Italy Slips Back Into Recession, As New PM Seeks Berlusconi’s Help
Italy’s economy has slipped back into its second recession in six years today, as Italian daily newspaper Corriere Della Serra announced, “There Is No Recovery”.Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has failed...
View ArticleThe Hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Continues
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Dutch engineering firm Fugro will lead the search of the Indian Ocean seafloor where missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is believed to have crashed, hoping to unlock the greatest...
View ArticleLet’s Get Weird (Al): Petition Pleads for Parody Artist to Headline Super...
“Weird Al” Yankovic has been performing for more than 30 years, but he only recently snagged the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart with his latest release, Mandatory Fun. How fitting: A Change.org...
View ArticleRussia to Ban All U.S. Food Imports
MOSCOW/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia will ban all imports of food from the United States and all fruit and vegetables from Europe, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, a sweeping response...
View ArticleIn Search of a More Durable Israel-Palestinian Peace
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. envoy Frank Lowenstein was due in Cairo on Wednesday to try to help Egyptian-mediated talks between Israel and the Palestinians find a lasting end to their conflict over the...
View ArticleJazz Legend Sonny Rollins: 'Onion' Writer Was Mean To Me
On July 31st, The New Yorker published a story titled “Sonny Rollins: In His Own Words,” a piece of satire by Django Gold, a senior writer for The Onion. “The saxophone sounds horrible. Like a scared...
View ArticleFetuses in Artificial Wombs: Medical Marvel or Misogynist Malpractice?
Women no longer give birth in Aldous Huxley’s classic Brave New World. Instead, surgically removed ovaries are fertilized then bred in artificial receptacles. That was all pulled out of Huxley’s...
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Billy Smolinski, Gone Since 2004, Is Part of a 'Silent Mass Disaster'
Ten years ago, Billy Smolinski went away. Where he went, nobody knows. Nobody knows why he went there, if he went willingly. Nobody knows if he was killed or if he just skipped town. If he went into...
View ArticleIslamic State Fighters Extend Gains In Northern Iraq
Islamic State militants extended their gains in northern Iraq on Thursday, seizing more towns and strengthening a foothold near the Kurdish region, witnesses said, in an offensive that has alarmed the...
View ArticleSuspected Boko Haram Raid Kills 10 in Cameroon
Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram killed 10 people and kidnapped one in a raid on the village of Zigague in remote northern Cameroon on Wednesday, state radio reported.The heavily...
View ArticleSnowden Granted 3-Year Residency in Russia
Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programs, has been given a three-year residence permit by...
View ArticleMapping The Body’s Wiring For Medical Breakthroughs
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein was famously conceived during a “waking dream” one stormy evening in the Swiss Alps nearly two centuries ago. Now, her original inspiration has sparked the field of...
View ArticleEbola in Spain: Spanish Priest Quarantined in Madrid with Ebola
MADRID (Reuters) - The first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 932 people in West Africa, Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, was stable in a Madrid hospital on Thursday after...
View ArticleGlasgow Council To Fly Palestinian Flag, More Cities ‘Fully Expected’ To Follow
Glasgow City Council has controversially announced it will fly the Palestinian flag from its House Chambers tomorrow as a show of solidarity with the people of Gaza. The Scottish city’s Israeli...
View ArticleJohn Kerry to Meet with Feuding Afghan Presidential Candidates in Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday for his second visit in under a month to push a deal between the country's two presidential candidates on how to...
View ArticleCIA Vaults a Woman into Top Spy Ranks
Move over, boys. Continuing its appointment of women across its senior ranks, the CIA has promoted a veteran female operative into the number two slot in its espionage and dirty tricks division,...
View ArticleIsraeli and Palestinian Teens Confront Each Other Peacefully at a Camp in Maine
As Israeli and Palestinian leaders begin to engage in peace talks—albeit indirectly, during a 72-hour cease-fire—they would do well to follow the example set by some of their nations’ teenagers who...
View ArticleHow Women Are 'Freezing' The Biological Clock
For Jenine McKay, motherhood was the happy ending to a fairy tale that never actually happened.A few years ago, the then-39-year-old London-based events planner found herself suddenly single and...
View ArticleRussia Bans Western Food Imports In Ukraine Sanctions Retaliation
Moscow banned imports of most food from the West on Thursday in retaliation against sanctions over Ukraine, a stronger than expected measure that isolates Russian consumers from world trade to a degree...
View ArticleColombian Student Facing Prison for Sharing Research Paper Online
Four years ago, Diego Gómez was studying biology at the University of Quindío in Colombia. When he decided to focus his work on amphibians and reptiles, he came up against a problem: He lacked many of...
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