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Humanist groups raise tens of thousands for atheist tornado survivor
Humanist groups and atheists across the U.S. have banded together to help a fellow atheist who survived the massive tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma earlier this week. Rebecca Vitsmun was being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer of CNN on Tuesday when the “Situation Room” anchor said, “I guess, you gotta thank…
9-year-old girl lectures McDonald’s CEO about children’s nutrition
Nine-year-old Hannah Robertson put McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson on the spot on Thursday at the corporation’s annual shareholders’ meeting. According to USA Today, the girl was attending the meeting with her mother, Kia, designer of a “Today I Ate a Rainbow,” a kids’ interactive game aimed at helping children making…
New app allows users to fight racist graffiti in France
A French anti-racism association is launching a mobile application it hopes will help eradicate racist graffiti by enabling users to take photos of offensive tags, geo-locate them and get them removed. Licra — the International League against Racism and Antisemitism — said the app was a “digital response” to “a…
Fashion retailers complain street crime is ruining Paris tourism
The streets of Paris are getting a reputation of being unsafe for tourists and this is a threat to business by the great brand names of French fashion, a top body representing the luxury industry warned on Friday. A leading association that counts Chanel and Dior as members urged the…
Volkswagen’s 75th anniversary shadowed by Hitler celebration
Europe’s number one carmaker Volkswagen is not keen on celebrating the 75th birthday of its German hometown of Wolfsburg on Sunday because of the long shadow cast by Adolf Hitler there. “It was all just a bit of Nazi propaganda,” a spokesman for the carmaker said, referring to the festivities…
Veterinarians amazed, reporters disgusted by 4 pound hairball removed from a tiger’s stomach
Vernon Yates of Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation in Florida loves his 18-year-old tiger, Ty. So when Ty became listless, stopped eating on his own for two weeks and lost nearly 100 pounds, he became concerned. “He’s sort of like my biggest baby,” he told Bay News 9. “This is my…
Catholic archdiocese in Madrid reportedly training 8 new exorcists to meet parishioner demand
Catholics in and around Madrid concerned that they or their loved ones are suffering from demonic possession may be about to get some much needed assistance from the archdiocese. A spokeswoman confirmed to the Associated Press that the Church in considering training more priests in the exorcism rites to counter…
Scientists warn that Earth faces severe water shortages within a generation
The majority of people on Earth will face severe water shortages within a generation or two if pollution and waste continues unabated, scientists warned at a conference in Bonn Friday. “This handicap will be self-inflicted and is, we believe, entirely avoidable,” read a document entitled The Bonn Declaration issued at…
Rugged terrain created by volcanos may have prompted human ancestors’ upright walking
The rugged landscape created by volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts in east and south Africa millions of years ago may be what prompted our human ancestors to start walking on two legs, a study said Friday. The research published in the journal Antiquity challenges the commonly-held theory that early…
Brutal video shows London beheaders getting shot by police
U.K. newspaper The Daily Mirror has released exclusive, gripping video of the moment police gunned down the two men who murdered British soldier Lee Rigby, 25, in the south London district of Woolwich on Wednesday. Apparently, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, had planned to murder the soldier,…
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