Heritage Auctions in Dallas is asking at least $625,000 for a set of 9 by 11 foot jaws containing 182 teeth from a Megalodon. Four of the teeth are more than 7 inches long, a rare occurrence. The teeth were part of the collection of amateur fossil hunter Vito Bertucci,…
American professor Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, told the UN Human Rights Council Monday, “As the report illustrates, the continued pattern of settlement expansion in East Jerusalem combined with the forceful eviction of long-residing Palestinians are…
Pir Khan, a Pakistani immigrant with a pending application for political asylum, spent 76 days in solitary confinement (and now faces deportation) because a nephew who once lived with him used the same informal system to send money home to Pakistan as was used by the Times Square bomber Faisal…
Knut the polar bear, who became famous after his mother abandoned him and he was raised by a trainer, was found dead in his enclosure this weekend at the Berlin Zoo. He was 4. Watch video, first aired by the Xinhua News Agency, below: [Image via Victor Hinterleitner for Knutisweekly.com,…
Watch the video of Obama’s comments on the situation in Libya and the UN Security Council’s approval of a no-fly zone live below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
An official with access to the UN Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty data says that their machines have picked up the first particles from the nuclear accident at Fukushima in the United States. The particles detected are, according to the Associated Press, said to be “about a billion times beneath levels…
ABC News reports that non-Chase customers in Illinois are now being charged $5 to use the bank’s ATM machines. They’re trying out $4 fees at their ATMs in Texas. The average fee nationwide is $2.60, and Chase’s experiments come just as banking industry lobbyists are pressuring Congress to delay the…
Watch the live broadcast of Japan’s English-language NHK television station, covering the quake and the tsunami, below. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
On Thursday, radiation levels at the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima dropped low enough for helicopters to drop water on two damaged reactors in an effort to cool them and prevent a melt-down. Watch the video, first uploaded by Reuters on March 17, 2011, below.…
Click below to watch the live video from MSNBC of the 3:30 pm ET Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the nuclear power crisis in Japan. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…