New Twist in Investigation into Argentine Prosecutor's Death
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine prosecutor found dead in mysterious circumstances last month had drafted a request that President Cristina Fernandez be arrested for conspiring to derail his probe...
View ArticleSeveral People Reported Dead in Metro-North Train Collision
Updated | Several people were killed and a dozen seriously injured when a Metro-North train crashed into a Jeep at a railroad crossing about an hour north of New York City Tuesday evening.The...
View ArticleJordan Executes Two Militants In Response to Pilot's Murder
Updated | AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan has executed by hanging a jailed Iraqi woman militant whose release had been demanded by the Islamic State group that burnt a captured Jordanian pilot to death, a...
View ArticleTen Hurt in Taiwan Plane Crash: Report
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A TransAsia Airways plane crash landed in a Taipei river, injuring more than 10 people, television reported on Wednesday.No other details were immediately available. NoYesYesten,...
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On the Hunt for a Multiple Sclerosis Cure
Richard M. Cohen leans forward as the needle plunges into his back. He kvetches as its tip pushes toward his spinal column, though it is a good-natured plaint. He has, after all, been through this...
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Italy's Sex Workers Take Refuge in Switzerland
Carly, 32, is an Italian cross-border commuter. In order to work freely five days a week she drives 6.9km from Como, northern Italy, through the Alps to Chiasso in Ticino, the Italian-speaking area of...
View ArticleMetro-North Crash: Six Dead, Officials Say
The fiery crash between a Metro-North train and sports utility vehicle Tuesday evening killed six and seriously injured 15 others, officials say, renewing safety concerns about the nation's...
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French Air Force Back Fight Against Boko Haram on Nigeria’s Borders
France has entered the campaign to tackle the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram by conducting reconnaissance flights along the borders of Chad and Niger, according to French officials.Despite French...
View ArticleUkraine to Call Up Women Over 20 for Armed Forces
Ukraine’s armed forces could call up all female citizens of Ukraine aged between 20 and 50 to join the fight against pro-Russian separatists in the country’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk,...
View ArticleNew Zealand Judge Appointed to Head UK Child Abuse Inquiry
Britain has turned to a New Zealand High Court judge in a third attempt to find a chairman of a major inquiry into decades of child abuse and whether powerful figures covered it up.The government...
View ArticleHow Much Money Is Enough to Take Down ISIS?
Republicans, who are inclined to snort at anything President Barack Obama does, were quick Tuesday to dump on the administration’s budget for fighting ISIS, saying it’s not enough to defeat an enemy...
View ArticleDear Anti-Vax Parents: We’re Not Mad At You
Dear Anti-Vax Parents,In the wake of the Disneyland measles outbreak, there’s been a lot of heated talk about parents who choose not to vaccinate their children. It seems like the medical community is...
View ArticleAnonymous Call UK Protest Against ‘Paedophiles in the Establishment’
Infamous hacker group Anonymous have called for several demonstrations in the UK to protest against what they believe is a huge coverup of paedophile networks by “those who are meant to...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Oil Factors Hugely Into Foreign Wars
Oil plays an even bigger role in influencing foreign military intervention than is generally acknowledged, according to a new economic analysis, lending support to so-called “conspiracy theorists” who...
View ArticleOver 100 Women Allegedly Raped After Man Sets Up Fake Clinical Trials
A Japanese man has been arrested following allegations that he drugged and raped over 100 women while pretending to run a clinical trial, though detectives have said that this number could be...
View ArticleThe Fraternity No Longer Belongs on the American College Campus
Let me say this much in defense of the embattled fraternities of Dartmouth College: As a pledge during the winter of 2000, I was never forced to wade in a “kiddie pool of vomit, urine, fecal matter,...
View ArticleGreece Seeks ECB Funds as Germany Rejects Austerity Roll-Back
Greece's new leftist government appealed to the European Central Bank on Wednesday to keep its banks afloat as it seeks to negotiate debt relief with its euro zone partners, but Germany rejected any...
View Article4,000-Strong Christian Militia Formed to Fight ISIS in Northern Iraq
Thousands of Iraqi Christians have established their own militia and are training to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq.The Nineveh Plains Protection Units (NPU) has...
View ArticleRussian Foreign Minister Publishes New York-Inspired Beat Poetry
It takes a thick skinned man to serve as Vladimir Putin’s ambassador to the world for a term, let alone for almost two decades, but it seems Moscow’s most senior foreign official, hailed as “the...
View ArticleWhat ISIS Hoped to Gain From Killing the Jordanian Pilot
The news and images of ISIS burning Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh to death in a cage comes just days after the group decapitated a second Japanese hostage. Such horrific murders provoke, shock and...
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