EUROPE - Nigel Farage was at the centre of a row last night after appearing to suggest ‘violence’ could be justified to overthrow Brussels bureaucrats. The Ukip leader warned that the EU was heading for ‘revolution’ and said violent protest could be the only way for southern European nations to save their democracies.
USA - There's a 'fat' problem plaguing the well-being of Americans across the historically hamburger-hungry nation. 1 in 5 die eating themselves to death, according to Columbia University researchers who study the ongoing obesity epidemic.
MOROCCO - Colonial grandeur still dominates the skyline. An old cannon points its weather-beaten barrel across the Strait of Gibraltar. Up on the huge rock above, the sleepy ancient fortress is still manned by the Armed Forces. Down below, locals and tourists seek shade in the little cafes or head for the beach.
JAPAN - Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT.
HAILEY, IDAHO, USA - A playground for some and home to many, the Wood River Valley is on edge as a massive fire burns dangerously close to homes, stretching fire crews and keeping officials hopping.
EGYPT - The Egyptian military deployed around vital installations in Cairo, state media reported, before "Friday of Anger" protests called by backers of deposed President Mohamed Mursi.
EGYPT - Prominent among the “collateral damage” victims of the ongoing violence in Egypt are the country's Coptic Christians. Living on the tentative goodwill of the Muslim majority even during the best of times, the community has been the subject of attacks and persecution over the past year, since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, and the subsequent fall of Mohammed Morsi.
USA - Should taxpayer dollars be used to buy sushi and lobster for a young man whose future plans consist entirely of surfing and partying as much as he possibly can?
NEW ZEALAND - Two powerful earthquakes have rocked the New Zealand capital, Wellington, but there were no immediate reports of major damage. The first quake, with a magnitude of 6.5, struck close to the South Island town of Seddon at 14:31 (02:31 GMT) and was followed by a 5.7 aftershock.
USA - America is the Odd Man Out. On July 29, 2013, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that Israel must stop adding fluoride into public water supplies in one year, following a decision on fluoride’s potential toxicity to humans by the Israeli health minister.
USA - A shift among people of faith is moving public opinion - and changing gay Americans' lives in profound ways. For most gay Americans in the 20th century, the church was a place of pain. It cast them out and called them evil. It cleaved them from their families. It condemned their love and denied their souls.
UK - The Independent has a piece asking if the Bible is to be dropped from Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. The article quotes the National Secular Society's Terry Sanderson, arguing that not everyone wants 'to live in a theocracy where the Bible is mandatory'.
UK - Stock markets across the world slumped and government borrowing costs soared after strong economic data from the US and the UK renewed fears that central banks would soon start withdrawing stimulus and move towards interest rate rises.
USA - That police state you were warned of has already arrived. America’s illusions of freedom are becoming more and more transparent, with the federal government’s now standard practice of deploying armed agents to actively roam public venues and conducting “suspicionless searches” on anyone they want.
USA - The federal government has been low-balling the public for years on how much debt it actually has, a University of California, San Diego economics professor, James Hamilton says, adding that the real amount is $70 trillion – not $16.9 trillion, according to FOX News.