Heart disease, stroke brought on by air pollution led to about 80% of deaths. Air pollution killed 7 million people across the globe in 2012, making it the world’s largest single environmental […]
WHO Report: Air Pollution Killed 7 Million People in 2012
Photo of the day
Tori and Sashimi under the tracks in Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan. Photograph by Brian Kemper on Google+.
Afghanistan’s first spaceman returns home
In 1988, just as the Soviet army was preparing to pull out of Afghanistan, a rocket blasted off carrying the first and only Afghan to travel into space. Abdulahad Momand returned to […]
Nordic support for Scottish independence
We, writers from Norway and Sweden, are only too well aware that there will be a referendum in Scotland on September 18 to vote for or against independence. We have been taken […]
Time to grab guns and kill damn Russians: Tymoshenko tape leak
Ukrainians must take up arms against Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands; an example of former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko’s vitriol in phone call leaked […]
German officials intercepts condoms with a quarter of a kilo cocaine en route to the Vatican
German customs officials have intercepted a package addressed to the Vatican containing 14 condoms filled with cocaine, the finance ministry said Sunday. A ministry spokesman told AFP that a box packed with […]
Yoko Ono and John Lennon with John Tchicai at Cambridge University in 1969
I was asked to visit Cambridge University to perform my vocal work. Near the date, they called me, asking if I was still coming… since they knew that I was about to […]
To Russia With Love
Here are some excerpts from a great read on Medium about modern Russia: ALMOST EXACTLY FOUR YEARS AGO I WAS SITTING IN A TINY kitchen in Kyiv with two guys named Sasha, […]
The Internet was funded by the Pentagon and still controlled by the U.S. government but that is about to change
The Internet began as a Pentagon-funded project called ARPANET, a network linking computers in some American universities and government agencies. Eventually, it was opened up to become the world wide web, connecting […]
Breaking news: Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian ocean – no survivors
Message from Malaysia Airlines to the families: ‘We deeply regret that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board have […]
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