If at first you don’t succeed, pretend you never tried. It’s the loser’s lament that the UN is singing right now at the COP 20 climate conference in Lima, Peru. Before the two-week gathering of Gaia worshippers opened, the UN
DUBLIN (AP) — Sinead O’Connor, long a critic of church and state in Ireland, says she’s joining the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party — and wants its leaders to step aside for younger voices free of IRA connections. The 48-year-old
(Reuters) – A bomb exploded in a marketplace in Nigeria’s second city Kano on Wednesday afternoon, security sources told Reuters. The chairman of the Kantin Kwari market, Alhaji Liti Kulkul, said there had been an explosion but did not have
(Reuters) – Three journalists from the Syrian opposition television channel Orient News were killed in the southwest of the country when a missile hit their vehicle, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said late on Tuesday. The U.S.-based media advocacy
VILLACOUBLAY, France (AP) — President Francois Hollande, welcoming a freed hostage home, urged French citizens not to travel to areas where they risk being kidnapped. Serge Lazarevic, held captive for three years by al-Qaida’s North Africa branch, arrived Wednesday at
A prankster video depicting a dog disguised as a giant spider was the most-shared item on the Google-owned YouTube platform in 2014. The “Mutant Giant Spider Dog” video by Polish actor and director SA Wardega, which depicts a canine with
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius again faces the possibility of a murder conviction after a South African judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors can appeal against the double-amputee Olympian’s conviction on the lesser charge of culpable homicide. The sensational case will
(Reuters) – A former Connecticut resident and Chinese citizen who allegedly worked on the F135 engine was charged with trying to take sensitive documents about military technology to China, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday. Yu Long was en
(AFP) The UN’s Ebola czar on Tuesday hailed widespread progress in the fight against the deadly virus, but warned the outbreak was still surging in western Sierra Leone and northern Guinea. He said more foreign health workers and specialists were
(AFP) Gunmen on Tuesday killed a member of a polio vaccination team in Pakistan, as Taliban insurgents claimed the killing of two policemen assigned to protect an immunisation team the day before. Tuesday’s attack — the latest of many on
Writing for Bloomberg Politics, Dave Weigel writes of how “sensitivity to rape victims might have led to flawed reporting” from the likes of Rolling Stone. He goes on to credit Breitbart News for “doing its own reporting” which in part
Just minutes after the release of Barry One’s statement where he asks Lena Dunham why, when she knew her memoir had placed him under a false suspicion of rape, she didn’t clear his name immediately, Dunham posted an Instagram of
In the wake of the unprecedented cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio’s closely guarded secrets have continually found their way into headlines. The latest data leak, released Tuesday, reveals email exchanges between studio co-chair Amy Pascal and
Yesterday at 4:11 p.m. ET, Eugene Volokh at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog sharply criticized Time.com’s Eliza Berman for not being “quite fair” — i.e., being quite unfair, given the author’s penchant for understatement — to Breitbart.com’s John Nolte, the reporter who
From Slate: The Post story doesn’t connect all the dots, but it’s not hard to do. Jackie has now given her friends two different names for the man she was with that night. Neither of them was in fact with her, ever
Sir Christopher Lee, best know for his roles as Dracula, Francisco Scaramanga, and Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies, has released a holiday single, just weeks before Christmas. In what has become an
I was raped. I was raped by a large black man who entered my home at my invitation. I was on the porch, and he came along, and there was a chiffarobe in the yard Papa brought in to chop
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Seven people have been detained in Moldova on suspicion they smuggled uranium and mercury in a metal container from Russia to be used in a dirty bomb, police said Tuesday. House searches were carried out last
HONG KONG (AP) — Police warned Hong Kong pro-democracy activists that they have until Thursday to leave a sprawling protest camp which has blocked traffic in the Chinese financial hub for more than two months. Authorities are set to move
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed legislation that would direct President Barack Obama to levy sanctions against Venezuelan government officials or others accused of perpetrating acts of violence or human rights abuses of anti-government demonstrators. The bill, passed in
OUTSIDE OF DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Chanting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), dozens of armed men in camouflage uniforms from Russia’s republic of Chechnya train in snow in a camp in the rebel-held east Ukraine. They say their “Death” unit
Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday honoured Holocaust victims at Nazi Germany’s notorious wartime Auschwitz death camp, now a museum in southern Poland. Cameron walked through the camp’s infamous wrought-iron “Arbeit macht frei” (work makes you free) entrance gate before
Six months into the jihadist offensive in Iraq, the autonomous Kurds said Wednesday they had lost more than 700 fighters and argued the burden of hosting a million displaced civilians was becoming unsustainable. Since the Islamic State group launched a
LONDON (Reuters) – Up to 17,000 residents in the west of Scotland were left without power on Wednesday morning as a “weather bomb” of wet and windy conditions battered parts of Britain with gusts expected to reach up to 80
