Toronto: millions of birds die each year in the financial district

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/world/americas/casualties-of-torontos-urban-skies.html?hp&_r=0 TORONTO — In the shadow of the massive black towers of a bank’s downtown headquarters here was an almost indistinguishable puff of dark gray fluff on the sidewalk. Ian Willms for The New York Times A rescuer collects an injured white-breasted nuthatch. More Photos » It was the body […]

A golden handshake – or an error that could cost Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu power?

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s big political gamble to join forces with ultra-nationalists before early elections in January threatened to backfire today as signs emerged that the new alignment could alienate moderate voters. In a surprise announcement late on Thursday, the hawkish premier sketched out the details of a […]

ISLAM IN THE PRESS: post by H. Koya

  Witnesses: Libya consulate attack seemed planned, may have used anti-Islam … Fox News TRIPOLI, Libya – It began around nightfall on Sept. 11 with around 150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic militants, sealing off the streets leading to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. They set up roadblocks […]