There are parallels between America’s current political situation and the conditions leading to the collapse of the Roman Republic more than 2,000 years ago, according to an International Business Times commentary published on RawStory.com.Ned Resnikoff, political capital reporter for IBT, writes that the Roman Republic was decaying long before Julius Caesar marched on the city in 49 B.C. and toppled it for good ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
More than a foot of rain in some places flooded low-lying areas across the Houston region on Monday, forcing officials to suspend bus and rail service, close schools and government offices and urge residents to stay home amid what authorities said were extremely dangerous conditions, CNN reported."This is a life-threatening emergency....
MAROUA, Cameroon (AP) Here on the front line against Boko Haram, no one boasts of having "technically" won the war. More than four months after Nigerian PresidentMuhammadu Buhari made such a claim, the extremists still crisscross international borders, avoiding direct confrontations with U.S.-backed African forces while refocusing on soft targets like marketplaces and mosques with little to no protection ... "They have guns ... ....
A report in the Belfast Telegraph Monday says dinosaurs were already on the path to extinction millions of years before the meteor impact that is widely believed to have wiped them out, scientists said.Experts have always believed dinosaurs were flourishing on Earth just before the disaster struck when a huge asteroid or comet hit the planet just off the coast of Mexico, the report said....
"Eco-park "Nyvky" - the very first in Ukraine innovative nature-friendly eco-space - announces the launch of the ideas competition for the creation of park's objects ... Innovative "Eco-park "Nyvky" is a project for creating the first in Ukraine innovative nature-friendly eco-space ... "Eco-park "Nyvky" is a ......