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Egypt divided by religion and politics votes on new constitution
Egyptians vote Saturday on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition that failed to scupper the referendum with mass protests. Polls...
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Dispute over livestock slaughter in Poland reaches political stage
Banning the ritual slaughter of livestock for food, a bedrock of the Jewish and Muslim faiths, has split Poland into opposing camps of religious groups, animal rights campaigners and flourishing meat...
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Military rules Gitmo prisoner’s death a suicide
A Yemeni who died in September at Guantanamo Bay committed suicide, and his remains will be repatriated, the US military said Saturday. Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, 32, died at the base on September 8 “of...
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Historian examines famed Austrian composer’s ‘Nazi’ past
Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, a major figure in 20th-century classical music, was a bigger fan of the Nazis than he made out, according to a historian who has unearthed previously unseen...
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Scientists warn auto rally over endangering fossils
Palaeontologists have warned that the Dakar Rally, which will thunder through Peru and Chile next month, poses a serious risk to whale and dolphin fossils dating back more than 20 million years....
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‘White Student Union’ founder compares club to neo-Nazi Greek party
The founder of a “White Students Union” at Towson University cited Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party as a model in an interview explaining his intentions to RT on Friday. In the interview, Matthew...
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Obama picks Kerry for Secretary of State
President Barack Obama has chosen Senator John Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as US secretary of state, news networks CNN and ABC reported. CNN on Saturday cited a Democratic source who had spoken to...
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Fears of ‘catastrophic damage’ as cyclone nears Fiji
Fijian authorities scrambled to evacuate residents from low-lying areas Sunday as a monster cyclone threatened the Pacific nation with “catastrophic damage” after causing widespread devastation in...
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Rebel Anglican clergy ‘to bless gay marriages’
Rebel Church of England clergy will bless gay marriages carried out in other churches if Anglicans are exempted from a new law on same-sex marriage, some 150 vicars and campaigners said in a letter...
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Speaker John Boehner to propose tax hike on the very rich, Politico says
US House Speaker John Boehner’s office would not confirm or deny a report which said the top Republican has proposed raising taxes on wealthy Americans as part of a deficit reduction deal. In what...
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How computer algorithms secretly shape the way we behave
Algorithms, the key ingredients of all significant computer programs, have probably influenced your Christmas shopping and may one day determine how you vote. Keynes’s observation (in his General...
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Michigan GOP official: Detroit voters bussed to ‘vote multiple times’
A Michigan Republican and finance chair of the Republican National Committee said at a tea party meeting — caught on video — before the presidential election that Detroit voters are bussed around and...
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Do we live in a massive computer simulation? Scientists seek answer
A physics professor at the University of Washington says he believes he and other scientists have devised a way of investigating whether we all live in a massive computer simulation, reported the...
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LIVE: Obama speaks at Newtown vigil for victims’ families
President Obama is speaking at 7:00 p.m. at an interfaith vigil for the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Twenty-seven people — 20 children...
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Chavez resumes governing after surgery, says aide
President Hugo Chavez, who underwent new cancer surgery Tuesday, has resumed actively governing as he recovers, one of his cabinet members said Sunday from Havana. “As of yesterday, El Comandante...
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The Onion: Pope joins Twitter, gives up Catholicism to connect with youth
After the Pope met with some criticism and mockery for joining the social networking site Twitter, The Onion “reported” that he has decided that “giving up on Catholicism” will also allow him to better...
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Ecuador declares volcano alert at second-highest warning level
Ecuador issued an orange alert — the second-highest warning level — for towns near the Tungurahua volcano on Sunday, as its level of activity rose, civil defense officials said. The area of the warning...
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Working memory better test of ability than IQ, says psychology professor
Working memory measures potential to learn, and can be crucial in supporting classroom achievement, says Tracy Packiam Alloway Tracy Packiam Alloway researches working memory at the University of North...
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Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm with thoughts alone
Doctors in Pittsburgh stunned at ability of patient who has reached levels of performance never seen before A woman who is paralysed from the neck down has stunned doctors with her extraordinary skill...
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Calif. marijuana activists learning from Colo. and Wash. state measures
Marijuana activists in California — many of whom thought that the Sunshine State would be first to legalize the drug — are looking to recently-passed ballot measures in Colorado and Washington state...
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