| White House pushes back against criticism of Trump’s Charlottesville response Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:46 PM PDT  After the president's initial remarks about Saturday's violence were criticized as too vague, the White House issued a follow-up Sunday.
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| Can McMaster And Bannon Work Together? McMaster Won't Say Posted: 12 Aug 2017 11:38 PM PDT  When asked by Chuck Todd whether National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster can work alongside Presidential Adviser Steve Bannon, McMaster repeatedly answering definitively.
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| 17 Immigrants Were Rescued From a Truck Parked at a Texas Rest-Stop Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:45 PM PDT  All of them made it out alive
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| What we know about the man charged in Charlottesville attack, James Alex Fields Jr. Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:11 PM PDT  The 20-year-old man accused of driving a car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally Saturday, James Alex Fields Jr., was denied bail in court Monday morning.
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| US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:35 AM PDT ![US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq]( "US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq") BAGHDAD (AP) — Two American soldiers have been killed while conducting combat operations in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday, adding that "initial reports indicate the incident was not due to enemy contact."
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| Buying Opioids Online: A Look Into the Thriving Industry Posted: 13 Aug 2017 10:46 AM PDT  The synthetic opioid Fentanyl is killing Americans every day as the nation's opioid epidemic reaches a national emergency. But, online, the drug is easily available to purchase and get shipped.
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| China a sweet spot for U.S. companies’ earnings in second-quarter Posted: 14 Aug 2017 03:56 AM PDT  By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Trade tensions between Washington and Beijing may be running high but Corporate America is finding China to be a reliable source of profit growth this year. Whether they sell construction equipment, semiconductors or coffee, many major U.S. companies have reported stronger second-quarter earnings and revenue from their Chinese operations in recent weeks. Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitious plan to build a new Silk Road that will improve links between China and dozens of countries in Asia and Europe, and includes many billions of dollars of new roads, bridges, railways and power plants – is also helping American firms to sell heavy equipment and other products.
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| John Oliver explains North Korea, that other giant crisis you forgot about Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:08 PM PDT  With this weekend's news cycle understandably absorbed with the events in Charlottesville, it's easy to forget that a game of nuclear brinksmanship between a pair of stubborn leaders is accelerating rapidly towards the use of nuclear weapons. Luckily, late-night comedians are here to remind us about the impending fall of civilization. John Oliver's Last Week Tonight dedicated its main topic to North Korea this week, and answers some surprisingly basic questions: what's going on, how did we get here, and are we all about to die? Oliver's monologue begins exactly as you'd expect: addressing what's happened in the last week, and how one man with a Twitter account can feasibly orchestrate the end of civilization. But he devoted a surprising amount of time to covering the other side of the debate, or why North Korea and Kim Jong-Un are acting in a rational way, at least from their perspective. As he explains, the DPRK has watched the US "deal" with regimes like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, and how US intervention in those countries ended. In the case of Iraq, sanctions followed by inspections and deals -- the textbook diplomatic response -- ended up with the overthrow of the regime, and a decade of complete instability. For Kim Jong-Un, avoiding that fate is a rational move. As Oliver points out, "It's true that dictators generally don't end their careers like disgraced American politicians with a stint on 'Dancing with the Stars,' although that would have been an incredible season." Unfortunately, this isn't an episode with a happy ending. The conclusion is that America and North Korea both have powerful leaders who are used to issuing empty threats in order to impress people and try and "win" negotiations. One of them is going to have to lose face at some point, or this situation is going to end as messily as we're all imagining.
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| Kenya's Odinga mulls next move on disputed election Posted: 14 Aug 2017 06:03 AM PDT  Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga was weighing his next move Monday to contest an election he claims was rigged after defying pressure at home and from abroad to take his complaints to the courts. The 72-year-old insists he was the rightful winner of a "stolen" election last week and urged his supporters to stay away from work Monday to mourn the deaths of those killed in angry protests against the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta. "You know, I am very sad that Raila did not win, but what can he do now?
