Insects smarter than we thought, Macquarie University academics say Sydney Morning Herald Louie the Fly may have grounds for appeal. For almost 60 years, Mortein's malodorous mascot has been portrayed as a sort of insect psychopath who should be taken out without a thought to stop him from befouling foodstuffs and kitchen benches in otherwise germ-free suburban homes. | A new ...
Rouhani Clashes With Iranian Police Over Undercover Hijab Agents Voa News Iran's president criticized the use of thousands of undercover morality police in Tehran to report on young women who are not wearing a full Islamic hijab or those who play loud music in their cars. Some 7,000 men and women officers began reporting such violations in Tehran, Iran's capital, on Monda...
Had Priest Perform Exorcism on Demon Child Inquisitr A Canadian Mountie tortured an starved his 11-year-old son because he thought that he was possessed. The Mountie further asked his brother, who was also a priest, to perform an exorcism on his son because he thought there was a demon living inside hi...
Every Last Tie review: the Unabomber and his brother The Irish Times In June of 1995, the Washington Post and the New York Times received a 35,000-word manifesto that began: “The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” The highly articulate document was written by a man...
BJP takes a dig at TDP over Jagan issue The Hindu Criticising the comments by Telugu Desam Party leaders over YSR Congress (YSRC) chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy being granted audience by Union Ministers recently, BJP city leaders made it clear that the BJP was not a party working under the TDP and it n...
Mirwaiz Kashmir Observer Srinagar: Appealing people of Kashmir to show resolve and steadfastness for carrying forward the ongoing resistance movement, Hurriyat (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday said showing dissent and standing upright against oppression, injustice, s...
Liberate the legislator The Hindu The Constitution (Fifty-second Amendment) Act, 1985 added the Tenth Schedule to the Indian Constitution to curb the growing tendency of political defections by parliamentarians and legislators from one party to another after elections. The opening li...
The Battle for Home review: A Syrian architect on life, conflict and aesthetics Sydney Morning Herald The Battle for Home | MARWA AL-SABOUNI | THAMES & HUDSON, $39.99 | The wonder is, as Roger Scruton observes in his introduction, that anybody caught up in the violence and destruction of war would think to write about it. A Syrian architect from ...
At the Vatican, Biden seeks common cause with pope on cancer Denver Post Click photo to enlarge | Pope Francis shakes hands with US vice president Joe Biden as he takes part at a congress on the progress of regenerative medicine and its cultural impact, being held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Friday, April 29,...
Eriese Tisdale sentenced to death by judge for killing Sgt. Gary Morales WPTV ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. | A St. Lucie County judge sentenced Eriese Tisdale to death Friday for shooting and killing St. Lucie County Sgt. Gary Morales following a traffic stop in 2013. | | Tisdale walked out of the courtroom telling his family “...
Former Palma Ceia church business manager sentenced for embezzlement Tampa Bay Online TAMPA — Juliet Suzanne Ellis told a federal judge Friday she’s profoundly sorry that she embezzled $147,000 from Palma Ceia United Methodist Church, and she’s trying to make things right. | Ellis, who stole while working as the c...
In Malawi, people with albinism face ‘total extinction’– UN rights expert United Nations Print | 29 April 2016 – A United Nations human rights expert today warned that the atrocities faced by persons with albinism in Malawi render them “an endangered people group facing a risk of systemic extinction over time if nothing is done.” | “Persons with albinism, and parents of children with albinism, constantly live in fear of attac...
Iran votes in parliamentary runoff as rare shooting wounds 4 Boston Herald TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians voted Friday in the country's parliamentary runoff elections, a key poll that will decide how much power allies of moderate President Hassan Rouhani will have in the next legislature after the landmark nuclear deal with world powers. | Though Rouhani continues to have popular support after the deal, its promised economic e...
