkey free speech not negotiable: A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says German diplomats told their Turkish counterparts Tuesday theres no chance the government will intervene over the song Germanys position on freedom of the press and expression isnt negotiable.

Chinese government is arresting the families of Chinese critics and journalists abroad.

Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study

BBC Says Russias Troll Factory Faked a Video Showing a US Soldier Shooting at a Quran

Costa Rican men convicted for killing conservationist & raping volunteers - 4 of 7 men sentenced for murder of Jairo Mora, who worked to protect sea turtles with 4 female volunteers. Savagery of attack dealt severe blow to the countrys image as a safe, eco-tourist-friendly destination.

U.S. orders military families to leave parts of Turkey

Scientists say a 305 million-year-old fossil is the closest relative to "true spiders" ever discovered - but is not itself a spider. Easily pre-dating the dinosaurs, the 1.5cm creature lived alongside the oldest known ancestors of modern spiders but its lineage is now extinct.

The politicians voting to impeach Brazil's president are accused of more corruption than she is

Former Canadian minister Jean Lapierre, his wife and three of his siblings killed in plane crash on way to father's funeral

Brazil president closer to impeachment as coalition partner quits

Saudi authorities reportedly seek death penalty for coming out

Chinese journalist denounces president Xi Jinping in resignation letter: "Ive been kneeling so long I cant bear it. Id like to change posture"

$600 Million Worth Smuggling Operation Nailed by US and Hong Kong Authorities

Obama administration to allow Atlantic oil prospecting despite threat to marine life

FBI warned Dutch about El Bakraoui brothers week before attacks

Several loud explosions followed by heavy gunfire were heard over Tripoli in the early hours of Wednesday

German prosecutor: Hard to convict 'Islamic State' returnees - Germany's top state prosecutor says often nothing can be proven against members of terrorist groups returning from war zones. "Islamic State" returnees can rarely be convicted on murder charges.

Child labor rises sharply in Gaza: In the past five years, the number of working children between the ages of 10 and 17 has doubled.

2016-03-31

Amnesty Int. has accused Qatar of using forced labor at World Cup stadium. Amnesty says workers are forced to live in squalid conditions, pay huge recruitment fees, have wages and passports withheld. It accuses Fifa of "failing almost completely" to stop the tournament "built on human rights abuses"

The FBI, US Department of Justice and anti-corruption police in Britain and Australia have launched a joint investigation into revelations of a massive global bribery racket in the oil industry.

Norway's integration minister: We can't be like Sweden - A tight immigration policy and tougher requirements for those who come to Norway are important tools for avoiding radicalisation and parallel societies, Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug said on Wednesday.

French minister compares veil wearers to 'negroes who accepted slavery': France's women's rights minister has sparked fury by comparing Muslim women who choose to wear the headscarf to "negroes who accepted slavery".

Pirate Bay allowed to continue operating by Sweeden Court

ISIS forbids remaining Christians from leaving Raqqa

Government surveillance has 'chilling effect' on free speech, study finds

A US based advocacy group says 98 girls in Central African Republic reported they were sexually abused by international peacekeepers and three girls told that they were undressed, tied and forced to have sex with dogs by a French military commander in 2014.

ISIS Threatens Germany, Calls For Attack On International Airport - An official Islamic State media wing launched a campaign urging ISIS supporters: "Do what your brothers in Belgium did!"

South Africa's President Zuma ordered by constitutional court to repay costs of upgrading house with public money

Massive Weapons Haul Intercepted By French Navy

Electric Vehicle Sales Continue To Be Unstoppable In China Up 170%

50 years of military rule over in Myanmar

Poland Set to Demolish 500 Soviet Monuments

U.S. to deploy armored brigade combat teams to Europe

British, Australian and American police launch investigations in global oil bribery scandal

A wing of a far-right party in Germany is readying a proposal to ban the "construction and operation" of mosques.

North Korea Sends Drones to Infiltrate South's Airspace

Modi in Brussels: Define terrorism or UN may become irrelevant

EgyptAir hijacker arrested in Cyprus; officials call him an 'idiot,' not a terrorist

Japanese regulators on Wednesday approved the use of a giant refrigeration system to create an unprecedented underground frozen barrier around buildings at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in an attempt to contain leaking radioactive water

Global sea levels could rise by more than double the current best estimate, according to a new analysis of climate change in Antarctica.

Ex-wife says Egyptian hijacker abusive, beat her and their kids

North Korean Citizens told to get ready for famine: "get ready to eat plant roots"

UK plans to track all internet connections could cost 1bn, campaigners warn. Home Office is told its plans in the snoopers charter to retain web browsing history of all British citizens for 12 months would cost in excess of 1bn

2016-04-01

Reddit deletes surveillance 'warrant canary' in transparency report

The headquarters of the Monaco-based oil company Unaoil and the homes of its executives have been raided by police in the wake of revelations in recent days that it has systematically corrupted the global oil industry.

Daily NK reports North Korea declares China an enemy and threatens a "nuclear storm" against them

World's Richest Banker Charged With Bribery

Rural Canadians Want the Govt to Fix Their Shitty Internet, Survey Says

North Korea has officially announced it is blocking YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and South Korean websites in a move that underscores its increasing concern with the spread of information available on the Internet.

Indonesian government threatens to deport Leonardo DiCaprio for palm oil criticism - Immigration chief Ronny Sompie says Oscar-winners visa could be revoked after comments made on environmental campaign visit but DiCaprio appears to have left the country already

Discovery Could Rewrite History of Vikings in New World: Archaeologists have unearthed a stone hearth that was used for iron-working, 100's of miles away from the only known Viking site in N.America suggesting that Norse exploration of the region wasn't a limited undertaking.

Protests erupt during Erdogan visit to Washington, D.C.

Obama meets with Japan and South Korea today to discuss growing tensions with North Korea.

Hacker claims he helped Enrique Pea Nieto win Mexican presidential election; claims he and other hackers installed malware to monitor opponents during 2012 campaign as part of black propaganda operation

British Columbias Carbon Tax Has Been So Successful That Businesses Want To Increase It - It's reduced fuel usage by at least 16% & emissions fell 3.5 times faster per capita than in the rest of the country.

Right-wing, anti-Islam protest in Brussels' Molenbeek district banned

Saudi Arabia Plans $2 Trillion Megafund for Post-Oil Era: Deputy Crown Prince

Norways Whaling Program Just Got Even More Controversial: A new document shows meat from whale hunts going to a company that makes feed for animals on fur farms.

A British Islamic extremist is found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on American military personnel in Britain. Delivery driver Junead Khan, 25, used his job with a pharmaceutical firm as cover to scout United States Air Force (Usaf) bases in East Anglia, his trial heard.

Amid North Korean Threat: South Korea will develop a Devastating Graphite Bomb called The Black Out Bomb; Carried by cruise missiles, the bomb explodes above its target, releasing fine carbon filaments which float down in a cloud melting electrical grids.They will develop it on a massive budget.

North Korea says its attacks will be worse than September 11 | NK News - North Korea News

World's obese population hits 640 million, according to largest ever study

A man on the Egypt Air flight rang his wife to tell her about a secret bank account and one man slept through the hijack

North Korea jamming GPS signals in South; can affect planes, cellphones

North Korea nuclear tests: US and China to co-operate

China Unveils Proposal for $50 Trillion for Global Electricity Network

Frustration erupts in three-hour brawl between Afghans and Syrians at Greek refugee camp

North Korea fires another missile into sea

2016-04-04

2.6 terabyte leak of Panamanian shell company data reveals "how a global industry led by major banks, legal firms, and asset management companies secretly manages the estates of politicians, Fifa officials, fraudsters and drug smugglers, celebrities and professional athletes."

China censors Panama Papers online discussion

David Cameron's dad and Tory MPs named in leak about tax haven firm

Iceland PM: I will not resign

Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin

#Panamapapers see Iceland's Prime Minister faced with calls for a snap election. The Icelandic Pirate Party have an overwhelming lead in the polls.

New report claims 'war on drugs' has "harmed public health"

Panama vows to cooperate if legal fallout from 'Panama Papers' leak

Laundered cash from Britains largest gold bullion robbery was hidden with the help of an audacious plan hatched with advice from Mossack Fonsecas co-founder.

Mossack Fonseca warns customers of unauthorised Panamaleaks data breach that is set to be revealed in the news

Half of Scotland's energy consumption came from renewables last year | 57.7% of Scottish electricity consumption came from renewables in 2015 - 7.7% ahead of the 50% target.

Interpol head detective in Venezuela charged with smuggling 769lbs of cocaine to the Dominican Republic

Vietnam's coast guard in a rare move has seized a Chinese vessel for allegedly intruding in its water

Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, or karoshi, a phenomenon previously associated with the long-suffering salary man that is increasingly afflicting young and female employees.

Panama Papers - FIFA official Damiani under suspicion

Australian Tax office investigating 800 Australians identified in financial record leak

"Privacy is a fundamental human right that is being eroded more and more in the modern world. Each person has a right to privacy, whether they are a king or a beggar,", says Mossack Fonseca founder.

Official Silence In Russia Over Putin Allegations In Panama Papers: State-owned Russian media was silent Monday over documents allegedly showing a multi-billion dollar money-laundering scheme run by close associates of President Vladimir Putin

Germany Spied on Both U.S. and Israel: Report

Charlie Hebdo criticised for calling Brussels attacks tip of Islam 'iceberg'

Tax authorities begin probes into some people named in Panama Papers leak

Australian tax office probes hundreds for possible tax evasion after Panama Papers leak

IS rocket expert 'killed by drone' - US

The United Nations' internal investigations office has uncovered serious lapses and due-diligence failures in the world body's interaction with organizations tied to an alleged bribery scheme involving a former U.N. General Assembly president

Interpol head detective in Venezuela charged with smuggling 769lbs of cocaine to the Dominican Republic

2016-04-05

China announces sanctions on North Korea

BP to pay US government $20.8 billion for Gulf oil disaster

The 19-year-old who started a massive protest movement in Hong Kong says HSBC won't let him open bank accounts for his new political party

Iceland's PM asks president to dissolve parliament after allegations he concealed investments in offshore company

World figures deny wrongdoing as "Panama Papers" turn spotlight on tax evasion

A trove of leaked documents casts HSBC Holdings into a harsh light, as a consortium of investigative journalists said it found the bank was among the most active in registering shell companies that move money around the world on behalf of rich and politically connected clients

Panama Papers Live Update Discussion Thread

The entire Turkish citizenship database has allegedly been leaked online

600 Israeli companies, 850 shareholders listed in Panama data leak

Thousands demand PM's resignation in front of Iceland's parliament - Tomorrow's session has been cancelled after Panama Papers revelations

US-based McClatchy Washington Bureau, one of the few American publication to receive the Panama Papers, has begun releasing US citizens named in the files

Renewed calls for Yahoo! to ban ivory sales - A recent investigation revealed that 93% of 6,000 advertisements on Yahoo! Japan on a single day in 2015 were for ivory name seals.

'Suspicious activity' at N. Korea nuke site

Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand, has entered the race to succeed Ban Ki-moon as secretary general of the United Nations in a bid to become the first woman in the role of worlds top diplomat.

Air France said it would allow female cabin crew and pilots to opt out of flying routes to Tehran after some staff said they did not want to be forced to cover their hair when in Iran.

Panama Papers Causes Chile Head of Transparency International to Resign

PM Modi steps in: Income Tax, RBI panel to probe Panama Papers trail

ISIL uses mustard gas in Syria

The worlds largest primate is being wiped out by war: Back in 1998, a team of researchers estimated that 17,000 Grauers gorillas, also known as eastern lowland gorillas, lived in the forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, the population of Grauers gorillas has dropped by 77%

Two more Chinese political leaders found to have links to offshore firms - Panama Papers leaks

Federal funding for Australia's largest Islamic school stopped after review

US Navy ship seizes thousands of weapons from Iranian ship bound for Yemen.

Physicists just discovered a new state of matter called quantum spin liquid

Azerbaijani soldiers behead Yezidi from Armenia

IMF fears Greece "disaster" in leaked meeting revelation

2016-04-06

The Prime Minister of Iceland has resigned

Panama Papers: British Banker Funded North Korean Arms

Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

Iceland PM did not fully resign, merely asked deputy to take over "for an unspecified amount of time"

Panama Papers: WikiLeaks calls for data leak to be released in full

Panama Papers firm linked to over 1,000 U.S. companies

Fifa president Gianni Infantino pulled into corruption scandal by Panama Papers

Saudi Arabia passes Russia as worlds third biggest military spender

Sperm Whales Found Full of Car Parts and Plastics

German Officials: Suspects In Cologne Attacks Mostly Foreign

Syrian rebels massacre Kurdish civilians in Aleppo

Google offers Cubans free computer and Internet use

France places Panama back on list of tax havens

First Time Ever: Canadian bank fined $1.1M by anti-money laundering agency

Iceland: PM Sigmundur Dav Gunnlaugsson Wavers On Resignation

Israel tears down seven Palestinian homes in 24 hours

Jackie Chan, Pedro Almodovar among celebrities implicated by Panama Papers

Poverty in Russia Rising at Fastest Pace Since 1990s Turmoil

ISIS video game encourages players to "Shoot Obama"

After F-16s, US to give nine AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters worth $170 million to Pakistan

Two members of French far-right leader Marine Le Pens entourage moved hundreds of thousands of euros by way of offshore companies in recent years, according to France's daily Le Monde

Chile's head of Transparency International resigns after 'Panama Papers'

2,000-year-old bronze artifacts tied to temple unearthed near Sea of Galilee

A 6.9 event has occurred off the coast of Vanuatu, just a few days after another 6.9 event. No Tsunami warning.

