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Human bones found at infamous Florida reform school
Researchers from the University of South Florida are exhuming remains from the bodies of 19 long-lost residents of the infamous Dozier Reform School for Boys in the Florida Panhandle. “Even if we can’t...
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Pakistan orders fresh murder charges against former military ruler Pervez...
Pakistan police on Monday registered murder charges against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the death of a radical cleric during the siege of a mosque in 2007. It is the...
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French lawmakers ‘to see proof Syria regime behind attack’
France will hand over evidence to lawmakers on Monday proving President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was behind last month’s chemical weapons attack in Syria, a government source told AFP. “It will be a...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom plans to launch new political party in New Zealand
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom announced Monday he will launch a political party in New Zealand to contest next year’s elections, drawing a scornful response from Prime Minister John Key. Dotcom said...
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Monster crocodile traps tourist on Australian island
A tourist has had a lucky escape after being trapped on a remote Australian island for two weeks by a monster six-metre (20-foot) crocodile, reports said Monday. The New Zealander, identified only as...
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Angry mob castrates Papua New Guinea’s cult leader ‘Black Jesus’
An infamous Papua New Guinea cult leader known as “Black Jesus” was castrated by an angry mob after being hacked to death for killing young girls as sacrifices, reports said Monday. Steven Tari, a...
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‘Ugly Betty’ drug cartel leader captured by Mexican police
Mexican police have detained the alleged leader of the New Juarez Cartel, a 47-year-old man known as “Ugly Betty,” authorities said. Alberto Carrillo Fuentes was arrested by federal police in the...
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One fifth of CIA job applicants with suspect backgrounds have ‘significant...
Al-Qaeda and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to infiltrate US intelligence agencies, which are investigating thousands of their employees to counter the threat, The Washington Post reported...
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Tuberculosis followed early humans out of Africa 70,000 years ago: study
One of the largest genetic investigations into the microbe which causes TB shows the germ followed early humans out of Africa at least 70,000 years ago, scientists say. In a parallel probe,...
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Fukushima radioactive plume to hit the U.S. by early 2014
The first radioactive ocean plume released by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the shores of the United States sometime in 2014, according to a new study from the...
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Three Massachusetts high school soccer players arrested for rape
Three high school soccer players were arrested and charged with the sexual assault of three victims at a campground in Otis, Massachusetts. According to the Boston Globe, 17-year-old Galileo Mondol and...
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Hagel and Kerry to make case to Congress for attacking Syria: Failing to act...
The US secretaries of state and defense go before a Senate panel seeking support to attack Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons, warning failure to do so might embolden Hezbollah and Iran. In...
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Dennis Rodman heads back to North Korea to see ‘friend’ Kim Jong-Un
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman Tuesday said he was heading back to Pyongyang to see his “friend”, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, but refused to say if he would come back with an imprisoned US citizen....
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U.S. steps up Pakistan surveillance: Washington Post ‘black budget’ analysis
While US intelligence agencies spend billions monitoring enemies like Al-Qaeda and Iran, they pay just as much as attention to ally Pakistan, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The United States has...
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UK troops deny mutilating Iraq insurgents’ corpses
British army officials have dismissed “baseless rumours” that troops mutilated the bodies of dead Iraqi insurgents after a 2004 battle, as a public inquiry heard its first evidence from military...
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Japan unveils $500 million ice wall plan for Fukushima water leaks
Tokyo on Tuesday unveiled a half-billion dollar plan to stem radioactive water leaks at Fukushima, creating a wall of ice underneath the stricken plant, as the government elbowed the operator aside....
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Verdicts in New Delhi gang-rape trial due next week
The judge in the trial of four men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus last December announced Tuesday he would deliver his verdicts on September 10. The trial began in a...
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Nazi war crimes investigation in Germany to examine 30 former Auschwitz...
The German office investigating Nazi war crimes said Tuesday it would send files on 30 former Auschwitz death camp personnel to state prosecutors with a recommendation to pursue charges. Chief...
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Egyptian court orders Al Jazeera and other news outlets to close down
A Cairo court Tuesday ordered the closure of four television channels, including Al-Jazeera Egypt and Ahrar 25, a network belonging to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. The other two channels to be...
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McCain laughs as he mocks Laura Ingraham’s ‘vast knowledge of military tactics’
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Monday mocked conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s “vast knowledge of military tactics” and then smacked down Fox News host Brian Kilmeade for opposing religious Muslim...
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