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NATO troops will play little if any role on the ground. "Why? Because NATO now has an army of trained mercenaries at its disposal who, under ...
The Israeli paper, *Haaretz, *isn't pulling any punches in denouncing the despicable way the Netanyahu government cozies up to
radical Christian evangelists of the ilk of
Glenn Beck: I*n recent years th...
The East Coast Earthquake™ rattled buildings, nerves and our historic national monuments, all in second. In Washington, D.C., about 90 miles from the 5.8 earthquake’s epicenter in Mineral, Va., the Nationa...
Australian scientists have found a planet they believe to be a giant diamond.
Democracy Now: Trevor Aaronson - The Informants.
This is a must-read article. *How the FBI Uses 15,000 Spies to Infiltrate Muslim Communities* ** *By Kevin Gosztola The Dissenter Published: Tuesday August 23, 2011* The liberal news magazine *Mother...
Gold has dropped by a hefty 10 per cent in three days from its record high of $1,913 but experts still expect the precious metal to top $2,000 this year. Bullion continued its slide down $48 to $1,712 at ...
A teenager who used Facebook to encourage the 'killing of a million police officers' during the riots has been jailed for 33 months. Amed Pelle incited his 2,000 friends on the site to commit violence and ...
These pictures of a mentally ill man naked and chained to a wall in the most appalling conditions are enough to shock even the hardest amongst us. But amazingly his mother, who has kept him locked in a ru...
An Austrian man is being investigated after locking up his two daughters in a room for 41 years and repeatedly sexually abusing them in a case which matches countryman Josef Fritzl's in its depravity. Pol...
A drugs recall was under way tonight after it emerged that thousands of anti-psychotic tablets could have been deliberately placed in packets of Nurofen Plus. A representative for both drug companies sai...
A protester has been for arrested in Glasgow allegedly throwing a "paint bomb" over the Deputy Prime Minister *Nick Clegg* of the UK, the BBC is reporting. The man involved, *Stuart Rodger*, allegedly sh...
A large and powerful Hurricane Irene roared across the Bahamas archipelago, knocking down trees and destroying homes on a path that officials said posed the greatest threat to the country's smaller, less-p...
China is on course to build a modern military by 2020, a move that could threaten stability in the Asia-Pacific region, the Pentagon says. In its annual report on China's defence capability, the Pentagon ...
Some 12 million people around the world do not have citizenship of any country, and are being denied basic human rights as a result, the UN has warned. The organisation is calling for more countries to s...
A major cholera pandemic has spread in at least three waves from a single global source: the Bay of Bengal. A study in Nature reveals cholera's spread over the last 60 years into Asia, Africa, Europe and...
A travel industry group outlined ways to reduce traveler wait times, improve customer service and provide a more tailored approach to security on Wednesday in a news conference addressing the industry's ch...
British Home Secretary Theresa May will sit down with officials from the social media industry Thursday, her office said, as the government considers trying to ban people from social networking during or a...
A civilian was killed and three others including two Indian paramilitary troopers were wounded in a grenade attack Thursday in Baramulla in north Kashmir. A police spokesman said that militants hurled a ...
Talks stalled between the Indian government and supporters of Anna Hazare, as the anti-corruption activist's hunger strike entered its 10th day Thursday. Hazare said he was feeling fine as he addressed s...
The pictures in the news are full of joyful Libyans celebrating the apparent near-end of a 42-year dictatorship. They hold signs thanking President Obama and other NATO leaders, whose smart strategy let th...
As the wave of violence gripping Karachi for a almost a week continued unabated and at least 12 lives were lost on Monday, the government decided to launch a surgical operation immediately without discrimi...
A slim figure in a dark suit, Brahumdagh Bugti, 30, could pass for a banker in the streets of this sedate Swiss city. But in truth he is a resistance leader in exile, a player in an increasingly ugly indep...
August has seen the holidays of the powerful regularly interrupted by events. But is there ever a good time to go away? It's the holiday moment every leader fears. You're dozing on a lounger wondering wh...
Europe faces the threat of economic stagnation after an alarming collapse in business confidence during August, a gloomy industry survey warned today. Financial information firm Markit's latest worrying s...
UBS AG (UBSN)’s decision to cut 5 percent of its workforce brings to more than 40,000 the number of jobs cut by European banks in the past month as the region’s worsening sovereign debt crisis crimps tradi...
More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it. The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperati...
The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families. For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition. Today, over half of all American f...
In the United States today, we are being taxed into oblivion, yet it is being done so stealthily that most Americans don't even realize what is happening. Most people are fixated on federal income tax rate...
Graduates are now more likely to work in low-skilled jobs as postal workers, hotel porters and cleaners compared to over a decade ago, official figures show. The number of degree students ending up in lo...
Science graduates should look for work abroad because funding cuts mean finding work in Britain is too hard, two of the country’s leading scientists have claimed. Prof Keith Campbell, a member of the tea...
Previous estimates had dated horse domestication back only 5,000 years.
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Photos by Tar Sands Action. Cree actress Tantoo Cardinal arrested with Superman's Lois Lane, Margo Kidder, as Cardinal defended her homeland from the destruction of the Alberta tar sands excavation. T...
End the Federal Reserve Bank. Hang the criminal banksters/financial terrorists who were responsible for the financial crisis.
Voltaire Network denounces the attempt by the "rebels" to arrest Thierry Meyssan *Voltaire Network*, Thursday, 25 August 25, 2011, 3:25 p.m. - The journalists who had been trapped inside the hotel Rixos ...
