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If you're not a veteran you may not understand this. If you're a veteran and you've never made an application to
Veterans Affairs Canada, you too may not understand this. But if you've* made a claim*, base...
"In sheepskin coats, I silence the lambs." - Jay-Z, from his song Murder To Excellence feat
Kanye West. "Anybody vaguely familiar with occultism can easily associate the symbol of the lit torch held hig...
Hell hath no fury like a woman's rights scorned. Love this. David Dayden reports on a powerful protest against Virginia's state sanctioned rape bill. This happened. Hundreds of women gathered and said not ...
BEIJING (AP) — Pyongyang's top nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ahead of the first nuclear talks with the United States since the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. First Vice Foreign...
In the confusion following the earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan’s Fukushima nuclear complex last March, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it was standing by to help. But a trove of e-mails ...
For some people, the end of the world as we know it is upon us, and there is no better time than now to start preparing. Such is the concept of National Geographic Channel's new reality show Doomsday Pre...
Girls as young as 13 have been fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parents knowing. The procedure was carried out in Southampton, Hants, as part of a government initiative to driv...
This is what I'm talking about: City University London's Centre for Information Leadership is hosting this free symposium to bring together academics and practitioners from across industry to tackle the...
Ancient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth after scientists dated them as up to 200,000 years old. Australian scientists sequenced...
Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos was right in his claim that eurozone ministers would finally agree a second bailout for the country - but the deal still leaves questions unanswered. The crunch...
When I'm 75 years old, I want to be a bold old broad just like this: The Health Secretary was berated by June Hautot from Tooting who claimed he was privatising the health service. Brushing aside his denia...
Tomorrow Blue America will be officially endorsing Tammy Baldwin for the open Senate seat in Wisconsin. Currently she's one of the most effective progressives in Congress. She represents the state's seco...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 592.4 km (368.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:36:27 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 324 km (201 miles) Northwest from NUKU...
Watching The Ed Show on MSNBC. They aired a clip of Little Ricky Santorum saying the federal and state government shouldn't be involved in education at all. That it should be solely a function of local gov...
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) — Google is testing 252 “mystery” devices in its employees’ homes, but what the device is, nobody outside of Google knows. Google recently applied for an experimental license with th...
WASHINGTON — The Constitution has seen better days. Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. B...
Performing yoga while being instructed by an inexperienced teacher can be deadly as they sometimes put pupils in life threatening positions, an expert on the activity has warned. Over-eager "green" teac...
An 83-year-old woman has become the first person to have a 3D printer-created jaw fitted. The artificial jaw was made from titanium powder, heated and built-up in layers in a 3D printer to create a work...
Unwanted electrical goods worth £762 million are thrown away every year, according to new research. New figures show more than 17 million mobile phones, music players, satnavs and other devices are sent ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.6 km (20.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:54:36 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles) ...
Cash was offered by five women to commuters at busy bus stations up and down the UK but an average of only eight people at each station, out of thousands of bus travellers, took up the offer. Women weari...
Israeli planning authorities on Tuesday approved construction of a detention centre for illegal immigrants, at a projected cost of 250 million shekels ($67 million, 51 million euros), the defence ministry...
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (CBS) – At Shippensburg University, students can now get more than snacks from a vending machine. The college is now making the “morning after” pill available through a vending machine. ...
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Managers at the Federal Air Marshal Service regularly made fun of blacks, Latinos and gays, took taxpayer-paid trips to visit families and vacation...
After a marathon 13 hours of talks, eurozone finance ministers have finally struck a deal for Greece's second bailout package worth 130bn euro, EU officials have confirmed. The programme for Greece will...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:20:17 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 1231 km (764 miles) North o...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 34.4 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:54:20 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (96 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, T...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 176.8 km (109.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:59:08 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 99 km (61 mil...
When the bombing in Bangkok Thailand happened just a few days ago, I knew right off the hop that when the Jewish controlled media was screaming that the attack was by "Iranians", it did not make any sense....
Many people have now awakened to the reality that Iran is absolutely NOT possessing, building, or in the action of acquiring nuclear weapons. The idea that Iran possesses nuclear weapons has always been ...
Cusco, “Native American Ghost Dance: Power Drums, Spirit Pride”
“Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, pictured below, was captured in spect...
*“Nature”* by Chet Raymo "Shortly after I return to New England in late March I'm scheduled to give a talk on the theme "Let Nature Be Our Teacher." So I've been pondering what nature might teach us, and...
My blog was just attacked. My browser and all my setting were deleted. It may or may not have had something to do with the essay I just published by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. Please read it if you have a spa...
First goal weight achieved! Southern Man will continue to replace a few meals a week with protein shakes until the existing supply of powder is exhausted and will slowly move back into his low-carb, low-st...
Photo by John Carroll--February 17, 2012
"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - ...
Our species has a lot of pro-social tendencies, debunking the view that humans are competitive, aggressive and brutish in nature.
The Coming Crisis has created a new citizenship system aimed at acknowledging those who truly care about our website and the pursuit of the truth, and rewarding them for that support. By becoming a citizen...
Monique Sonoquie (Chumash/Apache), Jim Brown III (Elem Pomo), Gail Brown (Yokáya Pomo) February 20, 2012 PRESS STATEMENT Jim Brown III, Elem-Modun Tribal Member: 2012 DOJ-EPA-ELEM-BRADLEY SETTLEMENT AGR...
*Noted pinhead Francis Fukuyama* *"Our system actively promotes people who will lie in the right way without even having to be told to and actively gets rid of anyone who is not a useful idiot – by which ...
*CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:* *DEADLINE FOR MONTRÉAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR EXTENDED:* It's coming up, the largest event of its kind in North America, the Montréal Anarchist Bookfair. As per what fol...