Cops hacked the Police National Computer to unlawfully retain suspects' biometric data

2016-04-07

David Cameron personally intervened to prevent tax crackdown on offshore trusts

Panama Papers reveal London as centre of 'spider's web'

Edward Snowden says Panama Papers show whistleblower role is 'vital' - British Columbia

A record 43% of Icelanders would now vote for the Pirate Party

Linking to Pirated Content Is Not Copyright Infringement, Says EU Court Adviser

China ramps up Panama Papers censorship after leaders' relatives named | World news

Sarah Ferguson (the Duchess of York) and Simon Cowell named in Panama Papers

David Cameron left dangerously exposed by Panama Papers fallout

Panama Papers only a glimpse into 'astonishing' wealth stashed offshore; Tax Justice Network, an international research and advocacy organization estimates that as of 2010, there was between $21 and $32 trillion kept in offshore holding representing between 8-13% of total global wealth.

Beijing says North Korea has become an increasing threat to China

Secular Activist in Bangladesh Is Killed After Criticizing Militant Islam: Men armed with machetes surrounded the activist, Mohammad Nazim Uddin, and slashed his head, then shot him, a police official said.

German comedian could face jail for insulting Erdogan

Polish women are trolling anti-abortion Prime Minister Beata Szydlo with updates on their periods, inspired by similar actions in Indiana

UK Banks must declare links to Panama Papers law firm by next week

CEO of Austrian bank resigns because of Panama Papers coverage

Dutch say 'no' to treaty with Ukraine and 32% vote: Nos exit poll

At least three of the seven people on the Chinese Communist Politiburo named in Panama Papers

President Putin denies "any element of corruption" over Panama leaks

Venezuela Declares Every Friday a Holiday to Save Electricity

France passes law making it illegal to pay for sex

WikiLeaks: US Govt Behind Panama Leaks to Attack Putin

South Africa considers legalizing rhino horn trade; live harvesting of horns and selling them touted as way to stave off possible extinction because of increasing illegal killing

Vladimir Putin says the Panama Papers leak is part of Western efforts to weaken Russia | Europe | News

Terrorists behind Pakistan Easter bombing vow more attacks on Christians

4 ISIS suspects arrested, weapons seized in Denmark, police say

2016-04-08

David Cameron admits he did have a stake in father Ian Cameron's offshore investment fund

Big oil spent $115m obstructing climate laws in 2015, NGO says

Edward Snowdens David Cameron Tweet Tells Public to Rise Up and Force PMs Resignation

David Cameron facing calls to resign after finally confessing he did profit from 30,000 stake in his late father's offshore fund

Pope tell catholics to be more open toward gays and lesbians

Thousands protesters to descend on Downing Street over PM's offshore links

After Australian ISP offers free data day to make up for widespread outage, customers use 2686 terabytes of data. This includes a single user downloading nearly a terabyte of data in 24 hours, including all of wikipedia, 24 seasons of the simpsons, 14 seasons of mythbusters, and backing it up.

Malawi Chief Annuls 850 Child Marriages, Sends Kids To School.

In an unannounced move, David Cameron has decided not to replace former climate change envoy, forfeiting his promised fight against climate change

Canadian PM Trudeau calls for global co-operation to crack down on offshore tax evasion in wake of Panama Papers scandal

China's Great Firewall inventor forced to use VPN live on stage to dodge his own creation

UK chancellor George Osborne benefited personally from a 6m tax dodging scheme

A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition used bombs supplied by the United States in an attack on a market in Yemen last month that killed at least 97 civilians, including 25 children, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday.

Panama Papers leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca uncover the exclusive club that lines the pockets of Palestine's political and financial elite

13 North Korean workers at overseas restaurants defect to S. Korea

David Cameron accused of 'completely undermining' Tory claims to be tough on tax dodgers

The U.S. Treasury Department intends to soon issue a long-delayed rule forcing banks to seek the identities of people behind shell-company account holders, after the "Panama Papers" leak provoked a global uproar over the hiding of wealth via offshore banking devices

Disgraced former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter to serve on panel on how to fix FIFA

Female police officers subjected to 'attractiveness' inspections in Mexico

Global warming may be far worse than thought, cloud analysis suggests. Researchers find clouds contain more liquid as opposed to ice than was previously believed, threatening greater increase in temperatures.

17+ Civilians Killed in U.S. Airstrikes

Terror suspect Mohammed Abrini arrested

Saudi Arabia's king announces a bridge is to be built over the Red Sea to Egypt

9,000 Ethiopian Jews to make aliyah in June

Denmark arrests four suspected 'Islamic State' returnees

2016-04-11

Fifty four large investors managing 1 trillion pounds ($1.41 trillion) in assets have launched a campaign to curb the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry.

A man has been arrested for trying to assassinate the chief forensic expert in MH17 probe

China Says 80% of Tested Wells Had Water Too Polluted to Drink

Half of British Muslims 'think homosexuality should be illegal'

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for publishing a liberal blog, is to be awarded the International Publishers Associations Prix Voltaire for his contribution to freedom of speech.

N Korea senior intelligence officer 'defects to South'

Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian for insulting Erdogan

Despite ban, women take part in I run Iran marathon

HSBC, Coutts & Rothschild: British banks help the 1% evade tax, Panama Papers suggest

World's Wild Tiger Count Rising for First Time in a Century

The leaders of every major Scottish political party publish their tax returns

Law firm at the center of the Panama offshore accounts scandal routinely usurped the name of the Red Cross and other charities to help obscure the origin of millions of dollars in questionable funds, two newspapers involved in the investigation reported Sunday.

Police station attacked in S. Russia, suicide bombing feared

Canada's Attawapiskat First Nation declares state of emergency over recent spate of suicide attempts - 11 attempts on Saturday night alone

In Hiroshima, Kerry will not apologize for atomic bombs dropped on Japan

World's smallest diode created out of an 11 base pair DNA molecule by joint American and Israeli research team.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered the first inflatable room for astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral.

The world's count of wild tigers has gone up for the first time in more than a century.

Fukushima students reach out to tell truth about radiation

Swede arrested in Brussels 'brainwashed' by militants

Panama Leaks Demand Coordinated Regulator Response, Denmark Says

At least 18 soldiers were killed and more than 50 wounded in a gun battle in the southern Philippines between government forces and the militant group Abu Sayyaf

Top North Korean intelligence officer defected to South, Seoul says

Conspiracy theories abound six years after Polish plane crash in Russia: Poland's right-wing government has launched a new investigation into the crash. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, brother of the late president, says the plane broke up in mid-air and that then Polish PM Tusk was behind the crash

Greenland and Antarctic melt isnt just raising seas its changing the Earths rotation: In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself is also moving.

2016-04-12

Air France's gay stewards refuse to go to Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death

Scientists have for the first time scanned the brains of people using LSD and found how brain in a psychedelic drug state mimics mind of a baby: free and unconstrained.

Victoria has become the first state in Australia to legalise the use of medicinal cannabis

Muslim woman prevented second terror attack on Paris by tipping off police about whereabouts of ISIS mastermind

EU unveils plan to force Facebook, Google and Amazon to pay their fair share of tax

Global Fisheries are collapsing. Some stocks depleted already by 85%

CIA middlemen and other spies used Panama Papers law firm to hide activities, report says

Most of World Bank's Private Investments Linked to Tax Havens

Canadian Government offers up to $5 Million for whistle blowers after the release of the Panama Papers.

A top African (Nigerian) prophet and televangelist - T.B. Joshuas shell company in offshore tax haven revealed in PanamaPapers

U.S. Drone Strike Kills 17 Civilians, Including First Responders In Afghanistan

President Obama: Libya aftermath 'worst mistake' of presidency

Number of wild tigers in the world rises 22%, For the first time in almost a century, there has been an increase in the global tiger population.

Some people appear to be born with 'superhero DNA' that cancels out genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis, say researchers.

Saudi Arabias top Islamic cleric says women would be exposed to evil if allowed to drive

Panama Papers: HMRC chief was partner at law firm that acted for David Cameron offshore fund

First air passengers land on China's blacklist for 'uncivilized behavior'

Television crew of the Australian edition of 60 minutes to be charged with kidnapping 2 children in Beirut.

Norway's Lutheran church votes in favor of same-sex marriage

An impeachment committee of Brazil's lower house of Congress voted 38-27 on Monday that there are grounds to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws to allegedly favor her re-election in 2014

One in every five suicide bombers used by Boko Haram in the past two years has been a child, a report by UNICEF says.

Brazil Deploying Troops, Barricades Before Impeachment Votes

U.S. to China: Abide by International Ruling on Disputed Islands

U.S. sources: N. Korea may be preparing mobile ballistic missile launch

UK - Dennis Skinner kicked out of Commons for Cameron jibe over tax

2016-04-13

First Interstellar Probe Mission Announced: Breakthrough Starshot Will Accelerate Tiny Probes to Alpha Centauri 20 Years After Launch

UK Jeremy Corbyn found to have overpaid tax... after the Sun newspaper tried to smear the Labour leader

Thailand to Punish Drunk Drivers by Sending them to Work at the Morgue

Sugar addiction 'should be treated as a form of drug abuse'

Uber says they gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12 million users

Wide Majorities of Young Arabs Despise ISIS, Want More Rights for Women, See U.S. as Ally

7.2 earthquake hits Myanmar-India border

Graduates earning less than those who did not go to university, research reveals : Those studying the creative arts and mass communication go on to be among the lowest paid graduates

David Cameron says it is 'unfair' to criticise British-controlled tax havens

Police Raid Mossack Fonseca headquarters in Panama

Greece sells countrys largest port to China

Its only April, and scientists are already stunned by Greenlands melting: The Danish Meteorological Institute reported that although its only April, nearly 12 percent of the ice sheets surface is covered with a layer of meltwater of a depth of at least a millimeter.

Kinder chocolate banned in Palestine because it contains alcohol

Swedish Turkish leader resigns after "death to Armenians" speech

Amsterdam airport evacuated for security threat

Ecuador's President Demands Release of All the Panama Papers

Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay more than $5 billion to settle charges it sold mortgages it knew were likely to fail during the housing bubble heydays of 2005-2007

Germany train crash: Controller 'distracted by computer game'

India's Supreme Court: Some Hindu temples/mosques ban on women is unacceptable and undermines the fight for gender equality.

Worlds largest coal company files for bankruptcy

Merkel stresses commitment to free speech in row over Erdoan poem

"Amid ominous warnings about threats to pollinators and the food crops they make possible, garden-care giant Ortho said Tuesday [12 April 2016] it will stop using a class of chemicals widely believed to harm the most important pollinators of all: bees."

IMF: Inflation in Venezuela is projected to increase 481% this year and by a staggering 1,642% next year

Malik Jalal asks to be taken off the Kill List.

Shanghai: People Who Fail to Visit Parents Can Be Sued, Will Have Credit Scores Lowered

2016-04-14

Saudi Arabia strips religious police of arresting power

Putin praises Obama for admitting mistakes in Libya: "Firstly, this fact confirms once again that the current US president is a decent person"

US corporations have $1.4tn hidden in tax havens, claims Oxfam report

Netherlands looks to ban all gas, diesel car sales by 2025

Oil industry knew of 'serious' climate concerns more than 45 years ago

In Macedonia after a wiretapping scandal the president pardons all politicians, protesters break into president's office

97% of scientists believe climate change is caused by humans, study finds

Over 1,000 Leaders Worldwide Call for End to "Disastrous" Drug War, Ahead of UN Special Session

The use of sniffer dogs at Manchester Airport has been criticised after dogs there failed to discover any Class A drugs in a seven-month period. But one dog, trained to detect illegal animal products, often found "small amounts of cheese or sausages" carried by holidaymakers, a report said.

Canadian government under fire over $12bn arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

A world-famous sports stars charity backed by Princess Beatrice and David Beckham is under investigation after the Mail found less than 1 per cent of the cash it raised in the UK has gone to good causes.

In a world first, a quadriplegic man can once again move his fingers after a chip was implanted in his brain.

Canada's new assisted suicide law will only apply to Canadians and permanent residents, precluding the prospect of suicide tourism.

USS Donald Cook buzzed again by Russian jets in Baltic

Germany Islam: CSU head Scheuer calls for German in mosques. The senior German conservative politician has said German must become the language of the country's mosques and that foreign funding from Turkey and Saudi Arabia must stop.

Canada's Liberal government accused of lying about $15-billion Saudi arms deal

Zika confirmed as a cause of microcephaly: CDC - Health

Islamic State destroys 2,000-year-old ancient gates of Nineveh near Mosul.

BP CEO to receive 20% pay rise to $20m/14m

US accuses Israel of using excessive force against Palestinians. Annual US report on human rights says nearly half of Palestinians killed by Israel were not carrying out attacks, and many times did not pose a threat to life

Swiss banking whistleblower claims the CIA are behind the Panama Papers leak

Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerrys Global Decryption Key. A high-level surveillance probe of Montreal's criminal underworld shows that Canada's federal policing agency has had a global encryption key for BlackBerry devices since 2010.

The worlds first museum dedicated to Chinas Tiananmen Square crackdown is to close its doors in Hong Kong, with organisers saying they believe they are being targeted for political reasons.