*"The PLA seeks the capability to deter Taiwan independence and influence Taiwan to settle the dispute on Beijing’s terms. In pursuit of this objective, Beijing is developing capabilities intended to deter...
------------------------------ *Murder Spies and Voting Lies Parts 1 - 7* Uploaded by Croniicbo0o on Jul 29, 2009 Murder, Spies And Voting Lifes: The Clint Curtis Story is an incredible documentary whic...
*Albuquerque: Protect the Peaks protest of the US Forest Service. Photos by Protect the Peaks/Outta Your Backpack Media* Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
When my compatriots watch this McDonald's commercial about the beauties of the Swedish farming, something doesn't look quite right. In fact, it looks too familiar. McDonald's didn't experience a goo...
The Real Johnson: An Open Letter to Christie Blatchford: 'via Blog this'
*Letter to the Regional Foresters: Desecration of Holy San Francisco Peaks must stop now!.* . USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Regional Office 1323 Club Drive Vallejo CA 94592. Thursday August 25, 201...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:18:30 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 126 km ( 78 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efate...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 33 km (20.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:58:08 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 60 km ( 37.2 mil...
I hadn't realized that this was such a competitive event before (h/t Driftglass), and hadn't planned to start today's essay on such a humorous note, but it seems kinda like a Friedbrain tasting day, so her...
[image: Relative sea level trends along the U.S. East Coast. The rate of annual sea level rise measured at Sewells Point in Norfolk is the highest of all stations along the U.S. East Coast at nearly 4.5 ...
On Monday an Iraq War vet and progressive Ohio state legislator, Rep. Connie Pillich, did a guest post for us here about her battle against John Kasich's fascist anti-union agenda. At the time I found a...
Please find below the write up of my research for the course I took at Harvard this summer on global climate change. For those of you who participated in the survey, I offer many thanks. Your input was i...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 105.9 km (65.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:02:16 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 421 km ( 261 miles) Northeast of Kuri...
The release of £1bn of Libyan frozen assets is being held up at the UN by South African opposition. South Africa's ANC-led government, past beneficiaries of millions of dollars in support from ousted Lib...
By Duane Craig The Environmental Protection Agency is recommending a new approach to cleaning up heavy metals in the groundwater underlying a Superfund site in Pedricktown, New Jersey. The site was contam...
*Southern states have highest divorce rates* CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The Southern U.S. has the highest divorce rate of any region of the country with couples splitting up at a faster pace than the nationa...
Just a few days ago, Australian PM. Julia Gillard declared the Vietnam War now a "page in history" and noted that the chief actors, US presidents Kennedy and Nixon, Aussie prime minister Menzies and brilli...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 26.3 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:31:11 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 137 km ( 85 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efate...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 33.2 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:16:14 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 135 km ( 83 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efate...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 33.4 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:23:45 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 95 km ( 59 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efate,...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:58:08 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 75 km ( 44.5 mil...
I always say that a day without a Pravda-esque announcement by Republican National Committee Chairman Rinsed Penis that other wild and crazy Republican guy out of Wisconsin is like a day without sunshine...
*LISTEN: John Kane, Mohawk, guest host today on First Voices Indigenous Radio* http://www.rezkast.com/music.php?music_id=223&title=_quot_First_Voices_Indigenous_Radio_8_25_11 On today's show, John Kane di...
Indications are that Slashdot, Blogger, Digg and other sites are on their way out.
[image: Estimated radioactive seawater plume dispersion from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 4 April 2011. ASR] August 24 (Xinhua) – Biological samples taken from waters in the Western Pacific region e...
*Christian announces re-election bid for state rep* He has been awarded throughout his career by many conservative organizations for that record, including the Torch of Freedom from the Young Conservatives...
We call it the "southern oscillation," the Pacific Ocean current variation that gives us *El Nino* and his ugly stepsister, *La Nina*. People living on the Pacific Rim tend to be slightly more aware of i...
Rebel fighters believe that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is holed up in a cluster of buildings near his compound and have dispatched more troops to the scene, a rebel commander said Thursday. Rebel c...
[image: Oil bubbles to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico within one mile northeast of BP's Macondo well on 23 August 2011. Jeff Dute / Press-Register] By Ben Raines, Press-Register 24 August 2011 MOBI...
[image: Elephants in line convoy in Addo Park Eastern Cape South Africa, 31 July 2004. mirror-uk-rb1.gallery.hd.org] August 25 (AFP) – Police on Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago seized 1041 elephant tusk...
Now that we have technology to assist us in our intellectual endeavors, is it easier to reach the status of genius?
That goes for all of us! Image of Wile E. Coyote from Three Fingers of Politics. Is Rick Perry a person? By Glenn W. Smith / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2011Glenn W. Smith will discuss "Rick Perry and the 'Te...
Day 6 White House Tar Sands Protest Going Strong! Photo by Joshua Kahn Russell. Thank you from Censored News! On Day 5, the total was 275 arrests to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada to Texas, and...
Which side are you on, boys...? Anti-Khadafy protesters pray in front of an American flag at Court Square in Benghazi, Libya. Photo by Hassan Ammar / AP. (Or was it pushed?) Libya falls... The worst sin Moam...
Move over, Saturday Night Fever 8-track, you've got a shiny new buddy about to join you in the attic.
