brazilweirdnews.blogspot.com | MATO GROSSO DO SUL/AMAZON Region – At Aquidauana, pantanal region of the Mato Grosso do Sul state, shoals of painteds, pacus, golden fishes, cacharas - and even stingrays, are floating dead in Rio Negro, one of the largest in the Amazon River basin.   The esti...

washingtonpost.com | CAIRO - Human Rights Watch confirmed several cases of undercover police loyal to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime committing acts of violence and looting in an attempt to stoke fear of instability as demonstrations grew stronger Tuesday against the autocratic leader. ...

guardian.co.uk | Tax avoidance protesters needed hospital treatment today after police used CS spray to break up a demonstration on Oxford Street in central London. Hundreds of people staged peaceful sit-ins at high street stores around the country as part of the latest UK Uncut day of action, desi...

dailymailuk | Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a forest in the first experiment of its kind in Asia aimed at curbing dengue fever.   The field test is meant to pave the way for the official use of genetically engineered Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes to mate wit...

telegraph.co.uk | Riots started in Tunisia initally over the price of staple food like sugar, salt and grain Photo: AP   By Ben Farmer in Islamabad 4:11PM GMT 28 Jan 2011   Commodities traders have warned they are seeing the first signs of panic buying from states concerne...

dailymail.co.uk | These amazing satellite images show sprawling cities built in remote parts of China that have been left completely abandoned, sometimes years after their construction. Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with the exception of a few government vehicl...

BBC.co.uk | When it comes to state visits the devil is in the detail. It's the nuances of the arrangements that allow you to calibrate just how important a relationship is. That's why the world has been watching the visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao with such attention. The state dinner at th...

South Korea, December 2010 So far, more than 100,000 chickens have been culled and more than 10,000 ducks due to new outbreak of avian flu. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12097615 New Zealand, December 2010 Penguins, petrels and other seabirds are dying in large numbers and wash...

BBC | A trainee spy for Israel's secret service agency Mossad was arrested by Tel Aviv police while taking part in a training operation, media reports say. The young trainee was spotted by a female passer-by as he planted a fake bomb under a vehicle in the city. He was only able to persuade police...

AP | Foreign leaders showered President Barack Obama and his family with hundreds of thousands of dollars in art, jewellery, rare books and other presents during their first year in the White House.     Saudi Arabia's king was the most generous gift-giver, according to documents release...

Google | TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says it has determined that two spy planes it claims to have downed were operated by the United States. An Iranian official says authorities will publicly display them. The Revolutionary Guard's air force said earlier this month that it shot down two highly advanced spy...

msn.com | Strained by rising demand and battered by bad weather, the global food supply chain is stretched to the limit, sending prices soaring and sparking concerns about a repeat of food riots last seen three years ago. Signs of the strain can be found from Australia to Argentina, Canada to Russi...

msn.com | The cricket paralysis virus has disrupted supplies to pet shops across North America as a handful of operators have seen millions of their insects killed. Some operations have gone bankrupt and others have closed indefinitely until they can rid their facilities of the virus. Cricket farm...

cnbc.com | Speculation could push oil prices to rise to $110 per barrel within a few weeks, which may prompt OPEC to raise production, a member of Kuwait's Supreme Petroleum Council said on Sunday.     ...

Sky News Online | South Korea has been heavily criticised for burying up to one million pigs alive as it grapples with a foot and mouth disease outbreak.     The government has so far refused to vaccinate pigs against the disease   Since the first case of the disease was co...

wanttoknow.info | A summary of the top 10 media censorship stories of 2010 provided below proves quite revealing and most informative. Each summary has a link for those who want to read the entire article. For whatever reason the mainstream media won't report these stories. Yet thanks to the Int...

yahoonews | Israeli archaeologists said Monday they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man, and if so, it could upset theories of the origin of humans. A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said teeth found in the cave are about 400,000 yea...

washingtonsblog.com | BP and the government famously declared that most of the oil had disappeared.   But as I've noted, as much as 98% of the oil is still in the ocean. I have repeatedly pointed out that BP and the government applied massive amounts of dispersant to the Gulf Oil Spill in an...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | What in the world is happening over in Europe?  Well, it is actually quite simple.  We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of the euro and of the European financial system.  At this point, many analysts are convinced that a full-blown financial implos...

washingtonpost.com | The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. ') ; // --> Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. But at CIA headquarters, it's mainly known by its all...