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Photos: Snapshots of Martin Luther King Day Across the United States
People across the United States, from schoolchildren to the President, marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday by participating as volunteers, demonstrators, protesters and organizers.Some marched to...
View ArticleLindsey Graham Threatens Aid Cut to Palestine Over ICC Move
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinians could lose annual U.S. aid if they file a lawsuit against Israel at the International Criminal Court which they joined this month over American and Israeli...
View ArticleOn Martin Luther King Day, Police Reform Advocates Take Message to United...
Al-Tariq Shabazz, a 33-year-old New Jersey resident, has already started teaching his sons, 8 and 10 years old, to be careful in their interactions with police. Shabazz taught them to be firm,...
View ArticleNew Video Shows ISIS Threatening Lives of Japanese Hostages
A new video purports to show a member of the Islamic State (ISIS) threatening to kill two Japanese hostages. Two men, Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa, appear in the video which is filmed in the same...
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Why Nearly Half of Us Hear Voices (and How to Fix It)
One night, during her first year at the University of Sheffield, Rachel Waddingham struggled to fall asleep at a friend’s house. She could hear three middle-aged men whose voices she didn’t know...
View ArticleTurkish Police Carry Out Wiretapping Raids Targeting Erdogan Enemies
Turkish police on Tuesday carried out raids targeting dozens of people suspected of a role in illegal wiretapping, a move local media said was aimed at supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan's...
View ArticleObama to Focus on Middle Class in State of Union Address
President Barack Obama will challenge the Republican-led Congress to back his tax-raising ideas for helping middle-class Americans in a State of the Union speech on Tuesday that will set up a tough...
View ArticleNigerians Face Killings, Hunger in Boko Haram's 'State'
Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria's medieval Muslim empires, but for those in its territory life is a litany of killings, kidnappings,...
View ArticleJapan PM Abe: Threat to Japanese Captives 'Unacceptable'
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday condemned as "unacceptable" the threat to the lives of two Japanese purportedly taken captive by Islamic State militants, and said the international...
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A Manhattan Made-for-TV Murder
As Wall Street investor Thomas Gilbert Sr. stood under the giant elm trees shading Princeton University’s stately Nassau Hall on a sunny June Commencement Day in 2009, he saw a gleaming future for his...
View ArticleGoogle Close to Investing $1 billion in Elon Musk’s SpaceX Company
Google is close to investing in Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, SpaceX, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that the search engine giant will is in the process of finalising a $1 billion...
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The Dawn Wall: The Inside Story
Grass-roots climbers are uncomfortable with statements like “the hardest climb in the world”. But most would agree that last week’s first free ascent of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan, Yosemite, ranks as...
View ArticleFacebook Claims It Boosted World Economy by $220 Billion
Facebook, which currently has 1.35 billion users – 2,000 times the size of the UK population – contributed over $227 billion to the world economy last year and helped to create 4.5 million jobs,...
View ArticleRussia Orders Snap Test of Nuclear Missiles
Russia has ordered a snap drill of its Strategic Missile Troops (RVSN), which control the country’s 305 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads, according to a statement...
View ArticleHouthi Fighters Seize Presidential Palace in Yemen's Capital: Sources
SANAA (Reuters) - Houthi fighters entered Yemen's presidential palace after a brief clash with the compound's security guards, witnesses and security sources told Reuters, a day after some of the worst...
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Even Before the Coup, Yemen Was Burning
The ancient city of Sana’a is one of the oldest continuously-inhabited cities on the planet. Its astounding street markets, almost unchanged since the time of the Prophet, used to attract hordes of...
View ArticleFar-Right Group Distributes Anti-Muslim Leaflets in East London
A video posted on Facebook on Sunday shows a ‘Christian Patrol’ taking place on London’s Brick Lane, carried out by the far-right Britain First organization in a move that interfaith thinktank Faith...
View ArticleFive Chechens Arrested in France Accused of Planning an Attack
Five Chechens have been arrested in southern France on suspicion of planning an attack, local prosecutors and police sources said.Local newspaper Midi Libre reported that a hoard of explosives have...
View ArticleActivists Blackmail North Korea With Threat of 'The Interview'
South Korean activists said on Tuesday they will follow through with plans to fly copies of The Interview into North Korea by air balloon if the communist country fails to create a dialogue with Seoul....
View ArticleSouth Korean Teenager Travels to Syria to Join ISIS
An 18-year-old South Korean man has reportedly traveled into Syria by way of Turkey to join the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. Identified only as “Kim,” he disappeared on January 10. South Korean...
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