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The Rape Victim Who Fought Back and Shamed a Nation
The woman who greets me at Addis Ababa airport is very different from the traumatised girl I last saw in 1998. When I hugged Aberash Bekele goodbye 16 years ago, I had just finished filming a BBC...
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Shots and Explosions Heard at Site of Charlie Hebdo Suspects Siege
Updated | Shots and explosions have reportedly broken out in Dammartin-en-Goele, where suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre are believed to have taken at least one hostage. Smoke was seen rising from...
View ArticleLondon Imam Abu Hamza to be Sentenced for U.S. Terrorism Conviction
For years, the radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri delivered incendiary sermons at a London mosque, using words that U.S. and UK authorities say helped inspire a generation of militants, including British...
View ArticleBritain's MI5 Chief Warns al-Qaeda Planning Mass Attacks on West
Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on...
View ArticleSri Lanka's Strongman President Voted Out After Decade in Power
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost his bid for a third term on Friday, ending a decade of rule that critics say had become increasingly authoritarian and marred by nepotism and...
View ArticleIndonesia Official Says 'Pings' Detected in Search for AirAsia Flight Recorders
Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings in their efforts to find the black box flight recorders on Friday, an official said, 12 days after the...
View ArticleGunman 'Neutralized' At Kosher Supermarket Siege
The siege at a kosher grocery in Porte de Vincennes has reportedly ended, with French security source saying that the hostage-taker has been "neutralised". Le Monde newspaper has said that the man...
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Putin Seeks to Influence Radical Parties in Bid to Destabilise Europe
This past November, Russia’s Berlin ambassador, Vladimir Grinin, invited two representatives of the surging new party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) for a meeting. According to German news media,...
View ArticleWhen Campus Rapists Don’t Think They’re Rapists
Nearly one-third of college men admit they might rape a woman if they could get away with it, a new study on campus sexual assault claims. Of those men, however, far fewer will admit this if the word...
View ArticlePlan to Quit? Big Data Might Tell Your Boss Before You Do
Big Data lets Netflix make personalized movie suggestions, helps advertisers better target consumers and can now inform your boss that you are about to quit. That’s according to Workday, a company...
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Paris Terror Cell’s Al-Qaeda Yemen Connection Worries Experts
Evidence emerged this morning that the jihadist terror cell thought to be behind both the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and the murder of a French police woman as well as the...
View ArticleNew Suspects Identified in French Hostage Situation
Officials in France have identified two suspects wanted for the shooting of a policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe on Thursday and reported involvement in the hostage situation ongoing at a kosher...
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The Coolest, Weirdest Things We Saw at CES 2015
The ever-chirping chorus of techies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, hawking their gadgets, services and Wi-Fi-enabled everything, is a vortex of cloying cyber-enthusiasm. Since I am...
View ArticleNebraska Court Approves Route For Keystone Pipeline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday approved the route for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, reversing a lower court that had blocked the proposal and clearing the way...
View ArticleFront National’s Le Pen Accuses Leaders of Playing Politics Over Charlie...
Plans for a Charlie Hebdo solidarity march in Paris this Sunday organized by French President François Hollande and opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy has come under fire from leaders of France’s...
View ArticleObama Wants to Make Two-Year Community Colleges Free
President Barack Obama wants to make two-year community colleges free for students who maintain good grades, according to a plan unveiled by the White House on Thursday. The plan, America’s College...
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Police Storm French Hostage Sites, Charlie Hebdo Suspects Reported Killed
French police have staged simultanueous assaults on the sites of both hostage situations near Paris, where the two gunmen suspected of carrying out a deadly attack at Charlie Hebdo magazine were...
View ArticlePhotos: France Under Siege After Charlie Hebdo Shooting
French police were dealing with a double hostage situation on Friday, with at least five people held in a Kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, Paris and a standoff with two men suspected of being...
View ArticleWeighing the Options the Greeks Face
The failure of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to assemble enough votes to install a new Greek president has resulted in a call for elections for January 25. This worrisome development reflects...
View ArticleEuropean Court of Human Rights Becomes UK Electoral Battleground
The building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg shimmers in the winter sunshine. Its two asymmetrical steel cylinders and futuristic glass atrium are a beacon of hope for those in...
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