Featured Technology Articles
Facebook's "journalism project" seeks to strengthen online news
The initiative is aimed at promoting more collaboration between the social media giant and news outlets, defend against fake news ......
JetBlue's Fly-Fi broadband is now free on all flights
JetBlue has finally made good on that promise to provide free WiFi on every flight. The airline announced today that every jet in its fleet is now equipped with JetBlue's Fly-Fi broadband, offering "gate-to-gate" high speed internet you can use even... ......
Watch
Technology News
Featured Business Articles
U.S. to launch WTO complaint against China for aluminum subsidies: WSJ
(Reuters) - The Obama administration is expected to launch on Thursday a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization against China over subsidies Beijing provides to the country's aluminum industry, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter....
Sub-Saharan Africa 2017 growth to quicken to 2.9 pct: WB
NAIROBI, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank said sub-Saharan Africa economy is expected to pick up modestly to 2.9 percent in 2017 as the region continues to adjust to lower commodity prices. However, growth in South Africa and oil exporters is anticipated to be weaker, according to the WB's January...
Watch
Business News
Featured Health Articles
Researchers genetically engineer Salmonella to eat brain tumors
Salmonella has earned its bad reputation. It is responsible for more than a million cases of food poisoning every year, of which nearly 400 people die. But a team of researchers from Duke University have recently engineered the bacteria to not attack... ......
Byzantine Skeleton Contains 800-Year-Old DNA From The Infection That Killed Her
On the outskirts of the ruins of the fabled city of Troy, archaeologists have come across the remains of a woman buried 800 years ago in a stone-lined grave. Amongst the bones of the skeleton, they discovered hard calcified nodules that turned out to contain the DNA of the bacteria that killed her,...
Watch
See more images
Images for Health
Health News
Featured Sport Articles
With Lindsey Vonn set to return, Mikaela Shiffrin happy to leave limelight
FLACHAU, Austria — With Lindsey Vonn’s return to the World Cup looming, Mikaela Shiffrin is looking forward to leaving the limelight to her American teammate. Nursing a knee injury and a broken arm for the past 11 months, Vonn was expected to take part in official downhill training in...
David Beckham's impact on American soccer endures a decade after landmark MLS signing
The window of opportunity was small. So small that it took some vision to see it – to recognize that, for the substantial risk, the payoff could bend the arc of Major League Soccer’s brief existence. And that one man’s presence could help take the decade-old North American soccer circuit from an...
Featured Gaming Articles
Please tell us which country and city you'd like to see the weather in.
TOP STORIES
VIDEO: Cory Booker and John Lewis Warn Against Sessions Civil Rights Record
WorldNews.com | 2017-01-12
[VIDEO]: 6 VW Executives Arrested For Deceiving Regulators Over Emissions
WorldNews.com | 2017-01-11
Trump Angrily Denounces Salacious Russia Claims In Wide-Ranging News Conference
WorldNews.com | 2017-01-11
BUSINESS
Canada Continues To Explore Ways To Boost Ties, Seal Trade Pact With India
WorldNews.com | 2017-01-11
CRIME
Report: 68-Year-Old Masseur Jailed 15 Months For Sexually Assaulting Female Clients
WorldNews.com | 2017-01-10
ENTERTAINMENT
SPORT
David Beckham's impact on American soccer endures a decade after landmark MLS signing
Yahoo Daily News | 2017-01-11
Marouane Fellaini helps Manchester United to 2-0 win over Hull City in EFL Cup semi
DNA India | 2017-01-11
Cristiano Ronaldo, Carli Lloyd win FIFA Best Player of the Year awards
Yahoo Daily News | 2017-01-10
Rex Tillerson Faces Tough Questions From Republicans And Democrats
Rex Tillerson Faces Tough Questions From Republicans And Democrats
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio took action on Wednesday in the hearing on former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for the Secrretary of State position with particularly acute questions on the issue of Russian hacking and human...
photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore
Related Videos
VIDEO: Cory Booker and John Lewis Warn Against Sessions Civil Rights Record
VIDEO: Cory Booker and John Lewis Warn Against Sessions Civil Rights Record
Black lawmakers took to the floor on Wednesday to oppose the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions on grounds that he's shown hostility toward civil rights that would make him unfit for the position, according to The...
photo: Creative Commons / Senate Democrats
Ethics Director Dismisses Trump's Business Holdings Plan As Worthless
Ethics Director Dismisses Trump's Business Holdings Plan As Worthless
After President-elect Donald Trump discussed some of his business plans to set up a trust to hold his business while handing over management of the firms to his sons, one of the top ethics policy officials in Washington...
photo: AP / Mary Altaffer
Related Videos
[VIDEO]: 6 VW Executives Arrested For Deceiving Regulators Over Emissions
[VIDEO]: 6 VW Executives Arrested For Deceiving Regulators Over Emissions
The Washington Post is reporting late Wednesday afternoon U.S. officials have arrested six executives at German automaker Volkswagen in connection with the company’s efforts to deliberately deceive U.S. regulators about...
