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A Look At The Israeli Soldiers Captured In The Past
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officer Hadar Goldin, a 23-year-old second lieutenant from the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba, was apparently captured on Friday in the mayhem that followed a surprise...
View ArticleThis Online Game Forces You Out of Your Bubble by Taking You to Places You've...
We imagine ourselves to be citizens of the world but in fact we are drawn to people like us, to familiar experiences and to information that confirms our biases. This is the phenomenon Ethan Zuckerman...
View ArticleMore Than 300 Ukrainian Troops Cross Into Russia, Confusion Reigns
By Natalia Zinets and Richard Balmforth KIEV, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Monday it was in talks with Moscow over the return of 311 Ukrainian soldiers and border guards who had been forced by...
View ArticleA Generation Of Gaza's Children Are Growing Up In War
More than 1,800 people have lost their lives in Gaza since violence broke out between Israel and Palestinian militants a little over three weeks ago. According to recent UN figures 296 of those killed...
View ArticleStockholm's LGBT Pride Parade Was Bigger -- And Sexier -- Than Ever!
The Stockholm Pride Parade rolled through Sweden's capital city on Saturday, August 2, and it was bigger than ever. According to an email sent to The Huffington Post from Visit Stockholm, 153 groups...
View ArticleA Letter From Prison - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
I have not taken a final decision yet regarding appealing the unacceptable draconian verdict against me, mainly because I have no faith in the judicial system. This is especially true after reading the...
View Article61 Years After Armistice: Korea's Gratitude, Pride, and Hope for the Future
President Obama recently designated July 27 as "Korean War Veteran's Armistice Day." One day before the Proclamation was announced I attended a very moving ceremony commemorating the 61st anniversary...
View ArticleUN Official: 'Nowhere Safe To Run...Nowhere Safe To Hide' In Gaza
UN Relief Work Agency spokesperson Christopher Gunness joins HuffPost Live to discuss the latest happenings in Gaza.
View ArticleCultivating Empathy in Hungary
When it comes to people expressing trust in others, Hungary ranks rather low. In 2011, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a ranking that put Hungary 24th out of...
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800,000 Red Poppies Pour Like Blood From The Tower Of London
In honor of the 100th anniversary of World War I, the historic Tower of London has been transformed by a massive art installation. Titled "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red," the expansive piece brings...
View ArticleIsrael and Russia: Rogue States in Public Opinion?
Two recent blog posts by Aaron Blake on the Washington Post website (July 22, "What Russia and Israel Have in Common" and July 29, "Young Americans Take a Dim View of Israel's Actions") should give...
View ArticleDispatch From Gaza: Four-Letter Words
What started off as a regular summer trip to visit family and conduct research related to immunizations in Gaza turned into something I could have never imagined. Gaza is no stranger to bouts of...
View ArticleRepublicans Had To Explain To Colleagues Why Torture Is Wrong
WASHINGTON -- Ahead of the expected release of a massive, damning report on the Central Intelligence Agency's use of torture in the years after 9/11, at least two Republican senators felt the need to...
View ArticleJohn Venn's Birthday Celebrated In Clever Google Doodle (VIDEO)
Have you seen today's Google Doodle? It's a clever interactive animation to mark the 180th birthday of John Venn, the English logician and philosopher responsible for the Venn diagram. As Venn wrote in...
View ArticleMan Posing For Gun Selfie Dies After Firearm Goes Off: Report
A man's attempt to take a dramatic selfie reportedly turned tragic earlier this month when the loaded gun with which he was posing went off and killed him. According to Mexican newspaper Excelsior,...
View ArticleProstitution On The Rise Among Desperate Syrian Women Refugees
TEL EL-HAYAT, Lebanon (AP) — The Syrian refugee woman huddled in the latest room she calls home, a peeling, run-down place outside a north Lebanese village. The mother of six doesn't know how she'll...
View ArticleFather Arrested For Writing Violent Anti-Gay Facebook Post
A British man was arrested after posting an expletive-laden Facebook rant about gays being lined up and shot. Paul Gair, a 42-year-old father of three, posted the violent, homophobic comments in July...
View ArticleNew Nazca Lines Discovered In Peruvian Desert
A pilot flying over the Nazca desert in Peru has discovered huge geoglyphs that are believed to be nearly 2,000 years old -- and may shed new light on the ancient Nazca people. The "Nazca lines" were...
View ArticleHamas Is So Beyond Terrorism, They Make the Word Seem Almost Quaint By Contrast
When we blithely describe Hamas as terrorists, instead of "murderers" or "murderous terrorists," we paint a dangerously misleading and inaccurate picture. We dilute the truly savage, heinous aspect of...
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This Kid Is 'Apparently' The Best Live TV Interview Of All Time
Some people are just made for TV -- 5-year-old Noah Ritter is one of those people. The enthusiastic little Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, resident was asked one simple question at the Wayne County Fair:...
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