USA - Scientists studying the terrifying meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they thought.
USA - Shouldn't Internet companies actually "make a profit" at some point before being considered worth billions of dollars? A lot of investors laugh when they look back at the foolishness of the "Dotcom bubble" of the late 1990s, but the tech bubble that is inflating right in front of our eyes today is actually far worse.
BERLIN, GERMANY - This week’s edition of the intellectual German weekly newspaper Die Zeit devotes its front four pages to the decline in the German-American relationship.
USA - We’ve seen decades of manipulation in the monetary, financial and economic systems of this country. And while most people have fallen hook, line and sinker for the recovery narrative touted by the establishment, the reality is a stark contrast to what they’re being told.
UK - David Cameron’s plans to issue sharia-compliant bonds open the way to Islamic law being enforced at the heart of government, a senior clergyman has warned.
EUROPE - The plot is thickening fast in Italy. Romano Prodi – Mr Euro himself – is calling for a Latin Front to rise up against Germany and force through a reflation policy before the whole experiment of monetary union spins out of control.
ISRAEL - Israeli investors had reason to celebrate last month with the news that Israel may soon be joining the club of oil-producing states, in addition to its recent finds of large natural gas deposits off the coast.
UK - Public support in Britain for staying in the European Union is only “wafer thin”, David Cameron has said. The Prime Minister said he wanted to spend the time ahead of a possible in/out referendum in 2017 on getting Britons’ “consent” for EU membership.
UK - We are all familiar with competition in one form or another, whether childhood memories of sporting encounters on the school playing field or running into a fresh-faced rival at a job interview. In some cases it is a welcome incentive; in others it is unhelpful.
USA - "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time" is how Mark Zuckerberg justified hijacking your privacy in 2010, after Facebook imperiously reset everyone's default settings to "public."
USA - This is the time of year that retailers want you thinking about Santa Claus and presents, but two recent mall shootings may be fresh on consumers' minds as the critical holiday season kicks off.
USA - The convergence of robotics and advanced weaponry took another inevitable step forward with a successful live fire demonstration of several armed robots at Fort Benning Georgia that was covered by Computerworld last week.
VATICAN - The era of participatory democracy has just opened at the Vatican! Thirty-eight questions on sensitive issues of family, "difficult marital situations," divorce, contraception and homosexual unions - the Catholic Church invites the laity to comment and to brainstorm in general (Google translation from the French).
ISRAEL - Jerusalem is not on the table in Israel’s negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, Finance Minister Yair Lapid has declared.
UK - BAE Systems is expected to announce on Thursday that a total of around 1,000 jobs will go at three of its four UK yards at Govan and Scotstoun, on the Clyde, and at Portsmouth.
The job losses follow the completion of work on sections of two new aircraft carriers on the Clyde.