Archive for August, 2012

AP – Ford Motor Co. says its Focus small car is on track to become the best-selling car in the world this year, trumping the...

Voice of America – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi told Thursday’s session of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran that Egypt supports the… More at Voice...

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Voice of America – A Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, said Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the power he wields at the Kremlin to...

Discovery News – As Tropical Storm Isaac roars over Louisiana and elsewhere on the Gulf Coast, it threatens to disrupt a fragile environment that’s still...

WISE Discovers Galactic Hot DOGs

By World On The Run

Discovery News – NASA launched a wide-field, infrared telescope named WISE to survey the cosmos, scientists figured it would unearth some new objects. They didn’t,...

Examiner.com – August 31, 2012, marks the 15th anniversary of the tragic death of one of the world’s most beautiful and admired women.  On this...

Spiegel Online – Berlin officials and members of the city’s Jewish community have expressed outrage after a 53-year-old rabbi was attacked in Berlin Tuesday evening...

USA Today – Former GOP presidential nominee John McCain slammed President Obama’s handling of crises around the world and for weakening America’s military might. In...

Fox News – A Jupiter-bound spacecraft successfully fired its engine Thursday in the first of two crucial maneuvers intended to bring it toward Earth for...

Reuters – Republicans unveiled several catchy slogans when they met here to nominate Mitt Romney for president. But one word kept popping up that summarized...

Voice of America – The leader of Zambia’s opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) says the government is using state security agencies to… More...

Voice of America – Three recent attacks that left 30 people dead and 15 wounded have cast a spotlight on the growing religious warfare in…...

Discovery News – The genome of a recently discovered branch of extinct humans known as the Denisovans that once interbred with us has been sequenced,...

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Los Angeles Times – Officials on one of Earth’s most isolated archipelagoes are borrowing four-wheel-drive vehicles from private owners for the motorcade. The impending visit,...

The Huffington Post – Summertime, and the livin’s … well, not easy for a growing number of European countries reeling from the lingering debt crisis....

National Post – NASA on Monday showed off the first high-resolution, colour portrait images taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, detailing a mound of layered...