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| Tiki denounces use of torches by white nationalists in Charlottesville Posted: 14 Aug 2017 05:42 AM PDT  "We do not support their message or the use of our products in this way," the company that makes the backyard bamboo torches said in a statement.
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| Night riders — surfers at night Posted: 14 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Night riders — surfers at night]( "Night riders — surfers at night") These photos from inside the breaking waves show boarders shooting through a tunnel of water, with the blue sea highlighted against a deep orange backdrop.
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| 3 Shot Dead At Great Lakes Dragaway In Kenosha County Posted: 13 Aug 2017 10:20 PM PDT  The shooting took place around 8 p.m. EDT at the Larry's Fun Fest event. The attacker is on the run and the police are investigating the matter.
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| NASA’s Golden Records Coming Back to Life, 40 Years Later Posted: 13 Aug 2017 10:57 AM PDT  Golden records were brought aboard the Voyager space shuttle. Each record contained greetings in 55 languages, music and images - the idea was to give extraterrestrials an idea of life on earth. They are now being recreated as a box set and a book.
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| Iraqi Shiite militias pledge to take part in next IS fight Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:12 AM PDT ![Iraqi Shiite militias pledge to take part in next IS fight]( "Iraqi Shiite militias pledge to take part in next IS fight") BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Shiite militias announced on Monday they will participate in the next major battle against the Islamic State group after the Iraqi forces' victory in Mosul last month.
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| Charlottesville far-right rally organiser is literally chased out of town Posted: 14 Aug 2017 07:44 AM PDT  The organiser of a white nationalist rally in Virginia was chased away from a news conference Sunday, a day after the event erupted in violence and left three people dead. Blogger Jason Kessler had to be escorted by law enforcement into a police station to avoid protesters. Video of the incident shows Mr Kessler running with a police officer from an angry mob that heckled him, including a man who accused him of being responsible for the death of a woman killed during the anti-racism protests Saturday. Mr Kessler briefly made remarks before he fled, criticising the people who were booing him. "That hate that you hear around you, that is the anti-white hate," Mr Kessler said at his outdoor news conference in downtown Charlottesville. Police escort Jason Kessler, organiser of the 'Unite the Right' rally, as he is rushed away after a press conference at City Hall in Charlottesville, Virginia Credit: EPA He posted a video on social media saying police and city officials were responsible for the violence at Saturday's rally, and criticised them for how they handled Sunday's news conference. "I knew going in that I was putting my life in my hands, that's probably the last time I'm going to do that for quite some time," said Mr Kessler, who lives in Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia. He also decried what he said has been slanted media coverage aimed at hurting President Donald Trump. Jason Kessler is rushed away after the press conference Credit: EPA State police said they charged a Charlottesville man with misdemeanor assault and battery after a trooper observed him spit on Mr Kessler. The rally turned deadly Saturday when a car rammed into a group of people protesting against white supremacy. One woman was killed and 19 others were injured. A police helicopter monitoring the event later crashed, killing two troopers on board. Jason Kessler falls into bushes, as he is rushed away from the disrupted press conference at City Hall Credit: EPA Mr Kessler's profile has risen in the self-described "alt-right" community - an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism - as he publicized his fight to prevent the city from moving a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park. In May, he was one of three people arrested after scuffles broke out by the statue. Police said Mr Kessler wouldn't obey an officer's commands to leave and was inciting others with a bullhorn. Jason Kessler is helped by police after being tackled by a woman Credit: REUTERS Later that month, he applied for a permit for Saturday's rally, which he told The Associated Press was partly over the statue removal decision but also because an "anti-white climate." Mr Kessler said he does not identify as a white nationalist but told the AP he is concerned about immigration creating an "ethnic cleansing" of white people. Mr Kessler said on his webpage that he's a graduate of the University of Virginia and the author of a novel and a book on poetry. His novel, Badland Blues, is about a homeless dwarf who wins the lottery and his poetry is a rumination on "debauchery, madness loneliness and death," according to descriptions on Amazon.
