Christian Woman Sentenced to Death in Sudan is Released, Then Re-Arrested
CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities re-arrested a Sudanese woman on Tuesday hours after she was freed from death row, and detained her and her family as they tried to board a plane in Khartoum, a...
View ArticleFacelock Could Replace Alphanumeric Website Passwords
Passwords are the worst. Your employer, your bank and your smartphone all require one. And, for your own security, they want it to be unique and difficult, like, say, X32$q#fs@Gg92. Of course, nobody...
View Article1,000 Dead in Iraq in June; Civilians Bear the Brunt of New Fighting
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed and roughly the same number injured in fighting and other violence in Iraq in June as Sunni militants swept through the...
View ArticleRussia's Putin Renounces Right to Send Troops to Ukraine: Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin asked Russia's upper house on Tuesday to revoke the right it had granted him to order a military intervention in Ukraine in defense of Russian-speakers...
View ArticleLeBron May Leave Heat, but He’ll Stay in the East if He Wants a Ring
And suddenly the heat is on Miami.As first reported by ESPN Tuesday morning, LeBron James, who in four seasons has led the Miami Heat to four NBA Finals and two championships, exercised his option to...
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What Has Curiosity Rover Accomplished After One (Martian) Year on Mars?
As the Mars Curiosity rover celebrated its first full Martian year—the equivalent of 687 Earth days—spent lumbering over the dusty plains of the red planet, it turned its camera arm on itself and took...
View ArticleLuis Suarez's Antics May Bite His Own Team
If Brazil is famous for Carnival, then its neighbor to the south, Uruguay, is now famous for “Carnivore.”Uruguay advanced to the knockout stage of World Cup 2014 with a fractious 1–0 Group D victory...
View ArticleChile's Bachelet Promises to Return Land to Indigenous People
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday announced a plan to buy and return disputed ancestral lands to Chile's indigenous communities as part of a strategy to better incorporate...
View ArticleSan Francisco Shuts Down an App That Lets You Buy and Sell Parking Spots
A new app called Monkey Parking wants to make parking easier (and more capitalistic) for drivers in Rome, where the company is based, and San Francisco, where it has expanded. It lets them simply...
View ArticleHow Anti-Gay Laws Worsen Diseases Like AIDS and TB
Recent anti-homosexuality laws don’t just violate human rights—they might worsen the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist warns in a PLOS Medicine essay published today.While...
View ArticleRebekah Brooks Escapes Jail, but Questions Linger for Murdoch
Rebekah Brooks likes to tell this story about herself. How, as a junior reporter on Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid The Sun, she stuffed her flaming red hair under a head scarf, dressed up as a cleaner...
View ArticleWashington State Moves to Keep Recreational Pot From Kids
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state, which is moving forward on allowing stores to sell pot for recreational use, will require child-resistant packaging on marijuana products and prohibit images that...
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Vietnam and Iraq Now Inextricably Linked as U.S. Geopolitical Disasters
Lance Corporal Victor Lu’s friends in his Marine unit—the 3rd Battalion 5th Marine Regiment, part of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force that fought in the brutal battle to retake the Iraqi city of...
View ArticleCape May, N.J., Earned Its Clean Beach the Hard Way
Nobody passes through Cape May, New Jersey. “The Nation’s Oldest Seashore Resort” is located at the southern terminus of both the Garden State and the Garden State Parkway. Trace a horizontal line on a...
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Find the Cleanest Beach—Near You
Remember the Walrus and the Carpenter? Between all their weeping and oyster-scarfing they contemplated what it would take to clean the beach they were walking on:“‘If seven maids with seven mopsSwept...
View ArticlePlan to Name Washington Street After Jailed Dissident Upsets China
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Wednesday dismissed as a "farce" and a "smear" a vote by a United States panel of lawmakers to rename a Washington road in front of its embassy after imprisoned Nobel Peace...
View ArticleThe Rich Are Getting Much, Much Richer. So Why Are They Hoarding Cash?
LONDON (Reuters) - As tension over inequality simmers, persistent cash hoarding by multinationals and the super-rich may be one measure of how seriously attempts at remedial action are being taken.The...
View ArticleSpain's Princess Cristina Faces Trial on Corruption Charges
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish court on Wednesday upheld corruption charges against Cristina de Borbon, sister of newly-crowned King Felipe VI, and her husband in one of the last steps before a trial...
View ArticleFranco-Rogan Comedy About Killing Kim Jong Un Riles North Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Wednesday denounced a forthcoming American comedy film featuring a plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong Un as an act of terrorism and threatened to unleash a...
View ArticleLosing Tea Party Candidate Refuses to Concede in Mississippi Runoff
HATTIESBURG Miss. (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi narrowly defeated challenger Chris McDaniel on Tuesday in a high-profile runoff election that pitted the Republican...
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