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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsMortar positions and a convoy of vehicles are hit by new US airstrikes, hours after two F/A-18s took out a mobile artillery unit.
- The US launches a second round of air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq, and confirms the group has taken the country's largest dam.
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- The National Guard is at the ready, people have packed emergency shelters and supermarket shelves have been stripped bare.
- An Argentine musician who was taken from his parents during military rule speaks of his joy of being reunited with his grandmother, a top campaigner.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - WorldFraser Forster is on the verge of joining Southampton after they agreed a fee of £10m with Scottish champions Celtic.
- (Associated Press) The spokesman for Iraq’s human rights ministry says hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by militants from the Islamic State group. Kamil Amin says the women are below the ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from WND » World(Time) “It maybe good for the U.S. administration to understand that the world does not stop turning and does not hold its breath while they do nothing,” President Barack Obama had a message for the thousands of minority Yazi...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Newstrack News - UPI.comVeronica Linares LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Selena Gomez's rep has denied the singer is the woman who appears in a series of topless pictures that appeared online Tuesday.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldLOS ANGELES (AP) — Change keeps coming to ABC's talk show "The View."
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe United States has launched two additional air strikes on Islamist militants in Iraq, who are targeting Kurdish forces defending the northern city of Irbil.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comAmericans have fallen in love with soccer. The recent excitement as the nation cheered the U.S. team into the round of 16 at the World Cup in Brazil has brought in fresh and new electricity around the sport. The wave of support that swep...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsA Palestinian boy is killed and five other children injured as Israel launches airstrikes amid Hamas rocket attacks.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldNEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge threatened to hold Argentina in contempt of court Friday for continuing to make "false and misleading" statements about its financial crisis, though he quickly added he most desires a peaceful negotiated end ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World - latimes.comThe flagging pro-Russia rebellion in eastern Ukraine has a new leader fighting to keep control of the militants' most important stronghold following the resignation of a Russian citizen who had directed the insurgency since it began more...
- The segment of the swollen U.S. prison population that poses the least threat to public safety also presents the greatest financial burden on taxpayers, highlights a new report from The Osborne Association, an advocacy organization that ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldCINCINNATI (AP) — Marlins left-hander Dan Jennings was released from a Pittsburgh hospital on Friday, a day after he was hit in the head by a line drive.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldAKRON, Ohio (AP) — For a chance to see LeBron James, Rodneka Price drove seven hours and stood in line for another six.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldThe Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now simply the "Islamic State," continues to advance in northern Iraq, prompting US airstrikes against the Sunni extremist group. DW looks at the group's origins and Goals.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > WorldIn June, a Marine Corps veteran who was a judge advocate during the Vietnam War wrote to President Obama, expressing concern that militants’ advances in northern Iraq might prompt the United States to send troops back there. The response...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsMilitants take hundreds of Yazidi women hostage in northern Iraq, leading to fears they plan to force them to marry extremists.
- LONDON/LAGOS (Reuters) - The world's worst outbreak of Ebola that has killed nearly 1,000 people in West Africa represents an international health emergency and could continue spreading for months, the World Health Organization said on F...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A judge denied one of Tennessee's motions for protective order and granted another in ex-Lady Vols media director Debby Jennings' lawsuit against the university and athletic director Dave Hart.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostKIEV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government is prepared to impose sanctions against Russia that could include bans on some flights over the country and gas supplies to Western Europe, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Friday. Read full ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Newstrack News - UPI.comEvan Bleier CAMDEN COUNTY , N.C., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- After Bradley Hardison beat them in a doughnut-eating contest, North Carolina police officers realized that he was wanted in connection to two break-ins.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldDETROIT (AP) — General Motors is issuing five more recalls totaling 310,000 vehicles as the company cleans up past safety issues.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge rejected as too low a $324.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit alleging Google and Apple conspired with several other technology companies to block their top workers from getting better job...
- Evan Bleier VERO BEACH, Fla., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Florida man Elias Velez-Morales was charged with DUI for allegedly driving a tractor while his genitals were exposed after peeing on himself.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Global aid group calls camp conditions in Bentiu an "affront to human dignity", as many are forced to sleep standing up.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesThis weekend marks the year's most super-duper supermoon: The biggest and brightest full moon of the year is due to rise on Sunday evening.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldHONOLULU (AP) — The National Weather Service has downgraded Iselle to a tropical storm.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsDoctors struggle to cope with victims of the conflict and paramedics fear they may be targeted by strikes, reports Katie Stallard.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostMEXICO CITY — The number of Central American children turning up at the U.S. border is dropping, but the U.S. government’s deportation plan is just kicking into gear. Each week, the United States flies 10 airplane loads of adult males ba...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - WorldNigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares the outbreak of Ebola "a national emergency" and approves funds to help contain the deadly virus.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Business InsiderApple is widely expected to unveil its new iPhone next month, but one report suggests the company may also introduce the iWatch in September as well. Well-connected Apple blogger John Gruber of Daring Fireball says Apple will unveil...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostIf the world needed a sign of how alarming the rise of the Islamic State is, the authorization of airstrikes by the United States on positions held by the jihadist fighters in Iraq was it. The ever-cautious Obama administration has resis...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Business InsiderTiger Woods is mid way through his second round at the PGA Championship. It's not going well. He's four over par. He's hitting the ball all over the planet. He's walking gingerly. Normally when a player loses it, the TV network broadcast...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsBAGHDAD/ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes bombed Islamist fighters marching on Iraq's Kurdish capital on Friday after President Barack Obama said Washington must act to prevent "genocide".
