Riot police confront protesters in Brooklyn
Riot police are reportedly on their way, as participants in themarch are said to be throwing bottles and rocks at police cars andproperty.Brooklynites on Twitter report that police are following...
View ArticleStudy: Your Facebook “likes” might be overexposing you
In a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers analyzed the "likes" of nearly 60,000 American Facebook users to infer their personality and behavior...
View ArticleMan commits suicide in front of children during gun safety class
A 50-year-old man shot and killed himself in front of a group of people, including children, who were attending a gun safety class Sunday in Bellevue, Washington, according to The Seattle...
View ArticleGiving Syrian opposition seats at Arab League is ‘illegal, indefensible’ –...
“In terms of international law, decisions on Syria made by the [Arab] League are unlawful and indefensible, since the government of the Syrian Arab Republic remains the legal representative of the UN...
View ArticleAustralia to ditch interbank rate-setting panel over Libor scandal
The Australian Financial Markets Association suggests turning to an electronic system. This will allow the AFMA which oversees Australia's bank bill swap reference rate (BBSW) to bypass the panel and...
View ArticleResearch: Men twice as likely as women to underestimate their weight
Men are more than twice as likely as women to underestimate their weight, finds a project with 300,000 participants Millions of men may be putting their health at risk by not realising they’re...
View Article“The Real World” or The Reality TV World?
The 28th season of "The Real World,” this one set Portland, began on MTV last night. The latest iteration of the show is exactly as you would expect: seven attractive strangers getting drunk in a house...
View ArticleWhat if all the bitcoin exchanges were shut down?
This is an important question because of the implied outcome of the current trend by governments to shut down - or prevent the creation of - bitcoin exchanges.The mining of bitcoin would continue but...
View ArticleGerman Labor Day rioting: Firecrackers and water cannons unleashed (PHOTOS,...
Berlin and Hamburg were the scenes of massive demonstrations on Wednesday. In the capital, around 9,000 people, some of them masked, marched the streets as some 7,000 officers were on stand-by.As...
View ArticlePriests lead Orthodox anti-gays in violent Tbilisi clashes with rights...
The first sanctioned anti-homophobic rally in Georgia organized by Identity NGO activists had to be moved to a public garden on Tbilisi’s Freedom Square after a 10,000-strong Orthodox crowd gathered...
View ArticleYes they can: Women breadwinners for 40% of American households
The study by the Pew Research Center shows more women are coping as sole providers for their children, raising children without fathers or simply out-earning their husbands or partners. The research...
View ArticleBBQ, Music and Guns: Peaceful Open Carry Rally in Central Texas Sends Message...
That's part of my rights as a human - to be able to survive and protect my family from all who would try to take those rights from me... … Read More
View ArticleBilderberg Agenda Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/v/ADH4yNpVhS8?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata See original article here: Bilderberg Agenda Revealed
View Article‘Blockupy’ protest hits Frankfurt: LIVE UPDATES
11:00 GMT: The 'Blockupy' march kicks off in Frankfurt. At least 3,000 were expected to attend the protest. Witnesses' estimates on the number of participants vary from 1,000 to 5,000. #Blockupy...
View ArticleAnnual cycling event takes dramatic turn
A female cyclist was seriously injured in Vätternrundan, the world's largest recreational cycling event in which thousands of participants race around Sweden's second biggest lake. … Read More
View Article‘1984 not instruction manual’: Thousands protest NSA spying across US
Major US cities taking part in the protests included New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Memphis and Miami. London and Munich also hosted demonstrations. 1984 was not meant to...
View ArticleWorldwide corruption on the rise as public trust plummets – report
The Global Corruption Barometer 2013, conducted by the Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog, is a sampling of over 114,000 opinions of people from 107 countries. The survey asked participants about...
View ArticleWill it work? German email companies adopt new encryption to foil NSA
The "E-mail made in Germany" project has been set up in the wake of US surveillance revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. National Security Agency documents show that the agency...
View ArticleChange of faith: Why young Brits turn from Christianity to Islam
Public mosque services attract thousands of British Muslims, but when you check out a church, there are hardly a dozen participants at Sunday morning worship, RT’s Polly Boiko reports from London....
View ArticleSevastopol protesters storm Ukrainian Navy base in Crimea
The protesters have hoisted the flags of Russia and St. Andrew’s flag, the Russian Navy Ensign, according to Interfax news agency People have been protesting outside the HQ since 08:00GMT. Several...
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