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| SpaceX just landed a rocket back on Earth after flying it to space. How's your Monday? Posted: 14 Aug 2017 10:32 AM PDT  This isn't getting old yet. The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket built by Elon Musk's SpaceX came in for a dusty and impressive landing at the company's landing zone in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Monday. The landing occurred about 10 minutes after the rocket launched a Dragon cargo craft carrying supplies to the International Space Station. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk's SpaceX starts off its week with an impressive rocket launch and landing This marks the company's 14th successful landing and its 6th successful one on land, with the rest of them taking place on drone ships in the ocean. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has long said that he hopes this kind of feat can become routine, and the company is well on its way toward making that happen. Quick video recap of Falcon 9 launch of Dragon for its twelfth @ISS resupply mission. A post shared by SpaceX (@spacex) on Aug 14, 2017 at 12:04pm PDT The rocket landings are a critical component of SpaceX's business plan, which calls for lowering the cost of spaceflight through the reuse of rockets. At this point it's a surprise when a landing doesn't work perfectly, not when it does. The Dragon is now working its way to the Space Station, loaded down with thousands of pounds of supplies for the crew onboard. It should arrive at the orbiting lab in about two days. This marks SpaceX's 12th official cargo run to the station for NASA. Kicking up some dust during landing.Image: spacexIn the future, the company is expected to start launching people to the station for NASA as part of the agency's commercial crew program, designed to end reliance on Russian rockets to get astronauts to outer space. WATCH: Here's how Virgin's space program is different than SpaceX
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| North Korea's Kim puts army on alert; U.S. warns it can intercept missile Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:11 PM PDT  By Idrees Ali and Christine Kim WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned on Monday that the U.S. military would be prepared to intercept a missile fired by North Korea if it was headed to Guam, while North Korean leader Kim Jong Un alerted his army that it should always be fire-ready. Mattis told reporters that the U.S. military would know the trajectory of a missile fired by North Korea within moments and would "take it out" if it looked like it would hit the U.S. Pacific territory.
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| Pakistan marks 70 years of independence with fireworks, air show Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:25 PM PDT  Pakistan on Monday celebrated 70 years of independence from British India with a patriotic display including a giant flag and a show of airpower, as the military's top brass vowed to wipe out terrorists hours before a new bomb attack killed six soldiers. Celebrations began at the stroke of midnight with firework shows in major cities. At the highly symbolic Wagah eastern border crossing with India, army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa raised a massive national flag on a 400 foot (122-metre) pole as crowds chanted patriotic slogans.
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| Republicans — and Democrats — call for Trump to denounce white supremacists after Charlottesville death Posted: 12 Aug 2017 05:56 PM PDT  Officials from both parties said President Trump's response to the Charlottesville violence did not go far enough in opposing white supremacists and right wing extremism.
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| Sainsbury's worker tracks down missing four-year-old American girl from his Surrey bedroom 5000 miles away Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:40 AM PDT  A British supermarket worker solved a US missing person's case when he located a four-year-old girl online from his bedroom. Harry Brown was able to track down Yvette Henley to a motel in Arizona – 5,000 miles from his Surrey home – where she was being held by her estranged father. An avid gamer, the 21-year-old had been contacted by the child's grandparents, Gary and Kim Forester, after it emerged Mr Brown was a friend of Virgil Henley, the girl's father, on Facebook, according to MirrorOnline.
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| Video Captures Great White Shark Feeding On Whale Carcass Posted: 13 Aug 2017 05:16 AM PDT  A group of private whale watchers came across a rare sight of a pair of great white sharks eating a dead minke whale near the Race Point Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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| 'Meet a Muslim' events hope to dispel misconceptions Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:45 PM PDT  FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — When Moina Shaiq realized even her friends were scared to ask her about her religion for fear of offending her or sounding uneducated, she put an advertisement in a California newspaper: "Questions and answers about being Muslim."