IMF warns of fresh financial crisis

NASA: Global warming now changing how Earth wobbles

2016-04-15

A witness to the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014 has told investigators that federal and municipal police were present when the youths were forced from their bus, according to the countrys national human rights commission.

N. Korea's early morning attempt to fire ballistic missile ends in failure: military

Putin admits Panama Papers 'accurate,' blames US

Greenland is melting so quickly, scientists thought they had made an error.

Half of all jobless in Sweden are foreigners

Nasa calls out climate change deniers on Facebook - Nasa had to tell a climate change denier that actually, fossil fuels aren't cooling the planet

Jamaica Weighs Replacing Queen Elizabeth and Legalizing Pot

Norway's $860 Billion Fund Drops 52 Companies Linked to Coal

Welcome to Czechia: Czech Republic adopts one-word name

A single Iraqi M-1 Abrams tank tears through Islamic State in Hit, earning the name "Beast"

Russia FSB raids offices of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov whose newspaper published 'Panama Papers'

The Worlds Only Tiananmen Massacre Museum Is Being Forced To Close

Spanish Minister Resigns After Alleged links to Panama Papers

A never-before-seen galaxy has been spotted orbiting the Milky Way.

Leonardo Da Vinci's living relatives found: painter, engineer, Oscar nominee

Saudi Arabia said on Thursday that $681m (479m) transferred into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razaks personal bank account was a genuine donation.

China blasts US human rights in tit-for-tat report: money corrupting politics and calling U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq a "gross violation of other countries' human rights." Also cited gun crime, excessive force by police and touched on prison system corruption, homelessness, racial conflict

Mexico's President Is Skipping the Big UN Drug Meeting That Mexico Demanded

Fossil fuels could be phased out worldwide in a decade, says new study.

Average house price in Canada jumps 15% to $508,567 in March

EU trade law could criminalise whistleblowers

The charity GiveDirectly has just announced it will begin testing universal basic income by spending an estimated $30 million on providing it to 6,000 Kenyans.

Fast food workers and union members have held a protest at a McDonald's restaurant at Disneyland Paris to demand higher wages and an end to the use of tax havens by multinational corporations

Indian tigers may replenish Cambodian forests

Second Canadian Province To Offer Free University Tuition to Low Income Students

2016-04-18

Brazilian congress votes to impeach president Dilma Rousseff

Ethiopia attack: 200 people dead, 100 children missing

UK Home Secretary Theresa May 'tried to alter drug report because she didnt like its conclusions' | UK Politics

More than 400 refugees drown in Mediterranean after boats capsize crossing from Egypt to Italy

Georgia detains six it says were trying to sell $200 million worth of uranium-238

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel backed his outspoken interior minister over comments that a significant number of Muslims had cheered the Brussels bombings, and said supporters of terrorism were a cancer that needed removing

US says it will respond strongly in event of another North Korea nuclear test.

Pharmaceutical company manager busted with $300 million worth of ephedrine, illegally used for production of methamphetamine in India .

Castro, 84, says Cuba's leaders are too old, proposes limits

Chinese Parents Outraged After Illnesses at School Are Tied to Pollution

Europe can't take in millions of migrants: ex-chancellor Kohl - Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has warned that Europe can't become "a new home" for millions of migrants, in a veiled criticism of incumbent Angela Merkel's liberal asylum policies.

Hands off our cherished BBC, say older voters - The government is not trusted by a majority of voters to protect the BBC. Labour has recently accused ministers of trying to intimidate the BBC as part of a wider attempt to limit scrutiny of [the government's] activities.

Germany's AfD takes overt anti-Islam stance: The right-wing Alternative for Germany has called for a ban on minarets and burqas ahead of its party congress

Pilot flying into Heathrow airport says 'drone hit plane'

Decriminalising Cannabis Would Hurt Islamic State, Mafia-Italy Prosecutor.

Sweden's housing minister quits after extremism row. Swedish minister Mehmet Kaplan resigns over dinner with Turkish fascist and comments about Israel

Brazil leader's ally admits impeachment defeat

Video of soldiers torturing woman prompts apology from Mexican defense chief

Hacking Your Phone - CBS News 60 Minutes - They were able to do it by exploiting a security flaw they discovered in Signaling System Seven -- or SS7. It is a little-known, but vital global network that connects phone carriers.

England's last remaining golden eagle feared to have died in Lake District

One of Italy's 100 most dangerous criminals has been arrested by detectives disguised as pizza boys who delivered food to his home as he was watching a football match.

UK firm 'employed former child soldiers' as mercenaries in Iraq; Former director acknowledges Aegis Defence Services may have recruited former child fighters in Sierra Leone

China releases dam water to ease SE Asia drought

Tusk says 'alarming' numbers of migrants in Libya

Trudeau: Respecting Saudi deal a 'matter of principle'

2016-04-19

British govt poo-poos winning 'Boaty McBoatface' name for ship - After Internet users overwhelmingly voted to christen Britain's new $300 million research ship "Boaty McBoatface" in an online naming poll, a govt official suggests the name won't be used.

A fifth of people with advanced melanoma have no sign of tumours in their body after treatment with a pair of immunotherapy drugs, a study shows.

7-Year-Old Boy Hit and Killed by UN Ambassador's Motorcade in Cameroon

At least 20 reported wounded in Jerusalem bus blast

At least 413 people are now known to have died in the earthquake that struck Ecuador, the country's government says.

German spies imply Snowden leaked files for Russia

Almost 500 Students Fall Ill at Posh Chinese School From Toxic Waste Dumped Nearby

60 Minutes crew facing more time in Lebanese prison on kidnapping charges

Why super-gonorrhoea is spreading & may soon be untreatable - Englands public health agency has launched an incident response after discovering more cases of gonorrhoea that are resistant to nearly all antibiotics.

Solar is now cheaper than coal, says India energy minister

State of Un-dress: North Korean dictator bans jeans and piercings in latest crackdown on Western fashion

Africa Sees 10-fold Increase in Number of Children Used for 'Suicide' Bombings

Brazil president says she won't quit after impeachment vote

Sea Shepherd Announces the Destruction of an Illegal Antarctic Fishing Fleet

Riot erupts in Cairo after policeman kills man over cup of tea

US, Germany: Golan Heights not part of Israel; The United States and Germany both criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus declaration that the Golan Heights will forever remain part of Israeli sovereignty.

Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S. has an obligation to push Israel toward peace with Palestinians despite a sometimes "overwhelming frustration" with Israel's government

Unprecedented global warming as 2016 approaches 1.5 C mark

Lausanne, Switzerland is joining the growing list of places looking to experiment with a universal basic income

In groundbreaking move, Europe bans 2 endocrine-disrupting weedkillers - Use of Amitrole & Isoproturon, herbicides that have been linked to cancer, infertility & birth defects, is prohibited from Sept 30

IDF discovers two-kilometer-long Hamas tunnel in Gaza border area

Cuba calls Obama visit 'an attack' as Communists defend ideology

Over 1,000 Leaders Worldwide Slam Failed Prohibitionist Drug Policies, Call for Systemic Reform

Mexican volcano spews ash two miles into the air over Puebla

Egypt floods Hamas tunnel, seven Palestinian trapped

2016-04-20

Pacific Bluefin Tuna: Population Drops 97% Due to Overfishing

France bill McDonald's $341 million for unpaid taxes on profits believed to have been funneled through Luxembourg, Switzerland

'Insult Turkey's Erdogan' contest set up by UK magazine

Great Barrier Reef: Half of natural wonder is dead or dying and it is on the brink of extinction, scientists say

Mexican marines forced captured cartel bosses to wear women's lingerie and kiss each other

Fidel Castro, almost 90, gives rare speech saying he will soon die.

Britain has exported 2.8bn of arms to Saudi Arabia since it started bombing Yemen in 2015

S. Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of 'vagrants' before 1988 Olympics

India says it still wants back British queen's crown jewel; India has repeatedly demanded that Britain return the 105-carat diamond, which was presented to Queen Victoria in 1850 and today sits on display as part of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

Mitsubishi also admits cheating fuel efficiency tests

Muslim preachers appointed by the Ministry of Justice distributing Islamist material to inmates | Extremist material was found in more than 10 prisons, condemning homosexuality, urging attacks against apostates, and advocating a hard line interpretation of Sharia law.

Mexico's president says he is open to legalizing medical marijuana

3 men in line for Brazilian presidency accused of corruption

Australian ranch the size of Ireland sold to Chinese investors

More Than Half of Russians Want the Soviet Union Resurrected

NY Times: Workers from two rival construction companies in China clashed using heavy machinery

Norwegian court rules mass killer Breivik's rights violated

Saudi Arabia takes out $10bn in bank loans

Saudi Arabia Deploys US Public Relations Army Against 9/11 Bill

At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul

Hong Kong politician: Beijing will send in troops if Hong Kong declares independence

Intel to cut 12,000 jobs globally - approximately 11% of its workforce.

61 endangered species facing extinction in N. Korea due to deforestation: World Bank

Drones and kites banned from flying over London during Obama visit

Some drug cartels now make more money from gold than cocaine

2016-04-21

Declassified memo shows multiple Saudi connections to 9/11 plotters: flight certificate of Al Qaeda operative found in envelope from the Saudi Embassy in DC

Canada to introduce pot legalization legislation in 2017

IS executes 250 women for refusing sexual jihad: report

Referendum on abolishing monarchy must be held when Queen dies, republicans demand

Islamic face veil to be banned in Latvia despite being worn by just three women in entire country

Watchdog says press freedom in decline in 'new era of propaganda'

Super rich who hide money in tax havens to be unmasked

Scientists resort to advertising to get Great Barrier Reef crisis in Queensland paper

David Cameron will not be investigated over off-shore trust and tax affairs by parliamentary watchdog

China deploying thousands of troops along North Korea border

Wall Street Journal Runs Full-Page Ad Denying Armenian Genocide

Jamaica Foreign Minister tells UN that scheduling cannabis as a dangerous drug with no medical use is outdated & out of touch & that the UN to needs to get its act together on weed

Private US firms are opposing India's space program from launching US satellites into space.

Iran's president criticized the use of thousands of undercover morality police in Tehran to report on young women who are not wearing a full Islamic hijab or those who play loud music in their cars. Some 7,000 men and women officers began reporting such violations in Tehran

Obama Blasts Saudi 9/11 Bill, Says It Opens U.S. to 'Being Continually Sued': If we open up the possibility that individuals and the United States can routinely start suing over governments, then we are also opening up the United States to being continually sued by individuals in other countries.

U.K. Issues Travel Warning About Antigay U.S. States

"China's President Xi Jinping has assumed a new U.S.-style joint role as commander in chief of the military, state media and analysts said Thursday, signaling the buildup of his authority as the country's most powerful leader in decades."

Failed N.K. missile launch damages launcher, causes human casualties: report

The Fallout From the Panama Papers in Hong Kong - The timing of an expos in a Hong Kong newspaper & an editors firing has angered some journalists.

Saudi government has vast network of PR, lobby firms in U.S.

VW to pay US customers $5,000 each to settle suit; VW would pay each customer affected by the carmaker's use of emissions test cheating software $5,000, in addition to paying to repair their vehicles

Confirmed as Oldest in World: Message in bottle, promising finder a shilling, bobs up - Thrown into North Sea in 1906 by marine biologist & found by German woman She followed note's instructions & mailed it to Marine Biological Assn. We found an old shilling & sent it to her.

Colombian president: prohibitionist drug policies have been a 'failure'

Philippine's presidential frontrunner tells US and Australia to cut their ties if he becomes president.

Hundreds of Palestinians march in support of Jerusalem bus bombing suspect

2016-04-22

The Netherlands to decriminalize insulting heads of state

Iranian women call on Western tourists to violate headscarf law to fight against oppression

Swiss army ready to act in worst case migrant scenario - Switzerland has said it is ready to mobilize up to 2,000 soldiers at border crossings should migrants continue to arrive into the country.

Russian engineers have used dogs and robots to successfully clear the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra of nearly 3000 explosive devices left behind by Islamic State.

2,400 year-old Roman-era mosaic found in southern Turkey says be cheerful, enjoy your life

Edward Snowden to sue Norway in a bid to secure free passage in Norway without being extradited to the US. He wants to come to Norway to accept a freedom of speech award.

Norwegian fighter jet helps save dying patient: Hospital staff call on air force F-16 to transport vital equipment from Trondheim hospital to patient 280 miles away

US Army captain foils Denmark school attack - A US Army captain in Iraq helped crack a plot to bomb a Danish school after gleaning crucial details from documents recovered from extremists, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

Olympic bike lane collapses in Rio; at least 2 die

Boris Johnson suggests 'part-Kenyan' Obama may have an 'ancestral dislike' of Britain

Barcelona Police Raid Arrests 39 Chinese Mafia: Frees 30 Trafficked Chinese Women

U.S. charges woman for exporting underwater drone technology to China

'Kindly send us names and quotes insulting our president': Ankara's Consulate asks Dutch citizens

Decriminalize all drugs, business and world leaders tell UN

U.S. soldier helps foil plot to blow up school in Denmark

Brussels bomber identified as jailer of foreign Isis hostages: Najim Laachraoui was Islamic State guard known as Abou Idriss, according to lawyer of former Syria hostage Nicolas Henin

Hong Kong bars may offer 'men's nights' after court deems ladies' night promos discriminatory

Mexico to Consider Cannabis Legalization

Turkish hotline for Erdogan insults angers Dutch

6.0 quake strikes Ecuador amid recovery efforts

Germany arrests two teenagers suspected of bombing Sikh temple

DE - Teen 'Salafists' arrested over bomb attack on Sikh temple

The UK has been using massive datasets to spy on innocent civilians for years

Blow for Pope's reforms as audit into Vatican finances forced to halt

Russian forces fired on Israeli military aircraft in Syria

2016-04-25

Missing Mexican Students Suffered a Night of Terror, Investigators Say: An international panel has provided details of the night in 2014 when Mexican police and gunmen abducted 43 students who have not been seen since.