French teachers are turning Twitter into an educational tool.
By the end of the century, sea levels are predicted to rise by a meter along the North American west coast -- 'do-nothing' isn't an option.
Several hundred young people, responding to appeals on social networks, gathered outside the institute Lluis Vives , a college town, for protest against the liquidity problems that have private heating r...
I heard about this on the radio tonight and went looking for information. Found this report Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives By the Guttmacher Institute HIGHLIGHTS: ü 28 states require insurers t...
"A war lost by the aggressor who initiates it is a war of miscalculation. . . . Wars of miscalculation have been the scourge of the twentieth century [and] another such war threatens to destroy civiliza...
Who’d have thought that journalists who wish to investigate, uncover and expose scandals and injustices without compromising their freedom or exposing their pet whistleblowers, would be subjected to the wh...
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*"CNN Says Nuclear Attack by North Korea Would * *Not Affect Whitney Houston Coverage"* Wolf Blitzer Promises No Interruption by Andy Borowitz ․ NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "As North Korea ramped up i...
*To stop the madness, we must stop the madness. There is too much money involved to think that the testing industrial complex will suddenly acknowledge their crimes against children and decide to call it ...
The snowdrops have been blooming for several days, hastened by the almost complete lack of anything resembling winter. By happenstance I came across an article I recall having read a couple of years ago,...
[image: Little blue penguin resuced from the oil spill of the MV Rena wreck, 8 October 2011. Bay of Plenty Regional Council]17 February 2012 (bigpondnews.com) – The *Rena* oil spill clean-up has reached ...
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**[image: image]*Libz leader Dr Richard McGrath returns with fire in his belly, his regular column, and a book you just have to buy…* Nanny State has had it good recently, what with the censorship of “d...
*"Essential Books For Surviving In A Post-Disaster World"* by George Ure and Gaye Levy "We are not suggesting it will happen, but suppose in March something goes terribly wrong and there is a major terror...
He has railed against the evils of religion, and lectured the world on the virtues of atheism. Now Richard Dawkins, the secularist campaigner against "intolerance and suffering", must face an awkward reve...
By William K. Black Criminologists know that accounting control fraud causes greater financial losses than all other forms of property crime – combined. Some of the world’s best economists, George Akerlo...
The planet-sized moon Titan has all the trimmings of science fiction world with vast sand dune seas.
It's a tiny bit abstract, but more and more Americans are coming to understand the connection between the Supreme Court's corporate personhood thrust with the *Citizens United* decision and the unfortuna...
ENVIRONMENT - Alberta's tar pits (aka the oil sands) isn't likely to make much difference as far as global warming and climate change is concerned, says Andrew Weaver, one of the world’s top climate change...
POLITICS - The hermit republic of North Korea is threatening to attack South Korea, worried about live fire military drills its South Korean neighbours are doing in a disputed region of the sea near the bo...
Anthony Federico, who was fired for writing the 'chink in the armor' headline on ESPN.com regarding the many turnovers Jeremy Lin had committed in one game, says he had no intention of being racially off...
With hundreds of millions already in the bank, the vulture philanthropists and their hopped-up hedge funders are looking for more cash for their corporate welfare charter schools. Will the Florida State L...
Source: Grupo GABIE Date: 02.20.2012 Argentina: A UFO Over General Villegas A couple managed to record -- by means of a cell phone -- two unidentified flying objects over the municipality. Th...
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On Feb. 8, Miss San Carlos, Desirae Rambler (left) and San Carlos Apache Youth Council President (right), support the testimony given by Shan Lewis (center), President of the Inter-Tribal Council of Ariz...
* "Borrowing Your Way Out of Debt and* * Other Normal Abnormalities"* by Bill Bonner "Dow up 45 points on Friday. The 10-year T-note right on the 2% yield mark. Almost all the news is good. It looks like ...
*"LEAP 20/20: GEAB N°61, Global Systemic Crisis: * *2012: The Year Of The Great Global Geopolitical Change”* by LEAP 20/20 "2012 will be the year of the great global geopolitical change: a phenomenon whic...
Monterrey, Mexico (CNN) -- Dozens died and 30 inmates escaped during a weekend prison riot in northern Mexico, an official said Monday. The prison's director and 18 guards have been removed from their pos...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 63.4 km (39.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:09:43 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) WSW from Suchi...
Despite their pain and suffering, Syrians' struggle against tyranny shows no signs of slowing down. A year ago, inspired by the success of revolts in the Arab world, Syrians rose against the authoritarian...
(CNN) -- The United States is not interested in providing weapons to opposition forces in Syria until it has a better picture of what those forces are, the top U.S. military officer said in an interview ...
"Invade! Invade NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!" -- Federal Reserve "Invade! Invade NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!" -- IMF "Invade! Invade NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!" -- World Bank "Invade! Invade NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!" -...
*“Here It Comes: Medicaid/Medicare, Oil Prices”* by Karl Denninger "Folks, we have to face this. I know nobody wants to. But we have to. The following story showed up this morning: "(Illinois) Aides say Q...
Timothy Peterson and Leah Graham recently published a study in the Journal of Conflict Resolution showing that, after you control for the democratic peace, similarities in human rights performance have an ...
For most journalists, the freebie press trip can offer a unique chance to explore the most exotic reaches of the globe. But not for this poor bunch. They were instead given a somewhat unglamorous tour ar...
NORFOLK -- A dead whale on the beach in Norfolk is attracting a crowd of people who want a up-close look at the mammal. The 42-foot male sei whale washed up near 1st View Street on Sunday. The Virginia A...
VANCOUVER - When dead sea mammals started washing ashore on Canada's west coast in greater numbers, marine biologist Andrew Trites was distressed to find that domestic animal diseases were killing them. ...
