Australians need to get outraged over Female Genital Mutilation legalization! Female Genital Mutilation can kill women and their babies!! Australian doctors may soon perform genital mutilations on baby girls in a bid to curb a dangerous rise in backyard surgeries, according to a report. The Royal Australian New Zealand College of Obstetricians is considering allowing doctors to carry out “ritual... 

Multi-ethnic New York: Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority of newborn babies in the U.S., according to census figures (file picture) Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority of newborn babies in the United States. Official census figures show that non-white births, including Hispanics, constituted 48 per cent of children born in America between July 2008 and 2009, up from 46 per cent... 

A mystery is unfolding across MidSouth farms. Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why. Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague. It’s happening along a large swath of land near the Shelby and Tipton county border along Herring Hill Road and elsewhere near the Mississippi River bottoms. Tiny dots appear... 

Clean-up crews are removing blobs of oil that have washed ashore in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. Meantime, the disaster is taking a toll on the oil-drenched sea life and birds, especially brown pelicans. Oil is seen inside protective booms around Queen Bess Island off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Oil is seen inside protective booms around Queen Bess Island... 

Egypt's border with Israel Supreme Court in Egypt rules in favor of petition seeking to strip Egyptian citizenship of man who married woman from Israel. Lawyer: Importance of case is in creating separation fence between Egyptian and Israeli youth. Egypt’s supreme administrative court, which is the court of last appeal, upheld a ruling Saturday of a lower court stipulating that Egyptian men... 

The United States is using its citizens as guinea pigs to test biological weapons and simulate germ warfare attacks in different locations across the country, reports say. With the spread of some unknown diseases in the US, speculations started soaring that Washington is engaged in covert biological warfare activities which involve the use of chemical and biological weapons against human beings. According... 

Inventors of a Bulgarian lager claim their beer has been brewed specifically to make women’s breasts grow bigger. Bohza beer was originally developed as a health drink to help new mothers who have trouble breast feeding, the Austrian Times reports. It was unclear how the beer, fermented with wheat flour and yeast, helped the women breast feed. Women, however, are now flocking to brewers Yavor-M... 

Man’s dependency on fossil fuel has caused havoc among wild life on numerous occasions but oil spill from the Gulf of Mexico has its sad uniqueness. The following images speak for themselves.  Read More »

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen (left), commander in charge of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill response, speaks to reporters in flight over the spill on Wednesday. Alongside is Capt. Steve Truhlar, commanding officer of the Coast Guard Training Center in Mobile, Ala. The Obama administration ran afoul of environmentalists Wednesday by approving a new oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, even as millions of gallons... 

Guatemala Crater Swallows Building. Following Tropical Storm Agatha sweeping through Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras this weekend, a giant sinkhole has opened up Guatemala. The sinkhole swallowed a three-story building, and is believed to have also swallowed at least one person. The enormous hole in the ground is reportedly 200 feet deep and approximately 100 feet in diameter. The Guatemala... 

Workers in Paris protest against the French government’s planned pension reform BUREAUCRATS in Brussels want to raise the retirement age for millions of British workers on a regular rolling basis to avoid another financial crisis. The European Commission wants people to work longer hours and retire later and wants to fix pension entitlements to an EU-wide formula. It suggests that on average... 

Obama administration takes unprecedented action to protect an American sports team. The Colombian football team had $2,500 looted from their hotel rooms by hotel staff in South Africa. The same thing happened to the Egyptian team during preliminaries. Now the Obama administration has ordered federal agents to South Africa to protect the American team. A large force will protect American football players... 

German pensioners: The country's population is aging. Germany is already facing a demographic nightmare as birth rates fall despite a slew of family-friendly policies. Now, new statistics show that more people are leaving the country than immigrating — adding to concerns about the country’s shrinking population. Germans fretting about the country’s looming demographic problems... 

Got a pot belly? The risk of dementia and Alzheimer's is higher, say scientists Having a ‘pot belly’ in middle age raises the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in later life, warn researchers. A new study shows people with large stomachs by the time they reach their 50s are significantly more likely to have smaller brains. Those with the biggest girths had a lower... 

A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”. Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic...