Privacy expert argues “algorithmic transparency” is crucial for online...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), explained that...
View ArticleSan Bernadino shooter Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State:...
San Bernardino, California: One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State jihadist group, two US government sources said...
View ArticleSan Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State:...
San Bernardino, California: One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State jihadist group, two US government sources said...
View ArticleUK Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan raped followers, kept daughter a...
London: A Maoist cult leader was found guilty on Friday of raping and beating his brainwashed female followers, while keeping his own daughter a fearful prisoner for more than 30 years in homes across...
View ArticleSan Bernardino shooting: Strange and surreal scenes inside the house of...
In almost three decades in journalism, you would think you'd have seen it all. The best, and the worst, that the profession, and those who it encounters, have to offer. And then, in one surreal moment,...
View ArticleParis attacks inquiry 'dramatically expanded' to Eastern Europe
Brussels: The investigation into the Paris terrorist attacks, previously focused on jihadist networks in France and Belgium, has widened with a Belgian federal prosecutor announcing that one of the...
View ArticleSouth African authorities deny issuing arrest warrant for Oscar Pistorius
Johannesburg: South African authorities on Friday denied issuing an arrest warrant for Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted on appeal of murdering his girlfriend...
View ArticleWitnesses thought Miami Beach art show stabbing was performance art
Onlookers at a Miami art show thought they were watching performance art. It was actually a violent crime. On Friday night, the Art Basel Miami Beach was turned into a crime scene after a fight between...
View ArticleKeiko Fujimori launches new Peru presidential bid
Paracas, Peru: Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's jailed former leader Alberto Fujimori, has launched a second bid for the presidency, saying she would tap the government's rainy day fund to help...
View ArticleSuspected adviser to creator of black market Silk Road arrested in Thailand
New York: A Canadian man has been arrested in Thailand for his alleged role as a senior adviser to the creator of Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods were sold, US...
View ArticleLa Bonne Biere, site of Paris terror attacks, re-opens
A Paris bar where five people died in the November jihadist attacks became the first to re-open on Friday, customers defiantly returning to where black-clad gunmen sprayed bullets at terrified evening...
View Article'San Bernardino killers were our followers': Islamic State
San Bernardino: Islamic State says that a married couple who killed 14 people in California in an attack the FBI is investigating as an "act of terrorism" were followers of the militant group based in...
View ArticleTriple suicide blast kills dozens on Lake Chad island
N'Djamena: Three suicide bombers attacked the island of Koulfoua on the Chadian side of Lake Chad on Saturday, killing around 30 people and injuring...
View ArticleMyanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi 'optimistic' after meeting the dictator who...
Yangon: Aung San Suu Kyi is positive about Myanmar's future after meeting the former dictator who detained her for 15 years. Suu Kyi met secretly on Friday with the former strongman Than Shwe, a...
View ArticleIraq says Turkish troops inside its borders are 'violating international law'
Baghdad: Iraqi President Fouad Massoum has called the deployment of several hundred Turkish troops inside Iraq near the northern city of Mosul "a violation of international norms and law". But Turkish...
View ArticleYoung girls carry out suicide attacks in Lake Chad, killing around 30 people
Three suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked the Chadian island of Koulfoua on Lake Chad on Saturday, killing around 30 people and injuring 80, security sources told Reuters, in one of their...
View ArticleDisease threatens the commercial banana
In the mid 1900s, the most popular banana in the world - a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel grown in Latin America - all but disappeared from the planet. At the time, it was the only banana in...
View ArticleMan seriously injured in stabbing at London's Leytonstone tube station
A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing at a London train station, with his alleged assailant reportedly shouting "This is for Syria" during the attack. Police are treating the...
View ArticleFar-right National Front eyes big gains in French regional elections
Paris: France will go to the polls today in regional elections just three weeks after deadly Islamic State attacks in Paris that could bring strong gains for the far-right National Front. Security will...
View ArticleAudio purported to be of Taliban leader denies account of his death
Kabul: The Taliban have issued what they said was an audio recording of their leader, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, in an effort to quiet speculation that he had been killed or wounded in an...
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