No mercy: Warrior, as he has now been named by rescue workers, was found buried five feet under the ground, covered in dirt. Cruelty beyond words in South Africa: The disabled dog ‘buried alive by school caretakers annoyed by its barking’. Traumatised and just minutes from death, a disabled stray was rescued after allegedly being buried alive by school caretakers. Police think the unwanted... 

Genocide Watch updated its Genocide warning for South Africa on 20 Aug 2011 from ‘Boer farmers’ being at risk of genocide stage 5 to include all whites and women being at risk of Stage 6 genocide at the hands of “ANC Youth, black Marxist racists”. It did not continue its previous stage 5 warning that ‘foreign black Africans’ were also at risk. Genocide Watch: “Julius... 

A mounted policeman pursues an Occupy Melbourne protester, as hundreds were forecibly evicted from City Square in Melbourne today. Police are arresting protesters who took part in the Occupy Melbourne demonstration after more than 100 officers moved in to clear city streets. Riot and mounted police broke up a group of several hundred protesters who blocked the intersection of Swanston and Collins streets... 

Towards the twentieth condemnation of U.S. blockade against Cuba. While the United States intensified its economic blockade against Cuban trade and finance, the UN General Assembly advanced a new condemnation almost unanimously, against this siege, the twentieth in 20 consecutive years. The topic will be considered by the highest organ of the United Nations next Tuesday, when it will vote on a resolution... 

Arrested: Video footage shows a woman being detained outside of a Citibank branch in Manhattan after she attempts to enter with her chequebook in hand. The banks fight back: Customers locked in and arrested after attempting to close their accounts in Occupy Wall Street protests. Banks across America appear to be fighting the growing protest against income disparity and rising fees as the Occupy Wall... 

Apparently female driving isn’t the only thing that’s banned in Saudi Arabia. Tattoos, too, are another no-no in the ultra-conservative Middle Eastern nation — a lesson that one man and his family have learned all too well. Juan Pablo Pino, a 24-year-old soccer player from Columbia, was reportedly arrested in Saudi Arabia last Friday. Pino’s apparent offense was walking through a mall, while... 

A hacker group says Berlin may have software to spy on citizens. A number of other German states have followed Bavaria in confirming the use of a controversial software program to spy on people through their computers. The German justice minister has demanded an investigation. Several additional German states have admitted to deploying spyware in order to investigate serious criminal offenses, according... 

Australia has passed its controversial carbon tax law. One of the worst aspects of living in these apocalyptic times is that whenever you look around the world, wondering where you might escape to, you begin to realise that everywhere else is just as bad if not worse. Take Australia, an island built on fossil fuel with an economy dependent on fossil fuel. What would be the maddest economic policy a... 

A court in Kiev has sentenced Ukraine’s ex-prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, to seven years in prison for an abuse of her office. Her supporters and opponents have taken to the streets, raising fears that violence could break out. Immediately after the verdict was pronounced, Yulia Tymoshenko condemned the decision. “I do not agree with the verdict,” said Tymoshenko. “No authoritarian... 

Fanboys: Phoenix Jones has a growing number of followers, and over 9,000 Facebook fans. Instead of the bad guys, it was Seattle’s most prolific self-styled superhero that ended up in handcuffs. Police officers arrested the 23-year-old man who calls himself Phoenix Jones early on Sunday after he was accused of assaulting several people with pepper spray. He was booked in county jail on four counts... 

Scene from the 2002 Sci-Fi movie “Minority Report” which is now set to become real. An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned. If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called “Minority... 

Ketchup has been banned in student cafeterias in France within the framework of the propaganda of healthy diet. Cafeterias may now serve ketchup only with French fries and only once a week. The new rules also stipulate the increase of vegetable dishes on the menu and the decrease of the content of fat in the food. “Canteens have a public health mission, but also an educative mission,”... 

Charged with numerous counts of child molesting including murder, Sergey Kutnyuk was sentenced by Sverdlovsk Region Court to life imprisonment. The Russian parliament has approved a law on pedophilia in a first reading. From now on people found guilty of sex crimes against children under the age of 14 will face chemical castration, while repeat offenders face a life sentence. ­According to the new... 

London’s elite real estate reached another maximum level in September. The average price on a real estate object in the British capital hit the level of 3.968 million pounds sterling. This is 4.5% higher than before the crisis in March 2008. Houses and apartments in London became 11.4% more expensive within a year. In comparison with March 2009, the prices have grown by 37.2%. London remains... 

Protesters on the lower deck of the Brooklyn Bridge. Over 700 protesters were arrested during the March on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York the arrests come after more than two weeks of constant protest by activists who say that Wall Street has become too greedy. The protests are called Occupy Wall Street and is organized by the Canadian anti-consumerist group Adbusters. Protesters have been camping...