Caste-Based Rape Addressed at UN

June 17, 2014

Answering a global outcry for urgently desired action against caste-based rape and violence against...

Russia Moves Tanks Across Border, Pro-Russian Forces Shoot Down Second Ukrainian Carrier, EU Invites Russia to EU-Ukraine Trade Agreement Talks

June 17, 2014

One day after Russian tanks crossed the Russia-Ukraine border, the EU invited Russia to participate...

Daughters Are the Biggest Losers When Fathers Are Not in the Home

June 15, 2014

Fatherlessness in families has been on the rise since 1960, and now is the situation in one-third of...

One Little US Town Is Showing the World How a Small Community Can Stand Up to Big Oil and Gas and Stop Fracking

June 15, 2014

One little US town is showing the world how a small community can take on big oil and gas. Lafayette...

UNESCO Issues Call for Ethics Teacher Applicants

UNESCO’s The Division of Ethics, Youth and Sport has issued a call for Ethics teachers. The te...

Education Aid Down 10 Percent Since 2010

Global education aid has fallen significantly. It fell six percent between 2010 and 2011, and anothe...

Approximately 200 Russian Army Vehicles Reported Moving Toward Ukraine Border

[Updated, but still ongoing. More details will be added.] A column of Russian military equipment, co...

Long Dismissed, BRICS Beginning to Grab Attention as Serious Competitor to G7, World Bank and IMF

The BRICS alliance is considered to have been largely dismissed by Western players in recent years,...

Nation’s Largest Sex Offender Registry Finds Sex Offender Registry Does Not Work

California, which has the largest sex offender registry in the United States, has received the news...

Abandoned Oil Wells Discovered to Account for Previously Unaccounted for Methane Emissions, New Princeton Study Finds

In one US state alone–Pennsylvania–the effects of abandoned oil wells has been examined...

Facebook Beats Conservative Lawyer in Lawsuit Over Facebook Page Encouraging Muslims to Kill Jews

The DC Appeals Court sided with Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg Friday in a case over several p...

Investigation on Current Russian Information War Finds Will Not Be Successful Against Western Minds

In a recent report on the current Russian propaganda “netwar” being waged against non-Ru...

FIFA, Non Profit Organization, Will Make $2 Billion Profit From the 2014 World Cup $4 Billion Gross and Pay 36 “Key Management Personnel” Over $1 Million Each

  The non profit organization FIFA will profit approximately $2 billion this year from the $4 b...

Warning to World’s Governments to Draw Up Plans for Upcoming Mass Migrations Due to Climate Change to Avoid Conflict: UNU

As more inhabitable land is swallowed by rising water due to climate change, the United Nations Univ...

One Little US Town Is Showing the World How a Small Community Can Stand Up to Big Oil and Gas and Stop Fracking

One little US town is showing the world how a small community can take on big oil and gas. Lafayette...

Approximately 200 Russian Army Vehicles Reported Moving Toward Ukraine Border

[Updated, but still ongoing. More details will be added.] A column of Russian military equipment, co...

Nation’s Largest Sex Offender Registry Finds Sex Offender Registry Does Not Work

California, which has the largest sex offender registry in the United States, has received the news...

“When We Rape, We Feel Free” Congolese Soldier

  In the war-ravaged though officially at peace Democratic Republic of Congo, 12 percent of the...

In 2014 Less Children Live With Their Father Than Ever. What Do They Miss?

The number of children living without their fathers continues to rise in America, In 1960, only 90 p...

UN Security Council and UN General Assembly Now Led by Two Countries Condemned Strongly by UN for Passing Strict Anti-Gay Laws, Threatening Human Rights, With Elections of Kutesa and Churkin

Russia took over the chairmanship of the UN Security Council (UNSC) June 1, and Ugandan Minister of...

Ukraine Annexed Crimea, Not Russia, States Russian Parliament Speaker

  Russian parliamentary speaker and former Historical Truth Commission Chairman Sergei Naryshki...