Bolivian volcano Uturuncu is fertile ground for research, study and fascination. UTURUNCU VOLCANO, Bolivia — The broad hill at the base of Uturuncu is unassuming. Its gentle arc fades naturally into the ...
This video literally brought tears to my eyes. This video is direct proof that Kurt speaking out, and all the backlash we have dealt with, is worth it. Our entire intent in speaking out about this was t...
Britain is facing a "massive" rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning caused by the bacterium E.coli – bringing closer the spectre of diseases that are impossible to treat. Experts say the growth of...
JERUSALEM — Israel is coming under increased pressure from Washington and Europe to hold off from attacking Iran over its disputed nuclear drive and allow time for a regime of tight international sanction...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:51:56 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Southeast of Otane, New Zeala...
Private Prison Company to Demand 90% Occupancy By Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov 19 February 12 [excerpted] The nation's largest private prison company is offering cash-strapped state g...
Experts believe they may have found the most radioactive particle to be recovered so far from a beach near the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has be...
Four Air Force Special Operators on a spy mission over east Africa died when their U-28 plane crashed as it was returning to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. It’s another reminder of the hidden costs of the U.S....
(Reuters) - Senior U.N. inspectors arrived in Iran on Monday to push for transparency about its disputed nuclear program and several European states halted purchases of Iranian oil as part of Western move...
Feb. 20 - German chancellor Angela Merkel throws her support behind Joachim Gauck after ally Christian Wulff resigns over financial scandal. Jessica Gray reports.
(Reuters) - Russia, China and Iran showed support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, days before an international meeting likely to pile more pressure on him to step down in the face of an in...
Yesterday, the NBC corporate message machine presented one of their top-paid corporate shills, Rep. Paul Ryan, on one of their top Sunday shows, *Meet the Press* which was last useful and relevant several...
***Chinese-Indonesian businessman James Riady on the right reportedly has links to the CIA, Chinese intelligence, Bill Clinton and others.* In 2010, Lord James of Blackheath (David James.) said that: "The ...
A South Korean court sentenced two teenagers to prison terms Monday after they admitted bullying a school classmate until he committed suicide. The two, both 15, were sentenced to terms of three years and ...
*Paul Babeau and his illegal Mexican lover Jose in happier, more closeted and self-loathing times.* It's hard to see where Paul Babeau expects us to see the separation. While admitting that he's gay, he's...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 525 km (326.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:31:22 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 217 km (134 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Vanua ...
*SANTORUM'S SURGE* Santorum or NEWT are NOT going to be the GOP nominee. They are playing their "part" right now, like Herman "999" Cain did, like Michele Bachmann did, like Rick Perry did, etc... You are...
Hardline Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees De Jager demanded Monday that the EU and IMF take "permanent" control of government decision-making over revenues and public expenditure in Greece. As the eurozon...
A seven-year-old girl is being monitored in hospital after possibly ingesting the date rape drug GHB Saturday night. Langley RCMP were called to a home in the 5500 block of 209th Street just after 9 p.m. ...
A federal agency created by the Conservative government to mediate complaints about Canadian mining operations abroad has spent more than $1.1 million in the past two years, but has yet to mediate anything...
Know your rights as a photographer this election season! Know your rights as a photographer this protest season! Know your rights as a photographer this occupy season! *They Can't Turn the Lights Off Now* ...
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 20, 2012 *US General: "Iran a Rational Actor", but is US o...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* If 'corporations' are people, then why are they NOT paying their fair shaire of taxes? Some pay very little! Some pay no taxes at all! The tax burden has, in fact,...
From an article reported on February 18th. By Stacey Singer Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Snips Below – no comments needed! Asked about his efforts to sway public opinion, Koch acknowledges his group is ha...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 89.7 km (55.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:55:30 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 209 km (129 miles) Southeast...
GREENPEACE AGAINST THE MONSTERS. Anatolij Pickmann is a fine illustrator. According to Lauren Davis at *io9*, *"Stylized Greenpeace posters pit David against mecha-monster Goliaths"*. No foolin'. Check o...
Iranian state television shows a nine-person crew being rescued from a burning ship in Iranian waters. Rough Cut
Justin Trudeau raised a bit of a stir last week with his comments that he'd consider supporting Quebec separatism if the Harper government took Canada too far to the right. Most have already weighed in on ...
First lady Michelle Obama’s weekend jaunt to Aspen, Colorado for a President’s Day ski holiday with her daughters Sasha and Malia makes the 16th time members of the first family have gone on extended vacat...
Three members of Anonymous sneaked past extreme police and private security controls to jump onto the stage as the event was at one of its highest points, as this video shows. Meanwhile, the Spanish film a...
The violent "Medal of Honor" may improve the vision of individuals with certain eye conditions.
[This is a cross-posting from Dart-Throwing Chimp.] I've just finished reading John Lewis Gaddis's terrific biography of George Frost Kennan, a towering figure in American foreign policy after World War ...
I was going to post about Romney's big fundraiser with the anti-gay agenda who made his money on a pyramid scheme business so sleazy, he was legally sanctioned by the government. Then I read about how he b...
University of Victoria professor Andrew Weaver has supposedly dropped a bombshell - the Athabasca Tar Sands are inconsequential to the problem of global warming. Or that is at least what the reporter who...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012* *On to the long hard slog of our forthcoming Chapter 7:* Our third non-annual fund-raising drive has come to an end as predicted! For everyone who participated, Oprah has agre...
At least two protesters have been killed during demonstrations in Senegal demanding the departure of the country's 85-year-old president. Tension is running high in the usually peaceful country, six days ...
