There is a way to find fossils of martian life
Source: BBC By Peter Cumpson From The Conversation 14 October 2016 One of the most tantalising questions in science is whether there is or ever has been life on Mars, […]
The dark secret of sexual assault
Source: BBC By Katty KayPresenter, BBC World New I really hoped I wouldn’t have to write another article about sexual abuse during this presidential campaign. But the latest allegations against Donald Trump have prompted an important national conversation about the wider abuse of women. It’s a conversation that is long past […]
Putin says hopes U.S. will seek to avoid civilian casualties in Mosul
PUBLISHED: 8:30 PM, OCTOBER 16, 2016 GOA, India – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he hoped the United States and its allies would do their best to avoid civilian casualties in an attack on Mosul, the stronghold of the Islamic State militant group in Iraq. REUTERS SOURCE: http://www.todayonline.com/world/putin-says-hopes-us-will-seek-avoid-civilian-casualties-mosul
The Christian Myth Still Haunting Pompeii
Source: The Daily Beast In 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in thick layers of volcanic ash. There was no time to suffocate; most died not from the poisonous gas but were instead flash-heated into immediate rigor mortis. The eruption froze the final […]
Positive thinking can make you too lazy to meet your goals
Source: BBC By Renuka Rayasam 12 October 2016 About fifteen years ago, when entrepreneur Michael Stausholm started a business with a friend, his partner painted a rosy picture of the […]
Meet the Millennials Who Are Changing the World
Source: Time The pioneers are daring to cross boundaries, forge new paths, take their crafts to unexpected places—and also improve the world. These are TIME’s 2016 Next Generation Leaders 2016 […]
Paul Ryan Rejects Donald Trump’s Claims of ‘Rigged’ Election System
Source: Time By Zeke J Miller Trump has said the election is “rigged” against him by “globalist elites” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan issued a rebuke of GOP presidential nominee […]
Missiles fired at US warships in Red Sea
Source: T of Israel A US defense official said the altercation took place starting around 1930 GMT. It was unclear how many of the surface-to-surface missiles were fired at the USS Mason, USS Nitze and USS Ponce.The USS Mason destroyer, which was sailing in international waters off Yemen’s coast earlier […]
ISIS has lost 10,000 fighters in past 18 months
Source: T of Israel Various Israeli assessments say that the organization that calls itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Islamic State for short — has lost more than one-third of its fighting members over the past 18 months. Israeli and other Western officials estimated the number […]
Test Clinton for drugs before next debate
Source: Times of Israel GOP nominee suggests Democratic rival was ‘pumped up’ on performance-enhancing narcotics in last face-off, casts himself as victim of ‘smear campaign. More:
The Global Farm Land Grab in 2016: How Big, How Bad?
by GRAIN Staff, originally published by GRAIN | JUL 13, 2016 Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world. In October 2008, GRAIN published a […]
A Conversation With Jimmy Carter
The 39th president of the United States, humanitarian and peanut farmer talks about money and politics, race relations and marriage By Charles Green, AARP Bulletin, June 2015 Last October, you […]
Here’s what would happen to Earth in the first five years after a nuclear war
Posted by indy100 staff in offbeat Russian news presenter Dmitry Kiselyov has warned the United States that any “impudent behaviour” towards Moscow could have “nuclear” implications. The remarks came after US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia and Syria mustface a war crimes investigation for recent […]
Russian, Western media offer different images of Aleppo
White Helmets receive much less coverage in Russian media By AP – Oct 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian man carries a child as they await treatment at a hospital in the regime-held part of Aleppo on Thursday (AFP photo) MOSCOW — While Western media are filled with grim […]
Debunking Israeli claim to Muslim holy site
Oct 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI A UNESCO draft resolution recognising Palestinian rights in Jerusalem was passed this week by a vote of 24 in favour, six against and 26 abstentions. The UNESCO’s executive body will decide whether to adopt the draft text, but the Israeli education minister, Naftali […]
Comprehending ideologies
Source:ET India is today under a party with an ideology, which is called Hindutva. This ideology has three demands: The abolishing of Article 370 of India’s constitution, the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple at Ayodhya and the enforcement of a Uniform Civil Code. All the three issues require something […]
Elevate Gen Raheel to field marshal’s rank
Source:ET In the appeal, Sardar Adnan Saleem, through his counsel Raja Saimul Haq Satti, said that such an elevation is an emergent need in the present circumstances. He has made the federation through the cabinet division secretary, the prime minister through the secretary of the PM Secretariat and defence ministry […]
Shocking revelations about freed Chibok girls!
ON OCTOBER 15, 201612:23 Only 104 of the girls not married off Some died, some married off, radicalised into sect • Boko Haram tables demands to free 83 more […]
Refugees Can Make Great Entrepreneurs. Here’s How We Can Help Them.
10/14/2016 Sophia von Bonin Co-founder of Re:Start CARSTEN KOALL VIA GETTY IMAGES What if we viewed the influx of refugees into Germany as an opportunity rather than a crisis? This was the question I asked myself, together with a group of young Berliners, when over 800,000 refugees arrived in Germany last […]
Pope urges protection of child migrants
Thursday, October 13, 2016 Two orphans from Burma – image TCT Pope Francis has made an urgent call for action to be taken against those who profit from the exploitation of child migrants. In a strongly worded message released ahead of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, the Pope […]