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Two child limit imposed on Myanmars Rohingya
Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area, and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath ...
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Three killed in Spain plane crash
An investigation was under way Saturday into the crash of a small plane in Spain that killed three of the four people aboard, authorities said. The pilot of the single-engine plane was seriously injured and taken to a hospital in Palma. A firefighter and a bystander suffered minor burns while trying to get the victims out of the flaming wreckage, ThinkSpain said Saturday. The crash occurred ...
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What made London Samaritan so brave
>Editor's note: Jason Marsh is the founding editor-in-chief of the online magazine Greater Good, published by The Greater Good Science Center, which focuses on the "science of a meaningful life" and is based at the University of California at Berkeley. (CNN) -- It's hard to imagine a scene more gruesome and disturbing than the one Londoners encountered on an inner-city street Wednesday. A ...
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By 22-Point Margin Voters Favor Obamacare’s Repeal
It would be a major understatement to say that Obamacare has had a bad spring. Around the time of Lincoln's birthday, registered voters told Fox News that, by a margin of 6 percentage points (48 to 42 percent), it would "be better to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009" than it would be "to leave the new health care law in ...
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Taxes for Revenue Only
The news of the Internal Revenue Service targeting Tea Party groups has Americans spooked. We're supposed to be a republic, in which everyone is treated equally. So how is it that the federal government has abused so egregiously its taxing power, one of the most potent tools at its ...
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Explainer What Is Islamic Banking
A woman walks past a branch of the Noor Islamic Bank in Dubai. Although there have long been many Islamic banks in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, they are now also spreading rapidly in the West. (file ...
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Louise Page The incredibly moving - and optimistic - blog by Scottish woman 42 dying of bone disease
'She was my darling, beautiful wife and best friend': Husband of inspirational blogger, 42, suffering with terminal bone cancer leads tributes after her ...
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Victorian Britains most-wanted man Incredible life of crime of Charles Peace who killed his neighbour a police officer and was the scourge of homeowners across the country
Victorian Britain's most-wanted man: The incredible life of crime of Charles Peace, son of a one-legged lion tamer who went on to kill his neighbour and a police ...
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Boy is the first to have cerebral palsy successfully treated using stem cells taking him from a vegetative state to walking and talking
Just weeks after being given an intravenous stem cell treatment from umbilical cord blood, the symptoms of a boy who had been left in a vegetative state after a heart attack improved considerably. Within months he could talk and ...
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Two freight trains collide in Missouri 7 injured
(QMI Agency) Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in southeastern Missouri on Saturday, injuring seven people, igniting a fire and triggering the collapse of an overpass under which they were travelling, a county sheriff’s dispatcher said. Dispatcher Clay Slipis of the Scott County Sheriff’s Office said that five people who had been travelling in cars on the overpass ...
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Sweden Riots Unrest Spreads Beyond Stockholm
Rioting in Sweden spread to towns outside Stockholm as youths took to the streets for a sixth successive night. A car and school were set on fire and a police station attacked in the central town of Orebro, about 100 miles (160km) from the Swedish capital on Friday night and early Saturday morning. And in the southwest town of Linkoping, groups of youths clashed with police. Meanwhile, ...
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Deadly Angel Flight crash in upstate New York
EPHRATAH, N.Y. The crash of a volunteer Angel Flight in upstate New York that killed at least two people is under investigation, and the search for the missing pilot is ongoing, authorities said. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said the flight's two passengers were found dead near where the twin-engine plane crashed in a wooded area in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany. He said the ...
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The Ted Cruz conundrum
US Senator Ted Cruz (R), R-Texas, speaks as Senator Mike Lee (C), R-Utah, looks on during a press conference on defunding 'Obamacare' on the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 13, ...
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Afghan Suicide Bomber Blows Himself Up Mosque Blast Kills Many
An ostensible suicide bomber has died in the Afghan capital after his explosives-laden vest went off prematurely. Police said that the man's suicide vest went off on May 25 after he left a house in Kabul's suburbs. The explosion injured no one else. The apparent failed attack followed a Taliban assault on a guesthouse used by the International Organization of Migration on May ...
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Abbas Two states side by side still possible
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that peace with Israel is still possible, and that the Palestinians "want to have two states living side by side," Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.Speaking at the opening session of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Center at the Dead Sea, Abbas referred to ...
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Syrian hackers attempted to attack Haifas water supply
Syrian web activists loyal to the regime of Basher Assad launched a failed cyber attack on Haifa's water supply system, a senior scientist and web expert revealed on Saturday. Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, Chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, said that members of the Syrian Electronic Army attempted to damage computers controlling the water system this month, in ...
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EU must urge Israel to curb settlements in W. Bank
RAMALLAH, West Bank - A group of 80 international aid agencies urged the European Union on Saturday to follow through on pledges it made last year to back Palestinian communities seen as vulnerable to Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.Not enough action has been taken since EU foreign ministers last May urged Israel to ...
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Palestinian-Israeli peace deal still possible Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the World Economic Forum, held at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention center, in Southern Shuneh, 55 kilometers southeast of Amman, Jordan, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Raad ...
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German fans brawl with each other and throw missiles as thousands invade London to see Champions League final at Wembley tonight
Fight: A video posted on YouTube of the German fans from Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund appears to show them squaring up to each other outside Wembley ...
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Lee Rigby Family and wife of soldier murdered in Woolwich pay tribute to Drummer
'We were attempting to get hold of Lee, obviously we couldn’t. It was the middle of the night when we got confirmed to us it was Lee,' he ...
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Swedish riots spread beyond capital ease in Stockholm
Riots in Sweden spread beyond the capital on Saturday, the sixth straight night of unrest that flared in Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs and has sparked a debate over integration in a country long seen as an oasis of ...
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Kerry accuses Sudan leader of repression in war-torn regions
US Secretary of State JohnKerrySaturday accused Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of repressing the people of the South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions and trying to impose Islamic rule on ...
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Kerry Presses Nigeria on Human Rights
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ...
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Interpol Rejects Moscow Bid To Locate British Fund Manager
The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to include British millionaire William Browder on its international search list. The CEO of the Hermitage Capital trust fund is accused of tax evasion and illegally acquiring $70 million worth of stock in Russian energy giant Gazprom. Browder has said the charges against him are politically motivated. The French-based ...
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In Depth How Iranian weapons go through Syria to Hezbollah
For 20 years, Israeli intelligence has been playing a game of cat and mouse against the weapons smuggling axis of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in a battle in which "every imaginable method is ...
Cambodia Focus
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Cambodia reliant on China for a range of infastructure projects
Cambodia is in need of foreign investment for a number of major infrastructure projects and China is becoming the country’s biggest investor on several key ventures. This is part of a broader expansion in China’s influence in Asia as the country continues to develop into the world’s second superpower.
Cambodia suffered through the economic downturn that came about following the financial crash toward the end of 2008. In 2009, the economy contracted 1%, which wrought significant hardship for many hundreds of thousands of people, most notably those employed in the garment sector as the export of clothing fell by around 20% in value. Read more
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