Prime Minister David Cameron leaves Downing Street for Parliament on December 3, 2014 in London.Image: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images LONDON — David Cameron got his masochisms mixed with his sadisms at Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions session. The PM tortured the English language while trying to spank shadow chancellor Ed Balls for his recent comments that Labour…
Paramount Pictures A new report has found that the wealthiest 1 percent of the population will have more money than the rest of the world by next year. Anti-inequality charity Oxfam used data from Credit Suisse and Forbes’ annual billionaires list to conclude that the richest 1 percent have gone from owning 44 percent of…
Wikipedia’s arbitration committee has taken action against editors who insisted that whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who is transsexual, go by her former name, Bradley. They are now prohibited from editing any page related to trans issues. Manning is one of the most controversial American figures in recent memory, for reasons wholly unrelated to her gender identity.…
One year after launching on NASA’s final space shuttle mission, the orbiter Atlantis is parked today just a few miles from the launch pad where it lifted off on July 8, 2011. No longer flight-worthy — its main engines replaced with replicas and its hazardous fuel lines removed — Atlantis is waiting inside a high…
Members of France’s National Assembly held a moment of silence for the victims of last week’s attacks before raising their voices in a show of national unity on Tuesday, joining together in a rendition of the French national anthem in the government chambers. The National Assembly is made up of 577 delegates. The tribute is…
Astronomers have gotten the first-ever peek at our solar system’s tail, called the heliotail, finding that it’s shaped like a four-leaf clover, NASA scientists announced Wednesday. The discovery was made using NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), a coffee-table-sized spacecraft that is studying the edge of the solar system. “Many models have suggested the heliotail might…
North Korea has had its “Sputnik” moment on Tuesday, when it successfully launched a rocket reportedly carrying a satellite into orbit for the first time in its history. Now, we can relive the communist nation’s historic moment on YouTube. The video shows the interior of the mission control center, as well as different views of…