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| U.S. Company Offers To Help Restart the Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:59 AM PDT  Seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity said Friday it had offered to take the financial risk of a renewed search for the missing Malaysian airliner.
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| New travel book compiles 50 of the world's most epic road trips Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:04 AM PDT  For those who love hitting the open road, editors at Lonely Planet have compiled the world's best road trips in a new book that includes both classic journeys and trips off the well-paved path. "Epic Drives of the World" features 50 of the greatest road trips on earth, from the windswept Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland, to the Ho Chi Minh Road in Vietnam. The otherworldly landscape of Iceland's Ring Road, Australia's Great Ocean Road and America's Historic Route 66 also get nods.
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| Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:20 AM PDT ![Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development]( "Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development") Beijing's municipal government launched a campaign this year to eradicate what it called an "urban disease" of illegal construction and unsafe buildings in the city of nearly 22 million people.
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| Syria investigator del Ponte says enough evidence to convict Assad of war crimes: SonntagsZeitung Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:38 AM PDT  The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria has gathered enough evidence for President Bashar al-Assad to be convicted of war crimes, a prominent member of the commission, Carla del Ponte, said in remarks published on Sunday. Del Ponte, 70, who prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, announced last week that she was stepping down from her role in frustration at the U.N. Security Council's failure to continue the commission's work by setting up a special tribunal for Syria that could try alleged war criminals.
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| College GOP groups condemn Charlottesville rally amid outcry over state leader’s attendance Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:15 PM PDT  Leaders of at least two universities and the national college Republicans organization are moving to denounce white supremacist views after a member of at least one campus GOP chapter appeared to attend at a violent rally in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend.
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| Bagel murder suspect had been cut out of family fortune weeks before killings, documents show Posted: 13 Aug 2017 01:30 PM PDT  A son suspected of stabbing to death his mother and sister at their £1.5m home had been cut out of the family's bagel baking fortune just weeks earlier. The wealthy bakers were found murdered in the family's home in Golders Green at 8.50pm on Friday in what police have described as "a devastating attack". Joshua Cohen, 27, was arrested in a park on Saturday after his mother Leah, 66, and sister Hannah, 33 were killed. He was charged with murder on Sunday night, and has been remanded in custody until Monday, when he will appear before Hendon Magistrates Court. Family tributes describe them both as "loving and wonderful" people. Mr Cohen's late father Asher was one of the founders of the world renown Beigel Bake in Brick Lane, London, and just weeks ago probate was granted on his estate only naming Mr Cohen's two older brothers Nathan, 30, and Daniel, 34, as directors of the company. Hannah Cohen, 33, was found stabbed to death with her mother in Golders Green, north London. His father died last December at the age of 81. Probate on his estate was granted on July 27 and on the same day the directorship of the Beigel Bake empire was altered to list two of Mr Cohen's brothers as directors. All three brothers had worked in the family business. On Sunday tributes were paid to his mother and sister. The family run the Beigel Bake business in Brick Lane. Credit: Jenny Matthews / Alamy Stock Photo Hannah, who had studied psychology at City University London, was a former pupil at the prestigious Carmel College, Wallingford, which has since closed. Her former schoolfriend told the Telegraph it was a "tragedy". She ran a cake business called Coco Cakes with her sister-in-law Deborah Cohen. Hannah Cohen with her sister-in-law Deborah. Mrs Cohen, who is married to Daniel, told the Mail: "She was a loving aunt to her niece and four nephews and the older ones loved nothing more than baking with her. "She was absolutely selfless and did everything for everyone else. "She was the greatest cook. We went over there every Sunday to eat together as a family and she made the most amazing food. My kids absolutely adored her." Yesterday a message on the company's Facebook page stated: "I'm very sad to say, there will be no more cakes by Coco Cakes." Hannah's mother Leah was described by her family as "a loving, generous and a wonderful mother to her five children". Police at the scene of the double murder of Hannah Cohen and her mother Leah in Golders Green. Credit: Paul Grover Formal identification and post mortem examinations have yet to take place but police are confident they know the identify of the victims. Their next-of-kin have been informed. Staff at Beigel Bake were too upset to talk last night. Mr Cohen senior, who died in December aged 81, arrived in the UK from Israel in the 1960s and worked at his brother's bakery next door initially before branching out and opening his bagel business. Forensics the house in Golders Green Crescent at the scene of a double murder. Credit: Paul Grover Beigel Bake was set up by Mr Cohen senior with his brother and another partner in 1974 and was first Britain's first bagel bakery. It started out as a wholesale business and almost everything was made by hand in traditional Jewish style and is famed for its salt beef bagel. It remains a 24 hour bakery and produces 7,000 bagels everyday.
