Police Find Car in Threat Against Obama in Connecticut
HAMDEN Conn. (Reuters) - A car sought in connection with a suspected threat against President Barack Obama has been located in Connecticut, authorities said on Saturday.The U.S. Secret Service, which...
View ArticlePolice Clash With Demonstrators at Swedish Extreme Right Rally
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - About 10,000 people turned out to demonstrate against a small rally by Sweden's extreme right in Stockholm on Saturday, just two weeks ahead of an election where immigration is a...
View ArticleEU Threatens Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine Aggression, but Timing Vague
The European Union threatened Russia with new trade sanctions if Moscow fails to start reversing its action in Ukraine, but sharp divisions among leaders at a summit in Brussels left the timing of any...
View ArticleIsrael Appropriates West Bank Land for Possible Settlement Use
Israel announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years and a Palestinian official said would cause only more friction...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Way to Lose Weight: an Electrical Zap to the Brain
Eat protein and ditch the carbohydrate. Eat what you like for five days and fast for two. Live off grapefruit alone. Or consume only cabbage soup. We’ve tried innumerable diets over the years and they...
View ArticleTwo Numbers: 9 & 46 - The Teenager's Diet
As children become teens and then adults they generally eat and drink more (in grams) of most products. For example, adults consume more soup, beef, vegetables, tea and beer than teenagers, who in turn...
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If Scotland Breaks Free, Queen Elizabeth Could Speak for Two Countries at Once
In 1977, Queen Elizabeth II addressed the British Parliament on the eve of a vote on Scottish “devolution” that led to the re-creation of a separate Scottish Parliament in 1999.“I number kings and...
View ArticleAustralia Will Join Weapons Drop to Help Kurdish Forces Fight ISIS in Iraq
PERTH Australia August 31 (Reuters - Australia will drop military equipment and aid to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in northern Iraq in response to a request from the United States,...
View ArticlePutin Calls for Talks on East Ukraine Statehood, But Not Independence
MOSCOW/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for immediate talks on "statehood" for southern and eastern Ukraine, although his spokesman said this did not mean...
View ArticleCan Baseball Get More Interesting to Watch With Big Data?
Seventy-five years ago, on August 26, 1939, an experimental New York TV station for the first time broadcast a professional baseball game. The Brooklyn Dodgers, playing at Ebbets Field, split a...
View ArticleFrance Arrests Syria-Bound Suspected Jihadist Teenager
PARIS (Reuters) - A 16-year-old girl suspected of trying to reach Syria to join Islamist rebels has been arrested in the southeastern city of Nice, France's interior minister said on Sunday.Interior...
View ArticleLibyan Armed Militia Takes Over U.S. Embassy Annex in Tripoli
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of a Libyan militia have taken over an annex of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli but have not broken into the main compound where the United States evacuated all of its staff...
View ArticleProtesters Flood Streets as China Rules Out Full Democracy For Hong Kong
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pro-democracy activists vowed on Sunday to bring Hong Kong's financial hub to a standstill after China's parliament rejected their demands for the right to freely choose...
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Modi's First 100 Days in Power
Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata government is now celebrating its first 100 days in power ,and he is in Japan this weekend on his first big international visit as the guest of prime minister Shinzo...
View ArticleHundreds of Americans Have ISIS Associations, Says Rep. Mike Rogers
President Barack Obama should take stronger action against the threat from Islamist militants and U.S. foreign policy is falling apart over a raft of global conflicts, U.S. lawmakers said on...
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Britain's Elite Boarding Schools Are Facing an Explosion of Abuse Allegations
At lights out one Sunday evening within weeks of starting at his senior school, Joel Shaw was “stripped, sexually assaulted and publicly humiliated by my housemaster jeered on by loads of my peers”, he...
View ArticleSoldiers Retake Pakistani State TV as Protesters Clash With Police
Pakistani soldiers and paramilitary forces entered the headquarters of the state television channel PTV in Islamabad on Monday after a crowd of protesters stormed the building and took the channel off...
View ArticleUkrainian Military 'Fighting Russian Tank Battalion' Near Donetsk
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Monday its forces were battling a Russian tank battalion for control of a vital airport in the east of the country as President Petro Poroshenko accused...
View ArticleBritain to Pass New Laws On Homegrown Islamist Extremists
Prime Minister David Cameron will announce new laws on Monday to try to stop radicalized Britons returning from Syria and Iraq launching attacks on British soil, after a video purportedly showed a...
View ArticleIn St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd
Great cities rarely change their names. It is true, as the old song avers, that old New York was once New Amsterdam, but the change was precipitated by an English takeover of the Dutch colony. To keep...
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