yahoonews | The world's largest atom smasher has been upping its game ever since it opened in 2008. Just last week it reached a new milestone - the particle accelerator is now smashing unprecedented numbers of protons into each other during each collision.

independent.ie | Petrol pumps could run dry in France by Wednesday, experts warned yesterday, as the stand-off over pension reforms reached crisis point. Airlines advised pilots to refuel abroad and UFIP, the country's oil industry association, said that if strikes continued at all 12 of France's r...

(Reuters) - Gold rallied to fresh record highs in Europe on Thursday as the dollar slid to its lowest this year versus a basket of major currencies, boosting interest in the metal as a haven from currency market volatility. Gold retreated as the dollar index lifted from lows, but remains firmly und...

rense.com | 1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy...

dotsperiod.com | UFO Over China 2010: UFO Appeared Over Chinese Airport – UFOs, do they really exists? Some of us believe that we, as human beings, are not alone in this world. We have companies living outside of our planet Earth. These are familiar to us as Extra Terrestial beings as portrayed in S...

endoftheamericandream.com | Do you believe that you will always be able to run out to Wal-Mart or to the local supermarket and buy massive amounts of inexpensive food?  If so, you might want to think again.  During 2010, agricultural commodity prices have absolutely exploded.  Nearly ...

dailymail.co.uk | These are the first heartbreaking photos of a boy being subjected to unbelievable cruelty by his mother and her boyfriend. The 22-month-old toddler was stuck to a wall in his home by industrial duct tape after his mother had been 'partying' with her lover at her home near Lincoln,...

stevenjohnhibbs | Three Mexican states have filed lawsuits in San Antonio against BP Plc., Transocean, Halliburton and associated companies over the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, alleging the oil plume has made it into international waters and will have an adverse impact on the economy...

BRUSSELS - Painful cuts by overspending EU countries come head to a head with mounting social anger on Wednesday when labour leaders call angry workers onto streets right across the continent.   Thousands of people march in Thessaloniki to protest against the Greek government's austerity plan...

yahoonews | UNITED NATIONS – The U.S. delegation walked out of the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday after he said some in the world have speculated that Americans were actually behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, staged in an attempt to assure Israel's survival. He d...

Rawstory | In a sign of just how extreme the Mexican drug war has gotten, a newspaper in crime-ridden Ciudad Juarez has published an editorial asking the drug cartels to tell them what they should and shouldn't publish. The newspaper's seeming capitulation to organized criminals -- whose bloody bat...

cnbc | The UK's tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer

yahoo.com | Al-Ahram, the state-run newspaper in Egypt, recently ran the above photo of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak leading President Obama and other world leaders during Middle East peace talks at the White House. But that's not quite how the walk to the East Room played out. The BBC reports ...

(CNSNews.com) – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex. The genitalia-w...

The Wall Street Journal reports the White House will officially notify Congress in the next two weeks of a $60 billion deal to sell Saudi Arabia dozens of U.S.-made fighter jets and military helicopters.   If it goes ahead, the sale of some 84 new F-15 jets and dozens of helicopter will be th...

TOKYO (AP) - Japan has confirmed the nation's first case of a new gene in bacteria that allows the microorganisms to become drug-resistant superbugs, detected in a man who had medical treatment in India, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday. The gene, known as NDM-1, was found in a Japanese man ...

prosebeforehos.com | It appears that Comcast Cable and Verizon FIOS have blocked the DNS entry for the English version of Hamas’ news site. With the Middle East Peace Talks getting underway, I thought it would be interesting to see how Hamas is characterizing the events surrounding the negotiations...

Via: Guardian: One of Portugal’s most famous television presenters and a former ambassador to Unesco were among those who abused boys in a paedophile ring involving the country’s state-run orphanages, according to a court verdict released today. The verdict being read out today at a Lisbon court b...

(DrMercola) – India is in the midst of a flood of suicides among farmers. A new feature film written and directed by Anusha Rizwi and produced by Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan, called Peepli Live, takes a look at this grim topic. The vast majority of people in India still farm for a living, but are...

ufodigest.com | “A national hero and the sixth man to walk on the moon said that your government and others have been in contact with ET’s for over 67 years.  That’s an incredible statement.  It was buried on page seven the next day in the NY Post…”  Commercial Airline Pilot, Jim Cour...