2 Men Fatally Gored By Bull Won't Stop Portuguese Festival
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Authorities say a Portuguese bull-running festival will continue next week despite the fatal goring of two men by a bull. Officials said the victims, aged 46 and 27, were taking...
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These Are 32 Of The Most Stunning Submissions In This Year's World...
The 2015 Sony World Photography Awards season has officially opened. The competition, open to photographers of all skill levels and ages, has seen over 700,000 submissions -- from over 230 different...
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Graciela Iturbide Photographs The Blood And Paint Still Left In Frida Kahlo's...
Frida Kahlo is beloved. The Mexican painter was an intellectual icon during her lifetime, but she has morphed into an artistic deity since she died in 1954. Her former house alone -- Casa Azul in...
View ArticleJohn Oliver Begs Scotland To Stay With The United Kingdom
In the grand tradition of British romantic comedies, John Oliver took a moment on Sunday to tell Scotland, "I'm just a boy, standing in front of a nation, asking it to continue tolerating me." On Sept....
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Comet Landing Site Selected For ESA's Historic 'Rosetta' Mission
Now we know. The European Space Agency has picked the landing site on the comet that is the target of its historic Rosetta mission, the agency announced in a written statement. The agency says the...
View ArticleGerman Gay Rights Activist In Serious Condition After Being Beaten In Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A German man who took part in a gay rights conference suffered life-threatening brain injuries when he was severely beaten in downtown Belgrade on Saturday, Serbian police and...
View ArticleForging a Climate Agreement May Have Just Gotten Easier
President Obama and other global leaders want a meaningful climate agreement to cut their fossil fuel emissions in time to prevent irreversible planetary warming. Ban Ki Moon has invited leaders to...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie: A Chance of Lasting
"I feel very proud to be part of this resistance," says the acclaimed British writer Salman Rushdie reflecting on his book The Satanic Verses and the years of the fatwa. "Today people are much weaker....
View ArticleWhy Germany Can't Avoid a Larger Military Commitment to NATO
Germany's position as Europe's leading economic and political power put Chancellor Merkel in an awkward position vis-a-vis how to address Vladimir Putin's extra-territorial activities. With high...
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See Scotland Get Ready For Its Historic Vote
With mere days left before Scotland's historic vote on independence from the United Kingdom, supporters and opponents launched a final bid to convince their countrymen to follow their lead. One day...
View Article93-Year-Old Former Auschwitz Guard Charged With 300,000 Counts Of Accessory...
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they've charged a 93-year-old man with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as a guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp. The charges against Oskar...
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Alan Henning, Second British Aid Worker Threatened By ISIS, Described As...
The Foreign Office has confirmed that the second British aid worker threatened with beheading by Islamic State militants is 47-year-old Alan Henning. Henning has been named as the second hostage who...
View ArticleUS Steps Up Ebola Aid, But Is It Enough?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American strategy on Ebola is two-pronged: Step up desperately needed aid to West Africa and, in an unusual step, train U.S. doctors and nurses for volunteer duty in the outbreak...
View ArticleAdolf Hitler's Childhood Home May Become A Museum Called 'House Of...
(RNS) The Austrian house where Adolf Hitler was born could be turned into a museum named the “House of Responsibility.” Hitler was born there in the town of Braunau am Inn in 1889. Over the years, the...
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How One Indian Housewife Switched Gears To Become A Hindu Priest
Megha Gokhale has been many things in her life: A graduate student, an accountant, a wife, a mother. In 1992 her life took yet another turn when she began training to become one of the few Hindu women...
View ArticleCoalition Of 50 Hispanic Groups Aims To 'Deliver Record Latino Turnout' For...
A coalition of 50 Latino groups announced the start of a monthlong drive to boost Hispanic voter registration Monday, vowing to raise turnout to record levels for the November midterm elections. Timed...
View ArticleUkraine: Don't Rush to Judgment
It is not unusual for people to believe the propaganda that their side spews out non-stop with swaggering bravado. That's why propaganda exists. It works time after time, in every part of the world. In...
View ArticleMexico Celebrates Independence Day In Spectacular Fashion
¡Viva Mexico! ¡Viva Mexico! ¡Viva Mexico! Mexico celebrates it's independence day on Sept. 16, but the festivities begin the night before with the famous "Grito de Dolores." El Grito -- meaning the cry...
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Global Inequality: What to Address?
A donkey and children at May Mekden in Tigrai region, Ethiopia. Photo by Chanhong Park (Senior Adviser, KOICA Ethiopia Office) Piketty and rising inequality We normally would not expect a...
View ArticlePolice Abused People in Custody in Every Region of Vietnam
Pervasive Deaths, Injuries in Police Custody Bangkok – Police throughout Vietnam abuse people in their custody, in some cases leading to death, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The...
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