US Consul General in St Petersberg, Anticipating End of Work in Russia, Publishes Collection of Poems Inspired by Petersberg

  The US Consul General in St Petersberg, Bruce Turner, a career member of the Senior Foreign S...

Mosquito Populations Can Be Decimated With a New Procedure, Causing Hopes of Total Malaria Eradication

  Seeking “a cheap and effective way to eliminate malaria from entire regions,” a t...

Sleep Promotes Memory Formation, NYU Researchers Find

  Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center have found evidence that sleep promotes memory by...

Stay-at-Home Dads in America Have Doubled in 20 Years

  Stay-at-home dads have increased so sharply in recent years that the number of fathers who do...

India’s New-Formed State Telangana, For Which 5000 Indians Set Themselves on Fire Over 20 Years, Elects Its First Speaker

  Telangana State, India–where approximately 5000 Indians have self immolated for the cau...

Afghanistan Opium Up 66 Percent to $3 Billion, Poisoning US Efforts in Afganistan

Afghanistan produces 90 percent of the worlds opium–which becomes heroin–and, although t...

WarkaWater Towers to Service Earth’s Desert Hydration Needs

  WarkaWater towers harvest water from air–up to 25 gallons each, daily–and are set...

Uganda to Lead United Nations General Assembly

    Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa is set to become President of the U...

500 American Communities Are Now Armed With Military Tanks and Military Vehicles, and Have Reportedly Lied on Their Applications to Get Them for Free

  Military surplus equipment, including vehicles–most familiarly the  Mine-Resistant Ambu...

Art of Logo Design: Massimo Vignelli: “There was no need to change”

    “There was no need to change. It’s been around for 45 years,” said designe...

US Bill To Make VOA Officially a “Public Diplomacy” Service

  Bill HR4490, which has passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee with bipartisan support, wo...

Arms Trade Treaty Almost Accomplished, Amnesty Urges

  The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) needs 50 ratifications to become legally binding international la...

Universal Type-less Blood Substitute Being Developed at University of Essex

  A team of scientists at Essex University with a goal of providing an artificial blood substit...

Sgt. Bergdahl: Congress Wants Answers

  In response to the exchange of five high-level Taliban operatives for one US soldier–Ar...

Ukraine Suing Russia for 1 Trillion for Crimea

  Russia is being sued by Ukraine for 1 trillion Ukrainian Hryvnias (UAH) for the illegal annex...

Environment

One Little US Town Is Showing the World How a Small Community Can Stand Up to Big Oil and Gas and Stop Fracking

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Abandoned Oil Wells Discovered to Account for Previously Unaccounted for Methane Emissions, New Princeton Study Finds

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Warning to World’s Governments to Draw Up Plans for Upcoming Mass Migrations Due to Climate Change to Avoid Conflict: UNU

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Pollution-Plagued Bangladesh Imposes “Green Tax” on Factories That Dump Untreated Effluent Into Rivers

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Art and Design

WarkaWater Towers to Service Earth’s Desert Hydration Needs

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Art of Logo Design: Massimo Vignelli: “There was no need to change”

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Art of Italian Furniture Design: Joseph Grima: “A New Idea Will Be Born”

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The History of Tie Dye

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Science

Mosquito Populations Can Be Decimated With a New Procedure, Causing Hopes of Total Malaria Eradication

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Sleep Promotes Memory Formation, NYU Researchers Find

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Physicists Say Light Can Be Converted Into Matter Within a Year, and the Race to Complete the Experiment Is On

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NASA Puts Out a “Request for Information” for Creative Talent to Offer Ideas for Europa Mission

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Health

Mosquito Populations Can Be Decimated With a New Procedure, Causing Hopes of Total Malaria Eradication

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Afghanistan Opium Up 66 Percent to $3 Billion, Poisoning US Efforts in Afganistan

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Universal Type-less Blood Substitute Being Developed at University of Essex

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Wild Poliovirus International Spread “Extraordinary” After Near-Eradication of Virus Last Year, WHO Says

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