ISIS Threat Against Pope ‘Nothing Serious’, Says Vatican
Security has been stepped up in Rome following an alleged ISIS threat against the Pope, Italian newspapers have reported.On Monday, Il Tempo announced that Israeli intelligence experts say they believe...
View ArticleWhat Happened to 92,000 Disappeared Colombians?
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 92,000 Colombians have disappeared during 50 years of war and at the hands of drug gangs, and the government needs to step up efforts to find missing...
View ArticleRiots as Ebola Spreads in Guinea, Senegal
DAKAR/CONAKRY (Reuters) - The West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be touched by the world's worst Ebola outbreak on Friday, while riots broke out in neighboring Guinea's remote...
View ArticlePolice Officer Who Threatened Ferguson Protesters Resigns
Ray Albers, the Missouri police officer who cursed at and told Ferguson protesters that he would kill them on video, has resigned. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Albers, 46, stepped down from...
View ArticleNo Specific Threats to Homeland From Islamic State, U.S. Says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is not aware of any specific threat to the U.S. homeland from Islamic State militants, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday after Britain raised...
View ArticleBombing Iraq Is Already Costing $7.5 Million a Day
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military operations against Islamic State in Iraq have cost an average of $7.5 million per day since they began in mid-June, the Pentagon said on Friday, a figure that means...
View ArticleFt. Hood Shooter Asks to Become Citizen of Islamic State (ISIS)
Nidal Hasan, the army psychiatrist who killed 13 and wounded 32 at Ft. Hood in 2009, sent a letter to the leader of the Islamic State (IS) asking to become a citizen of "the caliphate," as Hasan called...
View ArticleBitcoin Entrepreneur Charlie Shrem to Plead to Unlicensed Money Transmission
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has reached a plea deal to resolve U.S. charges that he engaged in a scheme to sell over $1 million of the digital currency to users of illicit...
View ArticleRussian Tanks Flatten Ukrainian Town, Ukraine Military Says
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Saturday its forces had pulled out of areas to the east of the border-area city of Luhansk under pressure from Russian-backed rebels and that Russian tanks...
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The Music Festival Where Food Takes The Mainstage
There has always been an uneasy relationship between music festivals and food. Woodstock, which kicked off the modern era of rock festivals in 1969, had a big problem because no established food...
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The Thrilling, Deadly World of Wingsuit Flying
Proximity flying—like many of life’s challenging distractions, such as rodeo, fire-eating and meth—is not for everyone. Nor, as I suggest to elite wingsuit flier Ellen Brennan, is it the kind of...
View ArticleTarget Shipping to Beat Illegal Ivory Trade, Report Says
The trade in illegal ivory from Africa to Asia relies on as few as 200 shipping containers in a year, offering a weak point to target smugglers, a report released this week by the Born Free Foundation...
View ArticleIslamic State Fighters Behead Captive Lebanese Soldier in Video
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for few days this month, a video...
View ArticleTriple-Slam Shocker: Manhattan’s Trendiest New Restaurant Is...Denny’s?
The last time I went to Denny’s, I was nine years old. I remember seeing a server pick up a crispy chicken tender, bite into it, and stealthily put it back on a customer’s plate. Fourteen years later,...
View ArticleUkraine Says Russian Escalation Could Lead to 'Full-Scale War'
The European Union has threatened to launch a fresh round of sanctions against Russia in response to ongoing aggressive military action in eastern Ukraine.The Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine marks...
View ArticleGadget Lust: Keeping the Germs (and the Hypochondria) at Bay
On a trip to England when I was 15, I was forced by my well-meaning but clueless parents to wait in line for over an hour to get into the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Aside from the obvious...
View ArticleRussian Politician Hospitalized After Reporting on Soldier Funerals
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian politician said on Saturday he had been badly beaten after publicising the mysterious funerals of two soldiers who may have died while fighting in Ukraine.Lev Shlosberg, a...
View ArticleUnited Nations Peacekeepers Rescued in Golan Heights Firefight
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Nearly three dozen U.N. peacekeepers from the Philippines who had been surrounded for days by Islamist militants on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights were rescued during a...
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Shipwreck of S.S. Central America Yields More Gold
More than 2,900 gold coins and 45 gold ingots have been recovered from the shipwrecked S.S. Central Americasince an archaeological excavation began in mid-April, Odyssey Marine Exploration, the company...
View ArticleHundreds March in Ferguson to Mark Three Weeks Since Michael Brown’s Death
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday afternoon to demand justice and mark three weeks since the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old unarmed black teenager...
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