Blood in the Sahara: Two dozen or more hostages murdered during siege in Algeria
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 04:40 AM PST
Algerian forces stormed a machine shop where foreign hostages were being held at natural gas facility deep in the Sahara, and some hostages died, Al-Jazeera said. "It is over now, the assault is over, and the military are inside the...
House GOP leaders agree to three-month debt ceiling increase
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:19 PM PST
House GOP leaders backed down from their tough stance over the ominous debt ceiling crisis Friday, saying they would agree to raise the federal government's legal borrowing limit for three months, given that both chambers of Congress pass a budget...
French reporter and Al-Jazeera journalist killed in Syria
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 01:01 AM PST
A French journalist of Belgian origin, Yves Debay, 59, was killed by sniper fire while reporting in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday. "He was killed on one of Aleppo's fronts," said the Aleppo Media Center and...
Controversial body-revealing scanners to be removed from US airports
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 09:07 AM PST
Bowing to intense pressure from privacy advocates, the US Transport Security Administration (TSA) have decided to remove body scanners from US airports. TSA decided to remove the 174 full-body scanners following public complaints and a congressional mandate. The TSA introduced...
Iran beefing up cyber-warfare capabilities after Stuxnet, top US general warns
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 10:51 AM PST
Report By: Nina Rai Washington, Jan. 19, 2013: The suspected US-Israeli 2010 Stuxnet cyber-attack on Iran's nuclear facilities has sparked a buildup of the latter's cyber-warfare capabilities, and this will make Tehran a "force to be reckoned with" in the...
Baseball legend Stan 'The Man' Musial, 92, dies ‘peacefully at home'
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 10:00 PM PST
Jan. 19, 2013 St. Louis Cardinals legend Stan "The Man" Musial, a three-time National League Most Valuable Player who played all his 22 seasons for the National League's most successful franchise, died Saturday at his home in Ladue, Mo., just...
A truly false equivalence: Dr. King and President Obama
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:08 PM PST
Wil Haygood recently published a widely heralded article in the Washington Post entitled "Inauguration Will Cement Ties Between Obama, Martin Luther King Jr." The gist of the piece, in fact its only point, is that President Barack Obama is the...
Five people shot at gun shows on Gun Appreciation Day
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 09:28 PM PST
In deep irony, five people were shot on Saturday as gun enthusiasts throughout the US gathered to celebrate Gun Appreciation Day as well as protest new tighter gun laws. According to the Associated Press, the five were injured in accidental...
President Obama prepares to begin his second term in the White House
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 01:10 AM PST
US President Barack Obama will take the oath of office for a second term on Sunday in the Blue Room of the White House. On Monday, he will take part the public traditional swearing-in ceremony on Capitol Hill. A New...
Egyptian police fire tear gas as sectarian clashes erupt in Qena
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 11:49 AM PST
An official source in the Egyptian government expects the village of Al-Marasheda, in the province of Qena, to restore the calm soon. Al-Marasheda was the scene Friday of clashes between groups of Coptics and Muslims after a Muslim family accused...
Key Republicans ignore science, stubbornly cling to global warming myths
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 09:06 AM PST
After a mountain of evidence for years that global warming is real and caused by human activity and more recently an avalanche of new scientific reports to support the reality of climate change, there are still Republican skeptics on key...
Mom’s desperate plea: Her son is like Adam Lanza but husband wants to buy guns
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 12:39 PM PST
"My Husband Wants a Gun Even Though Our Son Is On Psychiatric Meds" was the headline that grabbed my attention. Mom Christina Vercelletto writes for Parenting.com, and her article about her conflicted personal struggle with a child with mental issues...
Shocking video surfaces of horse slaughter in the UK
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST
Media sources in the UK have today carried shocking images of animal cruelty: horses about to be slaughtered, kept in inhumane conditions and abused. You may say, So what? They are about to be slaughtered. If you do, shame on...
Michelle Williams opens up about battle with depression
Posted: 19 Jan 2013 11:43 AM PST
Singer-actress Michelle Williams admitted in a recent interview that she had suffered bouts of depression in the past, but was able to emerge from the darkness recently. According to People magazine, Williams revealed her condition in an interview with the...
White parents force suspension of high school 'Whiteness Studies' course
Posted: 17 Jan 2013 01:19 PM PST
"This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again." -James Baldwin, "Stranger in the Village" In an attempt to deny the existence of systemic or institutional racism, white parents of students at a high school in...
Getting the most value out of business conferences
Posted: 28 Dec 2012 01:01 PM PST
Attending business conferences can help you stay up to date on the latest trends and technologies in your industry and network with your peers. But conferences can be expensive: Between paying for flights, hotels, meals and conference tickets, fees can...
Two Egyptians killed and two injured in explosion at Libya church
Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:16 AM PST
An explosion rocked the Egyptian Orthodox Church in the town of Dafniya in Misurata province, killing two Egyptians and wounding two others, the Egyptian embassy and state media reported on Sunday. "Two Egyptians were killed and two were wounded," said...
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