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
Trump Angrily Denounces Salacious Russia Claims In Wide-Ranging News Conference
Trump Angrily Denounces Salacious Russia Claims In Wide-Ranging News Conference
In a wide-ranging first press conference since mid-July 2016, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday angrily denounced the publishing of claims he had been caught in a compromising position in Russia and attacked U.S....
photo: AP / Evan Vucci
Related Videos
[VIDEO]: After 15 Years Developing, Cormorant Flying Car/Drone Ready For Liftoff
[VIDEO]: After 15 Years Developing, Cormorant Flying Car/Drone Ready For Liftoff
An Israeli tech firm is optimistic after 15 years of development it will finally get its 1,500 kg (1.5 ton) passenger-carrying drone off the ground and into the market by 2020, Reuters reported. The Cormorant, billed as...
photo: YouTube / UrbanAero
Related Videos
China Sends Aircraft Carrier Group Through Taiwan Strait
China Sends Aircraft Carrier Group Through Taiwan Strait
(BEIJING) — China said Wednesday it was committed to promoting peace and stability in Asia, even as it sent an aircraft carrier battle group through the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions between Beijing and...
photo: AP / Xinhua, Li Tang
Related Videos
Top Stories Worldwide
Malaysia Deports Indonesians Over Islamic State Link
Malaysia Deports Indonesians Over Islamic State Link
The Indonesian National Police’s special counterterrorism detachment, Densus 88, on Wednesday questioned eight Indonesian citizens deported by Malaysian...
Dog saves injured owner from freezing to death in the snow
Dog saves injured owner from freezing to death in the snow
Golden Retriever laid on top of owner for 20 hours in 20-degree weather to keep him warm ......
Nigeria Faces Mounting Pressure to Rescue Girls Abducted by Boko Haram 1,000 Days Ago
Nigeria Faces Mounting Pressure to Rescue Girls Abducted by Boko Haram 1,000 Days Ago
Nigeria is facing mounting pressure to find some 200 schoolgirls abducted 1,000 days ago in Boko Haram's most infamous attack after the rescue of 24 girls...
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner 'died in Syria squalor'
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner 'died in Syria squalor'
The latest investigation by the Revue XXI magazine (in French) quotes one of Brunner's guards as saying that he "suffered and cried a lot in his final years,...
Relatives’ US bribery case rains on ex-UN chief’s homecoming
Relatives’ US bribery case rains on ex-UN chief’s homecoming
SEOUL: A US bribery case against two relatives has cast a pall over former United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon’s planned return this week to South Korea,...
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Emphasizes Importance of Diplomacy At State Department Museum
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Emphasizes Importance of Diplomacy At State Department Museum
Hillary Clinton made a rare public appearance on Tuesday as she delivered a short address at the opening of the new State Department museum with one of the...
Obama speech marks unofficial countdown for black Americans
Obama speech marks unofficial countdown for black Americans
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- As President Barack Obama says goodbye and thanks supporters in his adopted hometown of Chicago, the occasion marks the unofficial...
Most Viewed
Open Minds Worldwide
Of course farmers fear Brexit, but it could save the British countryside
Of course farmers fear Brexit, but it could save the British countryside
We will leave the European Union like a drunk tumbling out of a pub at closing time, perhaps with...
Trump's Press Conference Ridiculousness, Broken Down
Trump's Press Conference Ridiculousness, Broken Down
Same Trump as ever, and that's not a good thing. After months of using Twitter as his bullhorn, and...
Dear Meryl Streep, the Disabled Community Has Bigger Fish to Fry Than Donald Trump's Mockery
Dear Meryl Streep, the Disabled Community Has Bigger Fish to Fry Than Donald Trump's Mockery
"Disabled people are too busy trying to dispel assumptions of inability and fight for access to...
Jeff Sessions Defends Anti-Muslim Extremist David Horowitz, Calling Him 'Brilliant'
Jeff Sessions Defends Anti-Muslim Extremist David Horowitz, Calling Him 'Brilliant'
During his confirmation hearing, Sessions dismissed concerns about Horowitz's anti-Muslim and racist...
10 Most Scathingly True Takedowns of Trump's Press Conference
10 Most Scathingly True Takedowns of Trump's Press Conference
Lies and threats are clearly going to be the new normal. In his much-anticipated first press...
Softballs for Jeff Sessions: Fireworks Fizzle at First Confirmation Hearing for Trump's Cabinet
Softballs for Jeff Sessions: Fireworks Fizzle at First Confirmation Hearing for Trump's Cabinet
Sen. Jeff Sessions was surrounded by friendly colleagues and vocal protesters at Tuesday's hearing....
Protesters Rally Outside Rex Tillerson's Secretary of State Hearing in D.C.
Protesters Rally Outside Rex Tillerson's Secretary of State Hearing in D.C.
Highlighting Tillerson's climate crimes and human rights abuses, demonstrators show mass opposition...
