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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostJERUSALEM — Israel will press its air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, preparing his country for a longer and bloodier campaign and dashing hopes that the three-week-old conflict woul...
- Moscow's support of separatists blamed for downing Malaysia Airlines jet in Ukraine is about to cost Moscow a lot of money
- Targets symbols of Hamas control as Israeli campaign enters 4th week; Palestinian death toll surpasses 1,100 as Israel's tops 50, officials say
- As vacation deals go this one isn't bad.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalIsrael hits symbols of Hamas power, Gaza's only power plant, in heaviest bombardment of war
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NYT > WorldMr. Zhou, who retired from the Politburo Standing Committee in late 2012, is the most senior Communist Party figure ever to face a formal graft inquiry.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalChina announces probe into ex-security czar Zhou Yongkang over alleged discipline violations
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalIMF announces new $5B credit line to bolster Morocco's economy amid global difficulties
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedCommunist Party has decided to probe Zhou Yongkang for suspected ‘serious disciplinary violations,’ official Xinhua news agency says
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesU.K.’s FTSE 100 heads for its first gain in three days on Tuesday, with upbeat earnings reports from GKN and Next lifting the trading mood.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesAn attack hit the fuel storage tanks at the sole power plant in the Gaza Strip, as Israel continued to pound the territory overnight.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from CNN.comMan has been mapping the moon for hundreds of years. Here are some of the most eye-catching creations.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedIran, a staunch Hamas ally, does not recognize Israel and supports militant anti-Israeli groups such as Lebanon’s Shia Hezbollah group
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsBEIJING (Reuters) - China has begun an investigation into former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, one of the most powerful politicians of the last decade, on suspicion of corruption, state media said on Tuesday, in what could be on...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's military pounded targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country should prepare for a long conflict in the Palestinian enclave, squashing any hopes of a sw...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalLet's go surfing now ... in Madagascar, newest member of global surf association
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsMANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will propose a freeze on all activity that raises tension in disputed waters in the South China Sea as part of a three-part plan at a regional security meeting next month, Manila's foreign minister said...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from The Business InsiderBusiness Insider is expanding in the U.K.! We're opening a newsroom in London this summer, with a focus on finance, tech and politics. We are hiring at all levels, from an editor-in-chief to editors, reporters and paid interns. Successfu...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from World News & AnalysisAn investor is suing Barclays over losses suffered after New York's attorney general accused the bank of lying about its electronic trading platform.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsKIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Intense fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine killed at least 19 civilians, local officials said on Tuesday, as Kiev pressed an offensive to close in on the separatists.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesPaying for good grades sets an early precedent that effort leads to reward.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsDONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - On the last day of May, a surface-to-air rocket was signed out of a military base near Moscow where it had been stored for more than 20 years.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalChina announces probe into ex-security czar Zhou Yongkang over alleged discipline violations
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NYT > WorldA surge of interest in World War I hasn’t set off any new debate. Historians agree: This is a very consensual centennial.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalReport: 22 civilians including 5 in old people's home killed by shelling in eastern Ukraine
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedU.S. alleges that Moscow tested a prohibited ground-launched cruise missile in opposition to 1987 pact
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from CNN.comIn Malawi, the art of bamboo is helping disadvantaged youth rise out of poverty.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from World News & AnalysisOver 2,000 years since the the Hippocratic Oath was introduced there are calls for bankers to follow suit, in an effort to prevent another crisis.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalMcDonald's Japan to strengthen checks on chicken suppliers, says earnings likely to be hurt
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesThere are many ways to invest in sex. Here are five possibilities.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from World News & AnalysisAn influential consumer magazine called on Toyota to recall about 177,500 older Camry hybrid sedans to address potential power brake defects.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesTim Draper’s proposal to split California into six states ignores the real menace: the Ocean State.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from InternationalThe conflict in Gaza is replete with asymmetries: the number of civilian casualties on either side, the amount of destruction, the types of weapons used and technological capabilities of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas, or the ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldSenior administration officials urge lawmakers and industry groups not to be penny wise and pound foolish.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comBy James M. Dorsey The effort to achieve a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip resembles a see-saw with at times Israel and at other times Hamas rejecting a halt to hostilities or violating a brief silencing of the guns ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NYT > WorldAfter an agreement with the United States to sharply escalate sanctions, the measures worried some companies that have major investments in Russia.