Israeli Soccer Team Forced to Move Game Over Security Threats
VIENNA (Reuters) - A soccer match to be played on Saturday by Maccabi Haifa and Paderborn will be moved due to security concerns after a violent anti-Israel protest disrupted the Israeli team's last...
View ArticleIsrael Says Missing Soldier Definitely Dead, Body Not Found
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army announced on Friday that a soldier unaccounted for after an ambush in the Gaza Strip six days ago was definitely dead, although they had still not recovered his...
View ArticlePutin's Daughter Reported to Have Fled Home in Netherlands
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughter has fled her multimillion-dollar Dutch penthouse as anger over Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is being increasingly directed at her father, according to...
View ArticleRussia Says Ukraine Tried to Kill Officers in Cross-Border Mortar Bombing
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities accused Ukraine of trying to kill investigators who were checking reports of cross-border shooting by firing a volley of mortar rounds over the frontier into...
View ArticleWikipedia Blocks U.S. House for ‘Disruptive Editing’
Somebody in Congress has been inserting reports of lizardmen and Cuban spies into Wikipedia entries, and Wikipedia is not amused. An administrator for the crowd-edited encyclopedia site has blocked...
View ArticleAssaulted Israeli Football Team Changes Match Venue Amid Safety Concerns
Israeli football club Maccabi Haifa has announced a change of venue for its next pre-season match amidst security concerns, after a group of pro-Palestinian protesters rushed the pitch and attacked...
View ArticleISIS Denies UN Claim it Ordered Female Genital Mutilation in Mosul
The Islamic State militant group has denied a claim from the United Nations that it ordered women and girls in Mosul, the northern Iraqi city it controls, to undergo female genital mutilation, the...
View ArticleBend It Like Neymar: MRI Scans Show Soccer Superstar Plays Without Thinking
Coaches tell players sports are 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical. For Brazilian soccer star Neymar, it’s about 90 percent instinct. According to a Yahoo News report, MRI brain scans taken in...
View ArticleZuckerberg is Now Richer than the Google Guys (Not to Mention the Winklevi)
Mark Zuckerberg just got a little bit closer to becoming the richest person on the planet. The Facebook founder’s net worth shot up by $2 billion after his company’s stock surged from approximately $71...
View ArticleIsrael Rejects Gaza Ceasefire Plan; Death Toll Nears 850
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel rejected on Friday international proposals for a ceasefire in its fight against Islamist militants in Gaza, but is discussing changes to the truce plan with U.S....
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What It’s Like to See Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray and Blues Traveler in a Park in...
My grandma was surprised when I told her I was going to see Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray and Blues Traveler perform at a small park in Stamford, Connecticut.Not because of the acts. Like most people born in...
View ArticleJohn Kerry: We Are Working Out 'Terminology' of Seven-Day Gaza Ceasefire
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke from Cairo on Friday, stating that he is pushing for a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Gaza to honor Eid, the feast at the end of Ramadan....
View ArticleSan Diego Comic-Con (So Far) in Pictures
The San Diego Comic-Con, one of the largest gatherings in the world for fans of comic books, video games, and science fiction and fantasy entered its second day on Friday. Many famous authors,...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Waiting for a Cease-Fire
Israelis were waiting tonight for word as to whether a cease-fire agreement could be reached. There was both hope and fear—hope, because Israelis have had enough of a war they never wanted in the first...
View ArticleRepublicans Might Try to Impeach Obama, White House Aide Says
(Reuters) - A top White House adviser said on Friday Republicans might try to impeach President Barack Obama over his go-it-alone immigration strategy, as Obama prepared to talk about the U.S. border...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Website That’s Been Cataloging the Beastie Boys’s ‘Paul’s...
Twenty-five years ago today, the Beastie Boys released what then appeared to be a hitless sophomore-slump album: Paul’s Boutique.It flopped. Capitol Records wasn’t impressed with the initial sales....
View ArticleTea Party Congressman from Florida Assumed Senior U.S. Officials Were Indian
In the following cringe-inducing video, freshman U.S. Congressman Curt Clawson, R-FL, mistakes two senior State Department and Commerce Department officials for representatives of India, likely owing...
View ArticleTwelve-Hour Gaza Humanitarian Truce Takes Hold
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians in the Gaza Strip poured into the streets on Saturday to recover their dead and stock up on food supplies after a 12-hour humanitarian truce agreed by Israel and...
View ArticleCan Google Build the Perfect Human Being?
First there was Google Glass—now, Google Genetics? YesterdayThe Wall Street Journal announced Google’s plans to create the ideal, holistic example of what a healthy human should be like. Entitled the...
View ArticleIt’s Still a Mess in Iraq
Remember Iraq? While the world’s attention has been diverted by the Malaysian plane shot down in eastern Ukraine and Israel’s assault on Gaza, things haven’t got much better in Iraq (or Syria for that...
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