French soldiers began arriving in theCentral African Republic on Monday to help stem a worsening religious war that threatens to become a genocide, the latest in a series of military interventionsParis has recently undertaken inAfrica.Military heavy-lift Antonov-124 aircraft ferried troop...
An Islamist attack force of "hundreds" of gunmen launched one of its most daring assaults yet in northern Nigeria with coordinated strikes against the country's air force and army that left dozens dead.Fighters from the al-Qaeda-allied Boko Haram streamed towards Maiduguri city in t...
When the Egyptian military took control of the country in the summer, it did so in the name of restoring order.Under Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood allies, Egypt had indeed become alarmingly unstable. Yet the generals conduct has made matters far, far worse.The initial crackdown on the B...
ohannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- South Africans mourned Friday the death of the man who led the fight to end the system of apartheid here and then went on to lead the country itself. He will be buried in a state funeral on Sunday, December 15, in his ancestral hometown of Qunu in the Eastern Cape provi...
Delivery drones are on their way. Amazon.com on Sunday introduced Prime Air, a futuristic delivery system that the company says will get packages into customers' hands in half an hour or less, delivered via unmanned aerial vehicles. The online retail behemoth posted a video on its website that sho...
What did you particularly enjoy doing with all of your time off last week? TeamCav took a visit to Legoland that was epically awesometastic and mostly just enjoyed hanging out together :). AND, one of the highlights of my ever was taking my daughter and the rest of her Brownie troop to the Great Park in I...
Los Angeles Authorities have arrested a man accused of swiping a piece of the wrecked sports car that "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker was riding in when he died in a fiery crash Saturday.The theft occurred at a stop light as the charred 2005 Porsche Carrera GT was being removed from th...
Dramatic footage has been released showing the moment Harrison Okene, who had been trapped in an air bubble of a capsized boat for almost three days, was rescued by divers.The Nigerian cook survived by breathing an ever-dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket. A video of Mr Okene's rescue in May -...
African and Asian nations on Tuesday agreed on urgent measures to tackle the illegal ivory trade, from the slaughter of elephants to the trafficking of their valuable tusks to the Far East. The deal comes after top officials and experts from 30 states met in Botswana this week to tackle an upsurge in...
The idea of "branding" is one that economists - and sociologists! - spend a great deal of time talking and thinking about - it essentially means the reputation of a company/entity - what the widespread perception of that thing might be.An OC Register article last year detailed a national...
In a New Zealand prison a home built by prisoners was given to a family in need, a first in New Zealand. A prisoner spoke about his experience saying, "Being able to give to this family and the community is a good thing for us. A lot of the boys are pretty proud of themselves," he said. The pr...
Edward Snowden released information about Australia telling their global partners that they could share bulk, unselected, unminimised metadata as long as there is no intent to target an Australian national." The information would include visited sites and emails. The Australian inte...
" A New Zealand gas station owner who became an overnight millionaire after a banking error, and later an international fugitive, has pleaded guilty to seven counts of theft." "Nicknamed the "accidental millionaire," Hui "Leo" Gao made headlines three ye...
Paulo Henrique Machado has lived his life in a Brazilian hospital after contracting polio when he was an infant. Machado is paralyzed from the waist down and lives with Eliana Zagui, a fellow polio survivor who has lived in the hospital for 38 years. "They were both encouraged to push beyond the...
One of the ways Russia is promoting the Olympics: This month, Moscow is offering free subway rides to passengers who can do 30 squats. Its part Olympic fever, part healthy-lifestyle promotion, via the Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/11/08/in-moscow-do-s...
"Africa is making strides toward becoming more Internet-friendly. But while it covers 6 percent of the Earth's total surface area and 20 percent of the total land area, it represents only 7 percent of the globe's total Internet users a market currently dominated by Asia." What do you th...
These glowing spheres will be used in the Mexican Interntional Festival of Lights. I think they're very interesting and pretty. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-24866551
The Northwestern University football team has come on hard times. After an impressive start to the season its in the midst of a five-game losing streak. And this week the school is caught up in a controversy about, of all things, a uniform that some say appears to be splattered in blood.The Wildcats wi...
Among the several interesting stories coming out of yesterday's various elections is that Takoma Park, MD, became the first place where under-18-year-olds got to vote - Takoma Park's City Council lowered their voting age to 16 this past May. Do you think this is a good idea? And, in a follow-up to yes...
MedicalDaily reports that a Romanian scientist from the town of Cluj-Napoca in historical Transylvania may have just created the first synthetic and side-effect-free artificial blood substitute. This new blood doesnt use hemoglobin to carry oxygen like previous blood synthesis attempts; in...
Both New Jersey and California have laws banning licensed therapists from trying to counsel gay teens into being straight. The New Jersey law is presently being challenged by parents who say it violates their free speech (in the form in this case of free expression) rights to parent their child as t...
Italian ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi has likened Jewish suffering in Hitler's Germany to what his family feels about his judicial woes, triggering criticism from Italian politicians and Jewish leaders that he is trivializing the Holocaust. Berlusconi, children say "it's like everyo...
Two convicted killers in Orange County Florida were released on falsified documents. The documents had the forged signature of a judge allowing them to be released. Both inmates left the jail 11 days apart. Police said the gang produced the documents in prison and were able to complete the document...
The day many SEO professionals hoped would never come, but feared eventually would, apparently has arrived today. It appears that Google has cut off keyword data altogether. Nearly two years after making one of the biggest changes to secure search that resulted in a steady rise in "(not provi...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/europe-warned-as-middle-east-gears-up-for-mass-vaccination-after-syria-polio-outbreak-8927728.htmlAn outbreak of polio in Syria represents a public health threat to Europe, experts have warned for the first t...
Birds crashing into planes is a problem. Obviously. So some airports are trying some innovative approaches to discourage the presence of birds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24751208 According to a report by the Federal Aviation Administration, the number of bird strikes has incr...
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