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesGold prices maintain their sideways action, moving just a fraction higher ahead of this week’s flood of economic data.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesJapan stocks end at their highest settlement in six months, bolstered by upbeat corporate earnings reports.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from CNN.comA federal appeals court on Monday struck down Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage, the first such decision in a southern state and another victory for gay and lesbian couples seeking the right to legally wed.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from CNN.comSeven years ago Steve Way was a 20-a-day smoker weighing 230 pounds. Then he took up running.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesU.S. stock futures indicate a lower open for Wall Street Tuesday, with investors to receive reports that will likely show slight slowing for U.S. housing prices and confidence among U.S. consumers.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalEU prosecutor: 'compelling indications' that up to 10 killed in organ harvesting in Kosovo War
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesThe European Union will for the first time target oligarchs benefiting from the turmoil in Ukraine, as it finalizes sector-wide economic sanctions expected to be announced later.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from USATODAY - World Top Stories
Israel vows offensive won't end until Hamas tunnels are neutralized.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsBEIJING (Reuters) - China is holding some of its most extensive military exercises this week off its eastern seaboard, and although rival Japan is unperturbed, they are causing massive disruptions in civilian air traffic in Shanghai and ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalPlane passengers stuck in Hawaii for 3 nights get public apology, cash from Air New Zealand
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalIsrael slammed Gaza with a barrage of airstrikes overnight, the heaviest bombardment in the three-week conflict.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldBRUSSELS (AP) — European Union ambassadors are meeting to discuss a dramatic toughening of the trade bloc's sanctions against Russia.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldNEW YORK (AP) — A California man who skipped town after being accused of molesting a boy was killed and three law enforcement officers trying to arrest him were wounded in a daytime shootout inside a small smoke shop in one of New York's...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalExplosions, smoke visible following heavy night of fighting.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe corporation sacked 14 staff last year after an unspecified number of disciplinary investigations, new figures have shown. Among those to have lost their job was John Linwood, former chief technology officer, pictured, who was sanctio...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineBeyondBlue have launched an Australian-first campaign to highlight the psychological effect that subtle racism have on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and reduce discrimination.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineSarah Durazza died in a tragic car crash last August when she veered off the Wakehurst Parkway in Narrabeen on Sydney's northern beaches and hit a tree, while apparently on the phone to her boyfriend, Scott Bidder. At the inquest into he...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineCain Leathem, of Druids Heath, Birmingham, claimed to have worked with stars including former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore, top right, and DJ Kate Lawler.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)The offshore South Stream gas pipeline section will not have a substantial impact on the environment and the socio-economic sphere in the region of Bulgaria's Varna. The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report was prepar...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThis is the moment a chair was caught on CCTV moving mysteriously at Brookside Theatre in Romford, Essex, hours after a psychic finished his show.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineRandy Jennings, 42, from Sacramento, California has been hopelessly hooked on Schwarzenegger films since sneaking into the cinema to watch Conan the Barbarian when he was 11-year-old.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIn 1974, construction boss Don Hazell was driving a loader on a building site at Kingston, 12km south of Hobart and 26km from where Ms Butterworth (pictured) disappeared, when he discovered a human rib cage. Police refused to investigate...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineHwang Pyong-So, director of the military's General Political Bureau, said tensions had been raised in the area following a series of drills by the U.S. and South Korea.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe poster, which was shared through Paramount Australia's official Twitter page, evoked anger due to its visual similarity to the 9/11 terror attacks, which killed 2,996 people in 2001.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineSir Peter Westmacott, UK ambassador to the US, condemned Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine ahead of a meeting in Brussels to impose tougher economic sanctions.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePrince Harry has photobombed New Zealand Commonwealth Games officials in Glasgow - and they were so chuffed one of them made it their profile picture on Facebook.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe NYPD went some way to restoring fraught community relations in Staten Island by taking part in a commemoration of sorts to Eric Garner - whose chokehold death earlier this month sparked massive condemnation of the force.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe festival of Eid al-Fitr is being celebrated across the globe with Muslims meeting to exchange gifts, enjoy food and decorate their homes in a show of thanksgiving.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineOrganised gangs are stripping vehicles across Britain of their parts – including badges, doors and seats – ahead of an increasing demand for spares. The Land Rover Defender, whose most most famous owner is The Queen, goes out of producti...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineHan Peng, 47, escaped with a bruise after a shot from another drinker at a bar in the Taiwanese city of Hsinchu was stopped by the phone in his shirt pocket (pictured).