In 2001, the PR firms that the Business Roundtable hired to sell their plan to blow up public schools and to rebuild them in the corporate image for corporate benefit could not have settled on a more cynic...
[image: A dead whitetip reef shark caught accidentally in a fishing net. Alamy]By Steve Connor, Vancouver 18 February 2012 The indiscriminate slaughter of vast numbers of turtles, sharks, albatrosses...
------------------------------ *Silencing The Critics* ------------------------------ February 20, 2012 | Original Here In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and ...
*Washington Post* scribes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have, for decades, been widely credited with taking down Richard Nixon. The popular narrative goes that they were fed their story by a shadowy ...
Writing in the Boulder Daily Camera yesterday Tom Rohrer identifies a howler of a mistake in a recent report by the City of Boulder on "Safe Streets." The city has been implementing "flashing crosswalks"...
In 2001, the PR firms that the Business Roundtable hired tosell their plan to blow up public schools and to rebuild them in the corporateimage for corporate benefit could not have settled on a more cynical...
By Ruairidh Villar and Yuriko Nakao; Writing by Elaine Lies; Editing by Michael Perry 10 February 2012 FUKUSHIMA (Reuters) – On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword...
[image: The Ganges River dolphin, known as shushuk in Bangladesh. BCDP / WCS]NEW YORK, New York, 15 February 2012 (ENS) – Bangladesh has established three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwa...
Technology allows a person to "talk with their hands" -- literally!
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[image: Chinese bulk coal carrier the Shen Neng 1 grounded near the Great Barrier Reef, 3 April 2010. indybay.org] Editing by Robert Birsel 18 February 2012 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will carry out ...
Iran's military announced on Monday it has launched four days of manoeuvres in the south of the country aimed at boosting anti-air defences protecting nuclear sites. The announcement came as inspectors f...
------------------------------ *Poor America - P **a n o r a m a [B B C] - Broadcast Date: 13th February 2012 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJCvkazrTc Uploaded by leenicklen on Feb 13, 2012 POO...
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*The majority of Canadians did not vote Conservative in the last election. Mr. Harper, you may have a 'majority' government under the British Parliamentary system. However, sir, you do not have the moral a...
The south east of England is now officially in a state of drought, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs admitted today. Some reservoirs, rivers and groundwater aquifers in the South East...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Borger Region at a depth of 7.1 km (4.4 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 13:52:33 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 159 ...
When we wrote the Brave New World report, we expected the digital audio market to take off. After all, the devices were already there, the download mechanisms existed, the bandwidth was there and MP3 was ...
Following the Ottawa Citizen's attempted sting to determine who was behind the Vikileaks twitter account targeting Vic Toews last week, the House Speaker's Office patiently explained that really it could b...
An international rugby referee who taught at an exclusive school threw his baby son from a bridge today before jumping to his own death, it has emerged. Jason Lees, 40, threw his two-year-old son from Br...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 21.4 km (15 miles), the quake hit at 13:09:27 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 250 km (155 miles) ESE...
[image: Biologists at the University of Sussex have been analysing how effectively different species of flowers attract foraging insects. The best plants are the Mexican giant hyssop, which was particula...
An insanely impossible problem is becoming just merely difficult.
Robots take a stab at replacing Picasso.
[image: The rosette agent disease can cause 90% mortality in salmon species found in British rivers. ALAMY] By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent 19 February 2012 Biologists say they have found the ros...
... this was not a mistake. Starting a land war in Asia is a mistake. This is akin to wearing a meat tuxedo and gravy-scented aftershave to a wolverine convention. 'via Blog this' Canadian Cynic and ...
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Even if you live in a sports-free universe, the name Jeremy Lin may have seeped in through osmosis. The 24-year-old Harvard grad and point guard for the New York Knicks basketball team has inspired a wave ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Borger Region at a depth of 26.7 km (16.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:05 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (88miles) South...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang Borger Region at a depth of 5.6 km (3.5 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 13:59:23 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 172 k...
Wiki: Lizzie Phelan (also known as Lizzie Cocker, born c.1986) is a British reporter and broadcaster from London with a mixed Greek, Irish and English heritage.A regular contributor to the Iranian Press TV...
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012 * *Presidents Day is for lovers:* How will you spend your Presidents Day? Will you go shopping at the mall? Or will you devote yourself to remembering the things which actually...
*Greg Weston* pulls another Harper-floated piece of waste off the surface. A federal agency created by the Conservative government to mediate complaints about Canadian mining operations abroad has spent m...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's military sent tanks and other reinforcements toward the restive central city of Homs on Monday in what appears to be preparations by President Bashar Assad's regime for an offensive ...
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Officials with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency begin a second round of talks Monday with Iranian officials over the country's nuclear program, a day after Tehran cut off crude expor...
(Financial Times) -- Eurozone governments are looking to the European Central Bank and national central banks to help pare back the cost of a second rescue package for Greece which would otherwise amount...
The meat is made from cows' stem cells.
Over the weekend I was disgruntled that the media-- particularly Fox, where Paul Babeu is a regular contributor ("border expert")-- chose to ignore my favorite news story, the outing of Republican hypocri...
Flowers are beautiful, fragrant and attractive throughout the entire year. Fresh bouquets placed among your home during dull winter days can add vibrancy. In the summer, cut wildflowers are a fun additio...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 114 km (70.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:43:30 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:13:58 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 236 km (146 miles) West of Coos Ba...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Columbia at a depth of 150.8 km (93.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:09:38 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) South of Bucaramanga...
Mardi Gras Sunday parade photos from the Times-Picayune ~A float rider leans out to toss to the crowds along St. Charles Avenue during the Iris parade Sunday, February 19,2012 in New Orleans. The parade wa...
