Russia has just declassified news that will shake world gem markets to their core: the discovery of a vast new diamond field containing “trillions of carats,” enough to supply global markets for another 3,000 years. The Soviets discovered the bonanza back in the 1970s beneath a 35-million-year-old, 62-mile diameter asteroid crater in eastern Siberia known as Popigai Astroblem. They […]
It’s been one year since the Occupy Wall Street movement and its calls for income equality, Wall Street reform and less money in politics swept the nation and forever changed the national discourse. OWS is back after a hiatus and returned to Wall Street in celebration of its one-year anniversary. Roughly 1,000 gathered at four […]
The British royal family faced a multinational battle to contain the spread of topless photos of Prince William’s wife Kate, as an Irish tabloid published them Saturday and an Italian gossip magazine planned to do the same despite the threat of legal action. The royal couple’s St. James’s Palace office condemned the moves as unjustifiable and evidence of pure greed, and […]
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo risks spreading to major towns if not brought under control soon after the death toll doubled within a week, the World Health Organisation warned on Thursday. The number of people killed by the contagious virus for which there is no known treatment has now risen to 31, including five health […]
Chris Stevens, U.S. ambassador to Libya, killed along with three others in a rocket attack outside the American Consulate in Benghazi, was “a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States,” President Barack Obama said in his statement as he condemned the attack. Initial reports said the slain embassy staffers–who also included foreign service information […]
Documents show the U.S. was given more warnings about potential terrorist attacks in the weeks leading up to 9/11, writes Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald of New York Times. The documents predate the presidential daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001, which said, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” “The administration’s reaction to what Mr. Bush […]
Sri Lanka’s diamond-swallowing saga took an unexpected turn Tuesday when police revealed the stone swallowed by a visitor at a gem exhibition was a fake and they are searching for the real stone valued at $13,000. Police arrested Chou Wan, 32, after a gem owner complained a man had swallowed his 1.5 carat diamond at […]
Thousands of public school teachers formed picket lines in Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care during their first strike in a quarter century over reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and endorsed by President Barack Obama’s administration. Some 29,000 teachers and support staff in the nation’s third-largest school system were involved, leaving […]
Mitt Romney rejected claims by President Barack Obama that he would sign off on more tax breaks for the wealthy if elected president, but again declined to offer specifics on how exactly he would accomplish his goal of lowering taxes for other Americans while also balancing the budget. In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the […]
A bomb hoax in Philadelphia that turned a Dallas-bound flight around and led to a full-scale SWAT response was apparently triggered by a spiteful ex-girlfriend who telephoned authorities to say her former beau was aboard the US Air flight armed with liquid explosives, police told ABC News. According to authorities, Christopher Shell, a salesman in […]
PayPal Withdrawing Support For Kindle Fire, BlackBerry And Windows Phone
Revival Of Nashville Discussed
Brawl Erupts After Jose Bautista Downed By Rougned Odor Punch
VR Tour Offered Three Decades After Chernobyl Disaster
Kyle Busch Sweeps NASCAR Events At Martinsville
Halle Berry Enters The Social Media World
