Archive for January, 2014

CBC News – Canada is sending 221 athletes from across the country over to the Sochi Olympics, with the hopes of setting an all-time mark...

Reuters – Accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death if he is found guilty of planting bombs that killed three people and wounded...

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Snowden Snags Nobel Nomination

By World on the Run

  Bloomberg – President Barack Obama wants to see Edward Snowden clapped in irons and bound to the U.S. for a criminal trial. Two Norwegian...

North Korea Restarts Nuke Reactor

By World on the Run

  Yahoo News – U.S. intelligence says North Korea has followed through on its threat to advance its nuclear weapons program. Director of National Intelligence...

Nightmare Storm Paralyzes Atlanta

By World on the Run

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – The state’s top leaders on Wednesday apologized for mistakes that brought metro Atlanta to a standstill in the aftermath of an...

BBC – Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has surrendered to Toronto police to face charges he assaulted a limousine driver in December. Mr Bieber, 19,...

Reuters – Target Corp said on Wednesday that the cyber criminals who breached its system used credentials they stole from one of the retailer’s vendors....

TechCrunch – TechCrunch has confirmed reports that Lenovo is buying Motorola Mobility from Google. This is the division within Google that the company purchased in...

Fox News – Leaders of major labor unions are pushing back against proposed regulatory changes that could affect some union-sponsored health plans under ObamaCare, arguing the...

AP – The U.S. economy grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter on the strength of the strongest consumer spending in...

Neanderthal DNA Found In Humans

By World on the Run

National Geographic – When modern humans migrated out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, they found the Eurasian continent already inhabited by brawny, big-browed Neanderthals....

BBC News – There has been outrage in India after a politician, who is also a member of a government panel for women, blamed women...

Al Qaeda Seizes Syrian Oil Fields

By World on the Run

The New York TimesThe New York Times – Islamist rebels and extremist groups have seized control of most of Syria’s oil and gas resources, a...

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CNN – Atlanta is shut down — businesses, roads, government in general — and while that’s generated furor among residents, the angst is exacerbated by...

Global News – Whether it’s steady trickle of daily emails or the hundreds of messages streaming in during your vacation, hitting the reset button on...

CBC – Some children with peanut allergies who were given small doses of peanut product were able to build up their tolerance and improve their...