(Becoming a tradition -- I just rerun this old thing. For a different perspective, see Matt Glassman. Also, probably light posting here today because I'll be over at Greg's place all day, and so I also won...
They have a reputation for being ruthless, solitary predators, but the opposite may be closer to the truth.
Squashed eyeballs was one of the prime concerns for doctors during first U.S orbital spaceflights.
*Expert player Sachin Thendulkar should have retired from international cricket after the success of 2011 World Cup, feels former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev,who led the nation to their first world cup tr...
*European stock markets were advanced before a meeting of euro zone economics ministers that many hopes will finalize a new post security for Greece. In last year the euro zone set up a bailout fund to t...
*According to a UK scientist studying volcanic vents in the ocean they hold a grave warning for future marine ecosystems. *At the end of last year, Dr Hall-Spencer published his findings on one volcanic ...
Dubai’s coast guard units have stumbled across thousands of dead fish in the emirate’s waters and the fishermen’s association believes banned fishing methods are behind this marine massacre. The Dubai-b...
CIAMPEA, Indonesia, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Nine people in Ciampea, Indonesia, were swept away by a river after the bridge they were crossing collapsed Sunday, emergency officials said. Around 11:30 a.m., in th...
First it was Alaska's Mount Cleveland that awoke and threatened to erupt. Now Kanaga, another Alaska volcano is growing restless. This weekend, the Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the threat level to y...
A British driver was today facing charges of manslaughter and "involuntarily causing injuries" following a fatal coach crash in northern France. The 47-year-old, who has not been named, is suspected of f...
(Reuters) - A teenage Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire and died in southwestern China, a rights group said, in the latest reported self-immolation by a monk denouncing Chinese policies in Tib...
(Reuters) - Angela Merkel's conservatives accused their coalition partner on Monday of a "massive breach of trust" in backing opposition candidate Joachim Gauck for the German presidency, a move which for...
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia needed a stronger military to protect it from foreign attempts to stoke conflicts around its borders. In a newspaper article intended to bu...
Feb. 19 - Supporters of embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad gather in a Turkish border town where they blast international attempts to force the long-time leader to step down. Andrew Raven reports
*Scientists in Dutch have used stem cells to produce strips of muscle tissue with the plan of producing the first lab-grown hamburger later this year*. The price of producing the hamburger will be £200,0...
(Reuters) - An explosion tore through a polling station in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, followed by gunfire that killed one soldier, a day before a presidential vote to replace Ali Abudllah...
(Reuters) - Secretive North Korea raised its military alert ahead of a live-fire artillery drill by rival South Korea Monday amid heightened tension on the peninsula during a delicate transition of power ...
Feb. 20 - Family members of prisoners face off with Mexican police after a prison riot kills dozens of inmates. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Feb. 20 - Russian protesters set up toys carrying placards against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule. Sophia Soo reports
Feb. 20 - Protesters retaliate after security forces fire teargas grenade into a mosque during a demonstration as vote looms. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
Feb. 20 - Three skiers and one snowboarder killed in separate Washington avalanches. Sophia Soo reports
Feb. 20 - Bus plunges into a ravine killing 24 adults and two children in northern Ecuador due to excessive speed
If the blood pressure readings from a patient’s two arms differ by 15 or more, it could indicate a narrowing of arteries to the legs, decreased blood flow to the brain, heart disease, and a 70 percent incr...
(Reuters) - Two Iranian naval ships have docked at the Syrian port of Tartous, Iran's state-run Press TV reported on Monday, in a development likely to raise concern in the West. The ships docked on Satu...
(Reuters) - China's main newspaper accused Western countries of stirring civil war in Syria and two Iranian warships docked at a Syrian naval base, underscoring rising international tensions over the near...
Dakar, Senegal (CNN) -- Clashes erupted between police and protesters in Senegal Sunday, a week before the country's presidential elections. Demonstrators threw rocks and police threw tear gas canisters ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's officially crunch time. European finance ministers need to agree to the terms of a second bailout to keep Greece from defaulting on an upcoming bond payment. While it's been w...
*Jews in Kochi (Cochin)* In 2010, a Jewish couple came to the Chabad house in Kochi, in Kerala, in India. In early February 2012, the local authority gave the Jewish couple a deportation notice for alle...
A Syrian provincial attorney general, a judge and their driver were fatally shot in the Syrian province of Idlib.
(CNN) -- Officials with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency begin a second round of talks Monday with Iranian officials over the country's nuclear program, a day after Tehran cut off crude exports to Britis...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea conducted live-fire military drills near its disputed sea boundary with North Korea on Monday despite Pyongyang's threat to respond with a "merciless" attack - a thr...
SEOUL (Kyodo) -- The North Korean military issued a notice Sunday warning South Korean islanders living in a disputed part of the Yellow Sea to "evacuate" if the South Korean military goes ahead with a li...
A shark carcass was found in a parking lot at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 19, police said. A guard alerted Yoyogi Police Station at around 7 a.m. to say that a shark covered with a tarp h...
FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) -- The Fukushima Prefecture government said Monday residents of three municipalities near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are estimated to have been exposed to up to 2...
Another human skeleton has turned up in a wooded area on the eastern end of Long Island, in a town where at least four other sets of human remains have been discovered in recent years. The latest set of ...
Authorities say two people are dead and four others injured after a private airplane from Texas crashed just short of an airport runway during a heavy snowstorm in Colorado. The crash happened at about 3...
Photo courtesy: jonfeinstein/CC BY 2.0 So you are rationing the apple juice after the previous arsenic scandal, and paying extra for the sure-to-be-melamine-free baby formula. All is right with the world....
The Himalayan snowcock is a large, grey partridge-like bird. Its nests are often found way up high in the Himalayas at heights of over 13,120 ft. Alexander the Great couldn't grow a very good beard, so ea...
