Lost in Spades

‘Maria’ case reveals Greek bureaucracy close to collapse

Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from Islamists

Toy Guns, Deadly Consequences

JPMorgan to pay $5.1B in mortgage settlement

Dino impact also destroyed bees, says study

Five injured in anti-semitic Sydney brawl

Opening Up Muslim Weddings

Nuclear group: Time Iran would need to make uranium for a bomb 'too short'

Brazil, China, Venezuela sharply critical of illegal drone strikes

Iran 'temporarily halts' uranium enrichment to 20 per cent

US Nuclear Negotiator Calls for Pause in Iran Sanctions

BEIRUT: Syria releases 13 women detainees - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

Leaks portray a torn White House through Syrian crisis | JPost | Israel News

How the Sunni-Shia schism is dividing the world - World Politics - World - The Independent

Greek police arrest 3 Roma in possible child abduction

High School Student Discovers Baby Dinosaur Skeleton in National Monument - NationalJournal.com

BBC News - New galaxy 'most distant' yet discovered

U.S. Bankruptcy Court to decide if Detroit really is broke | Reuters

Legal or not, drone strikes set a dangerous precedent - FT.com

Kerry Seeks to Reassure Israel on Iran - NYTimes.com

Teen accused of killing teacher, 24, in Danvers - Boston.com

German 'Bishop of Bling' suspended by Vatican

CBBC Newsround - Australian fires so big they can be seen from space

Listen. Listen closely. It’s in between the news and aside from all the headlines. Listen to it carefully. It’s subtle but distinct. It’s covert but it's profound. It’s the drums of war. The unofficial headlong march to a third world war has begun, but mum’s the word. The Americans are complaining about Syria and the Russians about America; while the Israeli’s complain about the Iranians as the Iranian’s accuse Israel. There’s nothing new in that. Perhaps not… but the body language is tense. The leaders hide behind their vainglorious masks of deceit and diplomacy as much as possible. Yet little tell-tale signs do escape that political vacuum. And the drum beat rolls. And all the rhetoric in the world cannot hide the fact that the Middle-East is utterly imploding. Add to that a financially unstable world economy headed by persistent dire circumstances in the Eurozone and impending economic collapse in the United States; not to mention the rank poverty in other...

Iran FM says Israel tries to ruin nuclear talks - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood facing wave of trials

Maldives Police Block Attempt at Presidential Vote - ABC News

1.8 million-year-old skull gives glimpse of our evolution

Saudi declining U.N. membership was a ‘symbolic gesture,’ analysts say - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

Iran leveraging its nuclear program to boost global, regional standing - Middle East Israel News | Haaretz

India charges 33 aboard armed U.S. 'anti-piracy' ship | Reuters

12 dead in suicide bomb attack on cafe in central Somali town - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims kidnapped in Syria freed - Middle East Israel News | Haaretz

Air pollution a leading cause of cancer - U.N. agency | Reuters

Mosquitoes Carrying Dengue, Yellow Fever Viruses Spotted In State

EU signs 26 billion Euros trade deal with Canada - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Gravitational waves could reveal secret behind black hole weight gain | The Space Reporter

Saudi Arabia Rejects Seat on U.N. Security Council and Confuses Everyone | TIME.com

Madeleine McCann: Hope after Maria found living with gypsies in Greece | Metro News

Egyptian foreign minister says relations with US are in 'turmoil' following military aid cuts | Fox News

Greek Parliament Votes to Lift Immunity of Golden Dawn Deputies - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com

Fireball! Dozens report seeing meteor streak across N.J. sky | NJ.com

Cabbage compound protects healthy tissue from radiation damage

U.A.E.-Saudis to Buy $10.8 Billion of Weaponry Under U.S. Plan - Businessweek

‘Ghost’ Cloud, UFO Sightings Caused By Secret Russian Missile Launch [PHOTOS]

Study: Oreo cookies are just as addictive as cocaine

Satnews Publishers: Daily Satellite News

BBC News - Tiny, wireless pacemaker due to be launched in Europe

Popular Morning Sickness Drug Safe in Pregnancy, Study Finds – WebMD

BBC News - Estimate doubled for vCJD carriers in UK

Bacon can harm a man's fertility | Mail Online

Prehistoric cave prints show most early artists were women - NBC News.com

Mānoa: World ocean systems undermined by climate change by 2100 | University of Hawaii News

Report: Iran may accept visits of nuclear sites

Bank of America Quarterly Earnings Rise to $2.5 Billion - NYTimes.com

Iran offers concessions in nuclear talks, no deal yet | Reuters

New Species of Giant Amazonian Fish Discovered in Brazil : News : Headlines & Global News

BBC News - Russia 'regret' over attack on Dutch diplomat

Video: Oarfish: 18ft 'monster of the deep' found off California coast - Telegraph

North Dakota farmer makes crude discovery: largest oil spill on US soil | Fox News

Injured kangaroo hops into Australian airport

BlackBerry writes open letter to 'set the record straight' - latimes.com

In Iran Talks, Nuclear Gains Offer Challenge - NYTimes.com

Westgate Mall Attack: Al Shabab Assaults Symbol of African Urban Life | New Republic

Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument | New Republic

How Doug Band drove a wedge through the Clinton dynasty | New Republic

North America’s Largest City Moves to Legalize Pot | TIME.com

Rare mosquito fossil found in Montana riverbed shows insect's blood-filled belly - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

In Syria, four of seven kidnapped Red Cross, Red Crescent aid workers are released - The Washington Post

Weight loss success: Couple loses 538 pounds in 19 months - CNN.com

Here’s Why We Have a Debt Ceiling in the First Place | The Exchange - Yahoo Finance

The Government's Shut Down, the Flu Virus Isn't : Discovery News

Shutdown 2013: The Deal that will end it | New Republic

Orphan bonobos have trouble comforting others in distress, study finds - latimes.com

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally - The Washington Post

Russia Responds to Anti-Migrant Riots by Arresting Migrants | TIME.com

How to know a true prophet from a false? How to know a saved from a lost? How to know good from bad? Not by what they say! Not by what they wear! Not by how many follow them! Only BY THEIR FRUITS.

