We’ve Been Counting Carbon Dioxide Emissions All Wrong
All the world’s power plants will put out 300 billion additional tons of carbon dioxide during their lifetimes—a massive amount of carbon dioxide that isn’t taken into account by current schemes to...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: A Storm of Missiles Heralds New Ceasefire
Theoretically, a ceasefire went into effect at 7 am. I say "theoretically" since in the first few minutes of the alleged ceasefire there was non-stop missile fire from Gaza—starting with barrages of...
View ArticleEx-Banker Replaces Rebel Minister in French Cabinet Shake-Up
PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande replaced his maverick leftist economy minister with a former Rothschild partner on Tuesday, in a reshuffle intended to reconcile his efforts to revive the...
View ArticleLeaked U.N. Report: Climate Change Impacts Already ‘Inevitable,’ May Soon Be...
The effects of climate change will be “severe, pervasive and irreversible” within the next few decades if countries burn more than just one-quarter of the fossil fuel reserves already found, according...
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The World’s Oldest, And Possibly Largest, Wombat Turns 29
What is thought to be the world’s oldest wombat turned 29 this week. The animal, which looks a bit like a large gopher or a giant hamster, lives in a wildlife park in southeastern Australia. The...
View ArticleFrench Cheesemakers Crippled by EU Health Measures
President Charles de Gaulle famously remarked on the impossibility of governing a country that produced so many cheeses. But that was in 1962. Today it might be just as hard to govern the country, but...
View ArticleIslamic State Gets Weapons and a Porous Border With Syria Gains
As the United States began reconnaissance flights over Syria on Tuesday ahead of likely air strikes on Islamic State (IS) fighters, concerns are being raised over the mostly Soviet made weapons the...
View ArticleAfter Disasters, Stricken Malaysia Airlines Staff Brace for Job Cuts
As bodies from downed Flight MH17 were brought home last week, a group of Malaysia Airlines flight attendants, in black mourning headscarves contrasting with their pink and turquoise uniforms, sobbed...
View ArticleOffice Workers Who Sing Together Are Healthier
It’s Tuesday lunchtime at the Birmingham headquarters of Wragge Lawrence Graham, a law firm. But instead of heading out for errands or ignoring the lunch break altogether, solicitors and support staff...
View ArticleWest Bank Refugees Fear the Cost of a Third Intifada
It is a Saturday morning, and Mahmoud Subuh, at his desk in the Balata Refugee camp, is tired. For more than a month now the 48-year-old has been watching Gaza, where much of his family live, with...
View ArticleGaza Ceasefire Holds but Netanyahu Faces Demands for Clearer Victory
An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinians held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in his country's newspapers over a campaign in...
View ArticleUK Ebola Victim Treated With Experimental Drug ZMapp
The first Briton to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus has been given the experimental drug ZMapp, the London hospital where he is being treated said on Tuesday, two days after he was brought back...
View ArticleIMF Chief Lagarde Under Investigation in French Fraud Case
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation by French magistrates for negligence in a political fraud affair dating from 2008 when she was finance minister.Lagarde, who this...
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C. David Heymann’s Lies About JFK and Jackie, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth...
He had been dead for over two years, but he still had a magic touch with readers.When best-selling author C. David Heymann’s latest (and last) book, Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love, came out in July,...
View ArticleBoth Islamic State and Syrian Government Are Committing War Crimes Says U.N.
The Syrian government and Islamic State insurgents are both committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in their increasingly brutal fight against each other, U.N. investigators said on...
View ArticleMore Russian Soldiers Spotted in Ukraine After Captured Paratroopers
The Ukrainian military said on Wednesday that more Russian soldiers had crossed the border into eastern Ukraine, entering the small town of Amvrosiyivka in five armored infantry carriers and a...
View ArticleGazans Return to Destroyed Homes
GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's city workers cleared roads of rubble and fixed power lines on Wednesday as a ceasefire took hold after 50 days of war, with displaced families expressing a sense of relief and...
View ArticleGermany Tries to Stop More Neo-Nazi Murders
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has drafted legislation to help prevent a repeat of a racist murder spree by a neo-Nazi cell in 2011, giving a bigger role to federal prosecutors and allowing courts to focus...
View ArticleTargeted Killings Gain Support as the Latest Weapons of War
On August 19, the Israeli Air Force dropped several heavy loads on a Gaza City house where Mohammed Deif, the commander-in-chief of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas army, was believed to...
View ArticleFrom Homeless in Japan to Hostage in Syria: How Haruna Yukawa Ended Up in a...
TOKYO (Reuters) - When Haruna Yukawa was captured in Syria earlier this month, a video apparently released by his captors showed them pressing the Japanese man to answer questions friends say he had...
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