Study finds that fruit flies can medicate themselves with alcohol to avoid death from parasitic wasps. (André Karwath/Wikimedia Commons) While humans can use alcohol to disinfect wounds, some insects take...
Male Asian elephant. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a "massacre" fuelled by Asian demand for ivory. A local government official sa...
A registered New York sex offender kidnapped his estranged girlfriend at gunpoint in Ohio along with her one-year-old she was pushing in a stroller. Thomas Lorde, Latasha Jackson, and her infant daughter ...
America’s top military official said it’s not ‘prudent’ to attack Iran at this point in time over its nuclear facilities, noting that the increase in sanctions on the country is beginning to have an effec...
A man plunged to his death on Sunday after falling into a holding tank filled with toxic chemicals at work. Firefighters reported to the tanker located on a barge on Swan Island, Portland, Oregon at abou...
A winter storm has dumped several inches of snow on a band of southern states, triggering accidents on slippery roads and knocking out power to tens of thousands. The storm brought wet snow on Sunday to ...
Inside Job, Narrated by Matt Damon (Full Length HD) from jwrock on Vimeo.
For the Marines who served with Sgt Manuel Loggins Jr., it would have been an injustice to stay quiet. So in a move that broke with the military's tradition, Loggins' commanding officer at California's C...
The skeletal remains of a 14-year-old runaway, who went missing in 1999, have been found after the home where she was last seen was demolished, according to police. The remains of Nicholle Coppler were f...
These amazing pictures, captured by a NASA satellite, show a gigantic tornado moving across the sun. The tornado is larger than it might look - in fact, it is probably bigger than the Earth, and could ex...
A rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning - caused by the E.coli bacteria - is posing such a huge risk that experts fear the country could be facing a timebomb of diseases that are impossible to trea...
Details about text messages, phone calls, emails and every website visited by members of the public will be kept on record in a bid to combat terrorism. The Government will order broadband providers, lan...
Every year in the month of February, the sun's angle is such that it lights up 'Horsetail Falls' in Yosemite National Park. As the sun sets, the beam of light falling on the falls gets narrower and narro...
The world’s first test-tube burger will be ready to eat within months. It will look, feel and, it is hoped, taste, like a regular quarter-pounder, its creator Mark Post told the world’s premier science co...
They're incredible by today's standards, but once upon a time these adverts were perfectly acceptable. From an ad that claims smoking is healthy to one telling mothers they should give Coca-Cola to th...
Iran cut off oil sales to British companies yesterday after Foreign Secretary William Hague accused the Islamist regime of promoting terrorism. The oil ministry in Tehran announced that it had ceased all ...
A teacher was killed in a school holiday coach crash yesterday which left a 13-year-old girl in a coma. Peter Rippington, 59, died when the coach bringing the school party home from a ski trip overturned...
A nursery nurse has revealed how she was forced to play dead during a terrifying assault which left her with such shocking injuries her own mother did not recognise her. Katey Wall thought she was going ...
Home ownership has fallen to its lowest level since Margaret Thatcher was in Downing Street, figures show. Only 66 per cent of homes are owned by those who live in them compared with a peak of 71 per cen...
Britons in Greece were warned yesterday they may have to be evacuated. It comes as eurozone ministers prepare to sign off another £108billion rescue package for the crippled economy. Foreign Secretary Wi...
Tesco is to hold crisis talks with employment officials as the row over the supermarket chain’s use of ‘slave labour’ intensifies. Several high-profile companies have already pulled out of the Government’...
A crazed knifeman was shot up to four times by armed police officers after Taser stun guns failed to incapacitate him. The man, aged in his 20s, was fighting for his life in hospital last night after rec...
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called for the expansion of Tehran-Islamabad trade and economic ties to a level worthy of the two “friendly and neighboring” countries. In a meeting with his...
This satellite image of the ice pack on the Atlantic side of the Arctic was taken last Saturday and tells a story you have never heard in February: The entire Kara Sea east of Novaya Zemlya is ice-free. ...
Google tracked the web-browsing habits of millions of iPhone users without their consent, it has been revealed. The search giant wrote programming code that circumvented the Apple iPhone’s default priva...
The latest findings from the BDRC Continental quarterly Landlords Panel research reveals the biggest rise in the number of portfolio landlords making a loss since the Landlords Panel began in 2006. The r...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 11.8 km (7.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:34:29 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) Southeast of Izmir, Turkey...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 51.6 km (32.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:18:16 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) North of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzst...
When I published my article fiveyears ago on the Pleistocene Nonconformity, I essentially argued that: 1 The crust was shifted thirty degrees south and theoriginal North Pole during t...
It is becoming rather plausiblethat the dairy industry knows that their product has long establisheddeleterious effect on human health and that real competition from a successfulraw milk protocol is far...
This is my second or third visitto the Moringa story and it seems to steadily improve. Dr Al Sears is out scouting Africafor product and has recently taken another look at the Moringa tree. I have p...
I continue to be disturbed bythis obvious abuse of the unlimited enforcement power of government in what isa quasi legal attack on this particular individual with effectively any properrecourse. In e...
Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of dead North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is in financial trouble and cannot pay his bills, Russian magazine Argumenty i Fakty reported. It said Kim was recently kicked out of ...
Students will not be penalised for repaying university loans early after David Cameron scrapped a Liberal Democrat plan to raise more money from the middle classes. Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, ...
U.S. researchers say findings from genetics research are inspiring them in their search for ways to combat increasing number of global cyberattacks. Scientists at Wake Forest University say they've used a...
Israel and Western powers say they are becoming nervous about Syria's significant arsenal of chemical weapons, primarily the possibility that they could fall into the hands of militant groups such as al-Q...
