UK - A new study suggests that eating processed meat could detrimentally affect a man's chances of conceiving. Bacon has a reputation for being a dangerous food. It has been linked with such health scares as heart disease and bowel cancer in the past, and managed to almost single-handedly destroy Ed Miliband's reputation in the run up to this year's general election.
USA - Donald Trump would reverse President Obama's executive orders on immigration and deport all undocumented immigrants from the US as president, he said in an exclusive interview with NBC's Chuck Todd. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," he said in the interview, which will air in full on NBC's "Meet the Press" this Sunday. Pressed on what he'd do if the immigrants in question had nowhere to return to, Trump reiterated: "They have to go." "We will work with them. They have to go. Chuck, we either have a country, or we don't have a country," he said.
USA - Yosemite National Park closed another campsite after it was discovered that squirrels in that area had died of the plague. The plague is spread through fleas, so the campsite needs to be treated to kill those fleas before reopening.
USA - In case you missed it, three years ago, Debi Vinnedge, founder and executive director of Children of God for Life, a foundation dedicated to educating the public on prolife issues, called for a boycott of companies that used Senomyx flavor enhancers because they were developed using fetal tissue. Senomyx’s website boasts that their flavor enhancers are: “A Healthier Way to Flavor” and that they have discovered “novel flavor ingredients that boost taste sensations.”
UK - There is one frustrating difference between the turbulence you experience when travelling by plane and the kind that regularly engulfs economies. Pilots know exactly when to tell us to wear our seatbelts; economists are almost inevitably behind the curve, still celebrating the last recovery while the next recession has already begun. So forget about the official, comically rosy forecasts for the British economy, and consider the facts, which have become worryingly bearish of late.
GERMANY - With the ink not even dry on the third bailout for Greece, Germany is already grumbling about the deal, raising fears that Berlin is about to put the boot in the latest financial rescue - although the German government told CNBC that it was not rejecting the bailout.
USA - As the Black Lives Matter movement grows and protests and arrests continue in Ferguson, Missouri, author Jack Cashill charges the Democrats are responsible for creating a monster they can no longer control. “The seeds of Ferguson were planted in Sanford, Florida, two years earlier with the shooting of Trayvon Martin,” Cashill told WND.
UK - If China really is trying to drive down its currency in any meaningful way to gain trade advantage, the world faces an extremely dangerous moment. Such desperate behaviour would send a deflationary shock through a global economy already reeling from near recession earlier this year, and would risk a repeat of East Asia's currency crisis in 1998 on a larger planetary scale.
UK - Lord Carey dismisses ‘pain is noble’ claim as Church of England brands assisted dying criminally naïve. Allowing doctors to help terminally ill people to take their own lives would be a “profoundly Christian and moral thing” to do, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has insisted.
UK - The Office for National Statistics reveals that there are now more than 2 million EU migrants working in Britain. The share of foreigners in the British workforce has more than doubled since 1997, according to official figures.
CHINA - Forget joysticks and exoskeletons, the future of warfare could see robot armies controlled using just a commander's mind. China has been training students at a military academy to use headsets that detect and interpret the brain activity of the wearer, allowing them to control the machines. At a demonstration at the People's Liberation Army Information Engineering University in Zhengzhou, students used the device to send robots trundling in different directions. They were also able to turn the robot's heads and get them to pick up objects. The technology uses a brain computer interface known as a electroencephalograph, which uses electrodes embedded in a cap to detect tiny changes in the electrical activity of the brain.
GERMANY - Even as Germany has been trying to accommodate a swelling stream of newcomers, the most anywhere in Europe, it is also experiencing a persistent pattern of violence against migrants, raising concerns about escalating far-right opposition.
ISRAEL - Two weeks after teenager stabbed to death at Jerusalem Pride Parade, Habayit Hayehudi MK Smotrich claims opinions of 95 percent of population against gays are being silenced. Israel's media is controlled by the gay community, which uses it to determine what Israelis think and say, an Israeli lawmaker from the religious-Zionist Habayit Hayehudi party said on Thursday, about two weeks after an ultra-Orthodox man stabbed six people at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, killing a teenage girl.
USA - A new analysis of legal and illegal immigrant counts by the Census Bureau revealed Thursday that there is a record 42.1 million in the United States, an explosion that is being driven by Mexicans flooding across the border.
CHINA - Beijing's decision to let the yuan slide has spooked traders who believe the scale of China's slowdown is much worse than officials acknowledge. Turmoil across global markets intensified on Wednesday, after China allowed the yuan to slide for a second day.