United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan

Earth is not prepared for the threat of hazardous rocks from space, say astronauts who helped formulate the U.N. measures

By Clara Moskowitz

When a meteor exploded over…

Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin

By SPIEGEL Staff

• October 27, 2013 – 07:02 PM

According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's…

New stealth destroyer really sucks - China mocks America's $7 billion Navy acquisition

Published time: June 04, 2012 18:47 

Edited time: June 04, 2012 22:47

The US Navy is readying a $7 billion boat that can launch attacks faster than the speed of sound and is practically invisible to detection. Even with that hefty cost, however, China says it will only take a few fishing boats to blow up the…

Iranian government hangs 16 'rebels' in revenge after 14 of its guards are killed in clashes near border with Pakistan

• 'Rebels' from unspecified group clashed with guards according to source
• Troops have been ambushed by drug smugglers at the border in the past
• Reports from Iran do not mention whether hanged men had a recent trial

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Danish professor shock discovery: Native americans descended from Europe

Eske Willerslev sequencing of a genome of a boy who died 24,000 years ago, shows that a third of the Native Americans genetic material comes from Europeans.

Professor Willerslev from the Centre for Geogenetics at the University has once again managed to shock the other researchers, who now must…

Cops Shoot And Kill 13-Year-Old Boy Playing With Toy Rifle In California

PAMELA ENGEL OCT. 23, 2013, 2:50 PM

Cops in Santa Rosa, Calif. shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who was playing with a toy rifle Tuesday, The Press Democrat …

Push for lift-off on drone deliveries in Australia

October 15, 2013

Ben Grubb

Deputy technology editor

Australia may soon be the first country in the world to see commercial courier deliveries by drone, if a launch by a textbook rental service and an…

This is what happens when a Narcos plane meets some armed F-16 fighter jets

Oct 14 2013 

French farming hit by a suicide every two days

Published: 10 Oct 2013 16:55 GMT+02:00

Updated: 10 Oct 2013 16:55 GMT+02:00

In France, a farmer commits suicide every two days. That’s the shocking statistic quoted in a new report released on Thursday, which will set alarm bells ringing in France’s Ministry of Agriculture, which is struggling to revitalize the flagging…

The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull

By Alison Feeney-Hart

BBC News Magazine

At the beginning of World War II, a government pamphlet led to a massive cull of British pets. As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week. This little-discussed…

Teen wounds four people in stabbing spree at school in Finland

AFP 

October 11, 2013 3:03AM

A 16-YEAR-OLD student who had threatened "to kill the whole school'' stabbed three students and a janitor…

Scientists trace 19 living relatives of Ötzi the Iceman whose 5,300-year-old body was found frozen in the Alps

• Austrian scientists tested the DNA of 3,700 male blood donors in Tyrol
• They matched a genetic mutation to the mummy found back in 1991
  
  

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Revealed: How Pentagon FAKED repatriation of fallen soldiers for years with phony ceremonies, decommissioned planes and bodies that had spent months in labs

• The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command has handled the identification and repatriation of soldiers from old battle fields for seven years
• Remains were taken off planes in coffins draped with flags while Taps played and then attendees sang the Star-Spangled Banner,…

Metals risk in baby milk: Popular formulas can contain 100 times more aluminium than breast milk

• Traces of metal in milk from leading products found to be much higher than is legally allowed in water, according to research
• Top brands Aptamil, Cow And Gate and Hipp Organic all contained levels of aluminium which are too high, say the scientists
  
  

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Libyan PM freed after being seized over U.S. raid: officials

(Reuters) - Former rebel gunmen freed Libya's prime minister on Thursday after holding him for several hours in reprisal for the capture by U.S. forces…

Libyan prime minister kidnapped at gunpoint from hotel

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been kidnapped by gunmen before dawn from a Tripoli hotel.

Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter

Sep 25, 2013

Harvard and MIT scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom about light, and they didn't need to go to a galaxy far, far away to do it.

Working with colleagues at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, a group led by…

The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets

Jonathan Kaiman visits Ankang municipality where swarms of highly venomous hornets have killed 41 people in three months

Friday 4 October 2013 10.43 BST

Chen pointed with a shaky hand at the small plot of cabbage, spring onions and corn where his friend, Yu Yihong,…

Alan Savory gives a popular and very misleading TED talk

by RALPH MAUGHAN on MARCH 18, 2013…

Snowden among finalists for EU human rights prize

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on Monday, 09.30.13

BRUSSELS -- U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is among three finalists for the European Union's top human rights prize.

European…