The horrific twin attacks in Paris last week have sent shockwaves throughout Europe. Political leaders from across the EU joined millions of French mourners on Sunday, and Europeans-at-large continue to…
The U.S. astronauts are safe, the agency said. – It is possible that the alarm was set off by a faulty sensor or some other cause, he said.
There’s a tech bubble and no one knows when exactly it will pop. We have sky-rocketing valuations like Airbnb ($13 billion), Uber ($41 billion), Snapchat ($10 billion), Dropbox ($10 billion)…
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The plane crashed December 28 as it flew toward Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya with 162 people on board.
Although most of us worry about other things, climate scientists have become increasingly worried about the survival of civilization. For example, Lonnie Thompson, who received the U.S. National Medal of…
“People would tell me: ‘Well, we’ve kind of accepted, or, we’re used to being robbed and beaten and raped,’ ” photographer Michelle Frankfurter said. “They’re willing to risk all that,”…
Tsarnaev is accused of plotting with his brother and carrying out an attack near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed three people, wounded more than 260 and…
It was a decade ago, the war on terror was in full swing, Iraq was on fire, and every day there were images of American combat soldiers on patrols on…
Solo, who holds the national team record for most shutouts, didn’t appear in court. She was in Carson, California, at the squad’s training camp in preparation for the upcoming World…
Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, had invited his family to join him in his plans to travel to join ISIS in the Mideast, authorities said. The Islamic State in Iraq and…
Harold Diamond, a 39-year veteran of Monticello School District took the cash option on the $326 million jackpot, which will total $130,676,438 after taxes, according to the New York Lottery…
Suliman Mohamed, 21, stood watching the court proceedings before being remanded into custody. He wore a brown-colored, hooded jacket and was carefully watched by his parents, sitting in the front…
Sixteen hours in the ocean, for a trained swimmerwith an escort boat and all kinds of safety precautions nearby, plenty of water and electrolyte drinks and nutrition at handis a…
It is a message of defiance, but also forgivenessand many Muslims responded with similarly mixed emotions. A magazine cover depicting the Prophet Mohammed with a tear falling from his cheek,…
The killings of 12 journalists and others at Charlie Hebdo in Paris has led many to wonder about the role of Islam in fueling vicious attacks on civilians in the…
When she was growing up in Chicago, that’s what Gina Rodriguez wanted to be. At the time, as the daughter of Puerto Rican migrants, that dream must have seemed unattainable….
At that demonstration, some Muslims held signs that not only echoed the rallying cry “Je Suis Charlie” but also proclaimed “Je Suis Juif” (“I Am Jewish”). The public overture was…
Elizabeth Donnelly is the Africa Assistant Head and a Research Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, with a focus on West Africa’s politics. She writes on Nigeria’s politics…
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Bio Kunle Adeyemi’s projects center on building around water, and even on top of it. – And Adeyemi earned a place alongside master architect David Adjaye as one of Africa’s…
Consider the choice of targets of the terrorists: A magazine that in the terrorists’ minds had insulted the Prophet Mohammed. Before they died on Friday, one of the Kouachi brothers…
Brannan’s attorneys had hoped his sentence would be found unconstitutional. His defense attorneys claim Brannan, who served in Vietnam in the early 1970s, was suffering from post-traumatic stress and bipolar…
After months of listening to experts and stakeholders, the path to faster cures is clearer than ever. We call it the 21st Century Cures initiative, and Congress is about to…
Now, five days after Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab and François-Michel Saada were shot dead during the final, tragic chapter to the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks in the French…
The murderers acted with a key demographic in mind, knowing that millions of people would tune in to watch. So the camera has created a new kind of crowd in…
“A local judge issued an arrest warrant for a 9-year-old for failure to appear in court,” he told CNN. “Our officer located the child sometime last week, transported the child…
A group of people returning from a funeral stopped off late Friday in an area where customers can buy a popular home brewmade from sorghum, bran corn and sugar, and…
Chinese customs officials on Sunday busted a Hong Kong man trying to sneak 94 iPhones into the mainlandby strapping them on his body. The man caught the attention of inspectors…
After making the arrest, Canada’s national security team said in a statement that Mohamed’s arrest was directly linked to the arrests of Ashton and Carlos Larmond, two Ottawa brothers accused…