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A Touch of the Toxic, for Good or Ill

15.11.2013 14:03
Vampire bat saliva and a zebra longwing butterfly, devil’s gardens and fossilized fish teeth, golden-frog secretions and the sap of a manchineel tree: Pity the poor witches of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” who had to settle for “tooth of wolf” and “tongue of dog.” Their boiling caldron makes...

China to Loosen Its One-Child Policy

15.11.2013 13:59
HONG KONG — The Chinese government will ease its one-child family size restrictions and abolish re- education through labor camps, significantly curtailing two policies that for decades have defined the state’s power to control citizens’ lives, the Communist Party said on Friday. The changes were...

US citizen, Briton sentenced in absentia for 1971 war crimes in Bangladesh

08.11.2013 22:03
DHAKA — A Bangladesh war crimes court convicted and sentenced to death in absentia on Sunday two men accused of committing atrocities during the country's war of independence from Pakistan in 1971. Britain-based Muslim leader Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, a U.S. citizen, were found...

8 killed, 10 injured in Bolivia plane crash

08.11.2013 22:00
LA PAZ — A Bolivian plane carrying 18 people crashed on Sunday while trying to land during bad weather in the north of the Andean country, killing eight passengers and injuring the others on board, the director of a local hospital told Reuters. Heavy rain was falling as the small turboprop plane...

Why deposed Egypt president Morsi's trial is so important

08.11.2013 21:58
CAIRO -- Former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi goes on trial Monday , four months after being ousted in a popularly-backed coup. He is accused of inciting the murder of anti-government protesters who gathered outside his palace in Cairo last December. Morsi’s fall from grace has taken place at...

Discovery of Nazi-plundered art offers glimpse 'into a dark story'

08.11.2013 21:55
MUNICH — Hundreds of works of art by Picasso, Matisse and other masters of the 20th century — seized by the Nazis, lost for decades and now worth more than $1 billion — were reportedly found among piles of rotting groceries in a German apartment. The find would be among the largest in the worldwide...

Colombian women on 'crossed legs' sex strike over crumbling highway

08.11.2013 21:52
BOGOTA, Colombia — Sex sells, but no sex? That apparently gets the job done. To ensure that friends and neighbors could commute along a crumbling highway in a timely manner, a group of women in a remote Colombian town decided to cross their legs. The women of Barbacoas made headlines in 2011 by...

Mortar hits Vatican Embassy in Syrian capital Damascus

08.11.2013 21:49
A mortar round damaged the Vatican Embassy in Damascus early Tuesday, officials said. Speaking from the Syrian capital, Archbishop Mario Zenari told NBC News that there were no injuries as most of the personnel had not arrived for work when the blast occurred at around 6:30 a.m. local time...

Virtual girl dubbed 'Sweetie' snares thousands of would-be sex predators

08.11.2013 21:48
Thousands of would-be predators asked a girl to perform sex acts online unaware that she was actually a computer-generated digital decoy named "Sweetie" created by a charity. In little more than two months, more than 1,000 people were identified by children's rights group Terre des Hommes after...

Toronto mayor Rob Ford won't resign after admitting he smoked crack cocaine

08.11.2013 21:46
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Tuesday he won't resign, hours after admitting he smoked crack cocaine, probably "in one of my drunken stupors." "I was elected to do a job and that’s exactly what I’m going to continue doing," Ford said during a press conference at which he...
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