TTIP: UK Government did just one assessment of trade deal and found it had 'lots of risks and no benefit'

Revealed: nearly all new diesel cars exceed official pollution limits - Health experts lambast deceitful carmakers as data suggests 97% of vehicles fail to meet NOx emissions standards in real-world conditions.

Australia May Take in African Rhinos to Prevent Extinction

Elephant poachers killed three rangers in Congo's Garamba wildlife park and wounded two other people including the Swedish park manager.

Australian MP sets river on fire, blames nearby fracking - An Australian MP is blaming seeping methane from a nearby fracking site for making it possible for him to set Queensland's Condamine River on fire.

Saudi Arabia just announced its plan to diversify away from oil

Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death

US President Barack Obama has dismissed North Korea's proposal to suspend nuclear tests if the US ends its annual military exercises with the South. On Sunday Mr Obama told reporters that the US did not take such a proposal seriously and that Pyongyang would "have to do better than that".

Far-right 'comes top in Austria vote'

Brazil has said it repatriated $125m (86m) last year siphoned off to foreign bank accounts by corrupt officials, politicians and businessmen.

Japan says China's maritime expansion making the world 'greatly worried' - Foreign Minister, speaking ahead of Beijing visit, said China is making the world worried with its military buildup & maritime expansion in the East & South China Seas.

ISIS Chief India recruiter killed in US drone strike.

Victims of a New African Massacre: Gorillas - With conflicts abating some in jungles of Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers finally have an updated gorilla head count one that confirms their fears. They've plummeted 77%. Less than 3,800 remain.

Australian politician sets river on fire to protest fracking

Indonesian navy impounds Chinese trawler for illegal fishing

Malta Prime Minister associate found selling Maltese (EU) citizenship through secret company in British Virgin Islands

Carbon Pricing Becomes a Cause for the World Bank and I.M.F. - And to our economists, who have been studying this for quite some time, there is an equally obvious consensus that putting a price on carbon pollution is by far the most powerful and efficient way to reduce emissions.

Bangladesh Bank hackers compromised SWIFT software, warning to be issued

China's Xi warns of foreign infiltration through religion

A Philippine presidential candidate who joked about raping a murdered Australian missionary widens his lead over his rivals despite backlash

Marguerite Barankitse, Burundi humanitarian who saved 30,000 lives, awarded inaugural Aurora Prize in Armenia worth $1.1 million.

A panel of international experts investigating the disappearance of 43 Mexican trainee teachers in 2014 says the government of President Enrique Pena Neto has hampered its inquiries.

Poland's ex-leaders say new govt is demolishing democracy - Prominent former leaders accuse right-wing govt of demolishing countrys democracy & its international standing. Urging lawmakers to disregard what they call the draconian new legislation the govt is proposing.

India revokes passport of tycoon who owes $1 billion

2016-04-26

England's Doctors Walk Out of Emergency Wards in First Ever All-Out Strike

Russia Arrests Scientologist for Stealing $2 Million and Giving to Church

Watchdog says press freedom in decline, 'new era of propaganda'

We are a Muslim country: Turkeys parliament speaker advocates religious constitution

8 bombers killed as their suicide vests went off prematurely in Kunduz - Khaama Press (KP)

Islamist militants behead Canadian man in southern Philippines

Hillsborough disaster: Police errors led to deaths

Sweden examining 'Islamic State threat' to Stockholm

Massive fire destroys Delhi's National Museum of Natural History

John Kerry condemns 'barbaric murder' of gay rights activist and US Embassy worker in Bangladesh

Mitsubishi fuel tests errors since 1991

Report: Rouhani requests removal of "Death to Israel" from Iranian missiles

Russia and Syria sign deals worth $850 million to restore Syrian infrastructure

ISIS pay scale revealed: Documents show salaries based on number of wives, sex slaves

Prions, the misfolded proteins that are known for causing degenerative illnesses in animals and humans, may have been spotted for the first time in plants.

French mayor seeks to block Saudi-funded mosque

ISIS-linked jihadis publish hit list targeting US State Dept. personnel

Tories vote against accepting 3,000 child refugees (U.K)

'Coat Hanger Rebels' Battle Bid to Outlaw Abortion - Proposed law to ban abortion sends 1000s of Poles onto the streets, coat hangers held aloft & drawn on posters. Activists have long decried abortion laws in Poland, which are among the most restrictive in Europe.

The city of Medellin, Colombia has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2016 for its transformation from a violent city to a model of urban innovation.

U.S. official: ISIS has cells in UK, Germany, Italy

Elephant dies from exhaustion after decades carrying tourists to Cambodia's Angkor Wat

Rise in CO2 has 'greened Planet Earth'

Japan warship visits the Philippines in sign of deepening security ties as row over South China Sea festers

Mexico's president proposes legalising medical marijuana (and up to 28 grams for recreational)

2016-04-27

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies'

Toddler's meningitis death nets guilty verdict against Alberta parents

Kim Jong Un orders missile launches when angry, source says

Saying that climate change is an ethical problem, the Danish Council on Ethics (Det Etiske Rd) has called for a climate tax on red meat.

Australia is buying 12 new submarines from France for $39 billion

'Largest ever lion airlift' flies 33 big cats back to Africa - Thirty-three lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are being flown back to their homeland to live out the rest of their lives in a private sanctuary in South Africa.

Venezuela orders 2-day work week to stave off power crisis

Bangladesh: A court has jailed two teachers in southern Bangladesh for making derogatory comments about Islam and the Prophet,the case began when students complained that the assistant teacher of a science class dismissed Quran as the word of God and said there was no heaven.

UK Labour MP Naz Shah claimed Israeli Jews should be relocated to America in a series of social media posts

Xi Jinping calls for greater tolerance of criticism online about Chinas government ... and comments about his remarks are barred or censored

A Canadian tribunal has ruled the Victoria Police Dept violated an officer's rights when they prevented him from advocating for drug legalization

Islamic State: Up to $800m of funds 'destroyed by strikes'

Sweden's Green Party 'infiltrated by Islamists'

Trudeau says Canada 'does not and will not pay ransom to terrorists' - Politics

Supreme Court allows 12-year-old Queensland girl to have abortion

Internet traffic to Wikipedia pages summarizing knowledge about terror groups and their tools plunged nearly 30 percent after revelations of widespread Web monitoring by the U.S. National Security Agency, suggesting that concerns about government snooping are hurting the ordinary pursuit of

Iran's Deployment of 7,000 Plainclothes 'Morality Police' Prompts Criticism.

Ofsted warns of Muslim school staff gender segregation

UN rejects Israel's claim over Syria's Golan Heights

[Germany] Computer virus found in Bavarian nuclear plant

The South African government has banned four country's sporting bodies (cricket, rugby, netball and athletics) from bidding to host global events because there aren't sufficient black players in national teams.

Reports: 11 found dead at military barracks in Cape Verde

Venezuela will have a 2 day work week until further notice

EU rejects Greek request for emergency summit.

Chinese Navy in South China Sea Draws U.S. Admiral's Praise: Rear Admiral Marcus Hitchcock says his ships have been engaged on almost a twenty four-seven basis with a completely professional Peoples Liberation Army Navy

2016-04-28

Airstrike destroys Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, killing staff and patients

People are increasingly identifying themselves as global rather than national citizens, according to a BBC World Service poll.

Paris terror suspect is a little jerk, his lawyer says - In an interview with the French daily Liberation, Sven Mary, Abdeslam's Belgian attorney, heaped opprobrium on his departing client, whom Mary described as having "the intelligence of an empty ashtray an abysmal emptiness."

Cheap red meat is helping kill off Glasgow's poorest men 30 yrs early - "You need to afford to buy quality food. If you cant get quality red meat, youre going to have an issue." Glasgow is notorious for astonishing gap in life expectancy between rich & poor. Now researchers think they know why.

Women protest in Nigeria, insisting we cannot be Islamised

100 days before 2016 Olympic games and Brazil is unraveling

Denmark considers tax on beef, other red meats to combat climate change

Iran calls for global destruction of weapons of mass destruction

South Korea becomes 1st Asian nation to sign space pact with US

North Korea launches missile; test fails

Austria votes to reject most migrants and refugees. The Austrian parliament on Wednesday adopted one of Europe's toughest asylum laws.

SpaceX is sending a Red Dragon Spacecraft to Mars in 2018

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully placed the seventh and last satellite of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation into the orbit

'Let the Rich Pay More Taxes': Thousands Take to Streets in Costa Rica. Public sector workers have a long list of demands that includes salary increases, higher taxes on the wealthy, and land rights for peasants.

Germany to give 1bn subsidy to boost electric car sales.

'All Belgians to get iodine pills' in case of nuclear accident

Oxygen Rates in Oceans are Falling

China successfully tests nuclear-capable hypersonic missile Pentagon sources: US intelligence fears that Beijing may use DF-ZF, capable of reaching speeds of over 11,000 kilometers per hour, to deliver nuclear weapons bypassing even the most complex of missile defense systems

Taking a stance sharply at odds with most American public health officials, the British Royal College of Physician urged smokers to switch to electronic cigarettes, saying they are the best hope in generations for people addicted to tobacco cigarettes to quit.

Turkish police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse people protesting a call for the country to adopt a religious constitution, chanting "Turkey will remain secular!"

India activates eight laser walls along border with Pakistan

Myanmar has banned lucrative logging operations as the newly-elected government of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi steps up a battle on deforestation, an environment official said on Thursday.

Philippine presidential frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte vows to pardon himself for murder

Syrian army seizes Israeli-made weapons on their way to ISIS

Colgate and Unilever operating detergent cartel in Australia to extort profits from consumers

2016-04-29

VW and Shell try to block EU push for electric cars

Teens who bombed Sikh temple in Germany were ISIS sympathisers

Helicopter firms are carrying out unauthorised sightseeing flights over the upper reaches of Mount Everest, Nepalese officials say. Sherpas have expressed concerns that vibrations caused by the helicopters could trigger avalanches.

Green Beret who beat Afghan official over alleged child assault to stay in Army

More than half a tonne of ancient Roman coins unearthed by Spanish construction workers

Norway moves to bar entry to 'hate preachers'

SpaceX breaks Boeing-Lockheed monopoly on military space launches

Woolly Wolf Spotted in Nepal Is Likely a New Species - By analyzing the animal's poop, scientists provide more evidence it's not a subspecies of the gray wolf.

About 16 U.S. military personnel, including one general officer, have been disciplined for mistakes that led to the bombing of a civilian hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 people

South American Catholic country, Colombia, legalises same-sex marriage

Australia's PM says "We can't afford to let the empathy that we feel for the desperate circumstances that many people find themselves in to cloud our judgment" as an Iranian Asylum Seeker burns himself to death in an Australian detention Centre on Nauru

Turkish embassy wants Swedish channel to withdraw film on Assyrian & Armenian genocide

Mosques in Germany should be placed under state supervision, according to a leading parliamentarian

Geoblocking: Consumers not breaching copyright by circumventing with VPN, says Govt agency

Belgian police knew since 2014 that Abdeslam brothers planned irreversible act Damning report into Belgian response to Paris attacks shows sloppiness and lack of resources

Helicopter carrying at least 13 people crashes near Bergen in Norway

SpaceX founder Elon Musk announces company plans to send capsule to Mars in 2018

US aircraft carrier denied entry to Hong Kong, American consulate official says - by China

Up in smoke: Kenya to torch millions of dollars worth of ivory; 105 tons of elephant ivory, 1.35 tons of rhino horn, exotic animal skins and other products such as sandalwood and medicinal bark

Chinese Investors Reeling After Wealth Management Firm's Collapse

Two journalists in Turkey have been sentenced to two years in jail for "insulting religious values" after they reprinted a controversial cover from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo above their columns.

Saudi Arabia 'not ready' to let women drive because of culture, not religion - prince

British Labour member suspended for saying Hitler supported Zionism

Peruvian Farmer Wins Monumental Battle Against U.S. Mining Giant

Tony Blair courted Chinese leaders for Saudi prince's oil firm

2016-05-02

Puerto Rico says it will default on Monday

Bitcoin's elusive founder reveals himself as computer scientist Craig Wrightand publishes info needed to verify claim

Leaked papers allege US intimidating EU over TTIP free trade deal: German media say secret documents reveal the US is pressuring the EU to approve a transatlantic free trade deal. The reports say Washington may block easier car exports if the EU doesn't open up its agricultural market

Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal

Berlin Brandenburg airport corruption 'whistleblower poisoned'

Looting On the Rise As Venezuela Runs Out of Food, Electricity: Food Producers Alert They Have Only 15 Days Left of Inventory amid Rampant Inflation

Health experts believe Australia is on the brink of virtually eradicating cervical cancer because of vaccine and testing breakthroughs

Overfishing puts $42bn tuna industry at risk of collapse

Former Catholic priest John Farrell sentenced to minimum 18 years for sexually assaulting 12 children

Some 30,000 people took part in a yearly May Day rally in Tokyos central Yoyogi park, protesting against the controversial TPP trade deal among other issues, national work unions federation Zenroren said in a statement on Sunday.

