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Pajama-Clad 9-Year-Old Steals City Bus
Kid, you are so BUS-ted. A 9-year-old boy wearing pajamas stole a city bus in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Saturday morning and took it on a three-block joyride, the Canadian Press reports. The bus came...
View ArticlePalestinian President Urges Hamas To Give Up Power In Gaza
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The new Palestinian unity government faced a new crisis on Sunday after President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to dissolve his alliance with Hamas if the Islamic militant group...
View ArticleChiquita's Tax Inversion Deal Could Be In Trouble
Banana giant Chiquita Brands International’s plan to move to Ireland to dodge U.S. taxes may be in trouble. Institutional Shareholder Services, an influential firm that advises investors, urged...
View ArticleArab League Chief Calls On Members To Confront The Islamic State
CAIRO (AP) — The head of the Arab League urged its members Sunday to confront Islamic State extremists "militarily and politically," issuing an apparent call to arms as President Barack Obama prepares...
View ArticleAl Jazeera Retracts Story Suggesting ISIS Videos Of Foley, Sotloff Were Staged
Al Jazeera has retracted a controversial article published earlier this week which had suggested that the ISIS videos showing the beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were...
View ArticlePutin's Whack-a-Mole Game Extends to NATO
On Friday, Russia's Federal Security Service (the FSB) kidnapped an Estonian intelligence officer at gunpoint, using a smoke bomb and jamming Estonian radio communications. Moscow later claimed it had...
View ArticleFree Scotland, Free New England!
Until recently, few people took seriously the possibility that Scotland might actually secede from the United Kingdom. However, with a referendum scheduled for September 18, the latest polls show...
View ArticleGreece's Gay Partnership Delay Draws Government Protests
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Gay rights protesters gathered outside Greece's parliament late Friday after the government said it would delay legislation allowing civil unions for same-sex couples. The...
View ArticleOver $30 Billion In Dirty Money Leaves Brazil Each Year: Study
By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over $30 billion in dirty money linked to crime, corruption and tax evasion is flowing out of Brazil each year, double the amount a...
View ArticleAyatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, Undergoes Prostate Surgery
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader underwent prostate surgery on Monday and was recovering at a government hospital in Tehran, state media said in a rare report on the state of health of the...
View ArticleElectrolux Plans To Buy General Electric's Appliances Business For $3.3 Billion
(Reuters) - Sweden's Electrolux (ELUXb.ST) said on Monday it would buy General Electric Co's (GE.N) appliances business for $3.3 billion in cash to double sales in North America and take on rival...
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'I Can See, Mommy': Witness The Moment Two Blind Sisters See The World For...
Sonia and Anita, two sisters living in rural India, were both born blind. A simple surgery, costing about $300, could have restored their sight long ago; but their parents, who earn 17 cents an hour...
View ArticleRussia's Legislators Make New Turn in Recent Isolationist Trend
When Russian media reported at the end of July that legislators intended to introduce a set of amendments leading to a registry of companies allegedly connected to so-called "aggressor states," our...
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Rewriting Nepal: 2014 Is Marked by Sparkling English-Language Debuts
Post-revolution Nepal is in a state of flux. What happened? Why? What is happening in this country? This year, three English language writers who reported regularly during the People's War have come up...
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While Most Kids Wrapped Up 1st Week Of School, 31 Million Girls Were Kept Out...
Across the globe, students stocked up on fresh supplies and caught up with old classmates last week. But for 31 million girls, there were no teachers to meet, no first-day jitters to quell and no new...
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Bosnia Muslim Community Urges Safety and Release of Hostages
Journalists are needed to report the truth and humanitarian aid workers endeavour to save the lives of innocents -- this was a lesson all learned during the aggression and particularly genocide...
View ArticleGambia Passes Anti-Gay Bill Imposing Life Imprisonment For Some Same-Sex Acts
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A Gambian lawmaker says the National Assembly has passed a bill imposing life imprisonment for some homosexual acts. Minority leader Samba Jallow said Monday the bill brings...
View ArticleAnother Ebola Patient Coming To U.S. For Care
ATLANTA (AP) - An Atlanta hospital says a patient infected with Ebola will be brought from West Africa to its isolation unit for treatment. Emory University Hospital says the patient is expected to...
View ArticleAmericans Support Obama's ISIS Policies, But Give Him Low Approval Rating
Americans agree with most of the Obama administration's specific policies for taking on ISIS, but that isn't translating to strong approval ratings for the president on foreign policy. Three quarters...
View ArticleKosovo Is Not Serbia
Crossing the border from Serbia to Kosovo is easy. Serbian citizens can get by with daily ID, as if they were EU citizen inside the EU Schengen fortress. If you are, for example, a globetrotting...
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