Teen From India Turns Breath Into Speech
A 16-year-old from India is a finalist in Google’s Science Fair for TALK, his invention that converts breath into speech. Arsh Shah Dilbagi hopes his device will, with unprecedented ease, give a voice...
View ArticleIsraeli Spies Condemn Routine Bugging of Palestinians
Tel Aviv—Is this the Snowdenization of Israel’s spy industry?Right now, Israel can’t get enough of “The letter.” Signed by 43 reservist members of Unit 8200, an elite Israel Defense Force (IDF)...
View ArticleBill Maher Tries to Laugh a Representative Out of Office
More than three decades after his first stand-up gig, Bill Maher is still crossing things off his show-biz bucket list. Things like smoking a joint onstage, a 25-year-old dream the comedian finally...
View ArticleHurricane Odile Batters Mexico's Baja Resorts, Sparks Looting
CABO SAN LUCAS Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Odile whipped through the beach resorts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Monday, causing chaos as it uprooted trees, downed power lines and smashed...
View ArticleShocking News: Young People Smoke Weed When They’re Feeling Down
In his song To Be Young, Ryan Adams sings: “When you're young, you get sad / and you get high."It’s a great song—and also, apparently, scientifically accurate. A study published today (Sep. 15) in the...
View ArticleFracking Wells Tainting Drinking Water in Texas and Pennsylvania, Study Finds
In 2012, Steve Lipsky began appearing in photos and videos with a lighter in hand, igniting the water that flowed out of his family’s tap. So much methane had built up in the well that supplied his...
View ArticleSwitzerland May Take Edward Snowden in Return for Testimony on Spying
ZURICH (Reuters) - Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden could be granted safe passage in Switzerland if he helped a potential criminal inquiry into U.S. spying there, the Swiss public...
View ArticleNew Treaty Allows China to Sue Canada to Change its Laws
Despite public outcry, Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, ratified a controversial treaty on Friday that will allow China to sue Canada in secret tribunals to repeal Canadian laws that interfere...
View ArticleRare Chinese Sturgeon Not Reproducing, Close to Extinction
Sturgeon’s general warning: a long-lived, ancient Chinese fish is “nearly extinct,” the BBC reported.The Chinese sturgeon, which hasn’t changed much over the last 140 million years, hasn’t reproduced...
View ArticleSalmond a Likely Winner Whichever Way Scots Vote on Independence
Alex Salmond wields no claymore sword and appears only sparingly in a kilt, and yet he has brought Scotland closer to independence than any Scottish warrior since union with England more than 300 years...
View ArticleObama to Ramp Up U.S. Response to Ebola Crisis With Military Mission
The United States will ramp up its response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa with plans to build 17 treatment centers, train thousands of healthcare workers, and establish a military control center...
View ArticleIt’s Time for the Kurds to Set Up Their Own Nation
Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past.In 1991, after the Kuwait War had ended and as Saddam Hussein attacked Iraq’s...
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Aafia Siddiqui: The Woman ISIS Wanted to Trade for Foley, Then Sotloff
Before the Islamic State, the group commonly known as ISIS, murdered American journalist James Foley, the insurgents sent an email to his family saying they were open to a prisoner exchange for...
View ArticleISIL, ISIS or IS? The Etymology of the Islamic State
The United States is about to start a war—or maybe it already has—against ISIS. Or is that ISIL? Or The Islamic State? Most Westerners (with the exception of some French, apparently) agree that they...
View ArticleScottish Soldiers Join Battle Over Independence
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - A furious fight has broken out over the question of Scotland's future defense and its past military legacy in the final days before an independence referendum, with veterans...
View ArticleWhat Countries Are Fighting ISIS, and Who Is Sitting on the Sidelines
The U.S. on Monday launched new airstrikes over Iraq against fighters of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS. The bombing struck IS forces near Mount Sinjar in northwestern...
View ArticleGambling Company So Sure of a Scottish 'No', It's Paying Out Early
LONDON (Reuters) - Polls say the outcome of the Scottish independence vote is too close to call but gambling company Betfair is already paying out more than 100,000 pounds ($162,000) to customers who...
View ArticleObama to Send 3,000 Military Personnel to Fight Ebola
The United States is preparing to send 3,000 military personnel to West Africa to help fight the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history.Personnel will help train as many as 500 health care workers and...
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How Italy Became the Sick Man of European Football
Luther Blissett was transferred from Watford Football Club to AC Milan in 1983 for a fee of £1m. On his arrival in Italy he was shown around the vertiginous San Siro, a place that in those days...
View ArticlePhotos: Hurricane Odile Batters Baja
Officials reported that 135 people were treated for minor injuries in Baja California Sur, where Odile made landfall. At least 239,000 people there were left without electricity and several communities...
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