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New regulations that came into force this week have banned a comprehensive list of sexual acts from appearing in films produced and distributed by British companies, in a move that has introduced an “arbitrary” sense of morality into British pornography.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday Britain has had no moral responsibility for what happens in Hong Kong since its return to China, as the two countries argue about Beijing’s ban on a group of British members of parliament

Militants from Somali al Shabaab kill at least 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in Kenya, beheading at least two, in revenge for Kenyan military action against the group. Mana Rabiee reports. For Kenyan soldiers, it was a gruesome discovery.

While Ebola may not be dominating the news cycle anymore, some 1,400 individuals are currently being actively monitored for the deadly virus in the United States.  The 1,400 individuals are “being monitored because they came from one of the four countries with

Two sisters in India are being lauded for hitting and attacking two men on a bus that approached them with lewd comments, while fellow passengers warned the girls not to resist their harassment lest they be attacked with acid. The

In a recent interview, Pope Francis’ right-hand man for the reform of the Roman curia said we can expect serious downsizing of the offices that make up the Vatican bureaucracy. Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, the Honduran coordinator of the

Nevadans for State Gun Rights (NSGR) is asking secretary of state Ross Miller to throw out signatures collected by gun control proponents–including a Bloomberg-sponsored group–because the signatures were allegedly turned in after the deadline for submission and were missing a

This article originally appeared on CNBC: Saudi Arabia, and its fellow members of OPEC, may have just launched an oil war. At the conclusion of its December conference, held in Vienna on Thanksgiving Day, OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, decided

Illegal immigrants are making it tougher for Americans–U.S.-born and immigrants–to achieve the American Dream, if it even exists at all, according to a study from a U.C. Davis professor.  Professor Gregory Clark writes that though the “United States seems to

One in three illegal immigrants over the age of 25 in America do not even have a high school education, according to a new Migration Policy Institute report.  The Migration Policy Institute estimates that there are 8,512,000 illegal immigrant adults

The Uber ride-sharing app suffered its first U.S. state-wide ban last week when a Washoe County, Nevada court made a preliminary ruling that the company operates “in all ways” like a taxi business. Uber suspended all operations in Nevada and

Penny Mordaunt may be feeling a litte hen-pecked today. While collecting an award for a speech she gave which included the words to “testicles” and “penis”, she made reference to another speech she had delivered in the Commons, ostensibly on

Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called “moderate” President of the Palestinian Authority, said on Saturday that his people will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Abbas, who spoke at an Arab League meeting in Cairo, said that Israel’s Jewish identity will

On Sunday Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew signed a joint declaration affirming their common commitment to full Christian unity as well as their support for suffering Christians in the Middle East. “We cannot resign ourselves to a Middle East without

An unidentified 32-year-old Phoenix resident who returned from Sierra Leone this week has been hospitalized and will be screened for Ebola after complaining of feeling ill and experiencing dry heaves, along with diarrhea.  Maricopa Integrated Health System’s chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Fromm said

When Oregon’s Democrat-controlled legislature convenes in February 2015, they are expected to consider passing a bill requiring universal background checks on firearm sales.  This would eliminate the private gun sales and put in a place a universal background check system

A November 28 Associated Press (AP) report indicates “transient workers” taking part in Wyoming’s oil boom are contributing to a surge in crime–including violent crime–throughout the region. According to the AP, “Emergency calls are up 9 percent from last year.”

A group of black Ferguson residents armed with AR-15s and other weapons stood guard around a Conoco station, owned by a white man, and saved it from being burned after looters began wreaking havoc on November 24. Because of the

According to a report out of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the first closed chest heart surgery performed by a robot was successfully conducted at the Al Qassimi Hospital cardiac centre in Sharjah. It was the first surgery of its

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has imposed sanctions on the organizers of rebel elections in eastern Ukraine this month, the bloc said on Saturday, hitting the separatists and their organizations with asset freezes and travel bans. As reporting by

The Palestinian Authority’s official TV channel has heroized two Palestinian terrorists who are responsible for the brutal murder of five people in a Jerusalem synagogue. The broadcast was uncovered and translated by Palestinian Media Watch. The news anchor said that

The mayor of Kenema, Sierra Leone has condemned Ebola Burial Team workers for using the corpses of Ebola victims to protest their lack of payment. The protesters, who have not yet received their salaries for two months, publicly displayed the

(Reuters) – Scores of teachers and civil servants were stranded at a remote Kenyan airstrip on Thursday, demanding evacuation and protection five days after Islamist gunmen killed 28 non-Muslim bus passengers in the surrounding border region near Somalia. Somalia’s al

On November 27, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) indicated 28 Danes have collected unemployment benefits while fighting with ISIS in Syria.  According to AFP, PET said 15 of the welfare recipients have “been ordered to pay the money

This article originally appeared at National Interest: A U.S.-China war would be a battle between networks, according to one prominent security analyst. Speaking to a packed room of mostly undergraduate students at George Mason University earlier this week, Elbridge Colby, the

Israel announced Thursday that it had discovered and prevented multiple plans by Islamist group Hamas to launch a series of terrorist attacks against Israelis in several locations, including Jerusalem’s largest soccer stadium, the city’s light rail, the West Bank, and

Following what has become a trend under President Obama, Black Friday 2014 gun sales boomed to such a degree that the FBI performed nearly three NCIS background checks every second. The pace was so great that the FBI believes the

U.S. shopping is expected to be up big during the Black Friday weekend, since the deflated cost of gasoline–under $3 a gallon–is saving consumers $250 million per day. But falling prices that are good for American consumers is seen as downright

A crowdfunding campaign advertising itself as the Ferguson Legal Defense Fund has been running a campaign since October that boasts a goal of raising $250,000 for protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, seeking “money for jail, bail & life.”  Protesters have been

The capital of China’s restive region of Xinjiang will recruit 3,000 former soldiers to help guard its residents, the Chinese government has said. The soldiers will be carefully vetted to determine their political views. They will join the military and

(Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it would support President Bashar al-Assad to combat “terrorism” in the Middle East, indicating there was no new room for compromise on one of the key contentious issues in the Syrian conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin

(Reuters) – Latvian President Andris Berzins said on Wednesday an agreement deepening cooperation between Russia and Georgia’s Abkhazia region threatened regional stability and security. But, during a visit to the Georgian capital Tbilisi, he also said it was vital for Russia’s neighbors

Austrian police have launched a mass raid on mosques and prayer rooms in a crackdown on suspected jihadists who trying to radicalise young people. Nearly 500 officers raided religious centres in Vienna, Graz and Linz early today, detaining 13 people.

Rioters protesting the non-indictment of Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri ravaged Oakland, California for the third successive night Wednesday as outgoing mayor Jean Quan struggled to contain the second major outbreak of riots

(Reuters) – When Russians crossed the border to fight with rebels in eastern Ukraine earlier this year, Moscow said the soldiers had not been deployed but had gone on their own vacation time.     When Estonia was the victim of a cyber attack

The world is in flames, Christians beheaded all over the Middle East, much of that region in anarchic chaos, increased nuclear saber-rattling from Russia, many parts of the world crippled economically, hundreds of thousands dying from malaria, and a billion