News of the World, Britain’s biggest Sunday tabloid, in business for 168 years, will be shutting down after Sunday’s edition. The newspaper, run by Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate, is dealing with a scandal over alleged phone hacking of celebrities as well as families of terror victims and those related to a murdered girl. Allegations brought [...]

After seven years of intensive work, Boeing and Japanese airline All Nippon Airways have finally begun to test the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, originally scheduled to be launched in 2008.  The deal was struck back in 2004, when ANA agreed to be the debut company for the Dreamliner, Boeing’s most fuel-efficient craft to date.  [...]

Early Tuesday afternoon, the World Trade Organization passed a ruling that the Chinese government has been engaging in unfair practices regarding its protection of domestic manufacturing.  China limits the export of a list of raw materials that are frequently used in chemical industries, steel production, aluminum production, and high technology industries, an issue which led [...]

Indiana University student Lauren Spierer, who has been missing since early June, has been ruled out in the identification of a body that was found yesterday in Fall Creek, fifty miles from where Spierer went missing on June 3.  The body was recovered from some debris floating around in the river, and the autopsy indicated [...]

Amnesty International released a report detailing how Syrian’s citizens have been victims of “crimes against humanity.” The report references many specific incidences of death, torture, mistreatment, detention and more. Amnesty International specifically called into question a deadly siege in May which resulted in the deaths of protestors, torture and arbitrary detention. Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s [...]

An oil pipeline located in Montana and owned by ExxonMobil has ruptured over the weekend, causing hundreds of barrels of oil to leak into the Yellowstone river.  The exact amount of the leakage is still unknown, but ExxonMobil has confirmed that they have isolated the segment of the pipe where the rupture occurred, and they [...]

After revealing he had a cancerous tumor removed, and that he would continue fighting the disease, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also stated he would keep governing the country from his seclusion in Cuba. This is already a point of contention between those supportive of Chavez, and the political opposition party in Venezuela who is contesting [...]