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Voters participating in Australian elections this weekend filled a number of seats with candidates from several single-issue organizations, including the Sports Party and the Motoring Enthusiast Party.
Obama says he wants Congress to approve the strikes, but he is rather cold and technocratic when making the case.
There is a moral case for intervening in Syria.
As the Arctic ice continues to melt due to rising global temperatures, Russia is aggressively pursuing new trading routes.
Newly released top secret documents shed light on the U.S. involvement in Iraq’s use of chemical weapons in the 1980’s.
Researchers discovered that people are hard-wired to see no-longer-intact items — a torn piece of paper, for example — as trash and treat it accordingly.
Visitors to the £90 million (US$141 million) building, located in London’s Brent borough, can select questions from a touchscreen and “Shanice” will answer them from her “seat” on a screen behind the reception desk.
Doomsday predictions about a world with too many mouths to feed, once predicted to reach 11 billion by 2050, are being drastically reevaluated.
While this summer has yielded mostly positive economic news, the engines of recovery in Europe, Japan, and China, may inevitably lose steam.
A smartphone uses up a lot more energy than most people think. Multiply that by a billion or more, and include all the other objects that use the Internet. A new paper asks: Where is all that energy coming from?
Hon. Shira A Scheindlin has struck major blow to Michael Bloomberg’s and Ray Kelly’s racist and megalomaniacal “Stop and Frisk” policy. Bloomberg’s and Kelly’s policy acts in direct opposition to both the progress of our culture and of the laws they have sworn to uphold.
Despite an uptick in tourism and a shortage of hotel rooms, the government has clamped down on citizens offering private rooms to foreign visitors, mainly because those visitors lack basic home training.
The same company that installed bins with digital ad screens during the 2012 London Olympics has now added a gadget to some of them that can track smartphones, eventually allowing for more targeted sales pitches.
The government announced the closing of the country’s two public zoos in July, with many of their residents moving to private centers. However, a separate law passed in December means those centers don’t have a lot of vacancies.
Five guidelines for navigating the Internet from the great 19th-century liberal individualist.
In a recent survey, nearly all respondents admitted to performing personal tasks, both on- and offline, during the work day. More managers are fine with it, partially because they’re doing it too.
A new paper claims that even if all global carbon emissions stopped tomorrow, it would take time for the world’s temperature to normalize, by which time sea levels will have already risen over some coastal areas.
Soon, the Moscow metro police will be able to track individuals’ movement through the city’s ornate underground transport system by reading data from the cellular phones.
The economic vitality of emerging economies, which has helped guide the world through the early 21st century as well as the late financial collapse, is beginning to dissipate.
The financial constraint which prescriptions put on seniors’ fixed income, and the health effects of mixing different medications, make marijuana an option worth exploring for an increasing number of seniors.
Huge prison break, huge setback for costly war, many lives imperiled: no coverage.
Developed by Raytheon, the helium aerostats will hover at 10,000 feet and can see up to 320 miles in any direction. Unlike ground-based systems, they can provide warnings to military personnel minutes, rather than seconds, in advance.
A first-of-its-kind study warns that just one massive greenhouse gas emission could be enough to devastate the global economy.
As a student, Dutch designer Chintan Shah asked himself why so many streetlights were on unnecessarily. He then set out to devise a more economical and environmentally friendly alternative.
Scotland has its Loch Ness monster and Massachusetts has its Salem witches, but for many years Romania has resisted promoting itself as the home of Bram Stoker’s fictional vampire. That’s about to change.
In 2004, the UK thought it had found a suitable compromise to legalizing same-sex marriage. But civil partnerships, which are equal to marriage in every legal respect, have become insufficient.
Later this year, transportation officials plan to set aside one “singles” car on its trains for a fixed amount of time each week…and yes, they’re doing it to help busy people find mates.
A small village in Spain reports that incidences of uncollected dog waste have dropped by 70 percent ever since offenders began receiving deliveries of their dogs’ leftovers.