Should U.S. pay ransoms?
The terrible ordeal facing the Japanese and Jordanian governments in the wake of ISIS threats to execute a captured Jordanian pilot and a second Japanese national raises critical questions about…
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Don’t Dismiss Teens Who Volunteer Just To Boost Their College Applications
In my last column, I wrote about a high school buddy, Kevin Green, a warm and helpful man who floundered in a tough job market, hurt his back and died…
Islamic State-Linked Militants Kill Dozens In Egypt
Militants struck more than a dozen army and police targets in the restive Sinai Peninsula with simultaneous attacks involving a car bomb and mortar rounds on Thursday, killing at least…
Perfect security? No such thing
As someone who has been involved with security planning for major sporting eventsI presently sit on the board of the International Centre for Sport Security and the executive committee for…
Aerial View Of Auschwitz Pays Gripping Tribute To Holocaust Victims
Personal accounts are invaluable in documenting the horrors of the Holocaust. But a stunning aerial view of one of the most notorious concentration camps offers a didactic perspective no words…
Israeli Center-Left Alliance Looks To Unseat Netanyahu
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved his unwieldy coalition and called new elections last month, he appeared almost certain to be returned once more to office. But a new center-left…
‘World’s Poorest President’ Stops His Car To Give Hitchhiker A Ride
A hitchhiker was caught off-guard when a world leader offered to give him a lift. Gerhald Acosta was looking for a ride on his way home from his job at…
Report: Pilots Disabled Critical Computers Moments Before AirAsia Crash
The pilots of AirAsia Bhd. Flight 8501 cut power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes from going out of control shortly before it plunged into the Java…
Have Republicans wised up about 2016?
Sound familiar? Well, another all-but-certain GOP contender, Jeb Bush, similarly mused aloud last month that the next GOP nominee needs to be willing to “lose the primary to win the…
Three American contractors killed at Kabul airport
The incident “initially looks like an insider attack but is still being investigated,” the official said. It was unclear whether the Afghan was the shooter or a victim.
How To Explain The Super Bowl To Your Non-American Friends
On Sunday, sports fans in the U.S. will be glued to TV screens for the Super Bowl, the annual championship of the American football league NFL. The game, this year…
Why I won’t let unvaccinated people around my kids
Whooping cough commonly kills newborns but can be prevented through vaccination and avoiding infected individuals. Measles, which made the headlines recently with a large outbreak traced to Disneyland, is also…
Rome’s Jewish Leader Questioned By Police After Trapped In Auschwitz
The head of Rome’s Jewish community and four other Italians were questioned by police after triggering an alarm at the visitor’s center at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Riccardo Pacifici, whose…
Marine Who Set Himself On Fire Has Stunning Advice On How To Lead A Beautiful Life
When Reggie, a former Marine, had grown intolerably disgusted with the “terrible person” he’d become, he felt that taking his life by fire was his only escape. “This is what…
Study: Paleolithic skull in Israel may shed light on humans’ path from Africa
That was possible some 55,000 years ago in modern-day Israel, archaeologists announced this weeka find that they say could be significant, since it could shed light on when and how…
Homeless Man Who Refused To Leave His Dog During Below-Zero Temperatures Gets Shelter For Pup
Even in frigid weather conditions, this homeless man wouldn’t leave his beloved best friend. – To learn more about Horizon House or to make a donation, click here.
Marine Le Pen Leads French Presidential Poll
The leader of France’s far-right National Front party came out on top in a new poll on potential 2017 presidential candidates. The survey, published in Marianne on Thursday, pitted Marine…
Are Super Bowl beer ads a bad idea?
Should parents worry about children seeing the Pac-Man ad? If you want my professional opinionyes!parents should approach ads for alcoholic beverages with great caution. In a new study published in…
3 American Contractors Killed In Insider Attack In Afghanistan
KABUL, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Three American contractors were killed and a fourth was wounded by an Afghan solider at the military airport in the capital Kabul, an Afghan air…
The World’s Greatest Lost Treasures, Still Waiting To Be Found
BY LAURA SECORUN PALET, OZY These days, thanks largely to Google Earth, it seems not an inch of this planet is left unexplored or a single treasure left undiscovered. But…
The Israel-Hezbollah conflict is also about ISIS, oil, nukes, and global terror
Yet another war in the Middle East could bring devastation and tremendous international repercussions. So many people around the globe breathed a sign of relief Thursday as word broke that…
Chilean ‘yarn bombers’ plot large-scale knitting attack
A far cry from the marble sculptures displayed in the nearby museum, the trend that began in Texas in 2005 has seen a growing number of open spaces transformed with…
A Free Couch To Crash On In Iran
By SANDRA KEIL, OZY At a party with loud music booming, young girls — in heavy makeup, carefully styled hair and too-short miniskirts — mingle with young men. I witness…
French Police Question Boy, 8, Over Remarks on Paris Terror Attacks
PARIS — Police officials in the southern French city of Nice questioned an 8-year-old boy who is believed to have made comments in school defending the gunmen who killed 17…
UK jets intercept Russian bombers near British airspace
Wednesday’s incident would be the latest in what NATO has said is an increase in Russian military flights near alliance members’ territory. The British Typhoon jets intercepted the Russian bombers,…
Will nanotechnology soon allow you to ‘swallow the doctor’?
They are ready to be injected into the most delicate areas of a human bodythe heart and the brainto deliver drugs with extreme precision or work like an army of…
Unicef, Seeking More Aid, Points to Children Touched by Armed Conflict
GENEVA — With more than one in 10 of the world’s children living in areas affected by armed conflict, the United Nations children’s agency said Thursday that it is struggling…
Family Reunited With Son Forced Into Child Slavery After Haiti Earthquake Tore Them Apart
Chantale’s life was turned upside down when the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti tore her family apart. Not only was she forced to move out of her home and into…
This Dog Was Found Bound And Malnourished. Now, She Has A Loving, Safe Home
AT&T technician David Baxter was out on a call in a remote part of Southern California last year when he found a severely malnourished dog bound up with twine. “It…
Rome’s Jewish representatives say they were locked into Auschwitz camp
A row has erupted over allegations by representatives of Rome’s Jewish community that they were locked into the former Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and treated “like real criminals”…