Archive for May, 2014

Jerusalem Post – An executive from the United Kingdom’s largest farming company is considering partnerships with several Israeli agricultural researchers and firms, following a first-time...

National Post – Did you know that the Conservative government lives in fear of a broadcaster whose budget it controls, whose chairman and chief executive...

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Fox Business – The May jobs report out next week will dominate a busy calendar of economic data. The report from the U.S. Department of Labor,...

Reuters – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating possible insider trading involving billionaire investor Carl Icahn, golfer...

June 2014: The Water Issue

By World on The Run

Popular Science – On December 7, 1972, an astronaut aboard Apollo 17 snapped the first fully illuminated photograph of Earth from space. The Blue Marble Shot,...

CBC News – The federal government recently announced two new rules that are set to change the way Canadians experience the evolving world of air...

Updated News – Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to alleviate poverty and improve ethnic unity in restive Xinjiang, the most direct indication yet that China’s...

The Telegraph – The vast majority of the four million people who voted for the UK Independence   Party in the European elections will make the...

Washington Times – “Clueless actress Stacey Dash is joining Fox News as a paid cultural commentator, but the move isn’t going over well with black...

BBC News – German industrial giant Siemens plans a major reorganisation of its business, affecting 11,600 workers.   The restructuring directly affects 7,600 jobs worldwide, with...

Jerusalem Post – Regardless of the ongoing stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Jordanian government official Saad Abu Hammour told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that environmental...

AP – North Korea said Saturday it has sentenced a South Korean Baptist missionary to hard labor for life for allegedly spying and trying to set...

Popular Mechanics – If you can print nearly any object, then you can copy nearly every object. That line of thinking has led to worries that...

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ScienceDaily Magazine – Scientists of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt have described the oldest known fossil of a pollinating bird. The well-preserved stomach contents...

AP – Beset by growing evidence of patient delays and cover-ups, embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned from President Barack Obama’s Cabinet Friday, taking the...

Sydney Morning Herald – A video ad previously pulled by animal rights group PETA is back and enraging online communities by promoting a supposedly scientific...