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Underserved Kids Learn A Year's Worth Of Math In 6 Weeks, Thanks To New App
In a developing country where nearly half the population is under 14 years old, one-on-one teaching can be near impossible -- a 90-student classroom is actually more the norm. But some children in...
View ArticleBritish Warplanes On First Mission In Iraq Since Strikes Approved
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Ministry of Defense says warplanes have taken off for their first combat mission over Iraq since Parliament approved airstrikes targeting the Islamic state group. The Tornado...
View ArticleHow ISIS Uses Oil To Fund Terror
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we turn to Syria and the Islamic State's massive oil revenues. News broke last week that...
View ArticleJapan's Mount Ontake Volcano Erupts, Leaving At Least 7 Missing
TOKYO (AP) — A volcano in central Japan erupted in spectacular fashion on Saturday, catching mountain climbers by surprise and stranding at least 40 injured people in areas that rescue workers have...
View ArticleCatalonia Defies Spain By Calling Independence Vote
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The president of Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia on Saturday formally called an independence referendum, the latest secession push in Europe and one of the...
View ArticleDemocracy Protests In Hong Kong Turn Violent
By James Pomfret and Yimou Lee HONG KONG, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Violent clashes between Hong Kong riot police and students galvanized tens of thousands of supporters for the city's pro-democracy movement...
View ArticleLiberia's Chief Medical Officer Goes Under Ebola Quarantine
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's chief medical officer is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola. Bernice Dahn, a deputy health minister who has...
View ArticleEbola Clinics Fill Up As Liberia Awaits Aid
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Fourteen-year-old D.J. Mulbah set off at dawn with his mother and grandmother in desperate pursuit of a coveted bed at the Ebola clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in...
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'Ebola Is A Shadow, An Inescapable Shadow -- And It Doesn't Seem To Move'
Justus Reeves, the executive secretary of the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention (LBMEC), who is based in Monrovia, Liberia, and William R. Slocum, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church...
View ArticleBritish Fighter Jets Fly Over Iraq, No Air Strikes Yet
(Adds latest MOD statement) By Michele Kambas RAF AKROTIRI, Cyprus, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Two British fighter jets flew over Iraq on Saturday on their first mission since the UK parliament authorized...
View ArticleIslamic State Shells Syrian Kurdish Town, Defying Air Strikes
* IS pounded again in northern Syria * Group presses attack on strategic border town * Turkey says its troops could be used in Syria (Adds monitoring group on IS casualties, 9th paragraph) By Mariam...
View ArticleAl Qaeda-Linked Militants Fire Rocket Towards U.S. Embassy In Yemen
SANAA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group launched a rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, injuring several guards, to retaliate for what it said on social media was a...
View ArticleThe Worst Cancer of All
President Obama's decision to deploy 3,000 troops to Liberia in Africa to assist in efforts to contain Ebola got me to thinking about the military as white blood cells. As a military officer, I took an...
View ArticleAir France Cancels More Flights As Strike Stretches On
Air France has hit more turbulence. The longest strike in the French national carrier’s history grounded 55 percent of flights scheduled for Sunday as negotiations collapsed after the government and...
View ArticleA View To A Kill: Leopard Leaps From Tree To Attack Impala
This prey didn't have a prayer. Watch above as a leopard in a tree pounces on an impala in Botswana. In a Sept. 19 blog post at Africa Geographic, Yasmin Tajik explained that the female leopard waited...
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'Drunk' Moose Terrorizing Sweden Probably Not Even Drunk: Scientist
We really believed in you, drunk moose. Year after year, the American media is bombarded with tales of moose throughout Sweden becoming hilariously intoxicated from eating the apples that have fallen...
View ArticleEurope Wins The Ryder Cup For The Third Straight Time
GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) — The tone was set by Rory McIlroy, the best player in the world. The winning shot came from Jamie Donaldson, a Ryder Cup rookie. Europe added another layer to its Ryder Cup...
View ArticleSaudi Crapshoot in Yemen
There is a sign on French level crossings for those who consider themselves to be vigilant. It reads "One train can hide another". This is sound advice should be erected in Oval Office and Downing...
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World Pet Day Helps Support Animal Charities In Cutest Way Possible
There's no better feeling than coming home at the end of a long day to the unconditional love of a family pet. They shower us with slobbery kisses, offer endless snuggles and even talk back sometimes...
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