British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in […]
It’s alarming to remember that the low prices of our iPhones and iPads and the super-high profit margins of Apple are only possible because our iPhones and iPads are made with labor practices that would be illegal in the United States. And it’s also disconcerting to realize that the folks who make our iPhones and […]
A newly selected Roman Catholic priest has been removed from his suburban New York parish after church officials on Thursday said he secretly fathered a child while attending the seminary. The removal of Reverend Casmir Mung’aho, 34, from his post at St. Stephen the First Martyr Church in the Orange County town of Warwick, New York, just two weeks after the resignation of […]
Wikipedia and several other websites went dark for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. legislation to Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the related PROTECTIP Act (PIPA)–they argue would effectively censor the free and open Internet. Visitors to U.S. Wikipedia pages are being redirected to a page that explains the blackout, and invites users to […]
Donna Claver, A Montana woman lost her engagement ring in the early ’70s. She was pregnant, and while applying lotion, the gold and sapphire engagement ring slipped from the top of the toilet and fell down the drain, according to Today.com. The ring had lodged itself in the drain of the toilet. Donna and her husband, Terry, tried to fish […]
Rescue operation searching the half-submerged wreck of an Italian cruise ship for missing passengers and crew recovered a sixth body on Monday, after more than 48 hours the vessel keel over off Italy’s west coast. The captain of the 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia, arrested on Saturday, was accused of manslaughter and abandoning his ship before all of the more […]
Thousands of Chinese workers protesting over compensation and job security at a Sanyo Electric Co Ltd plant clashed with police in southern Shenzhen, the latest outbreak of labor unrest in China’s manufacturing hub. About 4,000 workers protested over the weekend at the Sino-Japanese joint venture, the Chinese-language Oriental Daily reported. Sing Tao Daily and the […]
Jessica Joy Rees, A Southern California girl who became a nationally recognized face of child cancer with a blog that chronicled her fight against brain tumors has died. She was only 12 years old. The Orange County seventh-grader, called “Jessie” by family and friends, began her blog and Facebook page after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in March. A […]
Evagelina Paredes filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, accusing police officer Chris Collins of violating her privacy. A Chicago police officer allegedly turned a $132 speeding ticket into a dating opportunity when he later tracked down the female driver’s address in their motor-vehicle database and left a handwritten note on the windshield of her car asking her out on a […]
15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez was repeatedly shot in a hallway at Cummings Middle School in Brownsville. The eighth grader was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas School, the parents are now demanding to know why officers took lethal action. But police said the boy was showing off and refused to drop what appeared to be a handgun and that the […]
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