Mom Carried Severely Disabled Twin to Term So He Could Be an Organ Donor
Date posted: April 24, 2015
Teddy Houlston, a newborn baby who died less than two hours after he was born, became Britain’s youngest organ donor last year after his kidneys and heart valves were given to adults in need, and now his family is sharing their story, ABC News reports. Houlston’s parents say they knew...
Police: No Forced Entry to Hatton Garden Building in Jewelry Heist
Date posted: April 10, 2015
Police said Thursday that there was no sign of forced entry to a building in a spectacular holiday weekend heist of safe deposit boxes in the heart of London’s jewelry district. Detective Chief Inspector Paul Johnson of the London Metropolitan Police Flying Squad said the thieves appeared to have gained...
Tim Cook will give away his Apple fortune
Date posted: March 27, 2015
This is probably not what Steve Jobs would do. In an interview with Fortune‘s Adam Lashinsky this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that he will give away his Apple fortune — at least $700 million — before he dies. The only direct contribution to his own family will be...
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz ‘hid illness from employers’
Date posted: March 27, 2015
Investigators searching the Düsseldorf apartment of the co-pilot on the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday have found evidence he hid an illness from his employers, prosecutors said on Friday. The evidence is a torn-up doctors’ note, signing him off work on the day of the...
Why pot entrepreneurs are moving to Canada
Date posted: March 20, 2015
There’s a place where you can buy medical marijuana without any worries, a place where the people growing marijuana wear laboratory-style “clean suits,” where scientists do extensive research into potential treatments using cannabis, and where marijuana business owners can put their cash into a bank account instead of a vault....
Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal
Date posted: March 6, 2015
Earlier this week, The New York Times broke the story that former Secretary of State and likely Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may have violated Department of State rules by using a personal email account rather than a government one. Others, like Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast, said she...
’50 Shades of Grey’ Goes Black on Chinese Internet
Date posted: February 27, 2015
Chinese Web users hoping to catch the new sexual bondage film “Fifty Shades of Grey” were taking a beating on Friday, after several sites that had planned to stream the film abruptly changed course. The sites, LeTV.com, iQiyi.com and v.qq.com, had said on social media that they would offer the...
Snowden’s Revenge: New Mega-Spying Project Revealed
Date posted: February 20, 2015
After 20 months and dozens of stories from Edward Snowden’s classified document trove, you might’ve been tempted to think that there was nothing shocking left to learn about the lengths Western intelligence services would go in the hunt for a relative handful of spies, terrorists, and other criminals. Think again....
More Missing Girls, Feared Heading for ISIS
Date posted: February 20, 2015
Three teenage girls from London are missing and feared to be traveling to Syria to potentially join ISIS, Scotland Yard announced Friday. Shamina Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and an unnamed 15-year-old left the U.K. on Tuesday on a flight to Turkey. Police said the three girls told their families they...
Valentine’s Day Roses: The Real Cost of Your Flowers
Date posted: February 13, 2015
Come Valentine’s Day thousands of people will be giving and receiving roses to loved ones as a traditional sign of affection. And thanks to a mini price war between the large supermarket chains a dozen roses have never been cheaper. A glance at the advertisements this week reveals Morrisons charge...