This FOX News panel has stumbled upon a breathtaking discovery - apparently this anthropogenic global warming theory is true. Yep, the facts do seem to back it up. Why they've even got the FOX "brain ro...
Want to change up your sleeping bag for something different? Try hanging out in one of these.
Yesterday we mentioned that, by overwhelming numbers, the Democrats who lost last November were either Blue Dogs (more than half of them lost their seats) or their conservative allies. There were, howeve...
Missed a patch of hair on your face, fellas? Keep this in your wallet and avoid embarrassment.
A team formed by the government to start decontaminating areas of Fukushima Prefecture where radioactive materials have been scattered by the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant began opera...
High winds and soaring temperatures have led to numerous outbreaks of fire in Montenegro, with the situation in the north of the country said to be especially serious, reported Radio Television Montenegro ...
NANCHANG - Forty-eight people were in hospital Thursday after suffering from food poisoning in East China's Jiangxi province, said local authorities. The victims suffered from bellyaches and nausea after ...
Just a quick news story for today- Oil Rich Libya won't need Financial Aid in Post Gaddafi era This is the exact song and dance number we witnessed with Iraq and in 2011 we can see how that worked out. O...
Dating to the 1st century B.C., the cargo ship was discovered off the coast of Albania.
Although most of the tributes to Layton have focused on his role on Parliament Hill, he will be missed from coast to coast - cycling with Olivia, attending local festivals, marching in Pride parades and, y...
Now ........... I know there are some of you out there that are a lot more sophisticated in your internet search protocol - but this is meant for the common person who isn't a techie and has no desire t...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Eastern Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 12:19:10 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 44 km ( 27.3 miles) Southwest o...
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[image: Remembering Jack Layton at Nathan Phillips Square] The enormous outpouring of emotion on Jack Layton's passing continues unabated. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians are leaving messages and flowe...
PayPal-founder Peter Thiel was so inspired by Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand's novel about free-market capitalism - that he's trying to make its title a reality. The Silicon Valley billionaire has funnelled $1...
A Dutch music promoter and his German girlfriend died from heat stroke after apparently getting out of their car in the California desert to go for help. Augustinus Van Hove, 44, and Helena Nuellet, 38, dr...
President Obama 23/08/2011 - Farm Neck Gold Club According to reports, President Obama had just been starting a round of golf when the earthquake struck - although the vacationing president said he didn't...
[image: Without Jobs,Apple] With Steve Jobs bowing out as CEO, Apple Inc. should persuade investors and consumers that it doesn't need the force behind the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad in charge to remain ...
It sounds like the stuff of nightmares - a wasp that supplements a vicious sting with jaws longer than its front legs. But this is a very real newly discovered warrior wasp found on the remote Indonesian...
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several fr...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 124.5km (77.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:39:55 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 216 km ( 134 miles) North of Santo (Luganville),...
Moors murderer Ian Brady faces police questioning after allegedly assaulting a nurse. The notorious serial killer, 73, is accused of using a jug to threaten the woman on July 6 at Ashworth Hospital, Mers...
A mother has been jailed for nearly 14 years for letting her boyfriend torture her two-year-old son by using pliers to pull out his teeth. Jessica Carder, 22, stood by as 28-year-old Andrew Richards allege...
The Pentagon issued fresh warnings Wednesday that China's military expansion could stir up new tensions and provoke dangerous misunderstandings "The pace and scope of China's sustained military investment...
Casey Anthony reported for probation in Florida yesterday, according to her lead defence counsel Jose Baez. 'America's most hated woman' will serve probation 'somewhere in the state of Florida,' though th...
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue has warned residents to 'prepare for the worst' as a huge hurricane wreaking havoc in the Caribbean threatens to strike densely populated areas on the East Coast, includi...
A mother and her boyfriend were sentenced to 12 years in prison today after her pet snake escaped from its cage and strangled her two-year-old daughter because it had been starved. Florida python owners ...
Hackers defaced anew the website of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute early Thursday, and left a message accusing another government agency of corruption. The "PrivateX" group redirected visitors...
[image: Link]Iran has started moving uranium enriching centrifuges from its main atomic complex in Natanz to an underground bunker in Fordow, which is well protected from air strikes. Work is in full swing...
A naked madman who stabbed five people on a rampage with a six-inch kitchen knife in New York was driven to distraction by the East Coast earthquake, it has been reported. Christian Falero, 23, went bangi...
Police in Idaho said a student shot dead on Monday may have been romantically linked to an ex-college professor who later committed suicide. The body of Katy Benoit, a 22-year-old University at Idaho grad...
The devastating might of Earth's mysterious movements was put on tragic display this year when the Tohoku earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. The magnitude 9.0 quake was produced by a sudden lurch a...
Indonesia’s highly active Mount Papandayan volcano is in imminent danger of erupting, the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency warned on Wednesday. The agency, known as the PVMGB, said i...
Police swooped yesterday on suspected gangsters plotting to cause mayhem at the Notting Hill Carnival. Scotland Yard seized 40 suspects in raids across the capital amid fears that the annual bank holiday ...
*At least 16 people were killed when flash floods swept through a valley in the Kohistan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Express 24/7 reported on Thursday.* Dozens of houses were destroyed by the flood, ...
TWO-THIRDS of mainland France remains on drought alert, despite some heavy rain and storms in recent weeks. Water restrictions are in place across 66 departments because of low reservoir levels after an ...
