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Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis makes capital comprehensible By Mark Haskell Smith   Yanis Varoufakis, center, when he was Greece's finance minister in 2015. His new book is 'Talking to My Daughter About the Economy,...

Peru's congress ready to replace scandal-tainted president   Peru's congress was expected to vote Friday to accept President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's resignation and swear in as his replacement a politician who the vast majority of voters...

US students stage school walkouts to protest gun violence   Across the US, students were urged to leave class at 1400 GMT for 17 minutes – one minute for each of the dead in Florida. Students from...

The 5 Most Famous Escorts of All Time by Dale Harris   If Game of Thrones has taught us anything, it’s that prostituting yourself can lead to ruling the world. This is true in the real world, too....

UNICEF Mobilizes To Fight Ebola In The Democratic Republic Of Congo Maryanne Murray Buechner , UNICEF USA   UNICEF and partners are scaling up efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak in...

Venezuela political prisoners 'revolt' at Caracas jail   Relatives gathered outside the headquarters of the secret service, where inmates have staged an uprising Relatives of political prisoners held in one of Venezuela's most notorious prisons say...

Challenge Accepted: Issues Facing Legal Marketing Teams   Have you spent time in or around the legal profession? If so, you’ve probably heard your fair share of lawyer jokes. Unfortunately, most jokes about lawyers don’t paint attorneys...

Turkish boat's collision with Greek warship sparks fears of 'hot incident' Helena Smith in Athens   Cargo vessel made off after ramming gunboat near Lesbos, an act described as a flagrant violation of international law. A Turkish cargo...

Artificial intelligence is helping the fight against cancer   Evaxion Biotech's machine learning technique is creating cancer immunotherapies that are personalised down to the genetic level.   https://youtu.be/hF1p-x2LHAU   Transcript We are closer than ever before to understanding the human body...

US & Canada selected Eric Radford: Skater is first openly gay man to win Winter Olympics gold   https://youtu.be/BBm5x1XYN4M Canadian figure skater Eric Radford has said he "might explode with pride", after becoming the first openly gay male...

Three babies abandoned across Berlin in recent years are sisters   Police in the German capital are now hunting for the girls' mother amid fears that she might become pregnant again. Image: The first baby was found...

Mammoth task: billionaire Peter Thiel funded effort to resurrect woolly beast Olivia Solon   The Silicon Valley titan, who has openly challenged death as an inevitability, invested $100,000 in a project to bring the extinct mammoth...

Sacré blanc! Eiffel Tower remains closed as snow disrupts Paris   Traffic chaos in French capital as wintry weather hits country’s north.   The Eiffel Tower...

Japanese capital holds first North Korean missile attack drill   People in Japan had a scare last week when the public broadcaster mistakenly issued a missile launch alert. But Tokyo officials are not taking any chances—they...

Copa Libertadores final postponed after Boca bus attacked in Buenos Aires   The all-Buenos Aires clash, the first time Argentina's two biggest clubs had met for the title, was billed as the greatest final in the...

ABBA reunite with two new songs after 35 years   ABBA members come together 35 years after their last single by saying, "It was like time had stood still and that we only had been away...

FARC leader wanted in US suspends hunger strike   Prosecutors in New York accuse partially-sighted Santrich of conspiring to ship 10,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States while serving as a senior member of the...

Storms kill at least 47 as India temperatures soar     A fisherman and his wife row their boat in a fishing farm as it rains heavily on the outskirts of Kochi, India, May 29, 2018. Sivaram...

Iran, Russia and Turkey agree on reducing risk of ethnic divide in Syria   As Turkish, Russian and Iranian foreign ministers hold talks in Astana, they agree that Syria's future must be secured "without outside political...

Autonomous vehicles How do you define “safe driving” in terms a machine can understand?   Writing the robotic rules of the road WHEN people learn to drive, they subconsciously absorb what are colloquially known as the “rules of...

Venezuelan Armed Forces prepare against possible military intervention By Orlando Avendaño   The dictatorial regime of Nicolás Maduro is very concerned about an imminent military intervention. (Twitter) Each day, it becomes increasingly common to hear about...

Not cheap as chips: Samsung to invest $18 billion in memory chip business   South Korean firm wants to expand lead in global memory chip amid booming demand for storage products. Samsung Electronics will invest nearly $18bn...

'Humanitarian catastrophe' unfolding as Myanmar takes over aid efforts in Rakhine state Emanuel Stoakes   Officials fear aid blockade could become permanent in region where Rohingya Muslims have reportedly been massacred by soldiers. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rae8JSHB_A4?enablejsapi=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&origin=https://www.theguardian.com] Smoke billows from...

Israel in uproar over Argentina pre-World Cup friendly snub   JERUSALEM (AP) — The sports-crazed nation of Israel was in uproar Wednesday over Argentina’s abrupt cancellation of a World Cup warmup match following pro-Palestinian protests, with...