Hunt for James Foley’s Killer Establishes Place and Time of Death
In the international manhunt for the killer of the American journalist James Foley, U.S. and British investigators are moving closer to identifying the mystery Islamic State terrorist with a London...
View ArticleThe Search for ‘Jihadi John,’ Brutal Murderer of American Journalist James Foley
An international manhunt is underway for the British Islamic State (IS) jihadist who brutally beheaded American journalist James Foley in a gruesome video published by the group on Tuesday night.The...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Israelis Heartened by Deaths of Hamas Leaders
Tel Aviv—Today in Tel Aviv there is a sense that things have finally changed. There is a feeling that there may actually be an end to this war that will not leave Israel worse off than when it started....
View ArticleDandruff Fungus Found in Deep Sea Vents and Coral Reefs
The fungus that can cause dandruff and eczema was once thought to live solely on the skin of mammals like us. But it has now been found in an astonishing array of places, from hydrothermal vents to the...
View ArticleWhy Did Twitter Change Its Favoriting Policy?
Although it’s individualized, Facebook lets users know what their friends have liked and commented on, even if they aren’t following a post. Recent infrastructure changes on Twitter mean the rapid-fire...
View ArticleScreen Time Makes Tweens Clueless on Reading Social Cues
Technology and the Internet are so pervasive, so enmeshed in our everyday lives, that it’s virtually impossible to disconnect. The latest additions to the Oxford English Dictionary include...
View ArticleMalaysia Mourns as Bodies of MH17 Victims Finally Come Home
People across Malaysia held a minute's silence and wore black on Friday as the Southeast Asian country observed a day of mourning to mark the return of the first 20 bodies among its citizens killed...
View ArticleItalian Catholics Claim a Moral Exemption From Tax
The reason Italians do not pay tax is because they are Catholics. That was the view expressed recently by Rossella Orlandi, new head of Italy’s Agenzia delle Entrate (Inland Revenue) – and it caused a...
View ArticleRussia Orders Convoy Across Border Without Permission From Kiev
Russia ordered a convoy of aid trucks across the border into eastern Ukraine on Friday apparently without Kiev's permission, raising the danger of direct confrontation with the Ukrainian military which...
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Colombian Toreros on Hunger Strike to Protest Bullfight Ban
A group of apprentice toreros in Bogotá are nearly three weeks into a hunger strike demanding the reinstatement of bullfights, which the capital city’s mayor banned in 2012.Initially, there were eight...
View ArticleHamas Publicly Executes 18 Palestinians Accused of Aiding Israel
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hamas-led gunmen in Gaza executed 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel on Friday, a day after Israeli forces killed three Hamas commanders, the...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Ebola Unlikely to Become Global Pandemic
The Ebola virus, which has so far claimed as many as 1350 lives in West Africa, is unlikely to become a global pandemic, a new model of the disease found.“We have not seen any community transmission...
View ArticleIslamic State Militants Stone a Man to Death for Adultery
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants in Iraq stoned a man to death in the northern city of Mosul after one of their courts sentenced him to die for the crime of adultery, a witness said on...
View ArticleDeath Toll in Syrian Civil War Tops 191,000, U.N. Says
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 191,000 people were killed in the first three years of Syria's civil war, a U.N. report said on Friday, and the world body's human rights envoy rebuked leading powers for...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Public Executions in Gaza Reveal the True Nature of Hamas
I had almost finished writing this diary, part of which was to make the point that for those of us in Tel Aviv it is as if there is almost no war going on. This thought ended a few minutes ago when the...
View ArticleHagel: Islamic State the Biggest Threat to the U.S. Since Al Qaeda
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel believes the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group poses an “imminent threat” to the United States and is the most dangerous threat the country has faced in years.Combining...
View ArticleSome Great Advice: 'Don't Take Legal Advice from Joe Biden'
United States Vice President Joe Biden is known for his brazen remarks, not limited to calling one crowd “dull as hell” and suggesting that the U.S. and Ireland’s friendship should “no doubt stay oiled...
View ArticleU.S. Protests Dangerous Intercept of Navy Jet by Chinese Warplane
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has lodged a formal protest with Beijing over an air intercept this week in which a Chinese warplane flew close to a U.S. Navy patrol jet and conducted...
View ArticleAnother March, Another Memorial in Ferguson
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Another march and a memorial service are planned for Friday in the violence-weary town of Ferguson, Missouri, where the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a police...
View ArticleState Department Tells Employees to Cool It with the Ice Bucket Challenge
Lawyers at the State Department told "American ambassadors and other high-profile foreign service officers" not to participate in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, according to a memo acquired by The...
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