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This Beverage Maker Aims To Put Popular Drink On The Moon
Sports beverages have circled the Earth, and soon they may find their way to the moon. Otsuka, a Japanese pharmaceutical company and beverage maker, has plans to place the first beverage on the moon --...
View ArticleRepublican Leaders To Block Military Immigration Measure
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders intervened Friday to prevent a vote on immigration legislation, dealing a severe blow to election-year efforts to overhaul the dysfunctional system. The move...
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It's Endangered Species Day, But These Adorable Babies Deserve Saving Every...
Happy Endangered Species Day! On this day we pause to consider all the species out there that still need our help lest they be wiped from the planet forever. There are sadly quite a few of them: The...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: China vs. America: True Rivalry Between False Friends?
It has been another rocky week in East Asia. After China anchored a huge oil rig in what Vietnam considers its territorial waters, Vietnamese protesters rioted against foreign factories and what they...
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Greenpeace USA's New Leader On The Fight For Our Planet (There's Hope!)
The name Greenpeace has become synonymous with some of the most intense environmentalism of the past four decades. Now, a new leader is poised to take the helm of Greenpeace USA and steer the...
View ArticleUS Embassy In Kenya Requests Security Upgrade
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. ambassador in Kenya has requested additional Kenyan and American security personnel and is reducing the size of the embassy staff because of an increase in terrorist...
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This Teen Got 4-Lb. Facial Tumor Removed Thanks To Businessman Who 'Couldn't...
When Larry O’Reilly returned to Haiti in 2012, he was excited to see the school girl he'd taken under his wing. But O'Reilly was shocked at the sight of Hennglise Dorival. The tumor on her face had...
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Some Countries Spend More On Domestic Violence Costs Than On Primary...
A report out this week from the World Bank Group examined some of the challenges facing women around the world and uncovered some unequivocally devastating finds. As shown in the map below, a...
View ArticleParaguayan Journalist Shot Dead, Hit By 17 Bullets
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguayan authorities say a journalist has been shot to death in a northern city bordering Brazil. Police said 28-year old Gabriel Alcaraz was hit by 17 bullets Friday when...
View ArticleNecessary and Sufficient: Protecting Syria's Children
About a week ago, a friend of mine, working with Syrian refugee children in Jordan, asked me a seemingly innocuous question: "What does it mean to act in the best interests of the child?" This answer,...
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Lemurs Take Over HuffPost Live To Celebrate Dr. Patricia Wright's...
A trio of plucky lemurs took over the HuffPost Live studio on Friday to celebrate Dr. Patricia Wright and her ongoing conservation efforts to save the primates and their home country of Madagascar....
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Meet The Teen Who Broke A Guinness World Record For Fastest Texter (VIDEO)
For those who complain that teens spend too much time in front of their phones, for one talented 17-year-old, the time was well spent. Marcel Fernandes Filho recently broke a Guinness World Record...
View ArticleThe Political, Social and Cultural Context Behind the Abduction of the Girls...
There is a girl in Nigeria who just turned 12. She sits at home in somber contemplation. The familiarity of her world has been flipped on its face. She had to withdraw from school yesterday because her...
View ArticleIran Is Not North Korea
"What a terrible country to live in! No personal freedoms, no honest elections, and state propaganda everywhere. I wonder if there will ever be a revolution." I couldn't agree more with this statement...
View ArticleEl Salvador: New Government, New Opportunity for Peace?
On June 1st, El Salvador's former insurgents, the FMLN, will see its candidate, President-Elect Sánchez Cerén, sworn into office following a peaceful transition. But, he will immediately face a deeply...
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Nigerian Army Abuse Is Making It Difficult to #BringBackOurGirls
The sudden abduction of nearly 300 girls from a boarding school in the insurgent-plagued northeast of Nigeria has rightly captured the attention of some of the world's most distinguished leaders and...
View Article9 Quechua Words You Didn't Know You Were Saying
With more than 8 million speakers, Quechua is the most widely spoken indigenous language of the Americas. Once the language joining the Inca empire of Western South America, most Quechua speakers live...
View ArticleTurkey Ends Mine Disaster Rescue Operation After Last Bodies Found
SAVASTEPE, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's energy minister says rescue workers have completed their search in Turkey's worst mining disaster after retrieving the bodies of the last two missing miners. Energy...
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Camels, Eunuch Festivals And A Miner Rescued: Week In Photos, May 11 - 18
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this...
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Advocates Say Female Genital Mutilation Is On Rise In U.S., Call On...
Available reports make it seem as though the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is happening only in far-off places -- like rural parts of Africa and the Middle East. But the brutal tradition...
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