Nine North Korean refugees detained by China are being transferred to a border area in preparation for repatriation despite pleas from South Korea, reports said Friday. The nine are among dozens of North...
Al-Qaeda's branch in Iraq likely carried out recent suicide bombings in Syria and has infiltrated opposition forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the US spy chief said Thursday. Bombing at...
The United States vowed Thursday to retain close military ties to its European allies after unveiling plans to withdraw more than 11,000 troops from Germany and Italy as part of a strategic shift to Asia....
The US and South Korean navies will stage a joint anti-submarine drill in the Yellow Sea next week to guard against potential attacks by North Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said Thursday. The drill fro...
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said Beijing opposed armed intervention and forced "regime change" in Syria, a day before to heading to Damascus to push for an end to the conflict there. China and...
India's lone aircraft carrier, INS Viraat, may be over 50 years old, but the latest refit that it went through in 2009-10 has made it a potent warfare platform of the 21st century and this was showcased t...
An awful long time has elapsed since the media began frenetically covering the uprising in Syria—long enough for more truth to have emerged by now. At WhoWhatWhy, we’ve had our suspicions that pressworld ...
John Mauldin posted an extraordinary interview by Kate Welling of Dr. Lacy Hunt, the chief economist of Hoisington Investment Management. Dr. Lacy Hunt correctly identifies fractional reserve lending as t...
*You can tell by reading the reaction in the paper, and it is really not surprising considering its location regarding Iran. * "US reevaluates Maldives power change" Associated Press, February 11, 2012 MA...
Dutch finance minister Jan Kees said a second Greek bail-out should be paid only after April elections, to ensure Athens keeps its promises. "A number of countries, including the Netherlands, said they c...
(ANSAmed) - ATHENS - The record is one that the birthplace of the Olympics would have been glad to see pass it by: the Greek crisis will soon surpass that of Argentina in terms of severity, with a GDP down...
*Ooops! * "It was New Year’s Eve. She had been drinking. It was late. And that was the moment the world chose to welcome Sarah LaRose to the not-so-exclusive club of people who have dropped their iPhone i...
A former-- and no, doubt future, insurance industry lobbyist-- multimillionaire and reactionary Ben Nelson was easily the worst Democrat in the U.S. Senate. According to ProgressivePunch, the Republicans ...
*And the joke is on you, Americans! * "Off-color text messages damage FBI sting in foreign bribery case; Jurors, lawyers say attitude of agents hurt credibility" by Del Quentin Wilber | Washington Post,...
A taxpayer-funded electric vehicle battery company, that is considered in great danger due to its dependency on troubled EV company Fisker Automotive, has awarded its top executives big salary increases d...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A report this week showing rampant foreclosure abuse in San Francisco reflects similar levels of lender fraud and faulty documentation across the United States, say experts and off...
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1...
In September 2011, Vladimir Putin announced a program to begin offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Russian Arctic. Putin is also interested in creating new sea terminals, which he said wo...
As Iran remains defiant over its nuclear program, tough new sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union have sent prices for basic foodstuffs soaring on the streets of Tehran. “Prices h...
By Mitch Green Via Animals Explain EconomicsMMT received some love from the mainstream press today. WashPo ran a story titled, "You know the deficit hawks. Now meet the deficit owls." via Ezra Klein's W...
February 16, 2012: The Americans are now sending confusing signals on their withdrawal strategy from Afghanistan and their “dialogue” with the Taliban. Their NATO allies would like to pack up and leave ...
LOS ANGELES – Banks took back more U.S. homes in January than in the previous month, the latest sign that foreclosures are accelerating after slowing sharply last year while lenders sorted out foreclosure...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is running the economy in such a heavy-handed manner that he more resembles a socialist strongman reminiscent of the Soviet Union than the head of the world's largest ...
Imagine a war scenario in which miniaturised missiles equipped with Precision-Guided Munitions (PGMs) are unleashed from a mother missile to take out select enemy targets like an ammunition depot while avo...
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Central Falls is Rhode Island's smallest city and also one of its poorest. Boarded up homes line many streets and one-quarter of the city's families live below the poverty line. "...
"This is the epicenter of the week, where leggy models don the frocks that the world will be wearing next year as a chichi, stiletto-wobbling crowd jostles for front-row seats.... --A *fast track to Fashi...
For the second time in less than a fortnight, top American intelligence officials have claimed that India is building up its armed forces focused at China’s perceived aggressive posture in the Asia-Pacific...
I am truly amazed about all the false rhetoric and blatant lies coming from both our Jewish occupied governments, as well as our Jewish controlled media, about the senseless and ridiculous need to have the...
The MI-17 V5 falls in armed helicopter category, with substantial and effective firepower. It has latest and more powerful engines that enhance its payload carrying capability at higher altitudes. Of the 8...
A 300-pound man was arrested after he was seen walking around an Exton, Pa., Walmart wearing nothing but socks. It was later discovered that the only apparel the man had on was stolen from the store, polic...
MI5 investigated whether Charlie Chaplin was actually a Frenchman called Israel Thornstein, previously secret files on the Hollywood film star have revealed. Intelligence officers could find no trace of...
The 42-year-old "struck a deal" with the schoolboys aged 13 and 14 after she was dumped by her boyfriend for another woman, it was alleged. She is said to have asked them to damage the car of his new girl...
A bipartisan slate of senators announced this afternoon they would reject “any United States policy that would rely on efforts to contain a nuclear weapons-capable Iran.” Drawing a clear line in the sand...
LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore wants to end the default practice of quarterly earnings guidance and explore issuing loyalty-driven securities as part of an overhaul of capit...
