Boko Haram Kidnaps Scores In Cameroon, Minister Says
Boko Haram attacked a village in northern Cameroon early Sunday, killing three people and staging its largest kidnapping yet in the country, the information minister said, adding that some of…
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Miss Lebanon distances herself from photo with Miss Israel
“Good morning from us!” reads the caption. Good morning from us! Miss Japan , miss Slovenia, miss Lebanon & I ❤️ @missunews @missuniverse @beautyschoolbs @belezasdouniverso @missuniversusa @miss_israel #miami #mu2014 #missisrael…
Man Floats In Sky Tied To 90 Balloons, Channels Iconic ‘Up’ Scene
It turns out that floating into the sky with the help of balloons isn’t just something that happens in the movies. – H/T Daily Mail
Can America handle the truth on race?
As we mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, it’s worth asking: Can America handle either one? When Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa after the end of…
Penn State still doesn’t get it
All eyes were glued to the big guy in the gym. Red-faced and sweaty, he must have been benching more than 300 pounds. But the weights were slipping. Just as…
Like life there, cockfighting in Cuba is a gray area
That was the case when I decided to join 93-year-old Tono Torrente on a trip to the outskirts of Havana to a cockfighting arena. On paper, this was a privately…
Police: Fugitive Kentucky teens arrested after multistate hunt
The two are suspected of stealing three carstwo with guns insidein various states. They were the subjects of a search that stretched from Kentucky to Georgia. Authorities discovered them asleep…
Pope Francis: Throngs gather in Manila for Mass
The nation intensified security at all venues, with the presidential detail deployed to safeguard the pope. About 25,000 Philippine national police are backing the presidential security detail tasked with safety…
Indonesia executes 6 for drug offenses, sets off diplomatic storm
The executions, carried out by firing squad shortly after midnight Sunday local time, were the first under Indonesia’s new president Joko Widodo. Citizens of Malawi, Nigeria and Vietnam were also…
Channel Tunnel smoke stops Eurostar trains for day
Police in Kent, England, didn’t immediately respond to CNN’s questions about the cause of the smoke. “If you were planning to travel today, we advise you to postpone your journey…
Gunmen abduct Yemeni President’s chief of staff
The abduction comes amid rising tensions in the Arabian Peninsula country following the rise of Shiite Houthi rebels. Houthis swept into the capital last year, sparking battles that left more…
Pope cuts Tacloban trip short amid typhoon in the Philippines
The Pope donned a slicker to conduct an outdoor Mass for hundreds of thousands who gathered despite stormy weather. The Mass in Tacloban was shortened after sustained winds of 80…
‘Brazen’ teen couple subject of search across the South
“I know Dalton and he has a history of making bad, bad decisions,” said Chaffins, sheriff for the county of about 25,000 people in central Kentucky. “I was the school…
Why we need #SelmaforStudents
It started right on New Year’s Eve with one prominent businessman posing a simple question to a few of his close friends and fellow business leaders: “How can we make…
Typhoon heading toward Pope in Philippines, nears planned outdoor Mass
In the predawn hours of Saturday, another typhoon was headed for the same general area in the Philippines, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said. Typhoon Mekkhala was upgraded from a…
Does GOP want a boiling planet?
That means average land and sea temperatures, worldwide, have never been hotter in modern times, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (the gold standard for global climate data)…
Big threats, big questions in Europe’s anti-terrorism fight
European security services in recent weeks have received indications that the extremist group ISIS may have started directing European adherents in Syria and Iraq to launch attacks back in their…
Gordon Brown: Where children are scared to go to school
Boko Haram’s murderous tactics have descended to a new barbaric low. Last Saturday, a bomb strapped to a schoolgirl exploded in the center of Maiduguri in Borno state, killing at…
Cameron, Obama to announce cyber security effort
Cameron is at the White House for bilateral talks expected to focus squarely on security after this month’s terror attacks in Paris and growing fears of violent Islamic terror cells…
2014 was Earth’s hottest year on record
The National Climatic Data Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noted the average temperatures over land and oceans were higher in 2014 than any year since…
Is the U.S. at risk of a Paris-like attack?
One day after Cornell’s arrest Belgian authorities took down a group they believed was plotting imminent attacks, resulting in a battle with the suspects who opened fire with military weaponry…
UK’s Beagle 2 lander spotted on Mars
The landercrammed with devices to look for signs of life on Marsnever radioed home after hitching a ride aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter and dropping into the…
The Pope is wrong on religious speech
The popular Pope Francis is taking some hits himself after some lighthearted comments that included a pretend punch to a colleague. The comments came while trying to make the point…
Flogging delayed for Saudi activist
Saudi Arabian rights activist Raif Badawi will not be flogged Friday for medical reasons, his wife said. Badawi, convicted on charges that included insulting Islam, had been scheduled to receive…
Police: Gunman enters post office in Colombes, France
The incident began around 12:45 p.m. (6:45 a.m. ET). The gunman might be mentally unstable, according to police in Colombes, a community about 10 kilometers northwest of the French capital….
Paris and Nigeria: A tale of two hashtags
In matters regarding Nigeria, the international community seems to be learning from experience. Why galvanize support for a government that then exercises its sovereignty by not backing up that support?…
Has Saudi Arabia bought world’s silence on human rights abuses?
“The Kingdom … strongly condemns and denounces this cowardly terrorist act that is rejected by true Islamic religion as well as the rest of the religions and beliefs.” So reads…
Thailand’s new constitution could soon recognize third gender
“People should have [that] freedom to change sex and they should be equally protected by the Constitution and the law and treated fairly.” Third gender means that an individual does…
Indonesia to execute 6 for drug offenses
The executions were announced Thursday by Indonesia’s recently appointed Attorney General HM Prasetyo, who said in a statement that preparations for the executions were almost complete. He said the executions…
Belgian terror suspects wore all black; police killed 2, wounded and arrested 1
Officers killed two suspects, and wounded and arrested a third. Like the Paris killers, the three suspects in the town of Verviers were seen on Thursday dressed in all black….