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Cardinal who slurred U.S. activist facing sexual abuse probe within his diocese
Dominican Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, who openly used a homophobic slur against an American diplomatic nominee could be questioned by local authorities in a child molestation case,...
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Potentially hundreds of women wrongly sterilized in California prisons
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation wrongly sterilized nearly 150 women between 2006 and 2010, The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has learned. CIR reporter Corey G....
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DNA sequencing: Jurassic Park was not so wide off the mark
Mapping the genome of a horse from 700,000 years ago has raised tantalising possibilities It remains one of the most intriguing premises for a science fiction film. Near the beginning of Steven...
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Scientist warns capacity to grow food is plateauing in many parts of the world
Countries may not be able to increase food production because many staple crops are close to their physiological growing limits Britain and other countries may not be able to increase the amount of...
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Ten killed in Alaska plane crash
Ten people were killed when an air-taxi plane crashed at the airport in the US city of Soldotna, in the state of Alaska, city police told AFP. The National Transportation Safety Board said late Sunday...
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Asiana pilot asked to abort landing before fatal crash
The Asiana Airlines jet that crashed at San Francisco airport was traveling much slower than recommended, US investigators said, as the carrier confirmed that the pilot had still been in training. The...
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Egyptian security forces open fire in dawn raid on praying pro-Morsi...
At least 42 people were killed on Monday during an attack on supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi outside an elite army base in Cairo, a senior medical official said. “The death toll...
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Five dead, 40 missing in Canada train disaster
Officials in Canada said they have located five bodies so far in their grim search for victims from the catastrophic derailment of an oil-laden cargo train, and expect to find as many as 40 more....
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Yasiin Bey (AKA Mos Def) force-fed under Guantánamo procedure, urges Obama to...
Islamic leaders call on administration to rethink policy towards hunger-striking detainees during religious fast Islamic community leaders are calling on the Obama administration to rethink its policy...
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MIT researchers create optical switch that can be controlled by a single photon
Researchers at MIT have created an optical switch so small it can be controlled by a single photon, raising the possibility of creating microprocessors based on the passage of light through a circuit...
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New Popemobile is an electric bike
Editor’s note: We’ve covered Daimler’s Smart Bike a couple times here on CleanTechnica — it’s a pretty fancy electric bike that I’ve actually seen featured in car rooms in West Berlin… and the price...
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New abortion restrictions reignite culture wars
A crowd shouts ‘Shame, shame, shame!’ as law enforcement officers stand outside the North Carolina legislative building after the state Senate gave its approval to a series of abortion restrictions...
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How I learned to stop worrying about email hacking
Have you ever received an email that looked legitimate, but seemed suspicious? Perhaps the…
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How spiders use an electrical charge to trap insects
< The spider web – already one of nature’s greatest marvels for its strategic architectural design and the adhesive strands – has now been found to have another advantage: a negative electrical...
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Roswell UFO incident: Why we love alien visitors
Nearly three decades ago, two large bulbous eyes peeked out from underneath the fringe of a borrowed dress-up wig, and a petite, though hardly elegant, rubbery creature reached its bejeweled, sallow...
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NJ Governor Chris Christie wins endorsement of black ministers, who call for...
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie’s strong support of school vouchers today earned him the endorsement of Bishop Reginald Jackson, one of New Jersey’s most influential black ministers. Jackson, the...
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Data analytics firm Spotter launches social media ‘sarcasm detector’
French tech firm Spotter has apparently devised an analytics platform capable of identifying sarcastic comments, according to the BBC. Spotter’s platform scans social media and other sources to create...
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Lessons from the first millionaire online teacher
Software programming? Yeah it’s an okay way to make a living. But the real money is in teaching. Or at least that’s the recent experience of Scott Allen, a programmer and teacher the tech-y online...
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Barnes and Noble chief executive resigns
William Lynch resigned Monday as chief executive of struggling US bookseller Barnes & Noble, which has seen its Nook tablet fail to attract the hordes of readers who are shifting to digital books....
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Second ‘Prisoner X’ held in top secret in Israel
A second ‘Prisoner X’ was being held in top-secret conditions in the same jail where an Israeli-Australian spy took his his own life in 2010, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Court documents cited by...
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