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Thousands of Spain’s horses head for the slaughterhouse as economic crisis...
In Spain’s boom years, they were a rich family’s status symbol. Now abandoned as a result of the economic crisis, horses are plodding in their tens of thousands to the slaughterhouse. At the end of a...
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Scientists map tapeworm DNA
Scientists said Wednesday they had unravelled the genetic code of the tapeworm, unearthing data that should lead to more efficient drugs against the dangerous intestinal parasite. Tapeworms are among...
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Astronomers: Early Universe bred ‘starburst’ mega-galaxies
In its exuberant childhood, the Universe created galaxies that were vast star-making machines, astronomers reported on Wednesday. Using a brand-new telescope in Chile’s Atacama desert, the team snared...
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Land prices rising even after year of record drought
American farmers may have suffered an historic drought last year, but the price of their land is skyrocketing. In Iowa, the US’s biggest producer of corn, the land prices jumped 24 percent in 2012 and...
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New York Times to overhaul web design
The New York Times website is undergoing a major overhaul in an effort to become “cleaner” and more engaging, and also to improve the presentation of online ads. The media group said Tuesday a...
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Amazon cuts price of large-screen Kindle Fire
Amazon.com on Wednesday ramped up its challenge to Apple’s iPads by trimming the price of its large-screen Kindle Fire and making the tablets available in Japan and Europe. The online retailer cut $100...
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Iran to sue Hollywood over ‘Argo’ and other Oscar films
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian Tehran hires French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre to bring case over Hollywood ‘distorting image’ of Islamic republic Iran has hired a controversial French lawyer...
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Victim in overturned military rape case: ‘I was stunned’
As members of Congress grill military personnel over their handling of sexual assault and rape cases, the woman whose story sparked the latest outrage has finally spoken out on Wednesday. Kimberly...
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The ‘ePad’: A new tablet specifically for women?
Apparently, tablets aren’t unisex and one company has taken care of that problem. The ePad Femme, developed by Middle East–based Eurostar Group, is being advertised as “”world’s first tablet made...
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Santorum: Obama pushing ‘godlessness’
Chatting with fellow friend of the church James Dobson, on Wednesday, former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told the listeners of his radio program that the Obama administration is...
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Study: blacks twice as likely as whites to be executed
A new report, released on Wednesday, shows that African Americans are twice as likely as white to receive death sentences, according to Mother Jones. The report, from University of Maryland criminology...
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Nun: Pope Francis was a ‘little devil’ in school
Decades before he became Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio was a “little devil” who jumped up and down the stairs of his century-old Buenos Aires school, the establishment’s mother superior told AFP. The...
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Lawyers warn defense secretary of ‘serious threat’ to Guantanamo detainees
Lawyers representing Guantanamo prisoners wrote an open letter to US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday to highlight the “mass hunger strike” at the facility. Forty-five lawyers wrote to Hagel...
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Maddow: New details of Newtown shooting prove assault weapons ban is needed
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained why new details of the tragic mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut showed an assault weapons ban was necessary. The Hartford Courant...
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Pope says Benedict’s resignation was ‘courageous’
Pope Francis on Friday hailed predecessor Benedict XVI’s historic resignation as a “courageous and humble act” in a speech to cardinals in the Vatican. Francis said Benedict, who stepped down last...
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U.S. military members suing over Japan nuke disaster
U.S. service members are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. for more than $2 billion on grounds the utility lied about the dangers of helping clean up the nuclear disaster that struck two years ago, a...
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Egypt Islamists say UN women’s rights declaration is threat to society
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has warned that a UN document demanding global standards to prevent violence against women is un-Islamic and would lead to the “complete degradation of society.” Governments...
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India blocks exit of Italian ambassador
India’s home ministry has put the country’s airports on alert to prevent the Italian ambassador leaving the country amid a dispute over two Italian marines who skipped bail while on trial in New Delhi,...
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Iraq war killed 120,000 and cost $800 billion, study estimates
At least 116,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,800 coalition troops died in Iraq between the outbreak of war in 2003 and the US withdrawal in 2011, researchers estimate. Its involvement in Iraq has...
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‘Kidnapped’ Irish property tycoon arrested
An Irish property developer who claimed he was kidnapped for eight months has been arrested on suspicion of wasting police time, Irish media reported on Friday. Kevin McGeever, 68, was found in an...
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