The retail sales data for January from the Office for National Statistics is stunningly good. One analyst has even said that he thought it had to be a mistake when he first saw the 0.9% rise today. There’...
End of controversial property tax breaks leaves the Pope facing €600m-a-year bill. After several years of scandal in which the Catholic Church has faced allegations of financial impropriety, paedophile p...
U.S. consumer prices rose the most in four months in January as the price of gasoline jumped, highlighting a growing concern that higher energy costs could slow the economic recovery. In a report that m...
After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression, the Congressional Budget Office noted in a report issued today....
The United States Department of Treasury will reach the the statutory limit it is allowed to borrow money before election day, according to a new study by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio., former director of the...
Resentment of ruthless austerity programme may not be enough to prevent bailout package. Greek leaders express frustration and anger at the rapid erosion of their country's sovereignty by German and euro...
Doctors on Friday reported the first known case of Legionnaire's disease, a rare infection usually linked to faulty air conditioning and hot-water systems, that was caused by a visit to the dentist. The ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Uzbekistan at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:13:07 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35.3 miles) South of Panjakent, Uzb...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:11:22 UTC Monday 20th February 2012 The epicenter was 845 km (525 miles) Southwest of Male, M...
Michael Franti, "Hey World (Don't Give Up)"
ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Flags will be lowered in New Jersey Saturday, the day of Whitney Houston’s funeral. But a Marine mom in Arlington says it’s an honor Houston doesn’t deserve. When Phyllis McGeath...
(Reuters) - The government of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is emerging as a rare supplier of diesel to Syria, potentially undermining Western sanctions and helping the Syrian government fuel its military in th...
*“We have the fourth-largest defense budget on the planet, superb armed forces, and antiterrorist and security capabilities that stretch across the globe and are feared by our enemies and admired by our fr...
The latest round of time-lapse videos from the Space Station features a beautiful pass over Canada and northern US under the light of the moon.
Philosopher Paul Thompson from Purdue University has suggested “The Blind Chicken Solution.” He argues that chickens blinded by “accident” have been developed into a strain of laboratory chickens that don...
The relationship between North Korea and Iran appears to be becoming closer and more cooperative as international criticism over their controversial nuclear programs increases and economic sanctions squee...
We are hearing a new concept these days in discussions about Iran - the zone of immunity. The idea, often explained by Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, is that soon Iran will have enough nuclear cap...
(CNN) -- Mexico has landed some hard punches against the drug cartels that have stirred violence in parts of the country -- at least on paper. In 2011, against just the notorious Zetas cartel, Mexico ende...
(CNN) -- In 2012, hard-nosed rhetoric from the United States and Israel has accompanied an ever louder drumbeat for a possible "military option" to combat Iran's nuclear program. Tehran has responded wit...
*You only saw it if you bought a printed paper.* "BOLIVIAN PROTEST -- Indians clashed with police officers in La Paz, Bolivia yesterday after making a 41-day trek from their villages to the capital. The g...
Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CNN) -- Lt. Timothy Breen flies missions close to Iranian air space almost every day in his U.S. Navy F-18 Hornet, often encountering Iranian military aircraft over the st...
I study biopolitics. That is the study of the intersections across(1) economic models; (2) health; (3) and dominant frameworks for interpreting andmitigating disease. In my research I’ve studied autism...
"Haitian leader could pardon Duvalier" Associated Press, January 27, 2012 DAVOS, Switzerland - Haiti’s president suggested that he might pardon former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, saying reconciliation f...
Unidentified attackers bomb their way into state-run jail in Kogi, killing one guard and freeing more than 100 inmates. Attackers have stormed a federal prison in Nigeria with heavy gunfire and explosives...
Calls for accountability and transparency grow at a time the military has fallen out of favour with the public. The military’s vast economic interests in Egypt are one of those secrets which is not real...
At least 44 people have died in a fight between rival gangs at a prison on the outskirts of the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. Victims were beaten, stabbed and stoned when a fight broke out on Sunday...
Four people have been killed in two separate avalanches near Washington state ski resorts. Three skiers died when an avalanche struck near the Stevens Pass ski area in the Cascade Mountains of north-cent...
Greece's future in the eurozone is the subject of a crucial meeting in Brussels later as violence erupted in Athens. The so-called Eurogroup, made up of the 17 countries which use the single currency, wi...
"The President just got in there. But in four years, will we still like him? In eight years, are we gonna still hype him? What if he says we've gotta go into Iran and kill a million people? Will you stil...
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BEIJING (AP) — Pyongyang's top nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ahead of the first nuclear talks with the United States since the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. First Vice Foreign...
In the confusion following the earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan’s Fukushima nuclear complex last March, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it was standing by to help. But a trove of e-mails ...
For some people, the end of the world as we know it is upon us, and there is no better time than now to start preparing. Such is the concept of National Geographic Channel's new reality show Doomsday Pre...
Ancient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth after scientists dated them as up to 200,000 years old. Australian scientists sequenced...
Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos was right in his claim that eurozone ministers would finally agree a second bailout for the country - but the deal still leaves questions unanswered. The crunch...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 592.4 km (368.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:36:27 UTC Tuesday 21st February 2012 The epicenter was 324 km (201 miles) Northwest from NUKU...
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) — Google is testing 252 “mystery” devices in its employees’ homes, but what the device is, nobody outside of Google knows. Google recently applied for an experimental license with th...
WASHINGTON — The Constitution has seen better days. Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. B...
Performing yoga while being instructed by an inexperienced teacher can be deadly as they sometimes put pupils in life threatening positions, an expert on the activity has warned. Over-eager "green" teac...
An 83-year-old woman has become the first person to have a 3D printer-created jaw fitted. The artificial jaw was made from titanium powder, heated and built-up in layers in a 3D printer to create a work...
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