Report: Bill Cosby Hiring Private Investigator to Discredit Accusers
Bill Cosby has recruited multiple private investigators to help discredit the women accusing him of sexual assault, Page Six reported Monday, citing multiple unnamed sources with knowledge of the...
View ArticleU.S. Says Palestinian Draft Resolution for U.N. Not Constructive
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it did not support a draft statehood resolution that the Palestinians plan to introduce at the United Nations, saying it would not advance the...
View ArticleHealthcare Worker in Glasgow Diagnosed With Ebola
A healthcare worker has been diagnosed with Ebola a day after flying home to Glasgow from Sierra Leone, the Scottish government said on Monday.The patient is being treated in isolation at Glasgow's...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Israel Is Shaken by Political Scandals
Looking from a distance, one would expect that an election in Israel at this time would likely focus on questions of war and peace. After all, Israel fought a war this past summer in which all of its...
View ArticleA New Year’s Resolution: Target Practices That Undermine Weight Control
Although many will vow to lose weight in the coming year, most will inevitably fail, not from lack of motivation or knowledge but from insuperable forces that undermine the best of intentions.Until...
View ArticleGmail Blocked in China After Months of Disruptions
BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc's Gmail was blocked in China after months of disruptions to the world's biggest email service, with an anti-censorship advocate suggesting the Great Firewall was to...
View ArticleOil Gets Cheaper and Cheaper
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude oil prices on tumbled Monday, with global grades settling down more than $1 a barrel after an early rally fizzled and prices fell to their lowest levels since May 2009.News...
View ArticleFormer President Bush's Breathing Returns to Normal, Awaiting Discharge
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former President George H.W. Bush’s breathing has returned to normal and he is awaiting doctors’ approval to be discharged from a Houston hospital where he has been receiving...
View ArticleMonarch Butterflies Will Be Considered for Endangered Species List
There was a time, not long ago, when monarch butterflies were widespread enough that it would’ve been crazy to think about listing them as endangered. In 1996, for example, 1 billion of these regal...
View ArticleTwo Saudi Women Arrested for Defying Driving Ban to Be Sent to Terror Court
Days after Saudi Arabia announced it would try two women arrested for defying a driving ban on women at a terror court in Riyadh, a Cairo-based human rights group condemned the move, calling it unjust...
View ArticleEzell Ford Shot Three Times by L.A. Police, Autopsy Report Shows
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office on Monday released its autopsy report for Ezell Ford, an unarmed 25-year-old black man who was fatally shot by police in August, theLos Angeles Times reports. In...
View ArticleIndonesia Finds Bodies and Debris in Search for Missing Jet
Indonesian rescuers saw bodies and luggage off the coast of Borneo island on Tuesday and officials said they were "95 percent sure" debris spotted in the sea was from a missing AirAsia plane with 162...
View ArticleTwo Albanian Seamen Killed in Ferry Fire Salvage
Two Albanian seamen were killed during an operation to salvage a multideck car ferry that caught fire off Greece's Adriatic Coast when a cable connecting their boat to the ferry snapped and hit them,...
View ArticleAlmost 250,000 Forced to Evacuate Due to Flooding in Malaysia
Malaysia and Thailand have faced severe flooding in the last few days, resulting in almost a quarter of a million people having to abandon their homes and 24 deaths.Malaysian North-eastern states...
View ArticleFDA Approves Emergency Diagnostic Test for Ebola Patients
A new Ebola-detecting test from pharmaceutical company Roche has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Emergency Use Authorization, the Swiss company said on Monday.The...
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14 from ‘14: The Best LongReads From Newsweek
Excuse us for ignoring the laments over the death of journalism, the calls to vertically integrate, to write for insectine attention spans or else perish. Below, in 14 stories from 2014 selected by...
View ArticleFrench Prime Minister Warns Of At Least Three More Years of ‘Sacrifice’ Ahead
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned his country faces at least three more years of ‘sacrifice’, in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo, after being named the publication’s man of the...
View ArticleUkip Energy Spokesman Questions Link Between Humans and Climate Change
Ukip’s energy spokesman has said that the link between climate change and human activity remains “open to question”. He also lambasted mainstream attitudes towards climate science in an interview with...
View ArticleMigrant Ship Off Greek Coast Reportedly Carrying Armed People
A cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants near the Greek island of Corfu sent out a distress signal saying armed people were on board on Tuesday, Greek television reported.Two Greek...
View ArticleAirAsia Crash Probe Focuses on Timing of Request to Climb and the Weather
Investigators into the AirAsia flight which crashed into the sea off Indonesia are focusing on the timing of the crew's request to climb to a higher altitude to avoid bad weather as a possible factor...
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