Puerto Ricans leaving island for U.S. in record numbers

Pakistan: Blasphemy case registered against six for desecrating Sikh man's turban

Deadly heat wave is shattering all-time records in Southeast Asia and India. The temperature in Sukhothai, Thailand spiked to 44.3 degrees Celsius, or 111.7 degrees Celsius

Buses set on fire after Saudi Binladin Group 'lays off 50,000 foreign workers'

UAE to build artificial mountain to improve rainfall

Massive oil theft by pirates costs Nigeria $1.5 billion every month

Israels controversial roof knocking tactic appears in Iraq. And this time, its the U.S. doing it.

Tips should go to workers, not employers, says government report | Charges on gratuities in restaurants, hotels and bars should be scrapped or limited, according to a review of tipping practices

44 claimed dead, maybe more. Others missing, injured, and feared to be captured, after suicide bombers attack soldiers in Somalia.

British firm's Korean unit apologises over poison deaths: Most of the victims were found to have used Oxy Ssak Ssak, a liquid humidifier disinfectant sold by Reckitt Benckiser in South Korea from 2001, that has been blamed for around 103 deaths -- mostly women and children

Greenpeace publishes leaked TTIP documents #TTIPLeaks

The mosquito-borne Zika virus may be even more dangerous than previously thought, scientists in Brazil say.

China Is Reportedly Training a 'Maritime Militia' to Patrol the Disputed South China Sea

No TTIP if agriculture is threatened: France

Turkish artillery, US drones kill 34 ISIS militants in northern Syria

2016-05-03

France will press its G7 partners this month to launch an "irreversible" process to control the prices of new medicines, part of a global drive to make life-saving drugs more affordable

Iceland president's wife linked to offshore tax havens in leaked files | News

The United States has told Pakistan it will have to finance the purchase of U.S. F-16 fighter jets itself after members of the U.S. Congress objected to the use of government funds to pay for them

Nine years of censorship - Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work & the govt policy that restricted communications.

It's not a crime if hungry poor steal food, Italy says

The Super Rich Were the First to Bail During the Financial Crisis - Bloomberg

Three Earth-like planets discovered orbiting dwarf star

Turkish journalists accuse Erdoan of media witch-hunt

Berta Cceres murder: 4 men arrested for Honduran activist's death - 2 are linked to company building hydroelectric dam which Cceres was fighting. Cceres, who last yr won the Goldman environmental prize for her work opposing the Agua Zarca dam, was shot dead at her home 2 months ago.

Mass brawl erupts in Turkish parliament over constitutional amendment

French journalist infiltrates jihadist cell for six months

Kenyan President personally sets fire to huge ivory stockpile to show countries commitment to combating poachers.

EU may fine countries for rejecting refugees

India's hottest town reaches 48.5 C (120 F) in a heat wave.

Zika Virus Birth Defects May Be 'Tip of the Iceberg', Experts Say

EU to grant Turkey visa-free travel

Climate to inspire exodus from Middle East, North Africa in coming decades.Temperature and sea level aren't the only things expected to rise as a result of climate change. As heat becomes more extreme in some parts of the world, scientists expect a significant rise in the number of climate refugees.

A Copenhagen art exhibit planning to portray two of the Brussels suicide bombers and one of the Paris Bataclan attackers as martyrs has been reported to police for encouraging terrorism.

An investigative economist has crunched 45 years of official statistics to discover just how much kleptocrats have plundered from 150 mostly poor nations.

Cheering Cubans greet first cruise ship from US in decades

Monsanto Set To Fight Argentina Over Royalties Owed By Farmers

New Zealander William Trubridge breaks the world record for deepest freedive at 122 metres

Hamas says its ties with UK Labor's Corbyn 'painful hit for the Zionists': Hamas praise of Corbyn coincides with a media firestorm in the United Kingdom surrounding recent revelations of extremist anti-Israel and anti-Jewish expressions by Labor members

Labour suspends three councillors over Israel comments

Brazil judge orders WhatsApp blocked, affecting 100 million users

2016-05-04

Wildfire destroying Fort McMurray, most of city evacuated

Self-proclaimed "Sharia Police" in Germany to stand Trial on the grounds of violating laws against wearing uniforms with political messages

Doubts rise over TTIP as France threatens to block EU-US deal

Seven of the world's biggest banks have agreed to pay $324 million to settle a private U.S. lawsuit accusing them of rigging an interest rate benchmark used in the $553 trillion derivatives market

Jewish man handed life in prison for grisly murder of East Jerusalem teen. The Israeli ringleader in the killing of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned to death in 2014 has been sentenced to life in prison.

King Felipe of Spain dissolves parliament, clearing way for a rerun of national elections, for the first time since the countrys return to democracy in the late 1970s.

Clashes in Paris as police try to remove migrants occupying empty school

Australia's first openly gay Muslim Imam has started a support group for gay Muslims

Suicide bomber taken down by poisoned arrow

Kenyan police bust ISIS cell plotting large-scale biological attack

Israel stops four tons of rocket chemicals from being smuggled into Gaza

Attacks on Hospitals Are 'War Crimes,' UN Chief Says

Millions of dead fish on Vietnam's shores raise industrial pollution fears

Iran will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a passageway through which a third of the world's oil is transported, unless the US and its allies stop "threatening" it, a senior Iranian military commander has said.

Apple no longer has exclusive rights to the iPhone name in China

Senior Egypt Official Blames Tom and Jerry, Video Games for Violence Across Middle East

As Asia's rice crop shrivels due to drought, food security fears resurface.A heatwave is sweeping top rice exporter India, while the No.2 supplier Thailand is facing a second year of drought.

Islamic State kills U.S. Navy SEAL in northern Iraq

Iranian cartoonist jailed for insulting members of parliament released

Number of children in Japan declines for 35th straight year to hit record low

Norway's $872-billion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said it would press U.S. oil majors ExxonMobil and Chevron to do more to report on the risks of climate change.

European Commission says EU states refusing to take refugees will have to pay 250,000 euros per person

Scientists win $3 million for detecting Einstein's waves

The founder and leader of the German anti-Islam movement, Pegida, has been convicted of inciting racial hatred. Lutz Bachmann escaped a prison sentence but was fined 9,600 (7,600; $11,000) for calling refugees "scum"

A company owned by Google has been given access to the healthcare data of up to 1.6 million patients from three hospitals run by a major London NHS trust.

2016-05-05

India plans to spend $6 billion on creating new forests

Isis members can now be stripped of Australian citizenship

David Cameron has no intention of withdrawing his claim that Donald Trump was divisive, stupid and wrong to call for a ban on Muslims entering the US, Downing Street has said.

Kenya May End Forced Anal Exams of Suspected Gays

US spent $1.4B+ on abstinence programs in Africa over 12 yrs. Study finds programs failed.

Top Saudi cleric: Homosexuals should not be punished

Turkeys prime minister resigns amid high-level rifts and deepening crises

A Colombian sailor has been rescued after spending two harrowing months lost at sea, witnessing the deaths of his three shipmates and forced to eat seagulls for survival, U.S. Coast Guard Honolulu says.

Thousands of Tons of Dead Creatures Hit Chile's Beaches.Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Nio freak weather phenomenon have clogged Chile's Pacific beaches in recent months.

Scientists uncover 71 million year old dinosaur fossils during Antarctic expedition

Royal Navy fires warning shot at Spanish patrol boat hassling US submarine near Gibraltar

Italy rules that stealing food not a crime if desperately hungry

UN official to Israel: You must criminalize torture

Most of Greek bailout money went to banks: study

A Sydney woman who mistakenly had $4.6 million transferred into her bank account has been arrested at Sydney International Airport while attempting to leave the country

Danny Healy-Rae labelled 'Ireland's Sarah Palin' after telling Dail climate change debate 'only God controls the weather'

105 female students escape abduction in Nigeria

Brazil top court suspends parliament speaker Eduardo Cunha, who led impeachment drive against President Rousseff

IDF general in bombshell speech: Israel today shows signs of 1930s Germany - Israel News

Sisi says Western human rights values dont apply in Egypt

Muslims in Punjab, Pakistan funded the construction of a Catholic church

Bangladesh Islamist party leader to hang for war crimes

Germany gives go-ahead to relax rules on medical marijuana. Paraplegics and MS patients can heave a sigh of relief: doctors will soon be able to prescribe medical marijuana to relieve pain or symptoms. Berlin gave the go-ahead to relax rules on therapeutic cannabis use.

Mdecins sans Frontires to pull out of World Humanitarian Summit stating that the summit has become a fig-leaf allowing systematic violations, by states above all

Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkeys Prime Minister, Is Expected to Be Replaced

2016-05-06

'We need a revolt against the fossil fuel industry': Tesla chief says educating the public on climate issues is essential in countering oil and gas lobbys influence over big political decisions

Fort McMurray wildfire grows 8 times larger as battle continues

Pope Francis urges Europe to return to postwar principles: What has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the champion of human rights, democracy and freedom?

Over 70% of Germans doubtful on EU-US TTIP pact. Merkel, meanwhile, reiterated her government's official position Wednesday, saying that she would "do everything to conclude the negotiations", preferably by the end of 2016.

Fort McMurray fire now too large, too fierce to stop without rain

The targeting and killing of people with albinism in Malawi has a reached a crisis point after two more people were killed and their bodies mutilated, a leading acivist has said, just days after the UN said the community faced systematic extinction

German report: Bailout has saved banks, not Greece

35 tons of dead fish wash up in China lake

Oil prices surge above $45 amid Canadian wildfire

Turkish journalist Can Dndar escapes attempted shooting outside court

Plans for coal-fired power in Asia are 'disaster for planet' warns World Bank | Experts have offered stark warnings that proposed power plants in India, China, Vietnam and Indonesia would blow Paris climate deal if they move ahead

Most of Greek bailout money went to banks - according to new study by the European School of Management and Technology

U.S. To Ship Peanuts To Feed Haitian Kids; Aid Groups Say 'This Is Wrong'

Venezuela accuses US of conspiring to topple Nicolas Maduro

Dozens reported killed and wounded by air strike on Syrian refugee camp near Turkish border, activists say

Palmyra hosts Russian concert after recapture from ISIS

Blanket ban on psychoactive substances in England and Wales to begin on 26 May

Firefighting plane crashes in Northwest Alberta while combating the fires in Alberta

Bulgaria t return migrants to turkey from June 1 | Bulgaria has become the first EU member state to sign a protocol with Ankara to set in place procedures for sending illegal migrants back to Turkey starting from next month.

Haiti had Zika months before Brazils 2015 outbreak. A fever epidemic in 2014 in Haiti wasnt chikungunya but Zika. University of Florida scientists tested cultures from Haitian schoolchildren. Funding needed to determine impact of mosquito-borne Zika virus.

US sets deadline for Assad's transition from power to August 1st

Saudi forces engage and kill suspected ISIS fighters near the holy city of Mecca.

Go your own way, Erdogan tells EU

Spain reports 1st case of Zika-linked microcephaly

Amazon and eBay hosting ads for banned invasive species - Unregulated traders are using the sites to sell some of the worlds most invasive plants, with potentially devastating impacts on ecosystems

2016-05-09

Tax havens have no justification, say top economists, calling for their abolition | More than 300 economists are urging world leaders at a London summit this week to recognise that there is no economic benefit to tax havens, demanding that the veil of secrecy that surrounds them be lifted.

Russia offers water bombers and specialists to help fight Fort McMurray forest fires

CBS report: Russian gold medalists used steroids at Sochi Olympics

Panama paper trail goes online with massive searchable database

About a fifth of homes have been destroyed in Fort McMurray, a Canadian city ravaged by a huge wildfire, the local MP has told the BBC.

Israel seizes Palestinian family's land by secretly altering documents

After the Pacific Ocean swallows villages and five Solomon Islands, a study blames climate change: The study is the first time anyone has concretely analyzed the loss of Solomon Island shoreline in the context of global warming, they say.

Panama Papers Source Wants Whistleblower Immunity to Aid Law Enforcement

North Korea's Leader Just Announced He's Getting a Promotion, Nukes Are Ready

Lightning kills four elephants in Sri Lanka - Elephants are venerated in the mainly Buddhist country and they are a highly protected species. Elephant deaths must be investigated and death certificates issued before disposing of the carcasses.

