USA Weiner to stay in New York City mayoral race, despite new 'sexting' scandal Mayoral candidate for New York, Anthony Weiner, said on Tuesday that he would continue to run despite new revelations of sexually explicit online 24/07/2013
USA Picture this - your smile as seen from Saturn Thousands of people stopped their daily activities on Friday July 19 to smile at the sky while the spacecraft Cassini took a picture of Earth from 23/07/2013
USA Actor Dennis Farina dies at 69 Dennis Farina, a former Chicago policeman turned tough-guy actor, died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday, the actor’s publicist said. He was 69 22/07/2013
USA 'Game of Thrones' and 'American Horror Story' lead Emmy nominees Television thriller ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’ and medieval fantasy ‘Game of Thrones’ led the nominees for primetime TV Emmy Awards. In a new 18/07/2013
USA NASA discovers new Neptune moon An astronomer studying archived images of Neptune taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has found a 14th moon orbiting the planet, NASA said on 17/07/2013
USA Tightening the belt: obese Scouts not allowed at US Jamboree The quadrennial US Boy Scout Jamboree opened at a new site in the West Virginia mountains on Monday. The inclusion of girls marks a first for the 16/07/2013
USA Two-year-old cancer patient inundated with pizza after window sign goes viral A two-year old girl has been overwhelmed with pizza from online well-wishers after her mother posted a sign on her hospital window asking for 16/07/2013
World Back in the Day: Billy the Kid's death July 14, 1881. Billy the Kid, born William Henry McCarthy and later known as William H. Bonney was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881. The 14/07/2013
USA Saudi Princess charged with human trafficking released on $5M Bail A Saudi princess charged with human trafficking has been freed, after posting $5 million bail. She had been arrested in California the day 12/07/2013
USA Watch live: Malala takes education battle to the UN Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani campaigner who was shot in the head by the Taliban will address the UN today. Malala will deliver her first 12/07/2013
USA Judge says Apple conspired to raise prices on e-books In a decision that could reshape how books are sold on the Internet, a federal judge ruled that Apple Inc conspired to raise the retail prices of 10/07/2013
USA Snowden accepts Venezuela asylum offer says Russian lawmaker U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who is wanted in the United States on espionage charges, has accepted Venezuela’s offer of asylum 09/07/2013
USA Digital platform shows all that PRISM knows about you Are you curious to see how PRISM gathers all that information about millions of e-mails sent every day? An MIT’s application, called Immersion 09/07/2013
USA Record breaking ‘dead zone’ predicted in Gulf of Mexico A record breaking ‘dead zone’ may emerge in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, according to a forecast released last week. A dead zone occurs in 04/07/2013
USA The inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88 Douglas Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas 04/07/2013
World Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars Buzz Aldrin is one of the original men on the Moon. In July 1969 he and Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface for the first time, taking a 02/07/2013
USA The highly classified leaking Odyssey of Edward Snowden When we look back at 2013 to consider candidates for Person of the Year, Edward Joseph Snowden is likely to be among the leading candidates. The 01/07/2013
USA NSA 'can obtain, store and listen to one billion cell phone calls a day' The United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) possesses brand new technology that enables one billion cell phone calls a day to be redirected 01/07/2013
USA Google's Street View explores Hawaii's volcanoes A virtual visit to Hawaii’s famous volcanoes will soon be available online, thanks to Google’s Street View. A local trail guide company will be 28/06/2013
USA Texas executes 500th person since 1982 Fifty-two-year-old Kimberly McCarthy became the 500th person to be executed in Texas on Wednesday. Texas is the first state to reach such a number of 27/06/2013
USA Historic US Supreme Court ruling, big win for gay rights The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a central portion of a federal law that restricted the definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples 26/06/2013
USA NASA discovers 10,000th near-Earth object More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first 26/06/2013
USA What do the Prop 8 and DOMA decisions mean for the future of same-sex marriage? What do the Prop 8 and DOMA decisions mean for the future of same-sex marriage? The United States Supreme Court’s decisions on Proposition 8 and 26/06/2013
USA 11-hour attempt to block abortion bill ends in Texas Senate chaos Thousands around the world were glued to a live stream on Tuesday night to watch Texan Democrat Senator Wendy Davis attempt to block a controversial 26/06/2013
World Back in the Day: rainbow flag becomes Gay Pride symbol June 25, 1978 The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. Designed by Gilbert 25/06/2013
World Back in the Day: flying saucers spotted for the first time June 24, 1947: Kenneth Arnold, an American aviator and businessman, claims to have spotted a string of nine shiny, unidentified flying objects 24/06/2013