"Iran moves centrifuges underground" August 23, 2011|Associated Press TEHRAN - Iran has *moved* some of its centrifuges to an *underground*uranium enrichment site that offers better protection from possible...
There’s an article on Harry’s Place entitled “BBC and Guardian profile Latuff.” That’s Carlos Latuff the cartoonist. The cartoonist who has been working on behalf of those involved in the Arab Spring. Ca...
Stunning: This illustration shows plasma shooting out of the black hole after it devours a star. Such an event took place four billion light years from Earth. A stunning cosmic jet from a super-massive b...
A British student who passed out in 40C heat and plunged down a cliff on a cycling holiday in Croatia is due to be airlifted back to Britain. Luke Sheppard, 23, was saved by his childhood friend Geoffrey H...
Japan had its credit rating downgraded yesterday as it became the latest developed economy to fall foul of ballooning debts. Ratings agency Moody’s cut the world’s third biggest economy by one notch to AA...
A 78-year-old woman and an 84-year-old man have been arrested in connection with the hammer killing of a pensioner. Judith Richardson, of Hexham, died from head injuries following what police said was 'a...
The SAS are said to have been brought in to lead the hunt for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, as rebels make a final push to bring the country's capital fully under their control. Reinforcement fighter...
Ten-year-old Alaa Salem lay in a coma yesterday amid the chaos of an overcrowded Tripoli hospital, her skull smashed open by a sniper’s bullet in her own home. She was ‘picked off’ by one of Gaddafi’s gun...
More than 7,000 people remain evacuated in the Dominican Republic Wednesday, where intense rain was registered and there were settlements isolated, electricity cuts, fallen trees, destroyed houses and floo...
Photo : Jackman Chiu, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto. August 23, 2011. .
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Middle of the week, I'm writing this from my bunker in an undisclosed location awaiting your observations on BBC bias... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
It's the cringing selectivity of BBC news coverage that so enrages; Take this, sent in to me; "Democracy undermined, treaty violations...lack of democratic legitimacy...legally and politically questionab...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Some interesting comments here from Mark Thompson. "Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, went on the offensive against James Murdoch and other critics of the public broadcaster, effectively ac...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
Fascinating sleight of hand by the BBC here, picked up by an eagle eyed BBC contributor; "Whilst the BBC ignores a big story from Germany making serious criticisms of the legality of Europe's bailout sche...
The mother-of-six who forced her adopted son to drink hot sauce so she could get on the Dr Phil TV show has been convicted of misdemeanour child abuse. Prosecutors said defendant Jessica Beagley, 36, of An...
Israeli warplanes struck several times Wednesday and early Thursday along the country's border with Gaza, killing three people and wounding several others, medical sources told CNN. Early Thursday, an Is...
Four Italian journalists were kidnapped Wednesday in Libya by unknown assailants, a spokesman for the Italian foreign ministry confirmed to CNN. One of the journalists was able to call his newspaper, and ...
Eleven people, including at least eight children, perished early today when a fierce fire engulfed a crowded house in Australia. Neighbours said two families, from the Pacific islands of Tonga and Samoa, ...
A Russia supply spaceship sent to the International Space Station has failed to reach its destination, it has been announced. The Progress M-12 M cargo ship, which was unmanned, was launched from the Bai...
A climber fell more than 4,000ft to his death while going up the iconic Half Dome summit in Yosemite National Park. He is the 17th person this year whose death was caused in the California park, which is...
Two confirmed cases of measles in Dakota County are under investigation by the Minnesota Department of Health. Both cases were found in babies who were not vaccinated against measles. The first child, a ...
Massive land and sea search efforts are underway for a missing Rhode Island woman who was reported missing on Sunday in Cape Cod. Rachel Collins, 37, of West Warwick, who reportedly is a psychiatric nurse...
The CIA, with MOSSAD and NATO, began the Arab Spring with their coup in Tunisia, a peaceful, prosperous and moderate Moslem country. *1.* On 17 December 2010, a false flag operation apparently took plac...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
The BBC seem a tad embarrassed by the news that South Africa - that wonderful rainbow nation - is refusing to accept a UN motion to unfreeze $1.5bn of Libyan assets to fund emergency humanitarian aid. I w...
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Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
BBC meme is clear; Libya is the new Iraq and chaos will descend. I listened to Robert Fisk (Sigh - who else) being interviewed on local BBC news channel and he was given free rein to indulge his every hard...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of just 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:07:50 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) East of Charlottesville, Vir...
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 7.4 km ( 4.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:44:41 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) WNW of Trinidad, Colorado ...
Greetings citizens of the world. The denial of service attacks on our internet relay chat servers serves no purpose, and will not delay our revolution. Legions of Anons have morphed into other methods of...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Palau Region, Indonesia at a depth of 10.1 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:17:32 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 464 km (288 miles) NNW of M...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 56.5 km ( 35.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:10:08 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles)...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Panay, Philippines at a depth of 70.1 km ( 43.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:17:22 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) WNW of Iloilo, Pana...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu Japan at a depth of 39.2 km ( 24.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:14:53 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 257 km (159 miles) ...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 57.7 km (35.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:08:01 UTC Thursday 25th August 2011. The epicenter was 98 km ( 60 miles) Nor...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:06:16 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 79 km ( 49 miles) Southwest of Porto-Vila, Efate...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 112.6 km (70 miles), the quake hit at 19:41:14 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 57 km ( 35 miles) North of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsuna...