Iran wants to hammer out a nuclear power 'roadmap' with P5+1 - CNN.com

JERUSALEM: Israel reaches out to Europe ahead of Iran talks | World | The State

Negotiator: Iran to Pursue Win-Win Approach in Geneva

Eating lizards, squirrel, 72-year-old survives 19 days in wilderness - CNN.com

Economics Nobel must acknowledge the global financial crisis

Britney Spears -- I'm Being Pushed Too Far Sexually | TMZ.com

TWO Bigfoots? Hiker Shoots Clear Photos Of 'Moving Beasts' In Pennsylvania (PHOTOS)

German Outrage Swells Over a Bishop’s Spending - NYTimes.com

Mexican Women Denied Medical Care, Gave Birth on Facility’s Lawn : News : Counsel & Heal

Tony Abbott attended primary school at St Aloysius' College at Milson's Point, before completing his secondary school education at St Ignatius' College, Riverview (both are Jesuit schools). He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney where he resided at St John's College, and was president of the Student Representative Council. He then travelled via India to Britain to study at The Queen's College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) in Politics and Philosophy. Following his time in Britain, he returned to Australia via Africa and advised his family of an intention to join the priesthood . Bill Shorten was born in Melbourne and educated at Xavier College (a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus ) and Monash University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. During his time at Monash,...

What Can Bitcoin Buy? No More Heroin, but Baklava and a Dinner Date | The Business Desk with Paul Solman | PBS NewsHour | PBS

World's most dramatic runways - CNN.com

Nobel highlights Syria with Peace Prize to chemical weapons watchdog - CNN.com

Shot by the Taliban, Malala was a favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize - CNN.com

Google's new shared endorsements: How to opt out.

BBC News - Vitamin D pills' effect on healthy bones queried

Mr. Obama, the presidency is no place for amateurs | Fox News

Malala On Nobel Prize: 'I Think I Have Won' With Nomination : The Two-Way : NPR

North Korea warns of 'all-out war' if United States fails to withdraw 'policy of hostility' | The Courier-Mail

River Boat Capsizes in Mali, Leaving Hundreds Missing - NYTimes.com

War criminal Erich Priebke dies at 100; Nazi captain convicted in 1995 - latimes.com

Afghan fury as US seizes 'spy at top of Taliban’ - Telegraph

Russian Police Detain 67 Following Gay Protest | digtriad.com

BBC News - Vitamin D pills' effect on healthy bones queried

The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath - NYTimes.com

Netanyahu tells French, U.K. leaders: Sanctions are working, now hit Iran even harder - Diplomacy and Defense Israel News | Haaretz

Schiff pretty much cuts to the chase here on the current US Debt melodrama

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. 6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of y...

Exchange program gives Russians a glimpse of a democracy hardly at work - The Washington Post

Push for national census reveals scars of Bosnia's painful past | PBS NewsHour | Oct. 10, 2013 | PBS

Another Migrant Ship Capsizes in the Mediterranean - NYTimes.com

The United States is still getting rid of its chemical weapons - CNN.com

Not wanting to be negative and more than happy if the market goes up from here till Christmas (here to Timbuktu if it can), but my amateur cursory view from the proverbial bridge (i.e. from distance ), says that the elephant in the (trading) room is the paper thin volumes traded. Low volumes (and these have been  stubbornly low for some time ) ring alarm bells for me because over the years market gurus seemed to have always agreed (and common sense tells me) that small volumes are fundamentally a sign of weakness in the market regardless of price trend.   I guess momentum has to build from a low base to start but these volumes "feel" (because I am no technocrat when it comes to the market, so often 'feel' is all I have) incongruent with market value. Indeed these volumes are dire for such an inflated market.   I did some brief research and found this:   GOLDMAN: Here's Wh...

Five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), all occurring in homosexual men, were reported in an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) of June 5 th , 1981. One man was aged 29, two were 30 years old, one was 33 and the other 36 years old. At the time, the CDC (correctly) concluded: All the above observations suggest the possibility of a cellular-immune dysfunction related to a common exposure that predisposes individuals to opportunistic infections such as pneumocystosis and candidiasis. Although the role of CMV infection in the pathogenesis of pneumocystosis remains unknown, the possibility of P. carinii infection must be carefully considered in a differential diagnosis for previously healthy homosexual males with dyspnea and pneumonia. Pneumocystis Pneumonia --- Los Angeles

Canada upholds law against assisted suicide

U.N. Security Council asks for Central African peacekeeping options | Reuters

Lebanon Tribunal Names New Suspect in 2005 Hariri Killing

BBC News - On Russia's controversial Arctic oil rig Prirazlomnaya