Europe 'Reacted Too Late' to Danger of Islamists Returning From Middle East
As France mourns the victims of its worst terrorist atrocity since the mid-nineties’ attacks carried out by the Armed Islamic Group, attention has begun to turn to the significance of the Syrian civil...
View ArticleFood and Cancer: The Missing Link
Cancer, we are told, lurks everywhere: popcorn, non-organic fruit, canned tomatoes, processed meats, farm-raised salmon, potato chips, foods (salted, pickled and smoked), GMOs (of course),candy,...
View ArticleA Plastic as Strong as Kevlar, and Environmentally Friendly
Melik Demirel has long been interested in creating materials that mimic nature. With his colleagues, he’s fabricated materials based on butterfly wings and gecco footpads. Most recently, the...
View ArticleAnita Ekberg, International Film Siren, Dies at Age 83
Anita Ekberg, the acid-tongued Swedish film siren best known for her role in La Dolce Vita, died on Sunday in Rocca di Papa, Italy, at age 83. Her attorney, Patrizia Ubaldi, confirmed the news on...
View ArticlePhotos: Paris Unites for Victims of Terrorist Attacks; Said Largest...
Officials have said that over three million people, including dozens of world leaders, marched in solidarity following last week’s terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and at a Kosher deli that...
View ArticleSesame Touch-Free Smartphone Brings Mobile World to Mobility-Impaired
“Games are nice, but not really life-changing,” says Oded Ben Dov, an Israeli entrepreneur who turned from making mobile phone games to creating a phone for people with spinal cord injuries, ALS,...
View ArticleQ&A: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper Meets Newsweek
The first great album of 2015? That’s easy. Panda Bear's Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper is as otherworldly as its title, as colorful as its cover art and as gleefully psychedelic as anything...
View ArticleWith "The Challenge," MTV Copes With On-Screen Life After Death
For viewers in the know, the season premiere of MTV’s competition reality show The Challenge last Tuesday was tinged with sadness: Two cast members died after filming, one of cancer and one of causes...
View ArticlePolice Say Gunman in Idaho Shooting Spree Had Multiple Weapons
A 29-year-old man who killed three people and critically wounded another during a shooting spree in the northern Idaho city of Moscow had five weapons in his car, police said on Sunday.John Lee, 29,...
View ArticleThe Coolest Time Capsules Yet to Be Opened
Last week, conservators at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opened a time capsule sealed by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere back in 1795. The 220-year-old time capsule is the oldest-known in the U.S.,...
View ArticleHungary PM Orban Says Immigration a Threat and Must Be Stopped
Immigration to Europe should be largely halted, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said late on Sunday, demanding a robust EU response to last week's killings in France.Orban was speaking after...
View ArticleParis Attacks Suspect Entered Syria on January 8, says Turkish Minister
The suspected female accomplice of Islamist militants behind the attacks in Paris last week crossed into Syria on Jan. 8 from Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in comments posted on...
View ArticlePutin Is Losing the Battle to Restrain Online Media
Many Russian journalists have become experts in black humor. They have to be if one of their goals is to remain sane. One reporter at a state-owned Russian newspaper joked privately with friends that...
View ArticleDivers Retrieve Black Box Data Recorder From AirAsia Wreck
Indonesian navy divers retrieved the black box flight data recorder from the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet on Monday, a major step towards investigators unraveling the cause of the crash that...
View Article'Boyhood' Prevails in Golden Globes That May Alter Oscar Race
Coming of age tale "Boyhood" won the coveted Golden Globe for best drama on Sunday, while the quirky period caper "The Grand Budapest Hotel" was the surprise winner for best comedy or musical, in a big...
View ArticleWomen Make Off With the Golden Globes
It was a sign of things to come when, standing on the red carpet before the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, the Today Show’s Matt Lauer asked nominee Amy Adams about the rumor she would play Janis...
View ArticleFrance Mobilizes 10,000 Troops at Home After Paris Shootings
France will deploy 10,000 soldiers on home soil by Tuesday and post almost 5,000 extra police officers to protect Jewish sites after the killing of 17 people by Islamist militants in Paris last week,...
View ArticleKerry Lands in Pakistan for Talks on Security
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Pakistan on Monday on an unannounced trip to urge the government to do more to crack down on militant groups following last month's...
View ArticleWhy the Al-Jazeera Trial in Egypt Is So Important
“It’s pretty terrifying for all of us who are correspondents, who covered Egypt and who have covered the Middle East, because we look at the Al-Jazeera three and we think that could have been any of...
View ArticleKing Coal Is Merrily Fiddling the Taxpayer
In 2002, the Powder River Basin (PRB) in Wyoming and Montana surged past the Appalachian coalfields that stretch from Pennsylvania to Tennessee to become the nation’s largest coal-producing region....
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