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*Golden, Colorado, Protect the Peaks Action Aug. 25, 2011 Thursday, August 25 · 9:00am - 3:00pm Location Rocky Mountain Region 2 USDA Forest Service Building 740 Simms Street Golden, Colorado *FOR IMMED...
*Bulletin No. 3* *(see Bulletin No. 1 and Bulletin No. 2)* *BOB:* Russell Plume, are you here? *BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:* Russell couldn't be here. *BOB:* Well, Russell was the Southern states champion . . . W...
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Photo Shadia Fayne Wood Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk *Photo Josh Lopez* Photo Ben Powless, M...
How will Wednesday's loss of the Russian Progress M-12M supply vehicle affect the crew living on the International Space Station?
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Not PC - 16 hours ago
Here’s a thought for those of you contemplating the self-serving proposals peddled by suits wanting more welfare for suits. (Come in Gareth Bloody Morgan and Sam “I’m Just Another Self-Serving Suit” Stub...
*All because Palestinians want to have their own state, and because its own people are in the streets protesting. * * * *First you have to block peace.* "Israel OK’s plan to build 1,600 homes in East Jer...
Anarchist, community organizer, and author Scott Crow on Rag Radio Video by Jeff Zavala / Interview by Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2011 Scott Crow, an Austin-based anarchist, community organi...
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Albuquerque Day of Action - Aug 25 *When*: Thursday, Aug 25th - All day 9am to 5pn *Where*: Southwestern Regional Forester Office 333 Broadway SE, Albuquerque, NM *Why*: Since May 25, 2011, the owners ...
*The 13 Psy-Ops Against You* * * *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 24, 2011* Six months ago, Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings reported that the "U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers spec...
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*Indigenous People and Supporters to Protest at US Forest Service Office in Vallejo, **to Demand an End to Desecration of Sacred San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona* ...
*Will Lion do anything for me except light my wallet by $30 and force me to relearn yet another new Mac OS?* *by Ken* News of Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO of Apple presumably has dire implications f...
Mexico in 1825, including the state of Coahuila y Tejas. Image from Wikimedia Commons. The hidden history of TexasPart 3: The 1827-1836 years under Mexican ruleBy Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2011...
Special forces troops from Britain, France, Jordan and Qatar on the ground in Libya have stepped up operations in Tripoli and other cities in recent days to help rebel forces as they conducted their final ...
Libya's rebel council has offered a £1m reward for the capture, dead or alive, of deposed ruler Colonel Gaddafi. The rebels will also give amnesty to members of Gaddafi's close circle who kill or capture...
Desperate members of the collapsing Gaddafi regime could try to unleash Libya’s stocks of chemical weapons, William Hague has warned. The Foreign Secretary said he could not rule out final desperate acts ...
Philip Hulmes, 53, was hit with electric probes from the stun gun after barricading himself in his house in Over Hulton, near Bolton. It is understood police were called to the house by a concerned family...
Travellers to Greece have been warned to take precautions against mosquito bites following six reported cases of malaria since June. None of the victims – five Greek adults and a Roma child – had any hist...
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A naked madman went on a stabbing spree in a Manhattan apartment building Tuesday, wounding four people and killing one, cops and neighbors said. Christian Falero, 23, rampaged in the buff through the bui...
Thug Chokes And Robs Elderly Men: MyFoxNY.com The NYPD is looking for a violent robber who is targeting elderly men as they enter the subway system or elevators in Manhattan. In the first incident, wh...
A jobless man accused of robbing a dozen banks across the Phoenix valley told investigators he did it to survive and that "desperation was a great motivator," authorities said on Tuesday. Police arrested...
When a Greenfield family reported that their 24-foot diameter, above ground swimming pool had been stolen, police knew exactly where to look for it. The Recorder reports that officers went to a scrap meta...
Police in Tennessee were called to a funeral home where workers found two intruders sleeping inside caskets. The employees at Weaver's Funeral Home in Bristol called police around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday a...
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu has increased his stake in the New York Times Company just weeks after the US newspaper group repaid the emergency $250m loan it took from Mr Slim in 2009. Mr Slim up...
The city of Camden will be paying almost 70 high school students $100 each to go to school in the first three weeks of the year. Funded by a grant that must be used by Sept. 30, the city is trying to figh...
Cracking was found in the stones at the top of the Washington Monument Tuesday evening, the National Park Service reported. The crack was located in one of the triangular faces at the top of the monument...
No one can be sure who controls the Libyan government's weapons stockpiles, a stew of deadly chemicals, raw nuclear material and some 30,000 shoulder-fired rockets that officials fear could fall into terro...
The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that surprised the U.S. East Coast with the biggest shake since 1988 may be followed by aftershocks for weeks, scientists said. A 4.2-magnitude followup struck about six hour...
Mayor Bloomberg wants to blanket the city with red light cameras - and maybe even publish the names of scofflaws who blow through intersections. "I think we should have 'em on every corner if we could," t...
Household budgets are deteriorating at a faster rate than during the height of the recession in early 2009, according to an analysis of consumers' finances. Almost 40pc of households saw their finances d...
Now is the time for China to use its "financial weapon" to teach the United States a lesson if it moves forward with a plan to sale arms to Taiwan. In fact, China has never wanted to use its holdings of US...
Libyans have taken to the streets to celebrate the impending end of Moammar Gadhafi’s forty-two year rule. These celebrations are as understandable as they are premature. The tyrant is leaving, but who ...