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| Scientists discover 91 volcanoes slumbering beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Posted: 14 Aug 2017 10:21 AM PDT  In a discovery that sounds like the premise for an environmental disaster movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, researchers say they've identified 91 previously unknown volcanoes sitting underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Yes, that's the same ice sheet that climate scientists are concerned has slid into an irreversible collapse, due to human-caused global warming. If verified through other studies, the new results would bring the total number of volcanoes beneath this part of Antarctica to nearly 140, and raise the unsettling possibility that subglacial heat from these volcanoes could speed up the melting of the ice. SEE ALSO: One of the largest icebergs ever recorded just broke free of Antarctica The study, from researchers at Edinburgh University, used radar data from aircraft and satellites that penetrates through the ice to expose the rock below. They then analyzed the observations to find basalt rock formations closely resembling volcanoes. According to the study, the volcanoes are concentrated along the 1,864-mile-long West Antarctic Rift System, which extends from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Peninsula. "It is fascinating to uncover an extensive range of volcanoes in this relatively unexplored continent," said study co-author Robert Bingham, in a press release. "Better understanding of volcanic activity could shed light on their impact on Antarctica's ice in the past, present and future, and on other rift systems around the world." If the discovery is validated by further work, the newly-found volcanoes could make the West Antarctic Ice Sheet home to one of the densest volcanic ranges in the world, similar to East Africa's volcanic ridge. Critically, though, the study does not indicate whether the subglacial volcanoes are currently active. But it does raise reasons to be both concerned and also potentially optimistic about how the volcanoes could either hasten or hinder Antarctic ice melt. Heating from below is already being looked at as a contributor to glacial ice loss in Antarctica and elsewhere. A 2014 study found that geothermal heat has been hastening the melting of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, for example. Data from the study showing the identification of cone-shaped formations under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.Image: M. VAN WYK DE VRIES ET ALBut one possibility the study raises is that as more ice melts above these volcanoes, it will encourage molten rock, known as magma, to flow upwards, increasing volcanic activity. This dynamic, where melting glaciers are leading to more active volcanic activity, has been observed in Iceland, the study notes. Any additional subglacial heat would flow into the bottom of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, speeding its flow into the sea, where it would hasten sea level rise. There is another possibility, though, which is that the protrusions of the subglacial volcanoes could act to "pin" parts of the ice sheet in place, the study found. In this way, it could actually slow the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. "Numerical models used to project potential rates of WAIS [West Antarctic Ice Sheet] retreat show that, once initiated, ice retreat will continue unabated as long as the ice bed is smooth and downslopes inland, but that any increase in roughness or obstacle in the bed can act to delay or stem retreat," the study states. "We have identified here a number of volcanic edifices sitting within the [West Antarctic Ice Sheet's] deep basins; these edifices, which are likely to owe their existence to volcanism, could represent some of the most influential pinning points for past and future ice retreat," the study says. So, if you live in a coastal location and are worried about sea level rise, you might want to add volcanic activity to your list of things to closely watch for signs of how Antarctica will respond to a warming climate.