Japanese court rules vagina figurines 'pop art', not obscenity

US struggles to convince Iraqis it doesn't support IS

Nasa Releases Dozens of Patents Into the Public Domain

Turkish President Accuses Europe of 'Dictatorship,' Cruelty'

Philippines investigates Shell and Exxon over climate change | A legal case will consider if the emissions of 50 fossil fuel companies violate the human rights of those hit by extreme weather

Morning after pill: British women forced to pay five times more than European peers for contraceptive: 'As a society we embrace sex for pleasure, but expect women to march a walk of shame, and pay through the nose,' says the British Pregnancy Advisory Service

Austrian chancellor steps down

In its minority report, the Labour Party expressed strong opposition to the TPP, saying the Government had failed to effectively represent the long-term interests of New Zealanders

Panama Papers reveal middlemen between Canada and offshore secrets

Offshore finance: more than 12tn siphoned out of emerging countries

Nearly half of Europeans in poll want own votes on EU, like UK

66 Activists Arrested in Climate Change Protest in Australia

NASA Releases First-Ever Global Topographic Model Of Mercury

Top palm oil producer sues green group over deforestation allegations: Malaysian palm giant lost business after it was suspended from the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oils certification scheme over deforestation allegations in Indonesia

Red Cross: Curaao is ready for possible Venezuelan refugees - Curaao Chronicle

2016-05-10

Panama Papers include dozens of Americans tied to financial frauds

President Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month: The trip will mark the first visit by a U.S. president to the site since American forces dropped atomic bombs on that city and on Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Knife attacker 'shouting Allahu akbar' seriously injures four at Munich train station

Russia Builds a Tunnel to Save Endangered Amur Leopards, Tigers: The Narvinskii Pass tunnel allows the endangered big cats to avoid a deadly road as they move between Russia and China

China scrambles 2 fighter jets and 3 warships as U.S. sails warship near Chinese-claimed reef

UK Police apologise for making fake suicide bomber shout 'Allahu Akbar' in Trafford Centre counter-terror exercise: Greater Manchester Police said it was unacceptable to use a phrase 'which so vocally linked the exercise with Islam'

"Our people" planned 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks: ex-chief of Pakistan's intelligence service ISI

Scientists warn 21% of plants at risk of extinction

World Cup Winner, Rivaldo: I advise everyone with plans to visit Brazil for the Olympics in Rio to stay home."

Trudeau turns down Russian, U.S., Mexican offers to help battle Fort McMurray wildfire

Rousseff impeachment vote 'annulled'

Londons New Mayor: I Wont Be Able To Visit The U.S. If Donald Trump Wins: Ill be stopped from going there by virtue of my faith, Sadiq Khan said.

15yo discovers an hidden maya city by analyzing Mayan constellations

Christian refugees in Germany fear violence by other migrants, report says

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the Roman streets Saturday to protest against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Holding signs that said "Stop TTIP" and "Not capital, but people,"

Self-harm the 'biggest killer of people in their early 20s' in the UK

Mexican judge rules drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman can be extradited to US

New Milestone: 95% of German electricity provided by renewables on Sunday at 11 AM

An unnamed former Facebook employee told Gizmodo that workers "routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers," according to Gizmodo, while "artificially" adding other stories into the trending list.

Two Afghan terrorists arrested in Bari (Italy) were planning attacks in London, Rome and Bari

Looming catastrophe in South Africa as unemployment climbs to more than 26 per cent

A German court has rejected a bid by Turkeys president for an injunction against the head of one of Germanys biggest publishing houses in a standoff over a satirical poem.

Jean Chretien says criminal records for pot possession 'completely unacceptable'

Rodrigo 'The Punisher' Duterte claims victory in Philippines election | The pugnacious 71-year-old surged from outsider to the top of surveys with cuss-filled vows to kill tens of thousands of criminals

India Wants To Kick Its Dirty Coal Habit: The countrys power ministry plans to shut down aging coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 37 gigawatts of power

2016-05-11

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key thrown out of Parliament for disobeying the Speaker during an exchange about the Panama Papers, which have revealed links between Mossack Fonseca and New Zealand's secretive foreign trust industry

Former Brazilian soccer star: Don't come to the Olympics

Two-thirds of Germans want Merkel out at next election: A poll published on Tuesday shows that just under two-thirds of Germans do not want Chancellor Angela Merkel to run for office again in elections next year.

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull named in Panama Papers

Mayor Jokes About Rape, Brags About Death Squads, Gets Elected President of the Philippines

Queen says Chinese officials were 'very rude' during Xi Jinping's state visit

Ex-N. Korea army head, who Seoul said was executed, is alive

David Cameron calls Nigeria and Afghanistan 'fantastically corrupt'

Italy: ISIS Fighters Are Posing as Refugees in Our Camps

Drones will take $127bn worth of human work by 2020, PwC says

The world is hurtling towards an era when global concentrations of carbon dioxide never again dip below the 400 parts per million (ppm) milestone, as two important measuring stations sit on the point of no return.

Kepler telescope discovers 100 Earth-sized planets

French government to use special powers to invoke labor reform: hotly contested pro business measures pushed through lower house without vote

British Hacker Wins Court Battle Over Encryption Keys

Scientists suspect that chunks from the bottom of the North American tectonic plate, which is the upper portion of the mantle, are peeling off and sinking.

Central banks are loading up on gold

New era of 'super fires' as climate change triggers hotter, drier weather.The six worst fire seasons since 1960 have all occurred since 2000, according to the U.S. report. Since 2000, many Western states have experienced the largest wildfires in their state's history.

Zeenat Shahzadi is believed to be the first female journalist "forcibly disappeared" in Pakistan. Her family and human rights groups say she was abducted by security agencies who have been accused of illegally detaining thousands of people under the guise of anti-terrorism operations.

Two major media companies in New Zealand have announced they are in merger talks, raising the prospect that the entire country could be left with just one newspaper group.

France studying possible ban on import of U.S. Shale gas - minister

CEO of Russia's leading Oil Company Rosneft, Igor Sechin: Say Goodbye to OPEC

Global warming milestone about to be passed and there's no going back: Cape Grim, Tasmania monitoring site jointly run by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology will witness the first baseline reading of 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Proposed Internet surveillance will give dictators ideas, claims campaign.Each advert in the campaign shows how the group imagines a dictator would react favourably if the IP Bill, which has been nicknamed the "Snooper's Charter", becomes law

Chinas total wind power generation to triple by 2030, increase from approximately 149 GW in 2015 to over 495 GW

Erdogan says Europe a safe haven for political wings of terrorist groups

2016-05-12

India has slashed prices of 54 essential medicines by up to 55%, including commonly used drugs for cancer, hypertension, diabetes and other heart disorders.

Rio Olympics could spark 'full blown global health disaster', say Harvard scientists

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is to face trial after the Senate voted to impeach and suspend her.

Saudi officials were 'supporting' 9/11 hijackers, commission member says

60% of Brazilian Senators Participating in Todays Impeachment Vote Have Pending Legal Cases Against Them, Watchdog Says.

Italy says 'yes' to gay civil unions in historic vote, after a long and bitter debate that has pitted the Catholic Church against PM Renzi. Italy is the last major western European country to recognize civil unions for same sex couples.

MP recites explicit Erdogan bestiality poem on live TV

Venezuela Unleashes Tanks as 4 Killed, 1,200 Arrested

Almost 400 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with a collective market capitalisation of 225bn are based in offshore havens connected to the UK. Research shows that 389 companies trading their shares in London are registered in British overseas territories or crown protectorates.

A federal judge has sharply rebuked the Pentagon for the process by which it concealed hundreds of Bush-era photos showing US military personnel torturing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, suggesting Barack Obama may have to release even more graphic imagery of abuse

Catholic Diocese in India Reinstates Priest Who Admitted Child Sex Abuse

US missile defense site goes live in Romania, angering Russia as NATO bolsters defenses

Plane Debris Confirmed As Being From MH370

US government suspends aid programs in Turkey

'Lord of the Rings' Volcano Has Become Active, Warns NZ

Tokyo Olympics: 1.3m payment to secret account raises questions over 2020 Games

Islamic State yearly oil revenue halved to $250 million: U.S. official

U.S. activates Romanian missile defense site, angering Russia

Brazil prepares to roll back green laws - Amidst the turmoil of the presidential impeachment process, members of Brazils Congress are set to dismantle environmental protection laws.

Suspects in the disappearance of 43 Mexican college students have claimed that they were tortured into making confessions, according to court documents obtained by the the U.S. international news agency Associated Press.

11 Tons of Bomb-Making Chemical Found Under Fruit Crates

U.S. cities on Mexican border prep for 3,000 Cubans

Middle East U.N. slams Turkey for alarming reports of human rights abuses

Londons Muslim mayor reaffirms plan for Israel trip

Brutal justice of the mob in Venezuela: Venezuelan Mugger is beaten to the floor and burned alive by lynch mob after stealing from people

2016-05-13

Declassified documents detail 9/11 commission's inquiry into Saudi Arabia, Chilling story of the Saudi diplomat who, many on the commissions staff believed, had been a ringleader of a Saudi government spy network inside the US that gave support to at least two of the 9/11 hijackers

Ontario parents who object to vaccines could be forced to take a class in science of immunization.

Scientists have found a microbe that does something textbooks say is impossible: It's a complex cell that survives without mitochondria.

The Kremlin is considering whether or not to release some 20,000 hacked Clinton emails reportedly in its possession; Russian security services apparently obtained the emails as part of their investigation into the Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar

Nearly 90,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Spill Into Gulf of Mexico

ISIS massacre 14 Real Madrid fans at supporters club in Baghdad

Chinese Cops Are Temporarily Patrolling the Streets of Rome & Milan - A new experimental program put international police at Italy's tourist hubs to help the influx of Chinese travelers

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divests entire holding in BP: Worlds largest health charity sells its $187m stake in the oil giant in a move welcomed by fossil fuel divestment campaigners

Luxembourg Is Set to Become the Most Animal-Friendly Country in the World - Proposed new animals rights legislation which states animals are sentient beings with certain rights, who can experience anguish has been described as the most progressive in the world.

Chinese province has ordered kindergartens to enforce a ban on religious activity after a video was posted online of a little girl reciting part of the Koran at a nursery school

Dutch professor renounces Turkish award, brands Erdogan 'de-facto dictator'

Venezuela: Countless Wounded after 5,000 Loot Supermarket

British astronaut Tim Peake has sparked an orbital kerfuffle after he tweeted a picture showing a crack in the International Space Station's window. It was caused by space debris.

Germany Says It Will Rescind Convictions for Homosexuality: The justice minister, Heiko Maas, said the government would put forward legislation that would overturn the convictions and allow for financial compensation to the men who suffered under the legislation

Dozens of Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, including at least 15 medal winners, were part of a state-run doping program

Brazil's acting president used to be US intel informant - WikiLeaks

Fears grow as temperatures double at massive New Zealand volcano featured in Lord of the Rings films

Merkel warns of return to nationalism unless EU protects borders

Russia to ban all Turkish fruit and vegetable imports next week: Interfax

Egypt 'in denial' over hidden chambers in Tutankhamuns tomb - Scientists accuse government of suppressing data disproving claims that burial site contains Nefertitis remains

N.Korea deploying ICBMs near Chinese border

Child sex abuse victim in 20s euthanised after suffering irreparable PTSD

Chinese state-owned firms claim 'sovereign immunity' in US courts with foreign ministry's backing

MPs vote against 'emergency' use of banned bee-harming pesticides - National Farming Unions application for banned pesticide use on oil seed rape crops is rejected as govt rules against neonicotinoids for the first time

12,000 people trapped in Palestinian refugee camp in Syria by bombs, shells and bullets: Save the Children says camp cut off by heavy shelling, with supplies of food and medicine running out

2016-05-16

Iran is arresting models who pose without headscarves on Instagram

April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs. 2016 will be hottest year on record

Erdoan pictured as Hitler on Turkish Embassy in Berlin

Venezuelan President decrees emergency, seizes factories

New move to impeach Tony Blair over Iraq War gains cross-party support

Divers Discover 'Spectacular' Cargo of Ancient Shipwreck in Caesarea Harbor - Includes bronze statues & 1000s of coins bearing the images of Roman emperors Constantine & Licinius. 1,600 yr old wreck discovered by divers in ancient harbor of Caesarea.

Thousands of South African gold miners launch a multi-million-dollar class action lawsuit against mining companies over deadly lung diseases.

An online al Qaeda magazine is calling for jihadis to damage the US economy by killing business leaders and entrepreneurs, according to analysts.

Half of fish caught in New Zealand waters not in official records. Reconstructed marine catch totalled 38.1 million tonnes between 1950 and 2010, which is 2.7 times the 14 million tonnes reported to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Former CIA agent admits involvment in Nelson Mandela's arrest

Police in Colombia seize more than 8 tons of cocaine in "largest ever" drug bust

Luxembourg prosecutors seek jail time for whistleblowers

India successfully test-fires indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile

North Korea releases Russian yacht - detention was a misunderstanding North Korean officials said

Car fires turning into a Dutch plague, 100s torched in recent months

More pupils than expected in 'illegal schools' across UK, mainly Islamic and Jewish, Ofsted reports.

Duterte vows to kill criminals and reintroduce hanging in Philippines - What I will do is urge Congress to restore (the) death penalty by hanging, Duterte, 71, told a press conference in Davao on Sunday. He also said he would give security forces shoot-to-kill orders against organised criminals

China waging war against ancient superstitions that convinced a man to steam his wife to death

Magnitude 5.6 / Shindo 5 earthquake shakes Ibaraki, Japan. No tsunami warning issued.

China cyber probes show electronic warfare focus, Pentagon says: China's military conducted cyber probes and intrusions against US networks to support intelligence collection and electronic warfare even as it continues an "extraordinarily rapid" expansion of long-range precision strike capabilities

Google (GOOGL.O) faces a record antitrust fine of around 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) from the European Commission in the coming weeks, British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph said. The European Union has accused Google of promoting its shopping service in Internet searches

Al Qaeda Turns to Syria, With a Plan to Challenge ISIS

Scientists Seek To Bring Dead Brains Back To Life

Police are facing severe terror threat from IRA: Rank-and-file officers in Northern Ireland on a high state of alert with 52 bomb attacks over the past 12 months

Police sealed off a hotel in Ankara on Sunday, preventing dissidents in Turkey's nationalist opposition from holding a party congress that could jeopardize President Tayyip Erdogan's plans for more power

2016-05-17

After almost 18 years of circling Earth, the International Space Station completed its 100,000th orbit on Monday.

