Australian prime minister on opposition to marriage equality: ‘The Bible also...
Less than a week before Australia’s election, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a bold defense of same-sex marriage. In a questions and answer session on Australia’s ABC News on Tuesday,...
View ArticleColbert: ‘If America was concerned with shooting people, we’d be invading...
Stephen Colbert returned from his two-week hiatus last night and opened with a cutting critique of John Oliver and his English accent, before moving on to criticize the Obama administration for its...
View ArticleEdward Snowden receives whistleblowing award in Germany
I’m still at a loss as to how people cannot call Ed Snowden a whistleblower, given just how many government abuses his leaks have revealed, and the wider discussion they have created (all without...
View ArticleBritish soldier tells inquiry board about unit’s ‘degrading’ abuse of Iraqis
Duncan Aston tells al-Sweady public inquiry how sergeant stamped on head of dead Iraqi after firefight in Iraq in 2004 A British soldier engaged in a fierce gunfight in Iraq described on Wednesday how...
View Article100,000 kilograms of dead fish cleared from polluted Chinese river after...
Hundreds of thousands of dead fish were left floating in a Chinese river after a chemical discharge, officials said Wednesday, the latest industrial accident to pollute the country’s battered...
View ArticleSecret U.S. documents reveal Al-Qaeda has anti-drone operation: Washington Post
Al-Qaeda’s leaders have set up cells of engineers to try to shoot down, disable or hijack US drones, The Washington Post reported late Tuesday citing top-secret US intelligence documents. The Al-Qaeda...
View ArticleQatar announces its first MERS coronavirus death
A woman has died in Qatar after contracting the MERS coronavirus, becoming the first recorded fatality from the SARS-like virus in the Gulf state, local press reported on Wednesday. The 56-year-old...
View ArticleAl-Jazeera accuses Egypt of jamming signal
Qatari-owned news channel Al-Jazeera has accused Egyptian authorities of jamming the network’s satellite signals, as the broadcaster kept up its critical coverage of Cairo’s crackdown on Islamists....
View ArticleLeaked season 3 premier of ‘Homeland’ downloaded more than 200,000 times
An unfinished work-print of the hit Showtime series Homeland appeared online yesterday. According to TorrentFreak, the leaked episode is missing the opening credits and some of the “seamless” CGI...
View ArticlePutin vows no anti-LGBT discrimination at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday vowed there would be no discrimination against gays at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, despite a storm of controversy over a new law banning the...
View ArticleRubio: Syria situation would be different ‘if I had been in charge’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) offered stern criticism of the Obama administration in an interview with Brett Baier of Fox News saying that if he were president, the situation would be very different now....
View ArticleJapan nuclear agency says Fukushima water leak risk exaggerated
The chief of Japan’s nuclear watchdog chided the operator of the Fukushima plant Thursday for its inability properly to explain problems, which he said was inflating fears around the world. Shunichi...
View ArticleBenedict Cumberbatch set to play Amazon explorer in ‘Lost City of Z’
Benedict Cumberbatch is being lined up to portray the 1920s Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett in James Gray’s Lost City of Z, reports Deadline. In what appears to be the currently red-hot British star’s...
View ArticleNeil Young says his Pono Music service will be ready to launch next year
Neil Young has issued an update on his Pono Music project, promising the “high-resolution” audio service will be ready to launch in early 2014. Although details remain scarce, Young hopes his service...
View ArticleColbert just happy that 29 percent of Americans ‘know there’s a place called...
On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert reflected on the fact that while only 29 percent of Americans surveyed support the idea of military intervention in Syria,...
View ArticleKim Dot Com resigns from Mega to pursue plans for his New Zealand political...
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom said on Thursday he was resigning from his new venture Mega to focus on fighting extradition to the United States and his plans for a New Zealand political party. Dotcom...
View ArticleEric Bolling’s co-hosts mock ‘bloody hand’ stunt and say he went to ‘Code...
On Wednesday’s edition of Fox News panel show “The Five,” co-host Eric Bolling made a statement against proposed military intervention in Syria by holding up a ketchup-smeared “bloody” right hand....
View ArticleFox News guest: ‘That’s a teaching moment’ when hungry students don’t get...
A Fox News guest on Thursday argued that hungry students would have a “teaching moment” if they were refused access in the cafeteria line to school lunches because their parents hadn’t properly filled...
View ArticleObama promises to demand information about Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg’s...
US President Barack Obama will ask Moscow what happened to Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg after he was taken into Soviet custody and disappeared in 1945, Wallenberg’s family told Swedish...
View ArticleAustralian billionaire: Rupert Murdoch discovered wife Wendi Deng was a...
Flamboyant Australian billionaire Clive Palmer on Thursday said he plans to sue Rupert Murdoch over unflattering allegations and claimed the media mogul’s estranged wife is a Chinese spy. Palmer, best...
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