LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said it would award a contract to run trains between London and Scotland to a Stagecoach and Virgin partnership, returning the East Coast line to private control after five years in state hands. Britain’s Department for
30-year-0ld Muhammad Gullistan shot his 16-year-old niece to death after finding her home alone, listening to loud music. Due to loopholes in Pakistani law, it is possible Gullistan may never see justice. Reuters reports that an argument began at the niece,
RAQQA, Syria, Nov. 26 (UPI) — Syrian airstrikes in the city of Raqqa killed at least 95 members of the Islamic State Tuesday the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. At least 120 were injured in the attack targeting
As Pope Francis’ was still preparing to travel to Strasbourg to give his first speech to the EU Parliament on Monday, a Femen protester mounted the altar in Strasbourg’s gothic cathedral, flashing her naked torso and waving the EU flag.
Israel is the only country with Jewish symbols on its national flag, but it is one of many flags populated with religious imagery, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. The Israeli flag includes the Star of
A Polish missionary abducted by Muslim rebels from the Central African Republic on October 12 has been freed by the Cameroon army after two months in captivity. A “special military operation” has freed 16 hostages, including Polish Catholic priest Mateusz
Britain’s Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) has downgraded more schools, many of them in rural predominantly white areas, saying students were “not prepared well for life in modern-day Britain”. One of those which had its rating reduced by the
In the towns where the Kurdish Peshmerga military, the Iraqi military, and ad-hoc Shiite militias have succeeded in eliminating the Sunni terrorist group the Islamic State, that power vacuum has led to contests between Kurds and Arabs over who is
Officials from Yemen and the United States announced Tuesday that a successful U.S.-led special forces operation freed eight hostages from the grasp of Al Qaeda terrorists, who were holding the captives for unknown reasons in eastern Yemen. The mission was
The €315bn “New Deal” for investment and growth in the EU was today dismissed as “chicken feed” by a leading academic. Professor Charles Wyplosz from Geneva University dismissed the proclamations by President Juncker and said “it won’t do anything to
(Reuters) – Fresh Russian efforts to encourage Syrian peace talks are unlikely to make progress because Moscow rejects opposition and Western calls for the swift departure of President Bashar al-Assad. Moscow has long-supported Assad, including with arms supplies for Syria,
Cold temperatures have socked much of the country early, bringing freezing temperatures and mounds of snow in some of the earliest winter weather in decades. Winter has debuted early in the USA. So early, in fact, that river ice has
(Reuters) – The United States is preparing to increase the number of troops it keeps in Afghanistan in 2015 to fill a gap left in the NATO mission by other contributing nations, according to three sources with direct knowledge of
Some of the weapons recently supplied to the Iraqi forces by U.S. taxpayers have already ended up in the hands of Islamic State jihadist, reports The New York Times. That is a testament of the entrenched corruption in Iraq’s
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s terrorism watchdog has criticized the government’s proposed new security laws, describing some of the measures as an “announcement waiting for a policy”. A bill introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May on Wednesday is designed to crack
The report rocketed around the Internet, trading in equal parts outrage and glee–outrage that the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF might be spiking tetanus shots of poor African women with a sterilizing vaccine, glee that they’d been caught. Doubts
Saddam Hussein’s granddaughter Banin enraged Iraqis with photos of her expensive wedding preparations on social media. She is set to marry Badr Raad Mahmoud Nasser in Jordan’s capital Amman on Friday. Her mother, Raghad, Hussein’s eldest daughter, posted pictures of
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin is the main suspect in a series of goat deaths in China’s northeast, state media reported Chinese local authorities as saying on Tuesday. Siberian tiger
On November 24 ISIS blew up St. George’s Church and a nunnery in Mosul, thereby continuing the string of churches destroyed since the terror group took control of Mosul in June. According to Rudaw.net, the destruction has included not only
Germany’s Catholic bishops are pressing ahead with reform of a controversial Church labor law that would allow employees who are in homosexual relationships or those divorced and civilly remarried to work in Church-run institutions. The bishops were to unanimously vote
(Reuters) – Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are drawing up plans to break Islamic State’s siege of Sinjar mountain, where hundreds of minority Yazidis remain stranded months after fleeing their homes. Seeking to regain territory and repair pride in his
With support plummeting for the controversial Common Core standards, it appears at least one university president is resorting to the phony “war on women” meme to give a boost to the national education initiative. In an op-ed in Sunday’s Miami
Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety has released a guide to help gun control proponents talk their family members and friends into supporting more gun control at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Titled, “Talking Turkey,” the guide purports to combat various “myths”