Pakistans Billion Tree Tsunami gains momentum, hopes to achieve target of One Billion new saplings plantation by end of next year.

The new Brazilian presidents first pick for science minister was a creationist. He chose a soybean tycoon who has deforested large tracts of the Amazon rain forest to be his agriculture minister. And he is the first leader in decades to have no women in his Cabinet.

Syria Army killed over 200 ISIS militants in 3-day long offensive in Deir Ezzor

Israel Antiquities Authority announces the biggest archaeological find in 30 years -- A 1600-year-old Roman shipwreck filled with bronze statues and coins bearing the face of Constantine the Great.

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has outlined plans to quadruple the proportion of affordable housing being built in the capital.There is no point in building homes if they are bought by investors in the Middle East and Asia, I want to give first dibs to Londoners.

Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity

Australian Energy Boss Emails Climate-Change Skeptic Handbook.Prominent businessman and donor to the Australian Liberal Party, accidentally emailed hundreds of politicians and elites a 16-page handbook.The handbook explains how to argue that climate-change is not human-made.

Prominent Oceans Scientist Fails to Disclose Funding From Fishing Industry

Revealed: Saudi Arabia owns $117 billion of U.S. debt

North Korea is last place Americans should travel to warns US State Department

New Snowden Leak Reveals Key NSA Role in Guantanamo Torture

Pirate Party set to be kingmaker in next Icelandic parliamentpolls

ADL to recognize Ottoman Empires massacre of Armenians as genocide: We believe that remembering and educating people about any genocide Armenian, the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda and others is a necessary tool to prevent future tragedies

Bell offers $1M settlement to Yellowknife man, northern customers over 911 fees. a class-action lawsuit against the company in 2007 over its 75-cent monthly fee for 911 emergency phone service a service that doesn't exist

US scientists have cloned the Zika virus - an important step towards fast-tracking a vaccine against the disease.

Panama Papers reveal George Soros' deep money ties to secretive weapons, intel investment firm

Pope criticizes West for trying to export own brand of democracy to Iraq, Libya

Court condemns tobacco giant Philip Morris over secret bid to sue Australia over plain packaging laws

[Russia] Cossacks beat up anti-corruption leader Alexey Navalny and others as police are slow to intervene

Denmark pushes ahead with hate preacher blacklist

Turkish police seal off hotel to halt dissident opposition congress

Australian teen accused of plotting terror attack in Sydney

Venezuela gives sweeping 'emergency' powers to security forces

World Health Organization study: "during the last five years, unmarried women were less likely to have an abortion than married women. Roughly 73% of abortions were obtained by married women."

2016-05-18

Scientists Find A Weak Spot In HIV That May Pave the Way to a Vaccine

Muslim states block 11 LGBT groups from attending UN Aids meeting

Caribbean islands warned as Venezuela collapses

US raises China steel taxes by 522%

German court bans public recital of anti-Erdogan poem

Mexican President Proposes Legalizing Gay Marriage

Iran wants U.S. to pay for 63 years of 'spiritual and material damage'

Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes western Ecuador

Dutch researchers are learning how to grow food on Mars and the Moon -- "Especially in the Martian soil, plants were growing very fast and very good. They even started to flower, something that we never anticipated"

Muslim states block gay groups from U.N. AIDS meeting: A group of 51 Muslim states has blocked 11 gay and transgender organizations from attending a high-level meeting at the UN next month on ending AIDS, sparking a protest by the US, Canada and the EU.

One of the missing Chibok girls has been found in Nigeria, activists say - the first since they were taken by Boko Haram militants two years ago.

Russia to revive missile trains as U.S. launches European missile defense system

Zika virus could spread to Europe in coming months, says WHO

Russias new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70 percent accuracy

Last stand for Europe's remaining ancient forest as loggers prepare to move in | Government plans to fell Polands Biaowiea forest have divided families, led to death threats against green campaigners and allegations of an environmental coup by government and state timber interests

Google may face a fine of around 3 billion by the European Commission (EC) for manipulating search results to promote its own shopping comparison service,

Four in ten Australians admit they have drunk so much they've vomited - half want alcohol taxes increased to pay for alcohol-related treatment.

GM food is generally safe for humans and the environment, report says

Mexico's President, Enrique Pena Nieto, has proposed constitutional reform to legalise same-sex marriage across the country.

Violence against labor activists remains rampant in Colombia since U.S. trade deal took effect, U.S. watchdog says.

Spain's debt now worth more than value of the economy

Obama to Lift U.S. Sanctions Against Myanmar

Australia has laid off a prominent scientist as part of cuts to its national science agency that are mainly aimed researchers studying global sea rise and climate change.

Rodrigo Duterte says he's killed 1,700 crooks; pledges 100,000 dead in 1st 6 months as president.

TTIP's definition of Feta cheese is getting more attention than saving the NHS: French President Franois Hollande threatened to veto TTIP if products made in specific regions cannot retain exclusivity over their names

2016-05-19

EgyptAir Flight MS804 disappears from radar during Paris-Cairo flight

McDonald's fish: Row over sustainability 'cover-up'- The document shows that the government was aware of made-up data and illegal practices such as the dumping of vast quantities of unwanted fish. There are also concerns that unlawful fishing in NZ waters is threatening the world's rarest dolphin

Pope condemns "bloodsuckers" who exploit poor workers: Pope says making "slaves" out of workers and setting unfair contracts is a mortal sin

India just proposed an oil-for-drugs deal with Venezuela, Country is facing severe shortages of even basic supplies such as food, water and medicines, desperately short of medical supplies, lacking as much as 80 percent of what it needs to treat its population

Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone: Zero emission milestone reached as country is powered by just wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity for 107 hours

Bayer offers 42 Billion to purchase Monsanto. Agricultural mega merger looms.

Authorities shut down secret Islamic school in Brussels: report

Iran tells Hezbollah to stop attacking Israel, turn attention to Saudi Arabia

Egyptian officials confirm that EgyptAir flight crashed with 56 persons on board

Ninety-two children and three teachers were poisoned in northern Peru when a plane fumigating nearby fields sprayed a weed-killer too close to their school.

Robin Hood hacker donates $11,000 of stolen bitcoin to help fight ISIS

Mob burns Venezuelan man alive over $5 as rule of law fails

Boris Johnson wins most offensive Erdogan poem contest

A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Solve the Mysteries of Teotihuacn

Superbugs will 'kill every three seconds': Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Accused of Elbowing Opposition Member of Parliament in The House of Commons.

Englands chief medical officer warns of antibiotic apocalypse

Venezuelan opposition tells military that it's time to choose

New Zealand Customs will lose the automatic right to examine people's smartphones and electronic devices at the border, under a government proposal.

Banks Sued by Investor Over Agency-Bond Rigging Claims.Depending on the securities that are included, the market could range from $9 trillion to $15 trillion."Defendants scheme was driven by greed and opportunity,"

Venezuelans are having to trade pharmaceutical drugs on social media as the country runs out of medicine

French security chief warns Islamic State plans wave of attacks in France

Russia under suspicion after sabotage of Swedish telecom mast

Large Azerbaijan plane crashes in Afghanistan

Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoan poem' competition: Ex-London mayor wins 1,000 prize for limerick about Turkish president in contest challenging crackdown on free speech

2016-05-20

LinkedIn just revealed that the 2012 breach that compromised the accounts of 6.5 million users actually hit more than 100 million users.

The Chinese government is fabricating almost 490m social media posts a year as part of a massive secretive operation designed to distract the public from criticising or questioning its rule, according to a study.

EgyptAir Flight 804: Wreckage found, airline official says

Morocco starts blocking access to Steam and other popular computer games

Humans damaging the environment faster than it can recover, UN finds - Radical action is needed to combat increasing rate of environmental damage to water sources, land, biodiversity & marine life, report shows

Egypt military says finds EgyptAir plane debris 290 km from Alexandria

Jihadist website profiting from online advertising, including U.S. companies

NATO just added a new member: Montenegro

Auschwitz museum finds inmate's gold ring, necklace in false-bottomed mug

Israeli defense minister quits, citing poor faith in Netanyahu

India records its hottest temperature ever: 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit (51 degrees Celsius)

Alberto Nisman, who investigated Argentinas worst terrorist attack before he was found dead in his home last year, may have been forced to kill himself, a prosecutor who was formerly in charge of his case has said.

Australian scientists achieve a 2050 solar efficiency benchmark 34 years early

Seychelles decriminalizes same-sex relationships

EgyptAir Flight 804: Greece official says debris not from plane, report

Russia sends 2,400 tons of food to North Korea

High pay for bosses hurting economy says senior Bank of England official

Erdogan has 'autocratic ambitions' for Turkey: The Bundestag president has criticized the Turkish regime's push to strip legislators of parliamentary immunity. Turkey's president has "autocratic ambitions."

China says more than 40 countries support its stance on South China Sea dispute

97 Women and children freed from Boko Haram by Nigerian armed forces. Two of the kidnapped girls from Chibok were among them.

China says it's ready if US stirs up any conflict in South China Sea

An Attempt to Crack Down on Boycotting Israel in Canada Has Failed

Uber drivers accused of 32 rapes and sex attacks on London passengers over the past year: New statistics reveal one assault every 11 days last year by drivers on popular car-hire app

Bull spearing outlawed by Spanish regional government.

U.S. investigators leaning toward possibility of terrorist attack (EgyptAir flight)

2016-05-23

'It keeps happening,' rape survivor says: Protests against American military presence in Japan continued on Saturday, as the countrys defense minister lodged a formal complaint over the latest case of alleged murder and rape of a young Japanese woman by a US military base employee

Obama will not apologize for Hiroshima attack, he tells Japanese TV

Austria rejects 'far-right president'

Climate denial arguments fail a blind test: In a Pepsi challenge test, economist and statisticians find mainstream climate arguments accurate and contrarian arguments wrong and misleading

Operation to retake Fallujah has begun, Iraqi prime minister says

India's First-Ever Indigenous Space Shuttle Launched Successfully

Chinese and Russian warplanes have been increasingly aggressive intercepting U.S. military aircraft and patrolling near Americas West Coast, prompting the Air Forces top combat officer to label their provocations one of his top worries.

Isis threatens attacks in India. Isis mocked Muslims living in harmony with Hindus and urged them to travel to Isis-held territories.India, a Hindu-majority country, is home to more than 160 million Muslims, but only a handful of them have joined the Middle Eastern group

Turkey's prime minister formally submitted his resignation on Sunday.

Samoa Considering Amending Constitution to Become a Christian State. Churches Push for a Ban on Islam

The German drugs and chemicals group Bayer has pounced on Monsanto, the worlds biggest seed company, with an unsolicited takeover offer likely to be worth more than $40bn (27bn).

Reuters: "U.S. to completely lift Vietnam lethal arms embargo"

31 possible Rio Olympians 'failed drug tests' in Beijing

Austria election: far-right candidate and rival tied at 50% in exit poll

Turkey shifts to presidential system, even without constitutional change

Hamas to publicly execute criminals in Gaza

EU Survey: 64% of Europeans in Favour of Basic Income

At least 17 girls killed in school dormitory fire in Thailand

Vietnam hopes its voice is heard as Obama visits - Vietnam seeks US backing in its dispute with China over contested islands in the South China Sea. It seeks access to US military technology.

Brazil, you are next ISIS issue serious threat to 2016 Rio Olympics

India successfully test launches their first-ever indigenous space shuttle

Farmer suicides soar in India as deadly heatwave hits 51 degrees Celsius | India has set a new record for its highest-ever recorded temperature a searing 51 degrees Celsius or 123.8F amid a devastating heatwave that has ravaged much of the country for weeks.

Falluja assault: Iraq PM announces beginning of military operation

Pakistan says U.S. drone strike violated its sovereignty

Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million

2016-05-24

Colombia has fired more than 1000 police officers in a massive crackdown on corruption

The average city dweller in Kenya pays 16 bribes a month

Sixteen of the worlds largest banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. must face antitrust lawsuits accusing them of hurting investors who bought securities tied to Libor by rigging an interest-rate benchmark, a ruling that an appeals court warned could devastate them

Cuba to legalize small and medium sized businesses

Japan: Employment rate at 97.3% for new University graduates - record high

Atheist academic calls for religion 'to be offended at every opportunity': Dawkins says it's ridiculous to be accused of racism when you criticise Islam

Japan: Plan to make programming mandatory at schools a step to foster creativity

People of no religion outnumber Christians in England and Wales study

Venezuelans on Tuesday woke up to discover that the government-controlled price of corn flour - used to make corn patty arepas, a staple of local cuisine - has risen by 900%. The Superintendent also said that the price of chicken would rise, up 13 times from 65 bolivares a kilo to 850 bolivares.

Brazil minister ousted after secret tape reveals plot to topple President Rousseff

Paris Google HQ raided in tax probe

Australian Premier makes official state apology to people convicted under "unjust laws against homosexual acts"

U.S. Embassy in Venezuela halts new visas because of overwhelming demand

Chinas Solar Prices Can Fall 38%, Become Competitive With Coal

Human remains retrieved from the crash site of EgyptAir flight 804 suggest there was an explosion on board that may have brought down the aircraft, an Egyptian forensics official has told Associated Press. The official, one of the Egyptian investigative team, examined the remains at a Cairo morgue.

"Frequent flyer" - Taliban most senior leader Mansour used to fly out of Pakistani airports to Iran and Dubai on Pakistani passport

Arctic sea ice melt "like a train wreck" says US scientist.Artic sea ice levels are on course to hit a new record low as warming at the North Pole accelerates.Temperatures in Alaska hit 11C above average this winter.