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comIsrael strikes Gaza after militants rockets end ceasefire Protests turn violent in West Bank cities, killing one One 10-year-old boy killed as attacks resume Palestinians flee homes to return to crowded UN schools Hamas says peace deal i...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - WorldAfghan presidential rivals, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, agree to form a united government. after months of feuding.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesAccording to a friend, the teen said during a phone call that she was checking on a man who was lying on the side of the road before she disappeared.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldDETROIT (AP) — Sixty-three death claims have been filed so far with the lawyer handling payments for those involved in wrecks caused by faulty General Motors ignition switches.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > WorldWhy do eldest sons in India overshadow their siblings? Because they’re literally taller.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Business InsiderBusiness Insider is looking for an intern to work on our personal finance vertical, Your Money . BI Interns spend their time researching, writing, pitching, and producing features. You'll get an author byline for every post you write.&nb...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldYoung Americans and first-time homebuyers might be the biggest beneficiaries.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsHayley Turner, 18, is taken to a hospital after she is found standing on a street corner, a day after vanishing.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Business InsiderThe CEO of J.Crew, Mickey Drexler, is selling his Hamptons home for a whopping $26.5 million . Douglas Elliman listed the 3,500-square-foot Wainscott home, which includes 315 feet of ocean frontage on one side and views of Wainscot...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from News RSS : Today
Moscow’s calls for the evacuation of children from eastern Ukraine are not being answered, Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said. He stated that over 1,200 orphans have been abandoned in the region, which is under continuous shelling fro... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — On a soggy day at Valhalla, Rory McIlroy surged to the lead of the PGA Championship.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Business InsiderTo celebrate his birthday, Pankaj Parakh, an Indian businessman made himself a gold shirt worth about $213,000, according to the Independent . Parakh is also a member of the National Congress party in the state of Maharashtra...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsADEN (Reuters) - Gunmen believed to be al Qaeda militants kidnapped 14 Yemeni soldiers returning home by bus from duty in eastern Yemen on Friday and killed them, local officials and residents said.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News: CBSnews.comMore air strikes come after U.S. fighters dropped bombs on Islamic militants in Iraq; reports of militant casualties
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News: CBSnews.comISIS holding young women from Yazidi religious minority being in schools in Mosul, according to Iraq's human rights ministry
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Daily Express :: World FeedA GIRL thought to have died in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has been reunited with her family after being found alive – 10 years on.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News: CBSnews.comEvery week we come across images from around the world that need further explanation. These are some of our favorites
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World news | Mail OnlineGRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: ISIS has been ruthlessly hunting down and slaughtering religious minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect, who they have denounced as devil-worshipers on account of their ancient set of bel...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World news | Mail OnlineThe double-amputee, 27, once a national icon for reaching the pinnacle of sport, is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home in Pretoria.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World news | Mail OnlineIselle has been downgraded to a tropical storm about 50 miles from where it is expected to make landfall in the southern part of Hawaii's Big Island today.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News: CBSnews.comCBSNews.com Executive Washington Editor Steve Chaggaris and CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate discuss President Obama’s decision to authorize targeted air strikes at militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Africa In Fact]The continent's major cities need to address traffic congestion in a hurry
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Infowars » World NewsCity of one million people is shelled.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[UN News]A United Nations human rights expert today urged the international community to "act now" to avert a humanitarian disaster in Somalia, where a widening hunger crisis has sparked fears of a repeat of the 2011 famine that devastat...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Viral Global News » World
A barn has exploded in Germany from the cows inside letting out too many burps and farts. The belching and flatulence caused a dangerous buildup of methane gas inside the barn, and it blew the roof off the structure in a loud explosion w... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News: CBSnews.comCBSNews.com Executive Washington Editor Steve Chaggaris and CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate discuss President Obama’s decision to authorize targeted air strikes at militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldConspiracy theorists weigh in on motives behind the US's decision against sharing ZMapp.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World news | Mail OnlineMilitants were seen pulling down church crosses and burning manuscripts during violence that has alarmed the Baghdad government and regional powers.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comThe Texas doctor being treated for Ebola in Atlanta after getting evacuated from West Africa said in a statement on Friday that he was "growing stronger every day."
