Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from your buying habits that you’re pregnant even before your family does.
That is the terrifying dystopian world portrayed by a … Read the rest
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted a totally invasive Internet.
At the end of a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where his comments were webcast, he was asked for his prediction on the future … Read the rest
He adopted the religion of peace and forthwith proceeded to shatter the peace of his countrymen.
In the waning months of 2014, Quebecker Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo in the back, at Canada’s National War Memorial in Ottawa. Zehaf-Bibeau … Read the rest
The two people nominated by Gov. Greg Abbott to join the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System support affirmative action.
On Thursday, Abbott nominated Sara Martinez Tucker of Laredo, head of an education nonprofit and a former … Read the rest
A Dutch woman who was a corporal in the Dutch army named Yvette is about to lose her job due to her relationship with a Turk, Mehmet.
“I could not believe I got into trouble because I was in love,” … Read the rest
In Pegida’s first ever press conference in Dresden on Monday, Lutz Bachmann insisted that the group was not racist, and distanced themselves from footage during a lively television debate showing Pegida demonstrators delivering racist remarks.
Bachmann has been most keen … Read the rest
Nearly one million Muslims rallied in Grozny, Chechnya against the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. There are only 1.3 million people in all of Chechnya.
They’re more upset with the magazine than they are with the killer Kouachi brothers.
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“Black lives matter” has become the slogan of anti-police protests across the nation, but the target of the protests is so misplaced that the motives of the so-called civil rights leaders behind the movement must be questioned. Do they really … Read the rest
France’s prime minister is launching a new bid to heal what he called a nation fractured between haves and have-nots, after terrorist attacks exposed long-simmering discrimination and social and religious tensions.
Manuel Valls shocked many this week by referring to … Read the rest
Just 16 in 1988, the boy who would become film star Mark Wahlberg assaulted two Asian men while trying to steal two cases of beer from a convenience store.
More than 25 years later, Wahlberg, a devout Catholic and philanthropist, … Read the rest
A squadron of 1,700 private jets are rumbling into Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss global warming and other issues as the annual World Economic Forum gets underway.
The influx of private jets is so great, the Swiss Armed Forces … Read the rest
An elderly white couple was badly injured after being tortured in the latest farm attack at De Wildt near Brits, North West police said on Wednesday.
Three armed black men wearing blue overall pants attacked Hannes (80) and his wife … Read the rest
Two suspects are still at large after the murder of a Midrand woman.
Black domestic worker Deliwe Zwakala appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and conspiracy to commit robbery.
The … Read the rest
The Bundesbank successfully continued and further stepped up its transfers of gold last year. In 2014, 120 tonnes of gold were transferred to Frankfurt am Main from storage locations abroad: 35 tonnes from Paris and 85 tonnes from New York. … Read the rest