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Israel investigates prison shooting of American killer Samuel Sheinbein

Authorities were on Monday investigating a fatal shooting in an Israeli prison after a US-Israeli inmate was gunned down by guards after opening fire with a smuggled weapon. The Israel Prison Services said it was looking into Sunday's incident,...

Ugandan president signs anti-LGBT bill into law

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed off on a controversial law that will see homosexuals jailed for life, shrugging off warnings from key international allies and donors. The signing of the law, which also outlaws the promotion of...

WhatsApp will allow free voice calls by mid-year

Fresh from a $19-billion (14-billion-euro) takeover by Facebook, mobile messaging service WhatsApp said Monday it will launch free voice calls by mid-year. The introduction of free calls, revealed on the opening day of the four-day World Mobile...

Alec Baldwin rips Maddow and ‘Gay Dept. of Justice,’ vows to retire from public life

Alec Baldwin denounced the rituals of celebrity worship as he vowed to retire from public life. “In the New Media culture, anything good you do is tossed in a pit, and you are measured by who you are on your worst day,” Baldwin wrote in a...

Arizona lawmaker who voted for anti-gay bill now wants it vetoed or repealed

As Arizonans wait to see if Gov. Jan Brewer will sign the recently passed bill legalizing anti-LGBT discrimination, a state senator who voted for the bill now admits it was a mistake and would like to see it vetoed or repealed. According to...

Astronomer spots asteroid smashing into the Moon

A Spanish astronomer on Monday said he had witnessed a fridge-sized asteroid smash into the Moon, in the biggest lunar impact by a space rock ever recorded. The rare episode was seen by Jose Maria Madiedo, a professor at the University of...

Leopard on the loose in Indian city of Meerut triggers panic

A leopard sparked panic in a north Indian city when it strayed inside a hospital, a cinema and an apartment block while evading captors, an official said Monday. Authorities closed schools and colleges in Meerut, 60 kilometres (37 miles)...

Pope Francis creates new Vatican finance ministry

Pope Francis has created a new finance ministry to oversee the Holy See's economic and administrative affairs, his first decisive action in the wake of scandals at the Vatican bank. The ministry will be headed up by Australian Cardinal George...

Ukraine issues warrant for ousted leader Viktor Yanukovych for ‘mass murder’

Ukraine issued an arrest warrant Monday for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych over the "mass murder" of protesters and appealed for $35 billion in Western aid to pull the ex-Soviet country back from the brink of economic collapse. The dramatic...

Egypt government resigns, paving way for Sisi to seek presidency

Egypt’s government has resigned, the prime minister said on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife. “(The...

Cop harasses photographer, steals his cellphone battery and tries to get YouTube to pull the video

Recording a police officer in public isn't a crime. Well, it isn't anything a cop can cite or arrest you for doing. Instead, a bunch of vague infractions are listed in hopes that something will stick and deter future citizen recordings. Shawn...

Rogue star Kappa Cassiopeiae creates stunning bow shock in new image from NASA

The rogue runaway star Kappa Cassiopeiae — also known as HD 2905 — is the subject of a stunning new image taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The image shows, in detail, the incredible bow shock created by the star’s ‘rapid’...

New online tool from Google lets you see deforestation in real time

If you want to get a sense of just how rapidly the world is being deforested, and words aren’t enough for you, well, now there’s a new online tool that can help you with that. The Global Forest Watch — backed by Google and more than 40 other...

‘Hunger Games’ star Jennifer Lawrence ‘to take year off from Hollywood’

Producer Harvey Weinstein says Hunger Games star ‘deserves a rest’ after series of exhausting movies Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence is to take a year-long break from the movie business, according to Hollywood producer Harvey...

What are the most popular swearwords on Twitter?

One in every 13 tweets contains a rude word. But what are people’s favorites – and which ones do women use more than men? What do you think is the most commonly used swearword on Twitter? Well of course it is. Very detailed work by...
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