PERTH, Australia (AP) — A Chinese military plane scanning part of a search zone the size of Poland for signs of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 spotted several objects floating in the sea on Saturday, including two bearing colors
The United States has said that North Korea’s test firing of two medium-range missiles into the Sea of Japan represents “a troubling and provocative escalation” on the Korean Peninsula. America is closely coordinating with allies and partners, including in the
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — As frustration was setting in, calmer seas returned Wednesday and the search for the remains of Flight 370 began anew in remote waters of the Indian Ocean off western Australia. Gale-force winds that forced an
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dave Brockie, who as “Oderus Urungus” fronted the alien-costumed heavy metal band GWAR during graphic and fake-blood-soaked stage shows for more than three decades, has died. He was 50. Officers were called to Brockie’s home Sunday
In its lead story today, the New York Times hailed Japan’s overnight decision to transfer 700 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium to American oversight as President Obama’s “biggest single success” in his “five year long push to secure the world’s most
SYDNEY (AP) — After taking its opener to Mexico, Japan and Puerto Rico over the past 15 years, Major League Baseball is expanding to a new territory this weekend: Down Under. When Arizona’s Wade Miley throws the first pitch of
The Japanese government is funding matchmaking events in hopes of reversing a six-decades’ long downward trend in birthrates. According to The Telegraph, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “has allocated an additional 3 billion yen in this fiscal year’s budget for birthrate-boosting
The American Physical Society (APS) has signalled a dramatic turnabout in its position on “climate change” by appointing three notorious climate skeptics to its panel on public affairs (POPA). They are: Professor Richard Lindzen, formerly Alfred P Sloan Professor of
NEW YORK (AP) — Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he
A web of bureaucratic requirements are preventing a fleet of aircraft from flying over Indonesian airspace to find missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, according to a report from the BBC. Reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes visited Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to find
Another week, and another raft of data that will attempt to give some direction to these otherwise directionless markets. Over in the UK, the FTSE 100 has been ‘range bound’ (meaning it struggled to get any real momentum behind it).
The Times of Israel has just posted a story by Debra Kamin based on an interview with Isaac Yeffet, who was head of global security for Israel’s flagship airline, El Al, that suggests Iran was involved with the disappearance of Malaysian
Three years ago, a massive 9.0-magnitude offshore earthquake rocked Japan and generated a massive tsunami that eventually knocked out the Fukushima nuclear power plant and caused widespread destruction. Today, Californians are bracing for a similar event, as new research indicates
In 1989, before the push to impose statewide K-12 standards in Texas, there were 196,497 teachers supported by 180,728 non-teaching staff for a total of 377,225 people. This public school workforce taught 3,271,509 students. But, the public education system in
The Chinese Foreign Ministry is not happy with the work Malaysian authorities have done in locating missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Spokesman Qin Gang has had his hands full answering the media’s questions, calling working with Malaysian authorities “pretty chaotic”
The latest polls indicate a weak economy continues to drag down President Obama’s job approval rating, but those hardly guarantee any big changes in Washington. Americans may want more jobs and better wages but they also support many of the
Three years ago today, an earthquake-induced tsunami devastated Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power complex. The flooding knocked out power required to cool reactors and their spent fuel pools, causing dangerous – and continuing – radioactive contamination. Unfortunately, unless we act quickly,
An interesting week last week saw February non-farm payrolls beat expectations, potentially suggesting that the US recovery is on a firm footing in the medium term. Similar to the UK, however, we saw that the unemployment rate actually went up
One week before his scheduled meeting with President Obama, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has staked out assorted maximalist positions relating to negotiations with Israel, decreasing the odds of any accord being reached. In statements in recent days, Abbas rejected
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday blocked a bill that would have stripped senior military commanders of their authority to prosecute rapes and other serious offenses, capping an emotional, nearly yearlong fight over how best to curb sexual assault
High-ranking Iranian officials have taken aim at President Obama in reaction to recent statements that American military action remains an option should Iran not compromise sufficiently in development of its nuclear program. The Times of Israel reports that General Masoud
An Egyptian court in Cairo has ordered a ban on activities in Egypt by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, branding it a terror organization, reports The Times of Israel. The Cairo court ordered that all Hamas offices in the country
Bitcoin believers were shaken to their digital souls when Mt. Gox, the world’s largest exchange, defaulted on $470 million worth of deposits and closed. The virtual currency was supposed to provide a safer, more private, and less costly alternative to
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea Monday in the second such launch in less than a week, amid ongoing annual military exercises between Seoul and Washington, South Korean officials said. The launches
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy protection blamed theft through hacking for its losses Monday, and said it was looking into a criminal complaint. In an announcement posted on the Mt. Gox exchange’s website, CEO
