BPA and Its Substitute Alter Brain Growth, Linked to Hyperactivity
Bisphenol-A, or BPA, found in many types of plastics, bottles and thermal papers like receipts, has been spurned by many consumers due to evidence that it is an endocrine disruptor. Research has shown...
View ArticleWhite House Announces Sweeping New Rules on Cuba
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States announced sweeping new rules on Thursday that will significantly ease sanctions on Cuba, opening up the communist-ruled island to expanded U.S. travel, trade...
View ArticlePentagon to Deploy 400 Troops to Train Syrian Rebels
The U.S. military is planning to deploy more than 400 troops to help train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, along with hundreds of U.S. support personnel, a Pentagon spokesman told Reuters on...
View ArticleGerman Police Arrest Two Radical Salafist Suspects in Raid
German police said on Friday they had arrested two people following a raid on 12 homes and a mosque group linked to radical Islamic Salafists, shortly after Belgian police killed two men during similar...
View ArticleBelgium Arrests 15 Over Foiled Plot to 'Kill Police'
Belgian investigators said a plot to murder police officers across the country had been foiled "within hours or days" of being launched by raids in which two Islamist gunmen were killed.Fifteen...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo Attack Raises Stakes for Saudi Arabia in Flogging Case
Saudi Arabia's ruling family is coming under pressure from Western countries over its weekly flogging of writer Raif Badawi for "insulting Islam", but it appears more worried about the risk of...
View ArticlePortrait of a British Jihadi as a Young Man
Ifthekar Jaman was a self-selected enthusiast with no training who travelled to Syria at his own instigation and at his own expense. There are some similarities between his early life and that of...
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Older Greeks Fear the Return of Fascism on Brink of Election
Below the green slopes of Mount Parnassus in central Greece, the small town of Distomo was unusually full of people. The visitors were marking the 70th anniversary of the Distomo massacre, one of the...
View ArticleArmed Hostage-Taker in Paris Surrenders to Police
The gunman who had taken three people hostage in Paris this afternoon has surrendered to police following negotiations. The incident came just a week after Amedy Coulibaly killed four people in a...
View ArticleElon Musk to Build Test Track for High-Speed Hyperloop Transport System
PayPal billionaire and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has announced plans to build a test track for his conceptual high-speed transport system. He tweeted today that he plans to build a five-mile test...
View ArticleBeagle 2 Found On Mars, More Than A Decade After It Went Missing
Britain’s long lost spacecraft Beagle 2 has miraculously been found, having been stranded on Mars for over a decade, the United Kingdom Space Agency announced today. The lander was meant to study life...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Supreme Court To Review Blogger's Flogging Case: Report
Updated | LONDON (Reuters) - The case of a Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes, which has been widely criticized by Western governments, has been referred to the Supreme Court by the King's office,...
View ArticleSwiss ‘Forced’ Into Chaotic Currency Cap Removal by Impending Eurozone QE
The Swiss franc has risen dramatically against the euro following the unexpected removal of the long-standing exchange-rate control by the Swiss National Bank (SNB). The cap - which was introduced in...
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'American Sniper' and the Soul of War
“I always seemed more vulnerable at home,” wrote Chris Kyle in his 2012 book, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, which has sold an estimated 1.6...
View ArticleExecutive Pay: Stop Rewarding Shortsightedness
Fresh winds are blowing through both boardrooms and MBA programs these days, stirring up debate about the fundamentals of doing business. Some of the key questions on the minds of executives weren't...
View ArticleArrests Across Europe as Security Forces Remain on High Alert
A spate of arrests were carried out across Europe last night and this morning, including detainments in Paris, Berlin, Belgium and Austria. Yesterday evening Belgian police killed two men during an...
View ArticleLithuania Begins Trial of Two Alleged Spies With Suspected Links to Russia
The Vilnius District Court in the Lithuanian capital has heard the cases of at least two alleged Belarusian spies on Friday, both also under investigation for ties to Russian intelligence, Baltic news...
View ArticleKremlin Critic Navalny Questioned by Investigators and Office Raided
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was questioned on Friday by Russian investigators and his offices were raided by police in what colleagues called an attack on his anti-corruption campaigning.Shortly...
View ArticleUkraine Pilot Nadiya Savchenko Confronts Her Kremlin Captors
In the seven months since a Russian-backed militia in southeastern Ukraine captured Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian paratrooper and pilot has become one of her country’s biggest icons in its war...
View ArticleTurkey's Erdogan Warns of Clash of Civilizations Following Attacks
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned of a "clash of civilizations" following the wake of the Islamist militant attacks in Paris and he also appeared to criticize France for allowing the...
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