Germany's Pirate Party won four seats in the Saarland state parliament on Monday.
The new party, led in the western state by 22-year-old Jasmin Maurer, took an impressive 7.4 percent of the parliamentary vote despite only having three months to prepare f ...[
Read more]
"The Register reports on a paper published in Science in 1981 projecting global mean temperatures up to the year 2100. 'When the 1981 paper was written, temperatures in the northern hemispheres were declining, and global mean temperatures were below their ...[
Read more]
Currently, super rich, and the small segment which earns $1 million or more every year, pay lower taxes than the middle class who earns less.
The so-called ...[
Read more]
The UN is to conduct an investigation into the plight of US Native Americans, the first such mission in its history.
The human rights inquiry led by James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, is scheduled to begin on Monday.
Many of t ...[
Read more]
The US is preparing to face FBI-drafted legislation enabling it to monitor any personal communication activities in the web. It aims to use preset backdoors in social networks, online messaging, internet telephony and even Xbox gaming servers.
Tech media ...[
Read more]
Right wing government of Canada hastily decided to make it illegal for students to engage in activism, and be members of political constructs. Coincidentally this happened after they started protesting tuition hikes.
Today 10,000 students defied that p ...[
Read more]
Photographer Marco di Lauro said he nearly ...[
Read more]
After the capture of an ex-Guantanamo detainee in Homs as an alleged terror network mastermind, Syrian security is now researching this subject in-depth. In future, Syria may take some of these foreign elements to be dealt with in court under live TV cove ...[
Read more]
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has sued 16 big banks that set a crucial global interest rate, accusing them of fraud and conspiring to keep the rate low to enrich themselves.
The banks, which include Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chas ...[
Read more]