When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio , it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets... 

Some young girls’ clothing available online is sexy or sexualizing and U.S. researchers say this contributes to socializing girls as sexually objectified woman. Samantha Goodin, a former Kenyon College student, and a research team led by Dr. Sarah Murnen, a professor of psychology at Kenyon College examined the frequency and nature of sexualizing clothing available for young girls — children,... 

Women in certain parts of Congo are 134 times more likely to be raped than a woman in the United States. A woman is raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo nearly every minute and is 134 times more likely to be raped there than in the US, according to a new study which found rates 26 times higher than earlier estimates. More than 400,000 women aged 15 to 49 were raped in a 12 month period, the researchers... 

Thousands of Romans are expected to take the day off of work on Wednesday to leave the city in hopes of saving themselves from an earthquake that was forecast decades ago to devastate the Italian capital on 11 May 2011. The late scientist Raffaele Bendandi made the prediction decades ago. He would predict quakes by monitoring the movement of the sun, starts and planets. Local media reports about his... 

In this May 5, 2011 photo, Justin Van Fleet stands at the site of where his home once stood before the flood of 2008, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Van Fleet is among thousands who have received letters in recent weeks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency notifying them they received too much money from the agency dating back to 2005 and now must pay it back. After the raging Cedar River filled his... 

Russian scientists are reported in shock today after reviewing the report prepared by the Federal Space Agency (FKA/RKA) that says the “fabric” of our Earth’s “space-time vortex” was “ripped apart” [photo top] this past week over Yekaterinburg (also known as Ekaterinburg) , the biggest city in Russia’s Ural Mountains, and the fourth largest in all the Motherland. The existence... 

Typhoon Aere killed 15 people as it pounded eastern provinces of the Philippines and brought flooding to the capital, leaving thousands stranded in ports. The storm, with maximum winds of 85 kilometers per hour (53 miles an hour), made landfall in Catanduanes yesterday and was forecast to move to the northern portion of Luzon island in the next two days, according to the 5 p.m. bulletin of the Philippine... 

Surely not: A baby being searched by TSA Agents at Kansas City airport. A disturbing photograph which shows a baby being subjected to a full body search by airport security has caused outrage after it was posted online. The picture, which was uploaded to a social networking site, appears to show two TSA agents at Kansas City International Airport laughing as they pat down the child, who is being held... 

Open mode: The Safe House, on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, is the ultimate in secure design. At the touch of a number of buttons, the whole building shuts into a concrete cube. Worried about an apocalypse, zombies or merely unwanted summer guests? The ‘Safe House’ may be right up your street. We all know about a panic room, but a team of architects literally thought inside the box to... 

Africa Day will be celebrated in Limerick on May 25. Sounds, tastes and visions of Africa will be prominent in Limerick at the end of this month as the city celebrates Africa Day. Minister of State for Trade and Development Jan O’Sullivan, has launched a programme of cultural and community events to mark Africa Day, with events taking place in Limerick, Dublin, and Galway. There are some 1,200 people... 

A new national poll indicates the race for the Republican presidential nomination remains wide-open, with none of the probable or potential GOP White House contenders above 20 percent, according to a new national poll. […] What about the showdown in November 2012? According to the poll, taken before the announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death, President Barack Obama has an edge over all the... 

A view of the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. For the first time since the outbreak of Japan’s nuclear crisis, workers have been able to enter the quake and tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant. On Thursday, Japanese workers entered the reactor No.1 at the battered Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the facility’s operator Tokyo Electric... 

More than 80% of babies born in Ealing Hospital, West London, have a foreign mother, new figures have revealed. Of the 3,289 children born at the NHS hospital in the past year, a remarkable 2,655 were to foreign nationals. The total includes 537 babies born to Indian mothers – the largest “minority” ethnic group – 389 Poles, 270 Sri Lankans, 260 Somalians, 208 Pakistanis and 200 Afghans. The... 

Senior heads of national team allegedly approved system to limit black players and those of north African origins. France has been plunged into a fresh race crisis after claims that football officials tried to limit black and Arab players on youth training schemes to make the French team more white. The French football federation has opened an internal investigation after website Mediapart reported... 

Entertainer Simon Ledger was singing Kung Fu Fighting as a Chinese man and his mother walked past which later prompted the complaint to the police. A pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit Kung Fu Fighting. The song, performed by Simon Ledger, 34, is said to have offended two Chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing. The entertainer...