Ignition Law: A Revolution in London's Legal Community
Sponsored Insight | There’s more to life than traditional law,” says David Farquharson, one half of Ignition Law. “We’re doing what we’re passionate about. That passion is relatively new in the legal...
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The Arrival of the Wearable Dating App
My year of dating dangerously didn’t conjure up the love of my life, but it did reveal some home truths about human nature – and more than a little about me. I spent a year vetting nearly 300 men and...
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The West's Forest Fire Problem Costs More Every Year
In June 2013, Darrell Fortner was in Denver, an hour’s drive away, when one of the worst fires in Colorado’s history bore down on his hometown of Black Forest, killing two people and incinerating 486...
View ArticleGreek PM Tsipras Rules Out Turning to Russia for Aid
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday said his left-wing government would make full use of a mandate for negotiations with European partners and ruled out seeking aid from Russia."We are in...
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Pete Carroll Just Made The Biggest Screw-Up in Super Bowl History
Whether anyone from the New England Patriots deflated 11 footballs a fortnight ago remains under investigation. But the whole world knows Pete Carroll committed a much bigger crime: He let the air out...
View ArticleCraigslist Hookup Pages Linked to 16% Rise in HIV Cases
Researchers in the United States have found a link between HIV transmission and the popular classified advertisement website Craigslist, with research spanning a decade revealing a 16% increase in...
View ArticleItaly's Berlusconi Allowed to End Community Service Sentence Early
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was granted a request on Monday to end his community service sentence for tax fraud 45 days early for good behavior, making him a free agent from early...
View ArticleHundreds of Militants Killed as Boko Haram Attack City of Two Million
Hundreds of Boko Haram militants were killed by local vigilantes and Nigerian soldiers Sunday after the Islamist militant group launched its second failed assault on the northeastern city of Maiduguri...
View ArticleThe Uber Workcation
As the clock struck midnight, marking the beginning of 2010, six panicked employees were jammed into a Malibu, California vacation rental, attempting to keep their company’s app from crashing and...
View ArticleObama Sets Up Budget Battle With Republicans
Updated | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget that drew scorn from Republicans and set up battles over tax reform, infrastructure spending, and the...
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Freezing Rain, Snow Make For Miserable Monday For Northeast
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A huge winter storm hit the northeastern United States on Monday, the region's second snowy blast in less than a week, after leaving more than a foot of snow in the Chicago...
View ArticleFrance Faces Test of Solidarity After 'Black January'
When President Hollande donned a funereal tie and black suit to make his New Year’s Eve state-of-nation speech on French national television, little could he have realised what was brewing. He was...
View ArticleEgypt Sentences Almost 200 Muslim Brotherhood Supporters to Death
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, part of a sustained crackdown by authorities on...
View ArticlePutin’s Biggest Critics Announce 100,000-Strong ‘Russian Spring’ Protest
Anti-Putin activist Alexei Navalny, who is currently under house arrest, has officially informed authorities of his intention to assemble a 100,000-strong, anti-government protest in Moscow on 1st...
View ArticleSpace, the Final Startup
No venture capitalist is crazier about outer space than Steve Jurvetson, who has been listening to unrealistic space company pitches for two decades. In the early 2000s, he helped back SpaceX. But...
View ArticleSajida al-Rishawi, the Female Suicide Bomber Who Is a Hero to Islamic State
AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When her husband blew himself up in a luxury hotel during a wedding in Amman a decade ago, Sajida al-Rishawi was meant to die too, but her suicide bomb belt did not go off....
View ArticleIn Feisty Israeli Campaign, Even Netanyahu's Wife's Recycling Is a Target
Forget the deadlocked Palestinian peace process or the Iranian nuclear program. The latest political fracas in Israel is over whether the prime minister's wife kept the deposit when she recycled...
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Video Shows Why Potassium Explodes Upon Hitting Water
If you remember high school chemistry class at all, you might remember what happens when you drop potassium and sodium into water: It creates a big flashing, sparking explosion and remains a classic...
View ArticleObamacare: Reformed, Not Repeal, Is the Answer
Any member of Congress who ran in 2014 pledging to vote for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) should of course do so. That was a campaign pledge.But having done that, and seen...
View ArticleFreed Al Jazeera Journalist Feels 'Incredible Angst' for Colleagues Left Behind
DOHA (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste said on Monday it was a great relief to be freed from prison in Egypt, but that he felt “incredible angst” about leaving two colleagues behind in...
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