The number of people who bought new homes fell for the third straight month in July, putting sales on track to finish this year as the worst on records dating back half a century. Sales of new homes fell...
NATO allow weapons to Rebels OPENLY Telegraph August 12th, 2011 By kingsley Arms controls continue to be flouted in the context of the Libyan armed conflict. Both France and Qatar have openly admitted...
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Not PC - 18 hours ago
I've posted before on the failure of economic forecasters to do what they purport to do best, i.e., forecasting the future (see here, here and here, for example.) For all their high-tech mathematical mo...
Have to give huge KUDO’s to Cari Wade Gervin for asking the question and the Knoxville Metro Pulse for having the guts to publish it. For those of you who MUST vote Republican – why you would choose to do ...
Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers think they might have spotted the first examples of extragalactic carbon-based molecules.
I'm reminded at times of that aphorism (can't remember whether it was Mark Twain or Winston Churchill) about a lie getting halfway around the world while the truth is still getting its pants on. It seems ...
Lord Stirling's News Blog EUROPE
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several f...
On Thursday, I spent lots of time by watching soccer and the related social activities. On Thursday morning, it turned out that there are many issues about the CLOUD experiment and the related reports th...
Hurricane Irene remains on course to batter the east coast of the United States this weekend, as extraordinary images from space revealed the scale of the powerful storm. Irene strengthened to a Categ...
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Not PC - 20 hours ago
After reading pathetic self-serving pronouncements this week by Sam Stubbs*, Sam** & Gareth Morgan***, Rod Drury**, Mark Weldon** and the like, I can only agree with Cactus Kate: There are a new breed o...
These inventors hit the science jackpot -- by accident.
It's unlikely, but scientists say they cannot rule out an East Coast tsunami event.
Watch their interview on Democracy Now on August 24, 2011. The 9/11 TV News Archive: 3,000 Hours of Video News Coverage of 2001 Attacks Posted Online Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and R...
typography canvas by tenderbeasts on etsy I'm back today with another of my favorite things -- a browser add-on! When we first talked about add-ons waaay back when, I told you about some of my favorites,...
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Not PC - 21 hours ago
*[image: _richardmcgrath]**Your weekly prescription of good hard sense from Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath.* At the 2011 Libertarianz Party conference, Wellington Central candidate-to-be Regan C...
NATO calls Qaddafi "delusional" even as their "hours, not days" Tripoli operation nears 1 week mark. by Tony Cartalucci Racing desperately against both an approaching deadline on their mandate and their...
Control myriad guitar effects on your iPad with this jukebox hero-worthy four-button footswitch.
This goes beyond class warriors Darrell Issa and Patrick McHenry using a Wall Street lobbyist disguised as a "staffer" to sabotage Elizabeth Warren's testimony in Congress. Keep in mind that Wall Street ...
A real victim may have let her real attacker go because of a fake story from the past.
A powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the Andean nation of Peru on Wednesday with its epicenter some 350 miles (560 kilometers) northeast of the capital Lima.
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CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Gulf Coast residents arrested Aug 24/Photo Ben Powless, Mohawk Gulf Coast residents arrested/Photo Shadia Fayne Wood Gulf Coast residents Bryan Parras and Cherri Foytlin Sit-in at the White House.*Nation...
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Biased BBC - 22 hours ago
Andrew has already mentioned this (Pg. 3 of the open thread @ 9:28pm GMT) list of White House attack points on Rick Perry posing as an editorial blog post by Mardell, but now there's a nice BBC censorship ...
------------------------------ *The total fraud of US news reporting* Like him, love him, loathe him or indifferent, there's no question that Ron Paul is: a) the favorite of millions of Americans and b) ...
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Biased BBC - 23 hours ago
Here's an interesting letter of complaint from one of our readers to the BBC; "Hello, like many of your readers/contributors, I listened to the surreal experience that was the Today programme last saturda...
Among the most pressing concerns about a post-Gaddafi Libya is the risk of the country's many loose weapons falling into the wrong hands. Television pictures of rebels swarming out of Gaddafi's Tripoli bu...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:15:44 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 44 km ( 27.3 miles) Southw...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
Heather Milton Lightening, Tantoo Cardinal, Margot Kidder and Joshua Kahn Russell, after Cardinal and Kidder's arrest and release from jail on Tuesday. Photo Joshua Kahn Russell/Censored News. By Brenda...
The Western military have been involved in Libya. *Frank Ledwidge is a former military intelligence officer. *He has served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. He should know what's happening in...
I received this from my state legislator. The only reason he writes to me is because I am sure he is an ALEC member - but he denies it (funny thing about how he went to a training in Washington DC at the s...
August 24, 2011 at 12:26:34 *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 8/24/11:* Permalink *9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?* * * *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* In a few days it will b...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Northern Peru at a depth of 128.5 km (79.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:16:51 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 79 km ( 49 miles) NNE of Pucallpa, Peru...
Two companies connected to the mayor here have been making some 40 million yen per year from a local nuclear research facility, it has been learned, sparking speculation that the facility holds undue influ...
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Lilith News - 23 hours ago
By Suzanne MacNevin. FEMINIST - Yesterday Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sexual assault charges have been dismissed by two judges and the charges withdrawn by the prosecutors, claiming they have lost faith in ...
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Lilith News - 23 hours ago
ENVIRONMENT - On Tuesday around 2 PM a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rocked North America, the epicentre near Mineral, Virginia. The shaking was felt all over the continent. Strong tremors were felt in Washingt...