The controversial leader of Chechnya, Kremlin-backed Ramzan Kadyrov, has engaged John Oliver in an unlikely online spat, after the British comedian mocked the hardman leader for posting an online appeal about a lost cat.

India to invest $500 million in Iran port

Fracking approved in Northern England despite massive opposition

Rise of the robots: 60,000 workers culled from just one factory as Chinas struggling electronics hub turns to artificial intelligence. Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, undergoes makeover as 600 companies look to trim their headcount

Over 100 bodies dumped in a mass grave in Mexico

Barack Obama has said Washington supports Vietnams territorial claims against Beijing in the South China Sea and promised it greater access to security equipment.

Chinese and Russian warplanes have been increasingly aggressive intercepting U.S. military aircraft and patrolling near Americas West Coast, prompting the Air Forces top combat officer to label their provocations one of his top worries

Greek authorities began an operation at dawn Tuesday to gradually evacuate the countrys largest informal refugee camp of Idomeni on Macedonian border, blocking access to the area and sending in more than 400 riot police.

2016-05-25

Adidas shoe manufacture returns to Germany, fully automated instead of relying on human labour in Asia

Tony Blair: Britain and US profoundly underestimated chaos brought about by toppling of Saddam Hussein | People | News

"We Truly Believe They Kill Animals": Famous Sloth Sanctuary Is A Nightmare For Animals, Ex-Workers Say

Israel: Hamas stealing 95% of civilian cement transferred into Gaza

Poland starts logging primeval Bialowieza forest despite protests: More than 180,000 cubic metres of forest to be cut down in area that is home to Europes largest mammal and tallest trees

South Africa Just Lifted Its Ban on the Rhino Horn Trade

Sweden refuses to revoke Assange arrest warrant

Thousands of children working in Indonesia's tobacco fields are being poisoned by handling the leaves of the toxic plant, an international investigation has found.

Grizzlies & polar bears are now mating - "I hate to say it, but from a genetic perspective, its quite likely grizzly bears will eat polar bears up, genetically." Warming Arctic allowing the 2 species to come into contact more often.

Citibank to pay $425 million over attempted benchmark manipulation

Sweden phases out fossil fuels in attempt to run completely off renewable energy: Sweden's prime minister announced his country will work towards becoming 'one of the first fossil fuel-free welfare states of the world'

British restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman has been jailed for 6 years for manslaughter due to customers allergic reaction to peanuts ending in death. Zaman's conviction sets a precedent in the UK food industry.

Jeremy Corbyn is prepared to call for an investigation into Tony Blair for alleged war crimes during the Iraq War, according to reports.The war, launched by the US with strong UK backing, lead to the deaths of between 150,000 and 600,000 Iraqis over four years.

Found off Sardinian Coast: WW11 submarine with 71 bodies inside

Japan passes anti-hate speech law as Koreans targeted by racism

ISIS Destroys Russian and Syrian aircraft in attack on military base

14 Russian athletes failed Olympic doping retests

Bridgestone abandons Venezuela

Corporate Beer Overlords Will Soon Own 1 Out of 3 Beers Made on Earth - Budweiser's owner eyes a major merger& better access to markets in Africa & South America.

A Brazilian Cabinet member was just caught on tape plotting to take down the president

ExxonMobil tried to censor climate scientists to Congress during Bush era - Exclusive: 2001 intervention adds to evidence that oil company was aware of the science and its implications for govt policy & the energy industry

Pakistan condemns US drone strike that killed Taliban leader Mansoor

Palestinians reject Netanyahu's direct talks proposal

Whether out of conviction or convenience, thousands of migrants in Europe are converting to Christianity

Dutch Police Use Eagles to Take Down Illegal Drones

2016-05-26

Greek news sites are reporting that Aristotle's tomb was found.

India to install panic buttons on public buses to curb sex attacks

Switzerland: Muslim students must shake teacher's hand

France's 19 nuclear plants have voted to go on strike tonight at 8pm for 24 hours.

Drones over North Korea: USB cards, flash drives dropped

Retired U.S. commander: North Korea collapse not far off

Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'

Indonesia introduces death, chemical castration for Pedophiles

ExxonMobil CEO: ending oil production 'not acceptable to humanity': The world is going to have to continue using fossil fuels, whether they like it or not.

Panama Papers confirm Canadian billionaire and university benefactor as mystery man in global bribery case

China to send nuclear-armed submarines into Pacific amid tensions with US

EU turned blind eye to Turkeys human rights violations: Amnesty secretary-general Europe particularly has double standards. Now that they want something from Turkey, they have turned a blind eye to human rights problems inside Turkey,

Amnesty International asks for decriminalisation of sex work

Singapore: Teenage blogger Amos Yee faces 8 new charges: for allegedly wounding the religious feelings of Muslims, and one for allegedly wounding the religious feelings of Christians

Has a Hungarian physics lab found a fifth force of nature? - A laboratory experiment in Hungary has spotted an anomaly in radioactive decay that could be the signature of a previously unknown fifth fundamental force of nature, physicists say if the finding holds up.

Canada's oil sands are a major source of air pollution, study says

China says its people will never stand for Taiwan independence

Horrific end for majestic white lions: Poachers poison the animals then decapitate them and chop off their paws for use in black magic rituals in South Africa

Pakistani religious body CII proposes bill that allows husbands be allowed to lightly beat defying wives

HIV/AIDS: Togo to distribute over 10m condoms to fight disease

Sweden, With Eye On Russia, Agrees To Give NATO Greater Access

German prosecutors investigate neo-Nazi edition of 'Mein Kampf': A German paper has published an e-mail from a far-right group claiming it will publish a version of Hitler's book free of "tedious" scholarly commentary. This could possibly violate laws against spreading Nazi ideology.

State of emergency in Peru over mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining

Legal highs ban comes into force across the UK

Harrowing scenes of Venezuela on the brink of collapse

2016-05-27

Thailand has shut down 10 popular diving sites in a bid to slow a coral bleaching crisis, an official said Thursday, in a rare move to shun tourism profits to protect the environment

South Korea fires warning shots after boats from North cross sea border

Refugees at Nauru who are gay or attempt suicide can no longer be jailed and men are now outlawed from raping their wives after the island republic updated its antiquated criminal code.

All references to Australia have been removed from a United Nation report on climate change after the Australian Governments Environment Department expressed concerns it could cause confusion and negatively affect tourism.

The 51C heatwave that's melting India. The impact of the heat has been devastating, and increasingly fatal, particularly for the hundreds of people dying of starvation due to withering crops in their remote fields.

"The Right to Disconnect": Weekend Work Emails Are Now Illegal In France

Sharia courts in UK face Government inquiry over treatment of women: Home Office to examine claims sharia courts or councils may be working in a discriminatory and unacceptable way

Australia scrubbed from UN climate change report after govt intervention - All mentions of Australia were removed from the final version of a Unesco report on climate change and world heritage sites after the Australian govt objected on the grounds it could impact on tourism

War on Fat: Chile Bans McDonald's 'Happy Meals' and Kinder Eggs

New boa constrictor species discovered on remote Caribbean island - Silver snake, with distinctive metallic appearance, discovered in Bahamas & confirmed as previously unknown species

71 years after the first atomic strike, Obama calls for the end of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima

A French company that was awarded the right to build Australia's $50 billion submarine fleet is tied up in a deadly multi-million dollar bribery scandal.

Caught on camera: US Special Forces on ISIS frontline in Syria

Police hunt Brits who Hitler-saluted in concentration camp: Authorities in Germany are searching for two British men who took a picture of themselves performing a Nazi salute in a torture chamber in Buchenwald concentration camp.

The U.S. aviation lawyer who won compensation for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing is now seeking $330 million from Russia for the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in 2014

Indian women sold for 4,000 in Saudia Arabia and Bahrain, minister claims

Around 2.8 million people in three Central American countries need food aid after two consecutive years of severe drought decimated crops and exacerbated hunger among the poor.

Ukraine bans Gorbachev over support for Crimea annexation

Mars emerging from ice age that ended around 370,000 years ago, scientists say | Science | News

Photos have emerged of American special operations troops in Syria wearing uniform insignia affiliated with a Kurdish rebel group known as the YPG, whose connection to Turkish terrorists could could fuel tension between the U.S. and a key ally in the Islamic State fight.

Stonehenge, Easter Island, Venice: Climate Change Will Destroy Human History | An international team of scientists, anthropologists, and economists have identified 31 cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage sites across 29 countries that are directly threatened by climate change.

Chinese News Media Censors Taiwans Flag

An ancient Polish forest is coming down - Poland says a portion of the Bialowieza forest must be logged to curb a bark beetle outbreak but environmentalists disagree.

Last Soviet leader Gorbachev banned from Ukraine

Riot police crack down on Paris protests against labour reforms: Thousands of protesters turn out on streets of French capital as refineries and nuclear power stations across the country come to a halt

2016-05-31

Every reference to the Great Barrier Reef removed from UN report on impact of climate change after intervention from Australian government.

Denmark to stop paying salary to royal family grandchildren: 'Simple mathematics dictate that there needs to be some sort of limit. Otherwise within a few generations there will be several hundred princes and princesses who need an annual salary,' says a ruling party spokesman

Mass sexual assault reported at music festival in Germany: The attacks are similar to those reported in Cologne and other cities on New Year's Eve.

North Korea tries and fails to launch missile

In the last 17 months, 2234 Indians get HIV via blood transfusions

Chinese Official: China has no interest in any form of cold war, nor are we interested in playing a role in a Hollywood movie written and directed by certain US military officials

Egypt in shock at first female circumcision death reported in 3 years

France bans work emails outside office hours

Australia to lift minimum wage by 2.4%, an increase to $17.70 per hour

EU court adviser: Employers can ban Muslim headscarf

Several NSW Police officers have been savaged in court for allegedly grabbing the breasts and neck of an anti-Reclaim Australia protester, then covering their actions up by deleting evidence, making up a false charge against her, lying under oath and attacking her in court.

Angela Merkel's 'hasty' approach to TTIP trade deal condemned by the German Vice-Chancellor: 'If the Americans hold fast to this position, we don't need the free trade treaty. And TTIP will fail,' says Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel

Syphilis, gonorrhea cases up among all ages in Canada - Health

Egyptian President pledges justice for Christian mother beaten and stripped by mob

S. Korea detects signs North preparing missile launch

Nearly 46 Million People Trapped in Modern Slavery, Report Finds

A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced a member of an independent human rights organization to eight years in prison in the latest guilty verdict to be issued against the group's members, rights group Amnesty International said

Malaysia just established a one million hectare marine park: off the northern tip of Borneo it's a region containing the second largest concentration of coral reefs in Malaysia as well as other important habitats like mangroves, sea grass beds and productive fishing grounds

Sausage-Wielding Extremists Attack Vegan Cafe In Tbilisi

Solid gold, diamond-encrusted, $5,000,000 Maltese Eagle stolen in Vancouver

Sweden struggles with first gender balance shift in 267 years

Migrant crisis is fueling sex trafficking of Nigerian girls to Europe

ISIS slaughters 12 more Real Madrid fans in Iraq during Champions League final

G7 nations pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025: Leaders of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the EU urge all countries to join them in eliminating support for coal, oil and gas in a decade

Hundreds of undamaged Fort McMurray homes declared unsafe due to toxic ash

2016-06-01

Forty tiger cub bodies have been found in a freezer at a Thai Buddhist temple accused of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.

Forced contact with Amazon people would be 'genocide', tribe warns: Survival International says other tribes, who have themselves experienced the dangers of 'first contact', are protecting uncontacted groups against the plans of 'some anthropologists in another country'

Sweden: Fewer than 500 of 163,000 asylum seekers found jobs

Philippine president-elect says 'corrupt' journalists will be killed: "Just because youre a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if youre a son of a bitch."

Cars registered before 1997 will be banned in Paris as of July 1st.

North Korea praises Trump and urges US voters to reject 'dull Hillary'

Walmart, Gap, H&M Called Out for Global Worker Exploitation and Abuse: Reports find tens of thousands of laborers in Bangladesh are still making garments in buildings without proper fire exits, while pregnant workers in Indonesia and India face discrimination and wage theft.

The families of those killed during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown have accused Beijing of subjecting them to nearly three decades of white terror in a bid to stop them speaking out about the massacre.

Anti-vaccination protesters shut down Australian immunisation seminar, call doctors liars

World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work. It runs 35 miles (57 kilometers) and connects northern and southern Europe by passing under the Swiss Alps. Switzerland says it will revolutionize European freight transport.

Dozens in Russia Imprisoned for Social Media Likes, Reposts

Erdogan threatens Merkel and German parliament to not recognize the Armenian Genocide by Turkey

Almost all of Israels 32 women in parliament have been sexually harassed or assaulted

Black Box From Crashed EgyptAir Jet Found

Saudi Arabia on course to execute more than 100 people.

Angela Merkel strikes deal with German states to put brakes on green energy. Pact addresses concerns that burgeoning output from renewables is putting strain on electricity grid and pushing up prices

Residents challenge council on sale of 40 billion litres of aquifer water.The battle over just who owns our water is being fought across the country. Water ownership is also an in issue in Hawke's Bay. Regional councillor Peter Beaven says everyone should own the precious resource.

Twitter suspends @DarthPutinKGB account mocking Vladimir Putin: A number of accounts spoofing Russia and its leaders have been banned from the social media site.