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe Obama administration accused Russia on Monday of conducting tests in violation of a 1987 nuclear missile treaty.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineSun and warm weather is expected to return across the country today after yesterday's thunderstorms devastated areas in southeast England.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineFitness fanatic Paddy Doyle, from Solihull, West Midlands, also holds another 149 records which have been approved by other record-breaking bodies.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement, which quashed any hopes of a swift end to 22 days of fighting, came after North Korea has rejected claims that it supplied missiles to Hamas and material support to Hezbollah as 'sheer ficti...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIt only took David Barker four weeks to ask Daphne Thorp to marry him after the pair met at a dance in 1972. But it took the Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, couple another 42 years to marry.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineLouise Huart claims a Scarborough General Hospital staff member called the women's hospital she was staying in with her newborn and asked 'is he dead yet?'
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe move by three of the biggest supermarkets will bring some relief for drivers who have seen pump prices inch up in recent weeks.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineExperts say it is important to consider employment, transport and growth when deciding on a suburb to invest in.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineConstruction of the ranch in Hildale, Utah began in 2010 while Jeffs was awaiting trial in Texas for sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault of a child.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineNearly all diesel vehicle drivers who travel through central London could be hit with a £10 charge from 2020, if plans drawn up by London Mayor Boris Johnson are approved.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThis adorable image of a spaniel having a bath was head and shoulders above more than 130,000 images at the 2014 World Photography Awards announced in London.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineJack the Jack Russelll alerted owners James and Tina Gamble to the snake that was coiled up among their pots and pans in their home in Little Bentley, Essex.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineRodents are invading Paris's Tuileries Garden to pick up leftovers from the thousands of picnickers who flock to the park to enjoy the sun.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineJoe Kistel set up his equipment next to what he suspected to be the lair of an octopus off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Nearly half of active companies in Bulgaria don't have a single employee, shows data of the National Statistics Institute for the period 2008-2012, quoted by BTA. In 144 330 companies, or 44.6% of the active companies, the only employee...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePhil Waltis’ day began like any other on Thursday morning as he drove to work but it took an unexpected turn for the worse when a man jumped in the front passenger seat of his car at a set of lights in southwest Sydney and forced him to ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)A bomb disposal unit in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Bourgas has destroyed a dangerous WWII aerial bomb which was found by accident at the beach. A diver has discovered the ammunition in the sea, at a depth of 2 meters, about 4 meters aw...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePresident Barack Obama had a secret, and decided to share it with an assembly at the White House - back in the day he had a thing for You're No Good singer Linda Ronstadt.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineFive-year-old Pomeranian mix Papi was critically injured and suffered burns to his back, nose and the inside of his mouth, after a house fire in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineDr Glenn Marsh, a CSIRO research scientist, is working out of a high containment laboratory in Geelong near Melbourne as part of a global effort to find a way to treat the fatal disease.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe House of Commons has bought more than 1,500 new televisions during the last financial year at a cost of around £160,000. The televisions were needed because of the digital switchover.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePeople overseas are none too keen on UK weather or food either, however it is a relief that they think Brits are still very polite. That's according to a British Council study called As Others See Us.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe 25-year-old had signed up to be a volunteer for the Games, but is not believed she had asked for time off to rehearse, which began three weeks ago.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe historic building on New York Avenue near 4th street in Washington DC is being moved a short distance down the block to make way for a new construction.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineCystic fibrosis makes it hard to breathe for Bundaberg's Sabrina Zwarts (pictured) and the only way to improve her quality of life was to get a $20,000 vest that needed to be imported from the United States.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe fraudster, 59, who is originally from Ecuador, was jailed for five years for fraud in 2012 and faced automatic deportation but now claims his human rights mean he should be allowed to stay in the UK.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe Connecticut mansion that belonged to millionaire Leona Helmsley is on the market for $65 million after a three-year renovation.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineA Senate Inquiry into Affordable Housing, taking place tomorrow, is investigating the difficulties presented by the conditions of the current property market.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePrime Minister David Cameron claimed so-called ‘highly skilled’ migrants allowed in under the last government had ended up ‘stacking shelves’.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineA Ukrainian security spokesman said data from the recovered flight recorders shows Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed due to a massive, explosive loss of pressure after being punctured multiple times by shrapnel.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineLocals are mocking a $3.5 million sculpture set to be erected in the Sydney CBD, comparing the 50-metre artwork to dental floss, a rubber band, Jessica Rabbit and Mr Burns from The Simpsons.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe home of Ismail Haniyeh, the former Hamas Gaza prime minister, was believed to have been empty when it was hit by a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comZhou is most senior Chinese politician to be linked to corruption scandal since Communist party came to power in 1949 Continue reading...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe specter of Ebola arriving on America's doorstep came one step closer with the news that the victim whose death sparked fears of a global outbreak was planning on coming home to Minnesota in August.
