How Saudi Arabia Let the Deadly MERS Virus Spread
RIYADH/LONDON (Reuters) - When Saudi Arabia announced last week it had found 113 more cases of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), it didn't just force a rethink of the threat the virus...
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Quora Question: Why Is Thailand So Prone to Military Coups?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
View ArticleThinking Through the Turing Test
In a study conducted over the weekend, a computer program was able to fool more than a third of human interviewers into believing it was “Eugene Goostman,” a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy for whom English...
View ArticleTea Party to U.S.: We’re Winning
Before a no-name Tea Party challenger shocked Washington by defeating the second-ranking House Republican, Eric Cantor, the conventional wisdom was that the Tea Party’s bid to take over the Republican...
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IBTimes Digest: Brazilian President’s Political Fate May Hang in World Cup...
1. Brazilian President’s Political Fate May Hang In World Cup BalanceBrazilians, who live in the world’s most soccer-crazed country, wouldn't dream of rooting against their national team. But at this...
View ArticlePolice Say at Least Five Injured in World Cup Protests
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian police and protesters clashed on Thursday just hours before the opening game of the World Cup, injuring at least five people, although excitement began to build...
View ArticleNewsweek Rewind: 'Tear Down This Wall'
On this day in 1987, Ronald Reagan gave his Soviet counterpart some pretty direct advice. Standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate, his back protected by bulletproof glass, he issued these famous...
View ArticleObama Says He Won't 'Rule Anything Out' in Iraq
BAGHDAD/ARBIL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama refused to rule out U.S. action in Iraq against Sunni Islamist militants who have surged out of the north to threaten Baghdad, threatening to divide the...
View ArticleRick Perry Thinks Homosexuality Is a Lot Like Alcoholism
At a Wednesday night event in San Francisco, Texas Governor Rick Perry managed the rare feat of willfully misunderstanding both homosexuality and alcohol addiction in one breath. The 2016 presidential...
View ArticleThe Coal, Hard Facts
Cheered by environmentalists and criticized by coal companies, President Barack Obama’s move to cut coal emissions still faces plenty of legal and political challenges. But the real test will be...
View ArticleMexico Is Home to DNA That's a World Apart, Study Shows
Mexicans from different regions of the country are as genetically different as Europeans are from Asians, researchers have found.The vast differences in the patchwork of Native American ancestry...
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The Perfect Drug
Evan Rose’s cancer should have killed him. The surgeries to remove tumors that grew in his throat because of his sarcoma left him without a larynx. He now breathes through a hole in his neck, a stoma,...
View ArticlePlay Ball or Die
Jeff Brueggemann has had an interesting baseball career. He started off pitching for the Minnesota Twins AAA team in the late 1970s, but after tearing up his arm in an offseason job at an olive...
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Rosie the LGBT Riveter
Bev Hickok remembers the deafening noise, the ceaseless mechanical hammer blows of women riveting airplanes together. She remembers how everyone smoked on breaks and that all the women wore pants. But...
View ArticleHealth Care by Nintendo
As Americans regularly shirk the advice of their doctors, a band of pixelated castaways and a flightless dragon may be a care provider’s best bet to get patients interested in their health. Has care...
View ArticleGoogle, You Can Drive My Car
Imagine a Thelma and Louiseremake, circa 2030. Climax of the movie: Two women sit in a convertible facing the edge of the Grand Canyon. Police surge toward them from behind.Louise looks at the...
View ArticleResearchers Craft Surgical Tools Inspired by Octopus Tentacles
The octopus has captured human imagination for centuries. “To believe in the octopus, one must have seen it,” wrote Victor Hugo in 1866. “Compared with it, the hydras of old are laughable.” Today, the...
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Everything You Need to Know About Brazilian Strikers but Didn’t Care Enough...
The kickoff to the World Cup is literally minutes away. Unless you have a ticket to the opener in São Paolo and you’re more than three miles from the stadium. Then, thanks to traffic congestion, it is...
View ArticleObama Warns of U.S. Action as Jihadists Push on Baghdad
BAGHDAD/ARBIL (Reuters) - Barack Obama threatened U.S. military strikes in Iraq on Thursday against Sunni Islamist militants who have surged out of the north to menace Baghdad and want to establish...
View ArticleIndia Rebuffs 'Simplistic' U.N. Criticism Over Sex Crimes
GENEVA (Reuters) - India has rebuffed accusations by a U.N. investigator that sex crimes are rife in the world's biggest democracy, calling her analysis "simplistic" and full of "sweeping...
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