WPA image via Keep on Keepin' On Time to get serious about full employment: We need a jobs program that doesn't tinker around the edges By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2011The Rag Blog will pre...
Been away all day but listened to a debate on Radio5 Live this morning concerning the fate that awaits Ghadaffi. Best laugh was when the Amnesty International mouthpiece came on. Her view was that he shou...
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has struck Northern Peru at a depth of 145.1 km (90.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:46:11 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 82 km ( 51 miles) North of Pucallpa, Per...
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein) *"In a Democracy, nothing good has to happen in secret; and nothing good ever does. Secrecy is the enemy of Democracy. The more we allow ou...
Cree actress Tantoo Cardinal was arrested with Superman's Lois Lane, Margot Kidder, on Tuesday at the White House, protesting the Alberta tar sands destroying her homeland. Cardinal and Kidder are shown ...
Some of the wealthiest people in France have taken a page from Warren Buffett's playbook and asked the French government to tax them more. Sixteen executives from some of France's largest companies includ...
An unusually strong earthquake sent shock waves far beyond its Virginia epicentre on Tuesday, rattling residents all over the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and Canada. The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake's ...
The vast majority of Canadians who drive every day have never attempted any other way of getting to work, according to a new survey published Wednesday on the typical commute last year. The survey by Sta...
The rail car filled with liquid propane that has been burning since Tuesday in northern California is now at a greater risk of exploding, officials and emergency crews reported according to radio station K...
An Israeli military airstrike killed a local commander of the Islamic Jihad militant group in Gaza despite a ceasefire announced late Sunday. Israel's military said in a statement that the man who was kil...
As the regime of Moammar Gadhafi crumbled, the value of South Korean construction firms rose. When rebel forces swarmed into the dwindling Tripoli strongholds of Moammar Gadhafi Tuesday, investors in dis...
Hurricane Irene intensified into a Category 3 storm Wednesday, threatening much of the United States' East Coast in the coming days. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, and is expected to s...
Moody's has cut Japan's credit rating by one notch citing concerns about the government's ability to reduce its mountain of debt and implement long-term fiscal sustainability measures. Moody's now holds ...
A U.S. satellite project said Wednesday it has found evidence of additional mass graves in South Kordofan, a day after the Sudanese president called for a unilateral cease-fire in the state. The Satellit...
Truth was first a casualty in Libya well before this war began, and the war has not improved matters at all, on any side. Libya has long been a republic of lies or, in the words of Col. Muammar el-Qaddaf...
The NATO air campaign that was instrumental in helping the rebels advance into Tripoli is hamstrung in many ways now that the fighting has turned into complex house-to-house urban warfare, American militar...
The Coming Crisis has for a while now been saying that the USGS is not only censoring quakes completely (by making them disappear), but also downgrading them for reasons unknown. This is the first time ...
Libya's rebel leaders claimed Monday they had captured three of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, including Saif al-Islam, who is wanted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court. But shortly afterwa...
It is hard to think of more awkward country in which to drill for gas than the craggy, creviced hillsides that rise up from the banks of China's turbid Yellow River in the northern province of Shanxi, the ...
Recent days have witnessed heavy withdrawals from banks, as consumer spending rises before Eid-ul-Fitr. On August 19, the State Bank of Pakistan injected Rs183 billion into the banking system through ope...
In case you haven’t heard Barack Obama is now traveling around in the United States in a totally blacked out tour bus. The news media is now joking about Obama being Darth Vader. Why did the Secret Service...
Residents who lived close to the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant are to be told their homes may be uninhabitable for decades, according to Japanese media reports. The Japanese prime minister, Naoto Kan, ...
Germany's Angela Merkel faced mounting domestic criticism of her euro zone policies on Monday, with the Bundesbank slamming an anti-crisis package she agreed to in Brussels last month and a senior ally war...
Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization Michel Chossudovsky said that what is happening in Syria is an armed insurrection supported secretly by foreign forces including the United States. I...
A layer of liquid in the sole of a shoe converts the mechanical energy of walking into energy.
The small, shrew-like animal spent some of its time in trees while dinosaurs lived on land.
A self-confessed earthquake bore defends the east coast reaction to yesterday's quake and makes comparisons to ones he's experienced in Alaska.
В верхней программы секрет, что достигает всю дорогу до Белого дома.ЦРУ осуществило программу внутреннего шпионажа, в Хьюстоне, Чикаго, Майами, Флорида, Финикс Ar, и Калифорнии. Они обучают местных полиц...
Hello everyone: we're moving our weekly announcements to Wednesdays so that more people can have the chance to read them! 1. August Dollar Drive: We'd like to thank all the generous people so far who hav...
في برنامج سري للغاية التي تصل طوال الطريق إلى البيت الأبيض. وقد نفذت وكالة المخابرات المركزية برنامج التجسس الداخلي، في هيوستن وشيكاغو وميامي، فلوريدا، وصول فينيكس ، وكاليفورنيا. انهم تدريب ضباط الشرطة ا...
Source: Criptozoología en España Date: 23 August 2011 Spain: Giant Squid Found Dead South of Tenerife By Javier Resines A camera crew recording the dolphin colony that occupies the waters to t...
The unmanned Progress M-12M vehicle failed to reach orbit and may have crashed into Siberia.