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| Questions about lawyers' fees put El Chapo defense in limbo Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:29 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Private lawyers seeking to represent Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in his U.S. drug-trafficking case failed to get assurances Monday that they'll get paid, leaving the Mexican drug lord's defense in limbo.
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| Tesla Tiny House Towed By Model X Promotes Energy Products In Australia Posted: 14 Aug 2017 05:20 AM PDT  Customers can request a Tesla Tiny Home visit on the company's website.
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| White House defends Trump's response to Virginia violence Posted: 13 Aug 2017 11:27 AM PDT  The White House on Sunday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest Saturday in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups. A young woman died and 19 people were injured in the city of Charlottesville when a car plowed into a crowd of people after a rally by Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists turned violent. A full day after the violence erupted, and after an initial statement in which Trump made no mention of white extremism, a White House spokesperson issued a statement saying, "The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred.
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| Nigeria's Buhari "feels ready to go home", awaiting doctor's OK Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:18 AM PDT  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said he feels ready to return home from medical leave in Britain, and is awaiting his doctor's permission, a presidency statement said on Saturday. Buhari's extended absence for an undisclosed ailment, his second this year, left many in Nigeria questioning whether he was well enough to run the country. The president has spent more time since the beginning of 2017 in Britain than in Nigeria.
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| Charlottesville driver accused of plowing through counter-protesters ‘idolized’ Hitler, says former teacher Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:39 AM PDT  The man accused of driving his car through a crowd of activists in Virginia — killing one and injuring 19 more — idolised Hitler and white supremacy, a former teacher of his says. A former history teacher of James Alex Fields Jr's says that, in high school, his former pupil accused of second degree murder sympathised with Nazi views and espoused extremist ideals as a student. Mr Fields is 20-years-old.
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| Those Game of Thrones Ravens Are Based on Real Birds Who Also Had Important Jobs Posted: 14 Aug 2017 05:55 AM PDT  There's a reason they're trusted with such big secrets
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| 3 Things Nobody Tells You About Your Credit Score (But Should) Posted: 14 Aug 2017 07:36 AM PDT ![3 Things Nobody Tells You About Your Credit Score (But Should)]( "3 Things Nobody Tells You About Your Credit Score (But Should)") It's expensive to have a crummy credit score. It can end up costing you thousands of dollars during your lifetime just in higher interest rates on mortgages, credit cards and car loans. What's far less clear is exactly what a credit score is all about and just how people can change their crummy credit for the better.
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| More than 200 killed in Sierra Leone as mudslide sweeps away homes Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:29 AM PDT ![More than 200 killed in Sierra Leone as mudslide sweeps away homes]( "More than 200 killed in Sierra Leone as mudslide sweeps away homes") More than 200 people were killed when a mudslide struck the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes. The Red Cross said at least 205 bodies had been taken to the central morgue in Freetown. The death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are recovered, Red Cross spokesman Abu Bakarr Tarawallie said.
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| US Navy reports another tense encounter with an Iran drone Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:49 AM PDT ![US Navy reports another tense encounter with an Iran drone]( "US Navy reports another tense encounter with an Iran drone") DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An unarmed Iranian drone shadowed a U.S. aircraft carrier at night and came close enough to F-18 fighter jets to put the lives of American pilots at risk, the Navy said Tuesday, reporting the second such tense encounter within a week.
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| Yemeni man executed for rape, murder of 4-year-old Posted: 14 Aug 2017 02:16 AM PDT  Yemenis gathered Monday in the rebel-held capital to witness the putting to death of a man convicted of raping and killing a child, in the second such public execution in weeks. Hussein al-Saket, 22, was found guilty of abducting, raping and murdering a four-year-old girl, who he later buried, said Rajeh Ezzedine, a judge who attended the execution. Ali Ayedh, the victim's uncle, said Saket "took part in the search for the girl before being unmasked" during the police investigation.
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| How To Get Rid of Fruit Flies Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:00 PM PDT  Fruit flies are annoying.
