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Demonstrations were held across Ireland protesting austerity scheme to tax, privatize water supply Right 2 Water, the protest organizers, said that over 150,000 people turned out to protest agains the Irish water tax. In a […]

France has launched an investigation into unidentified drones that have been spotted flying over nuclear plants operated by state-owned utility EDF, its interior minister said on Thursday. EDF said that drones flew over seven nuclear […]

A Chinese billionaire from Guangdong Province died after eating a cat meat stew at a local restaurant. Police detained a local official suspected of murdering the businessman by lacing the dish with a poisonous herb. […]

A Chinese restaurant owner has reportedly confessed to coating food with the powdered poppy seeds used to make opium. Opium is regarded as a highly addictive narcotic that leaves heavy users with painful withdrawal systems […]

Recently, a man in Colorado was left severely injured after his head was run over by a moving vehicle. Just prior to the incident, he had dropped his lit cigarette. Distracted driving can take many […]

Members of a theft ring based in Minnesota were charged with stealing bank funds. To gain access to some accounts they used account numbers found on Instagram. Members of a theft ring based in Minnesota […]

Sacramento sheriff’s deputies have been playing NSA. They tool around town with suitcase-sized StingRay surveillance devices in their squad cars, scooping up cellphone data from whomever happens to be within a one-mile radius. The deputies […]

“If we one day develop machines with general intelligence that surpasses ours, they would be in a very powerful position,” says Nick Bostrom, Oxford professor and founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute. Bostrom […]

Are these Bitcoin ATMs really the future of money? Mike Piri of Bitcoin Agents and MyLocalBitcoinATM.com thinks so. “We put it in these places because […] people pass by them every day, they see it, […]

Billionaire Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson, saluting the bravery of test pilots, vowed Saturday to find out what caused the crash of his prototype space tourism rocket, killing one crew member and injuring another. In […]