Just last week it was reported by The Slatest that the militant group ISIS has officially named the US dollar as their primary and only acceptable form of currency.
North Korea has threatened to attack South Korea and the United States if the two allies conduct joint drills in March. Pyongyang says the exercises are preparations for war and says it will retaliate.
Denmark is said to throw away huge amounts of food every year, but it has just taken a major step towards alleviating the problem. Its first social supermarket with surplus food is now open to customers.
Quietly as an aside in a speech, the Head of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, confessed that QE has little if any impact on GDP growth.
I touched upon this issue previously, but I want to reiterate it here because it is absolutely ASTOUNDING.
Astronomers have found an extraordinary trail of gas greater than 300,000 light years across originating from a nearby galaxy called NGC 4569, according to a report in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Editor's Note: How very interesting it all is… the gamemakers are claiming dominion over our perceptions, our thoughts, our experiences, emotions, etc. Are we still operating within the bounds of reality?
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for talks this week as each country accuses the other of escalating military tensions in the western Pacific.
The sea stretched toward the horizon last New Year's Eve as the Theo T, a red-and-white tug at her side, slipped quietly beneath the Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge in Texas. Few Americans knew she was sailing into history.
Back in August, we warned that things were about to get much worse for Standard Chartered, whose EM focus makes the bank especially vulnerable to the ongoing downturn in commodities and the generally poor outlook for the emerging world in an environm
As a surprise to absolutely no one, those who personally benefit from the success of fossil fuel industries are again scrambling to fight large scale progress toward cleaner energy.
A new analysis of the world's oldest banded iron formations (BIFs)-- marine chemical sediments located in Western Greenland often used as geochemical archives, scientists have discovered that Earth's atmosphere contained small amounts of oxygen e
While orbiting the dark side of the moon during their 1969 voyage, Apollo 10 astronauts Tom Stafford, John Young, and Eugene Cernan described hearing unusual "outer-space type" music, and now, nearly four decades later, NASA has finally released
I never recommend Big Pharma's over-the-counter decongestants to my patients. First of all, there's enough evidence out there to tell you they can make you even more congested than you were to begin with -- and for longer.
which end in price controls, scarcity and mass famine...
Widespread starvation, food scarcity in Venezuela, inevitable result of socialist economic policies which end in price controls, scarcity and mass famine
The pound fell the most since the U.K.'s 2009 banking crisis after London Mayor Boris Johnson, one of the nation's most popular politicians, said he'll campaign for Britain to leave the European Union in a June referendum.
Dale Oxley doesn't need to hear about rising odds of a U.S. recession to dread the future. For the West Virginia homebuilder, the downturn has already arrived.
While in the US market breaks practically always happen when the market is sharply lower, and are intended to halt any downward momentum, in Europe this simple relationship has yet to be perfected, and for the past hour, following what it announced w
Take everything you know about data storage and set it aside, because a breakthrough from a research team at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC) could change everything.
For the first time, researchers have successfully detected the presence of gases in the atmosphere of a super-Earth, an exoplanet with a mass higher than that of our homeworld but far less than an ice giant such as Uranus or Neptune, a soon-to-be-pub