An email sent in error by a bungling office worker has revealed that RBS is paying contract banking staff £2,000 a day. The document heaps fresh humiliation on the bank, which was given a £20billion hand...
A 16-year-old boy who tried to incite a riot on Facebook has been told he faces jail after his anonymity was taken away by a judge. Johnny Melfah posted messages on a group online called 'Letz start a riot...
The U.S. east coast is bracing itself for a first major hurricane in seven years. Evacuations began on a tiny barrier island off North Carolina as Hurricane Irene strengthened to a major Category 3 storm ...
A man described as a ‘cold sadist’ imprisoned a woman in his home-made torture chamber rigged with eight bombs designed to detonate when he had finished with her. Thomas Fischer, 30, turned his tiny flat ...
A knife-wielding man who had locked himself inside a house has become the second person in a week to die after being shot with a police Taser. The 53-year-old man had locked himself inside a terraced hous...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 54 km (33.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:22:31 UTC Wednesday 24th August 2011. The epicenter was 130 km ( 80.7 miles) South of Nishi...
[image: Some crops grown near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are not too radioactive to eat, according to Japanese scientists. Radiation in the soil is mainly contained and can be treated, th...
*Carol Shea-Porter, helping to lead a progressive renaissance in New Hampshire* I'm guessing the reason New Hampshire Democrats have won a string of special elections this year-- the latest just 2 weeks a...
NYC painters are changing the color of rooftops on 20 buildings in Lower East Side Manhattan, hoping to start a cooler trend.
Wearable antennas could help break the "death grip" that plagues some smart phone owners.
*In a top secret program that reaches all the way to the white house. The CIA has implemented a domestic spying program, in Huston, Chicago, Miami Florida, Phoenix Ar, and California. They train local p...
Interesting news story. The US Ambassador is infiltrating Syria on a whim and a whimsy. How did Ambassador Robert Ford get out to Jassem when the Syrian government restricts his movements outside Damasc...
Shark experts in the Seychelles have examined photographs of British honeymooner Ian Redmond's body in a bid to hunt down the creature that killed him. Marine biologists Geremy Cliff and Mike Anderson-Rea...
A man has had parts of his face bitten off in what police have described as a "sickening" attack. A 31-year-old man lost part of both ears, his upper lip and a part of his nose in the assault outside a n...
A group of foreign journalists who were trapped at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli have been freed. More than 30 members of media teams were prevented from leaving by Colonel Gaddafi's forces but are now out ...
Source: www.analuisacid.com Date: 11 August 2011 Mexico: Three Luminous Objects and The Moon By Ana Luisa Cid A photo taken by Mario Enrique González Eyewitness reported the sighting on Facebook as...
It may read " sustainable," but Chilean sea bass is not always what it appears to be on store shelves.
*By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Mitt Romney has claimed that corporations are people, real people! He even got upset with his audience for daring to challenge his *absurd* assertions. Now --when...
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*A. LIBYA: * "This war may differ from the others in that NATO troops will play little if any role on the ground. "Why? Because NATO now has an army of trained mercenaries at its disposal who, under ...
The Israeli paper, *Haaretz, *isn't pulling any punches in denouncing the despicable way the Netanyahu government cozies up to radical Christian evangelists of the ilk of Glenn Beck: I*n recent years th...
Gold has dropped by a hefty 10 per cent in three days from its record high of $1,913 but experts still expect the precious metal to top $2,000 this year. Bullion continued its slide down $48 to $1,712 at ...
A teenager who used Facebook to encourage the 'killing of a million police officers' during the riots has been jailed for 33 months. Amed Pelle incited his 2,000 friends on the site to commit violence and ...
These pictures of a mentally ill man naked and chained to a wall in the most appalling conditions are enough to shock even the hardest amongst us. But amazingly his mother, who has kept him locked in a ru...
An Austrian man is being investigated after locking up his two daughters in a room for 41 years and repeatedly sexually abusing them in a case which matches countryman Josef Fritzl's in its depravity. Pol...
A drugs recall was under way tonight after it emerged that thousands of anti-psychotic tablets could have been deliberately placed in packets of Nurofen Plus. A representative for both drug companies sai...
A protester has been for arrested in Glasgow allegedly throwing a "paint bomb" over the Deputy Prime Minister *Nick Clegg* of the UK, the BBC is reporting. The man involved, *Stuart Rodger*, allegedly sh...
A large and powerful Hurricane Irene roared across the Bahamas archipelago, knocking down trees and destroying homes on a path that officials said posed the greatest threat to the country's smaller, less-p...
China is on course to build a modern military by 2020, a move that could threaten stability in the Asia-Pacific region, the Pentagon says. In its annual report on China's defence capability, the Pentagon ...
Some 12 million people around the world do not have citizenship of any country, and are being denied basic human rights as a result, the UN has warned. The organisation is calling for more countries to s...
A major cholera pandemic has spread in at least three waves from a single global source: the Bay of Bengal. A study in Nature reveals cholera's spread over the last 60 years into Asia, Africa, Europe and...
A travel industry group outlined ways to reduce traveler wait times, improve customer service and provide a more tailored approach to security on Wednesday in a news conference addressing the industry's ch...
British Home Secretary Theresa May will sit down with officials from the social media industry Thursday, her office said, as the government considers trying to ban people from social networking during or a...
A civilian was killed and three others including two Indian paramilitary troopers were wounded in a grenade attack Thursday in Baramulla in north Kashmir. A police spokesman said that militants hurled a ...
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