The U.S. has already spent $1 trillion on the drug war, but drug traffic increases in the country. Despite the trillion dollars spent on the drug war, the United States continues living with the epidemic of heroin use. According to the annual report of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health Institute (NSDUH), there was a significant increase in trafficking throughout the country. And additionally:... 

Brazil has added 30 US military robots to the Israeli drones and ‘Robocop-style’ glasses with face recognition cameras to its arsenal after the country allocated $900 million to make 2014 World Cup “one of the most protected sports events in history.” The 30 PackBot 510 units, which usually cost between $100,000 and $200,000 apiece, will arrive in Brazil as part of the $7.2... 

The novel coronavirus, dubbed nCoV-EMC, is similar to the one that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which broke out in Hong Kong about a decade ago. France has reported its second case of infection with a deadly new SARS-like virus as investigation to identify other potential cases continues. The patient contracted the virus after sharing a hospital ward with the first patient infected... 

Children who live in areas with air traffic pollution are threatened by higher risk of insulin resistance that can lead to diabetes in adults, a new study suggests. According to the study on 400 participants of 10-year-olds conducted by German researchers, air pollutants are oxidizers that can impact on lipids and proteins in the blood. To measure the participated kids’ glucose and insulin, they... 

Our wonderful economic model, you know, the one with endemic unemployment, ever-rising prices, frozen salaries, homelessness, worsening public services and increasing taxation, has failed the next generation (or three) miserably. The ILO’s latest report on employment reads like a social terrorist manual. And these are the policies blindly followed by the drivers of the western economy, the FUKUS... 

An Argentinian ghost town is re-emerging as a tourist destination after spending 25 years underwater. Epecuen’s revival as a visitor attraction is fitting – the scenic lakeside town was built as a tourist village in the 1920s. Epecuen was once a bustling lakeside resort in the farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires. Filled with saltwater baths and spas, the area attracted around 20,000 tourists... 

Rise: A man walks outside a Greek Manpower Employment Organisation office,in central Athens. Greek youth unemployment rose above 60 percent for the first time in February Greek youth unemployment rose above 60 per cent for the first time in February, reflecting the pain caused by the country’s crippling recession after years of austerity under its international bailout. Greece’s jobless... 

The new integration minister in the Italian government, born to a polygamous father, plans to legalize polygamy in Italy. Cécile Kyenge, Minister for Integration in the new Italian government, who admits having been an illegal immigrant in Italy when she first arrived, has stirred up controversy in Italy by saying she wants to suppress the notion of illegal immigration in Italy. Born into a family... 

A team of researchers in the United States has discovered that higher levels of a gene called parkin extend the life span and maintain health in fruit flies. On Monday, the researchers said that a gene, which behaves like a garbage man by disposing of damaged materials in cells, had increased the life spans of fruit flies and may open new windows in dealing with human aging. The study, which was published... 

A number of regions of Syria on Wednesday night was cut off from the Internet and international communications, Egyptian MENA agency reported. According to sources, inbound and outbound traffic from Syria fell sharply. Representatives of Renesys company, which monitors global network traffic, confirmed the fact. According to the portal, all sites registered in the local domain zone “.sy”,... 

A new research has revealed that four inexpensive products can avert the death risk of babies, who die on their birth day, an American non-profit organization announced. Four products costing between 13 cents and USD 6 each can save the babies who are at the risk of death shortly after birth, according to the report released by ‘Save the Children’ organization that aims to improve the lives of... 

State-school educated water management specialist Willem-Alexander does not really care what you call him. Perhaps he would prefer people forget his one-time nickname Prince Pils, acquired owing to his youthful fondness for a few beers, but there will be none of this “Your Majesty” business as the 46-year-old settles into his new job as the first King of the Netherlands since 1890. “People can... 

Americans are now more likely to die by their own hands than from a car accident or a murder-related incident, a grim statistic that shines a light on abusive corporate practices. Judging by the latest data by the Center for Disease Control, something is driving Americans to become their own worst enemies: From 1999 to 2010, the suicide rate among US citizens between the ages of 35 to 64 soared by... 

News that a research laboratory in China is deliberately engineering new hybrid strains of bird-flu virus and human influenza which could cause a pandemic has some experts alarmed. Lord May of Oxford, former president of the UK’s Royal Society, has denounced the results conducted by a team under Professor Chen Hualan, the director of China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory. H7N9,... 

When Orwell wrote his most famous novel, which happened to be the most emblematic of dramatic past century, he was not writing about Soviet Union and Stalin. He was basically writing a dystopia about Britain, the ruined Britain of Churchill and Lord Beveridge, a desperate country ruled now by conservative nihilism, social security services and the ideology of iron curtain and cold war. Orwell gave...