Russia Plans Joint Military Drills With North Korea and Cuba
Russia could soon be carrying out military drills alongside North Korea and Cuba according to Valery Gerasimov, the chief of staff of the Russian armed forces.Speaking at a meeting on Saturday which...
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A Card Game About Exploding Kittens Broke a Kickstarter Record
The Internet loves cats. Games with explosions, too. And most everyone loves a good card game.So what happens when you combine the three? Crowdfunding mania.Exploding Kittens, a card game designed by...
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Israeli Foreign Minister Says Future Lebanon and Gaza Wars ‘Inevitable’
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed on Sunday that it was “inevitable” that Israel would have to fight future wars with Shi’ite militant group, Hezbollah, and Palestinian militant group,...
View ArticleToy Company Puts Real Euros Into Monopoly Games
It may be a tough time for the eurozone, with the European Central Bank pursuing a last ditch policy of quantitative easing, but now the producers of the board game Monopoly have decided to make a cash...
View ArticleReport: ISIS Beheads Iraqi Security Officials
ISIS is claiming responsibility for the deaths of two Iraqis, a police officer and a soldier, Agence France-Press reports. Photographs of the executions were circulated on social media by accounts...
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Radio Show Advises Ditching Your Device To Be 'Bored and Brilliant'
When was the last time you were truly bored? Bored with no end in sight, bored in the way you imagine prisoners in solitary confinement are bored. So bored your mind churns through every chore you have...
View ArticleUkrainian Troops Under Fire By Rebels As Peace Talks Fail
YENAKIEVE, Ukraine (Reuters) - Separatist rockets streaked across hills in eastern Ukraine on Monday as rebels pounded the positions of Ukrainian government troops holding a strategic rail town, while...
View ArticleIndia: How to Tackle Violence Against Women at Its Root
An Uber driver in Delhi, India, currently stands trial for the rape of a female passenger. Unfortunately, such attacks are not uncommon in India; a gang rape of a Delhi student on a bus two years ago...
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The Real Loser of the Super Bowl is Seattle's 12th Man
Last week, amid updates on pothole repairs and road closures, Washington state’s Department of Transportation posted two important alerts on its website. The first involved the demolition of the...
View ArticleUp in Flames: How Moscow Can Salvage Damaged Books After Massive Library Blaze
After a huge fire at Russia’s Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences in Moscow was finally extinguished on Saturday, a long process began: salvaging books and collections damaged by...
View ArticleRussia, Ukraine Reportedly in Talks to Reopen Black Sea Air Corridor
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine are holding indirect talks to reopen a key international air corridor over the Black Sea to commercial flights in a plan that could give Ukraine much-needed...
View ArticleJanuary 2015 Saw More Measles Cases Than All of 2012
The number of measles cases in the United States is climbing, sparking fears the disease may be making a resurgence only 15 years after health officials announced it had been largely eradicated. The...
View ArticleMercury Levels in Ahi Tuna Rise Four Percent Each Year
Concentrations of the heavy metal mercury have been increasing in the surface waters of the northern Pacific Ocean for decades; one recent study showed that these levels jumped by about a third between...
View ArticleBritain's Labour to Lose 30 Seats to Scottish Nationalists, Says Poll
Britain's opposition Labour party will lose as many as 30 Scottish seats to nationalists in the May 7 election, a poll showed on Tuesday, reducing Labour leader Ed Miliband's chances of unseating Prime...
View ArticleNew Saudi King Signals Approach, Sacks Two Reformers and Hands Out Cash
In making a blaze of largesse and the dismissal of relatively liberal clerics two of his first acts as monarch, Saudi Arabia's King Salman has signaled his approach to big future challenges may differ...
View ArticleGreece Outlines Debt 'Menu' in Bid to Win Over Skeptical Euro Zone
Greece's new government dropped calls for a write-off of its foreign debt and proposed ending a standoff with its official creditors by swapping the debt for growth-linked bonds on Monday, a week after...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Elite Controller and How We Will Cure HIV
I am a millennial, which means that along with my deft technology skills and love for social media, I am also a member of the first generation to have never lived in an HIV-free world since the illness...
View ArticleIndia: Modi Must Embrace Religious Tolerance
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Barack Obama to India on January 25 as part of a historic visit in which he served as chief guest at the Republic Day parade, the first U.S. president to be...
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Inside the Bloody Battle for Ukraine's Donetsk Airport
Slavik’s voice was laced with panic. “No one is coming for us. We are surrounded by the enemy,” he had told me over a crackling telephone line. There were, he said, many losses, many soldiers lying on...
View ArticleA Look at Anti-Vaxxers’ Monstrously Bad Measles Math
A new statistic is circulating in the anti-vaccination corner of the Internet. Two numbers, side by side: zero, the number of deaths caused by measles in the past decade, and 108, the number of deaths...
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