The Return of Hamas Rockets Turns Israelis Against Netanyahu
Tel Aviv — I stirred a few moments before 8 am wondering what the day was going to bring. Would Hamas resume firing as they threatened? A quick check of my iPad showed that mortars had been fired about...
View ArticleThere's Something in the Water and It's Making Fish Live Longer
Pharmaceutical waste in surface waters has negatively affected marine life in the past—drugs containing the hormone estrogen making male fish pregnant, for example. But in Sweden, there may something...
View ArticleU.S. Conducts Two More Airstrikes Against Islamic State in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military carried out two more air strikes against Islamic State forces near the city of Arbil in northern Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said.The attacks, which followed...
View ArticleDr. Kent Brantly, Treated for Ebola, Says He is 'Growing Stronger'
(Reuters) - The Texas doctor being treated for Ebola in Atlanta after getting evacuated from West Africa said in a statement on Friday that he was "growing stronger every day."Dr. Kent Brantly, 33,...
View ArticleSlideshow: Look at Kim Jong Un Look at Things
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View ArticleThe Internet Is Making Home Ownership a Sentimental Mistake
Technology is hurtling us into an era in which most people will rent their homes, housing will be an asset—like pork bellies—that gets bought and sold by hedge fund computers executing high-speed...
View ArticleUkraine Says Stops Russian Troops Invading, Moscow Calls Statement 'Fairy Tale'
Ukraine said on Saturday it had headed off an attempt by Russia to send troops into Ukraine under the guise of peacekeepers with the aim of provoking a large-scale military conflict, a statement Moscow...
View ArticleObama: U.S. Strikes Have Destroyed Iraq Militants' Arms and Equipment
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday U.S. airstrikes have destroyed arms and equipment that Islamic State insurgents could have used to attack Arbil, the Iraqi Kurdish capital, but warned the...
View ArticleAbducted Man Reunites With Grandmother 36 Years Later
Argentine activist Estela Barnes de Carlotto was finally reunited with her grandson, Guido Montoya Carlotto, after 36 years of searching. Guido, raised as “Ignacio Hurban,” was abducted by Argentina’s...
View ArticleWill John Hinckley Jr. Face Murder Charges for the 'Delayed Death' of James...
James Brady, the White House press secretary who took a bullet for former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981, died on Monday. A Virginia medical examiner ruled that Brady’s death was a homicide, the...
View ArticleIsraelis, Gaza Militants Fight On, Defying Truce Efforts
Israel launched more than 30 air attacks in Gaza on Saturday, killing seven Palestinians, and militants fired rockets at Israel as the conflict entered a second month, defying international efforts to...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: A War of Attrition Will Only Hurt the People of Gaza
Today is the 32nd Day of Israel’s War with Hamas—or is it? In Tel Aviv there is no real sense of war. The beaches were crowded, though they did not appear to be filled with the usual number of tourists...
View ArticleThe Restaurateur Bent On World Domination
For some time, London has been the hottest destination for international restaurateurs to launch ventures – New Yorker André Balazs and his Chiltern Firehouse is just the latest in a long line of...
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Kangaroo Mother Care Could Save Millions of Lives In Poor Countries
In a simple home in the village of Mosebo, Ethiopia—an earthen floor and walls made of wood and mud—a woman sat on a mattress on the floor with her crying, 8-month-old son. The mother, Alemitu Kelkay,...
View ArticleIslamic State Kills at Least 500 From Iraq's Yazidi Minority: Baghdad
Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, burying some alive and taking hundreds of women as slaves, an Iraqi government minister told Reuters on Sunday.Human...
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Unmanned Cargo Planes Will Save the Shipping Industry Billions, but Are They...
On a bright, sunny afternoon on July 9, a white unmanned air vehicle (UAV), its two 2.75-horsepower engines buzzing, taxied smoothly down a finely mowed field of dark green grass. After a short...
View ArticleIsrael, Palestinians Agree to New Gaza Truce
Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza starting at 1700 ET, officials from the warring sides said."Israel has accepted Egypt's...
View ArticlePolice Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Black Teenager Outside St. Louis,...
Mike Brown, 18, was fatally shot on Saturday by a police officer in Ferguson, a predominantly black suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Brown was unarmed, police said.According to St. Louis County Police...
View ArticleErdogan Wins Turkey's First Presidential Election
Tayyip Erdogan secured his place in history as Turkey's first directly elected president on Sunday, sweeping more than half the vote in a result his opponents fear heralds an increasingly authoritarian...
View Article“That’s Racing”?: NASCAR Champ Tony Stewart Hit and Killed Kevin Ward, Jr.
The dirt track at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in Canandaigua, N.Y., is a half-mile oval, but the stunning incident late Saturday night involving Tony Stewart and Kevin Ward, Jr. occurred at a...
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