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Kiev is putting Moscow to shame, said Yulia Latynina. Even after riot police beat up protesters last week, 1 million Ukrainians took to the squares to protest their president’s foreign policy. By contrast, Moscow, a city four times as large, ...

The Chinese government has revealed that it has a nationwide surveillance system to track dissidents, and it bears the same name as the evil computer network that tries to destroy humanity in the Terminator movies. Skynet, begun in 2005, has ...

In Siberia anthrax has been the cause of the death of a 12-year-old boy due to climate change in the area.  The unusually warm weather has caused the release of bacteria from some dead animals that were infected with anthrax.  ...

Being a pessimist may be raising your blood sugars and blood pressure which may lead to heart disease.  During an 11-year study of over 2000 men and women – some optimists and some pessimists – they found that the 121 ...

Scientists have discovered that the moon Europa the sixth closest moon to Jupiter has been spewing plumes of water more than 20 times taller than Mt. Everest.  The Hubble Space Telescope has taken images of this activity in recent years.  ...

Researchers have found a bus sized dinosaur. A new species of sauropod that lived about 80 million years ago in Egypt.  Paleontologists found the remains in the Sahara Desert of the bus size dinosaur that measured approximately 33 feet long ...

A new World Health Organization report shows that 3.3 million people die each year from alcohol use. Here's a look at annual alcohol intake around the world in liters per person over age 14: ...

Scandinavian countries – Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden are considered to have a high global ranking in which they exceed in happiness, lack of corruption, gender equality, and they eat more organic vegetables.  Are we becoming blinded by the ...

Teenagers in America are facing an epidemic of anxiety and depression.  When freshmen were asked, they said that they feel overwhelmed with all the studying and work that they must accomplish.  Most teens feel that they need to be perfect ...

What will it take for France to get serious about regulating prescription drugs? asked Sauveur Boukris. We French love to take pills; we are the biggest consumers of medicines in Europe. French doctors “tend to prescribe far more heavily” than ...