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| Charlottesville White Nationalist Groups: a Guide Posted: 13 Aug 2017 03:27 AM PDT  The alt-right, Neo-Confederacy groups and racist fraternities were all involved in the Unite the Right protest.
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| How many nukes are in the world and what could they destroy? Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:06 AM PDT  Tensions over nuclear weapons have been raised further after Donald Trump said North Korea will be met with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" after US intelligence concluded the rogue state has produced a miniaturised nuclear warhead. This latest move comes amid increasing concern over North Korea's military capabilities, with the new US administration upping its rhetoric in response. While the Pyongyang regime increases the frequency with which it is conducting missile tests, Donald Trump's defence secretary Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis has previously warned North Korea of an "effective and overwhelming" response if Pyongyang used nuclear weapons. Elsewhere, rhetoric hints at a return of the expansion of nuclear arsenals across the world. In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a meeting of defence chiefs that strengthening nuclear capability should be a key objective for 2017. Donald Trump then took to Twitter to respond, vowing to do the same. The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016 Such rhetoric has led to concerns about the world's nuclear capacity and the unpredictability of those in charge of the warheads. It seems the world is a long way from "coming to its senses" - with millions of kilotons already in military service around the world. Between them, the world's nuclear-armed states have around 15,000 warheads - the majority of which belong to the US and Russia. It is estimated that just under 10,000 of these are in military service, with the rest awaiting dismantlement, according to the Arms Control Association. Putin says Russia should strengthen its nuclear arsenal 00:51 Which countries have nuclear weapons? There are five nuclear-weapon states in the world: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States. These are officially recognised as possessing such weapons by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This treaty acknowledges and legitimises their arsenals, but they are not supposed to build or maintain them forever. Indeed, they have committed to eliminate them. There are also four other countries that have nuclear weapons: Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea. These countries didn't sign the Treaty, and together possess an estimated 340 nuclear weapons. But it's Russia and the US that have by far the most in the world - dominating all other countries by collectively sharing 88 per cent of the world's arsenal of stockpiled nukes. This figure increases to 93 per cent when we consider retired nukes. How the world's 15,000 nukes are divided How deadly could these nuclear weapons be? The world's current collection of 14,900 nuclear weapons possesses enough power to kill millions of people and flatten dozens of cities. According to Telegraph research, it is estimated that the US and Russian arsenals combined have power equating to 6,600 megatons. This is a tenth of the total solar energy received by Earth every minute. According to the NukeMap website, the dropping of the B-83, the largest bomb in the current US arsenal, would kill 1.4m people in the first 24 hours. A further 3.7m people would be injured, as the thermal radiation radius reached 13.km. Likewise, the "Tsar Bomba" is the largest USSR bomb tested. If this bomb was dropped on New York, it is estimated that it could kill 7.6m people and injure 4.2m more. The nuclear fallout could reach an approximate area of 7,880km on a 15mph wind, impacting millions more people. Both America and Russia's arsenals are regulated by several treaties that place limits on the numbers and kinds of warheads and delivery systems they have. If either country were to expand their nuclear capacity even further, as Trump and Putin have hinted at, it could shatter these agreements and plunge the world into a new Cold War. North Korean missile ranges Our figures on nuclear weapons, based on statistics from the Arms Control Association, are mainly estimates because of the secretive nature with which most governments treat information about their arsenals.
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| Lion rescued from Syria zoo gives birth in Jordan reserve Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:10 PM PDT  SOUF, Jordan (AP) — The odds had been stacked against Hajar, a lion cub born just hours after her mother Dana, rescued from a defunct zoo in war-torn Syria, was released into a wildlife reserve in Jordan.
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| 'Biggest Driver Distraction of the Century.' Officials Brace for a Solar Eclipse Traffic Nightmare Posted: 14 Aug 2017 06:00 AM PDT  The eclipse is expected to cause severe traffic congestion across the country
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