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GawkerOn Monday former employees of SpaceX, Elon Musk's own private NASA, filed a proposed class action lawsuit . The complaint alleges that SpaceX "ordered the mass layoffs of between 200 and 400 workers" in late July without properly...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GawkerDame Helen Mirren is perhaps best known for two things: her award-winning portrayals of queens and that one time she tried twerking . Dame Helen had some regrets about her mesmerizing performance during a game of charades at Harvard—main...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from mirror - World newsNoah Kagan, known as 'employee #30', said it was part of Zuckerberg’s “immature” management style when he started out aged 23
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News From SFGateIRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group Friday amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The extremists took captive hundreds of women from a religious minority...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalU.S. airstrikes target Sunni militants to stop genocide of Yazidis and Christians.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News From SFGate[...] even the limited airstrikes against the vicious insurgency show the president's conviction that the U.S. military cannot remain dormant after having fought an eight-year war that temporarily neutralized Sunni extremists but failed ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldThe Pentagon confirmed that US drones and unmanned fighter jets attacked targets near the city of Irbil.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comThe U.S. military carried out two more air strikes against Islamic State forces near the city of Arbil in northern Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GawkerLast weekend, 20-year-old James Taylor became a minor internet celebrity after his local news interview about hosting "West Michigan's biggest rave" went viral. But the true star of the Fox 17 segment was the passed out kid the c...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World from NewserMark your calendar: New Zealand has given residency to what may be the world's first climate-change refugees, the Smithsonian reports. On appeal, New Zealand officials decided to let the family of Sigeo Alesana migrate from Tuvalu, a Pol...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from mirror - World newsCrack SAS and Special Boat Service operators are helping locate non-Sunni muslims who have escaped IS jihadists
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: WorldYemeni military officials and witnesses say al-Qaida militants have killed 15 Yemeni soldiers.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesOnline travel agency’s bookings, new OpenTable deal to get attention with results.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GawkerLast night Nic Pizzolatto, a Writer and Visionary best known for his hit HBO series True Detective , released a statement denying that he is a plagiarist . It reads as though written by a committee of lawyers, your sophomore year college...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comThe center of Tropical Storm Iselle made landfall on Hawaii's Big Island on Friday with strong winds and heavy rain, knocking down trees and causing power outages ahead of a more powerful storm gathering steam behind it.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from News24 WorldTurkish Airlines has suspended flights to Irbil following US air strikes.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from News24 WorldTatyana had just stepped out of the small kitchen in her Donetsk flat when an explosion blasted through the windows, shattering all the glass.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesWe're live blogging all the action in the stock market on Friday.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from mirror - World newsOfficers were just days from passing a file on fishmonger Zulkipli Abdullah, 24, to lawyers when he allegedly knifed Neil Dalton, 23, and Aidan Brunger, 22, to death.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GawkerThe unfolding disaster in Iraq is a difficult problem to solve, as we have pointed out. But it's one that many everyday Americans feel a real stake in. Nowhere is this more evident than in Cher's tweets from this afternoon. Read more...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World News: CBSnews.comRepublicans say the American air strikes won't be enough in the absence of more robust action, but Democrats urge restraint
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GawkerThis weekend on TV we've got hot takes about men in kilts, adorable but missing weathermen, one or more doomful prophecies about the end of days, and a completely lack of interest in fucking Shark Week. Read more...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesMarket Extra: Ukraine, Iraq and the other issues that will keep investors on their toes.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesCisco Systems will report fiscal fourth-quarter results after the market closes on Wednesday. Here’s what investors can expect.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[AlertNet]"Each time I hear a loud noise or somebody shouting, I feel this compulsion that I should kill somebody."
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comBefore her abuser was sentenced today to four years in prison, a young woman took the stand in a McHenry County courtroom and wept as she told the judge how her life had been altered at a young age.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from World from NewserAmerican officials say the US launched a second round of airstrikes against Islamic State targets near Irbil today, using drones and fighter jets. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discu...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GawkerJerry Seinfeld went to dinner at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville recently, and he had a screaming good time. He had seen a documentary about the restaurant and wanted to check it out, and he thought the chicken was great. One thi...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: World
As American bombs fell Friday on Iraqi soil for the first time in more than two years, the attention of Iraqi leaders in Baghdad was firmly fixed elsewhere: the looming vote to form a new government that could coalesce its fight against ... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[AlertNet]Washington -The health care system in Liberia is collapsing, hospitals closing down and medical workers fleeing from the Ebola epidemic, which is poised to worsen, Liberia's foreign minister said on Thursday.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NPR Topics: WorldSaran Daraba Kaba, the executive secretary of the Mano River Union, talks to Melissa Block about efforts to control the spread of the Ebola virus.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comRelatives believe Margaret Huddleston died doing what she had done most of her life: Watching after her older brother Berry.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comThe U.S. Department of Education has concluded that two Virginia public schools denied the right of education to emotionally disabled students after discovering teachers had frequently secluded and restrained them.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[IPS]Harare -Mavis Gotora from Mabvuku high-density suburb, in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, walks up and down, as she persuades one passer-by after another to board the private taxi cab she drives.
