U.S. Says It Is Deeply Troubled by Palestinian Move
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday the move by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to sign on to 20 international agreements, including the International Criminal Court, was of...
View ArticleOil Prices End 2014 on Five-And-A-Half Year Low
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Friday to a 5-1/2-year low and ended with their second-biggest annual decline ever, down by half since June under pressure from a global glut of crude.Just...
View ArticleVideo: Behind the Bubbly That Brings in the New Year
The sound of corks popping often punctuates New Year’s Eve festivities, with the American Chemical Society claiming that more sparkling wine bottles are opened during the holiday season than any other...
View ArticleLiberia Lifts Ebola Curfew To Allow New Year's Eve Worship
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia lifted a curfew imposed to curb the spread of Ebola so that people could attend New Year's Eve church services on Wednesday, as an aid group warned of growing complacency...
View ArticleHeightened Security in Times Square on New Year’s Eve
(Reuters) - Thousands of New York City police officers prepared for protests in Times Square against excessive police force as an enormous crowd of revelers gathered there under unusually tight...
View ArticleThe Flu Has Reached Epidemic Levels, CDC Says
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prediction (CDC) warned earlier this month that the country was in for a severe flu season, and its prediction looks to be panning out. So far, 15 children...
View ArticleWar in Syria Kills 76,021 People in 2014
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The conflict in Syria killed 76,021 people in 2014, just under half of them civilians, a group monitoring the war said on Thursday.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...
View ArticleEgypt Orders Retrial for Jailed Al Jazeera Journalists
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's highest court has ordered a retrial of three jailed journalists working for Al Jazeera television, citing procedural flaws in last year's trial, defense lawyers said on...
View ArticleOne in 8 Germans Would Join Anti-Muslim Marches: Poll
BERLIN (Reuters) - One German in eight would join an anti-Muslim march if a rapidly-growing protest movement organized one in their home towns, according to an opinion poll published on Thursday.The...
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The Journalists Who Died Doing Their Jobs in 2014
The year 2014 was a one of contradictions, with stories only brought to life because of those journalists willing to go where the stories were.The Sochi Olympics were a time of inclusion and world...
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Piano Man Billy Joel Plays His Way Into 2015 With Gershwin Prize
Billy Joel says he will never forget the moment he realized music was something he could do for a living. In an interview for the Library of Congress, Joel recalled playing at a church in his hometown...
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Photographs: Fun and High Security Bring in 2015 in Times Square
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roughly 1 million revelers packed New York’s Times Square and rang in the new year with the city’s annual crystal ball drop under unusually tight security for the nation’s biggest...
View ArticleWatch A Tornado-Like Whirlwind Hit the Rose Bowl, Lift Tents, Exasperate a...
A tornado-like gust of wind descended on the grounds outside of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Wednesday. The whirlwind lifted multiple canopies in the “fanfest” area, where preparations...
View ArticleVideo: Manila’s Fireworks Won New Year’s Eve
Did your city hold a fireworks display on New Year’s Eve? Probably.Was it as good as Manila’s? Probably not.A video taken from a skyscraper shows fireworks bursting from dozens of locations throughout...
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Ayahuasca Can Help You Communicate with Plant Spirits, and Heal Your Body and...
Drink ayahuasca and you may see yourself being eaten by a crocodile. You may find a miraculous resolution to a crippling sadness. Or, more likely, you’ll land somewhere in between. Regardless, you will...
View ArticleSuicide Bomber Blows Himself Up at Gates of Nigerian Church During New Year...
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a church in Nigeria's northeastern city of Gombe during a New Year service, wounding eight people, an official for Nigeria's...
View ArticlePope Francis Uses New Year Mass to Urge Renewed Fight Against Human...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged people of all religions and cultures on Thursday to unite to fight modern slavery and human trafficking, saying in his first Mass of 2015 that everyone had a...
View ArticleLet’s Get Crazy: Predictions for the Unpredictable College Football Playoff
A Rose Bowl featuring two Heisman Trophy winners?Been there, done that (2006, the BCS Championship game, in which USC’s Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart came up short versus Texas).A January bowl in...
View ArticleVideo Released on New Year's Eve Purports to Show Two Italian Women Held...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A video released late on Wednesday purported to show two Italian women held by militants in Syria, with one of them saying they are in danger of being killed.The title of the video...
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Top 10 Anniversaries in 2015
Anniversaries are how we mark the passage time of time, celebrate our triumphs and honor our losses. 2014 brought several significant historical anniversaries: the centennial of the start of World War...
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