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North Korea Denies Drone Flights, Calls South Korean President 'Prostitute'
IBTimes - 12 May 2014 07:30
(Reuters) - North Korea on Monday accused U.S. and South Korean authorities of fabricating the results of a probe that concluded Pyongyang sent small surveillance drones, or unmanned aircraft, to spy on key South Korean ...
Escaped Nigerian student says abduction was 'too terrifying for words'
New York Post - 12 May 2014 00:05
BAUCHI, Nigeria -- One of the teenagers who escaped from Islamic extremists who abducted more than 300 schoolgirls says the kidnapping was “too terrifying for words,” and she is now...
Rebels Declare Victory In East Ukraine Vote On Self-Rule
IBTimes - 12 May 2014 07:30
(Reuters) - Pro-Moscow rebels declared a resounding victory in a referendum on self-rule for eastern Ukraine, with some saying that meant independence and others eventual union with Russia as fighting flared in a conflic...
We will never run out of aluminum
The Week - 12 May 2014 15:23
Martyn Poliakoff, chemistry professor at the University of Nottingham and owner of the best head of hair in science, has a video today exploring the properties of aluminum (or as chemists call it, aluminium). There are a...
High Cost, Corruption Claims Mar Brazil World Cup
ABC News - 12 May 2014 07:25
AP INVESTIGATION: High costs, corruption suspicions in Brazil's World Cup on tournament's eve
Samsung Chairman in 'Stable Condition' After Heart Attack
Time - 12 May 2014 07:12
Lee Kun-hee, the head of South Korea's largest business group underwent an emergency operation in Seoul over the weekend. Lee who took over from his father in 1987 is credited with transforming Samsung into one of the mo...
Lawyer requests medical treatment for Elshamy
Al Jazeera English - 12 May 2014 00:51
Egypt's prosecutor receives urgent appeal to transfer jailed Al Jazeera reporter to hospital as his health deteriorates.
The Human Soldiers Behind Obama's Drone War
Mother Jones - 12 May 2014 23:28
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Enemies, innocent victims, and soldiers have always made up the three faces of war. With war growing more distant, with drones capable of performing on the battlefiel...
After the siege, despair and optimism
CNN - 12 May 2014 22:14
Locals return to Homs where many of its buildings, many thousands of years old, are now heaps of rubble.
Ohio mother gives birth to rare 'mono mono' twins
Fox News - 12 May 2014 09:00
Twin girls born with a rare condition in Ohio were breathing on their own and their mom said she and her husband were able to hold them on Mother's Day.
Varanasi set for India's key poll battle
Al Jazeera English - 12 May 2014 04:43
BJP leader Narendra Modi faces AAP's Arvind Kejriwal as temple city goes to polls in last phase of national elections.
Christie's Gets Very Contemporary with the Promotion of Their Contemporary Art Auction
The Atlantic Wire - 12 May 2014 23:56
Christie's wants you to know that tonight's auction of major contemporary art isn't just for filthy rich old people. It's for filthy rich Internet people, too.
Octavia Spencer Joins Divergent Sequel, Insurgent
Time - 12 May 2014 23:55
The actress, who won an Oscar for her role in The Help, will have a starring role in the upcoming sci-fi flick
Books of The Times: 'No Place to Hide,' by Glenn Greenwald
The New York Times - 12 May 2014 23:51
"No Place to Hide" is an account of the Edward Snowden case by Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story.
The day in photos
New York Post - 12 May 2014 23:51
The Washington Monument reopens, huge snow accumulates in spring, a war rages on Sriracha, Pope Francis looks bored and more.
Security camera surge in Chicago sparks concerns of 'massive surveillance system'
Fox News - 12 May 2014 23:51
Between traffic-light cameras, blue-light cameras that scan neighborhoods for violent crime, cameras on board city trains and buses -- not to mention private security cameras -- there are few places you can go in Chicago...
The Great Hedge-Fund Mystery: Why Do They Make So Much?
The New Yorker - 12 May 2014 23:50
This is the time of year when publications that cover the hedge-fund industry do their annual rankings, and people get irate about the vast sums of money that the top hedgies make—in some cases, billions of dollars. At...
Real Money: How to Earn Cash as a Stay-at-Home Parent
ABC News - 12 May 2014 23:49
From Etsy to Viggle, there is money to be made.
15 fans die in soccer stampede
CNN - 12 May 2014 23:41
African football's ruling body, the Confederation of African Football, has called for a thorough investigation into how 15 fans died at a league match in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Red Velvet Cake: From Gimmick to American Classic
The New York Times - 12 May 2014 23:38
The red velvet cake, with its artificial coloring and benign cocoa sweetness has always been about commercialization. But it has honest roots.
Clay Aiken's Democratic primary opponent is dead
New York Post - 12 May 2014 23:36
ASHEBORO, N.C. -- The North Carolina entrepreneur who was locked in a too-close-to-call Democratic Party primary with former “American Idol” singer Clay Aiken died Monday, said the president of the...
Who Deserves Credit for Reducing the Federal Deficit?
Mother Jones - 12 May 2014 23:32
Hey, looky here! Steve Benen highlights the chart on the right, which shows that President Obama is making steady progress reducing the massive federal deficit that was rung up in FY2009 by George Bush and the Republican...