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Over "surplus" 100 million men will come of age in the next decade. Such a male surplus in societies has seldom ended well in hist...
Facebook (FB.O), the world's most popular social network, gained European Union clearance on Friday for its proposed $19 billion takeove...
Russia's oil CEO makes some interesting remarks. Worth a read. from bertb news feed http://bit.ly/1pME6cW
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the one-time oil tycoon who spent a decade in President Vladimir Putin's prisons, said Russia is nearing an econom...
The leader of the now-disbanded LulzSec hacking group directed members to attack targets in dozens of countries, including the U.K., Turkey,...
The American-triggered regime change in Ukraine at the Western end of the Eurasian continent has been widely discussed. Less noticed, if at ...
It is interesting to see how China's State newspaper Xinhua is spinning the words of foreign papers. from bertb news feed http://bit.ly/...
"Six years after the financial crisis began, we see continued weakness in the global economy," she added from bertb news feed http...
People who contract Ebola in West Africa can get through airport screenings and onto a plane with a lie and a lot of ibuprofen, according to...
That translated to a doubling of the death rate, from one per 100,000 people to 2.1 per 100,000. "Despite these findings, still more th...
The Texas-based oil major has a number of projects underway in West Africa, including the recently acquired 80 percent stake in a project of...
Slovakia, which is heavily dependent on Russian energy, recently began pumping gas to Ukraine at the European Union's behest, after Russ...
He said that although Uganda could endure aid cuts, it would be badly hit by a trade boycott. from bertb news feed http://bit.ly/1pxbCor
Forced military service and rights abuses lead many Eritreans to take the treacherous boat journey to Europe. "As Eritreans we are dead...
Russia's annexation of Crimea is sufficiently alarming for Ankara, with the added dimension of Russian naval supremacy in the Black Sea....
Easing of 40-year-old ban, applicable only to maritime equipment, comes amid growing naval challenges from China. the enemy of my enemy is m...
Reporters require government permission to cover outbreak or could face arrest under new rules. from bertb news feed http://bit.ly/1r9shOx
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan has defended his government's efforts to control online speech, telling a press freedom conf...
"Migrants are forced to put their lives in the hands of traffickers and smugglers who are making huge profits by exploiting their miser...
The main demand of the Turkish side in those talks and the follow ups is expected to be the imposition of a no-fly zone by the U.S.-led coal...
Catalhuyuk is the oldest know settlement in human history situated in south east Turkey and some of the greatest inventions of our species c...
The UN is doing it's bit in the propaganda war against the Islamic State. from bertb news feed http://bit.ly/1r9seCi
This incident follows the "appalling" shelling of a school in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, which resulted in the death of a numbe...
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A statement from the web giant said it has deleted photos "within hours" of requests being made and has "closed hundreds of a...
A large number of extremists linked to Qatar are devoted to raising money for jihadists. How long can the Gulf state go on playing both side...
You are war on the world by living. "Our consumption is trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stu...
The 33-year-old cameraman and writer, who has worked in Liberia for the past three years and has covered the recent Ebola outbreak for vario...
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Oleh Makhnitsky, an aide to Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, ducks for cover after men wearing hoods disrupt his news conference by thr...
A series of experiments found that once honest people had tasted power, they couldn't resist rewarding themselves at the expense of othe...
New orders for manufactured goods fell 10.1 percent to $56.1 billion in August, following a 10.5 percent increase in July. Most of the swing...
Ankara backs deployment of troops in neighbouring countries amid fears Syria has become a 'nest for terror and terrorists'. This res...
There's supposed to be a ceasefire in East Ukraine, though this is being marred by sporadic fighting. Both the Ukrainian army and anti-g...
Retaining a small US force would have helped contain sectarian violence and prevented the conditions that helped open the door to the onslau...
It just does not end. The Mediterranean is quickly becoming the largest watery grave of our times from bertb news feed http://bit.ly/1r6BjMf
Parts of the eastern coal mining hub of Donetsk, which was once home to nearly a million Russian speakers but now stands half-abandoned, wer...
Donetsk's Sergey Prokofiev airport was newly renovated to coincide with Ukraine's hosting of the European football championship in 2...
A former BP executive criticised for his role in the Texas oil refinery explosion which killed 15 people in 2005 is to become the first chie...
Researchers asked adults to identify odours including peppermint, fish, orange, rose and leather. The 39 per cent with the worst sense of sm...
Politics is lacking in so many genuine surprises - with speeches being given to favoured journalists before they are delivered, and everythi...
An ingredient in Viagra could cause blindness in both men with eye problems and those with seemingly normal vision, according to a new study...
"The longer it moves around in human hosts in the virulent melting pot that is West Africa, the more chances increase that it could mut...
A group of 35 European security officials issued a joint declaration suggesting that Ebola should be treated in the same way as the threat p...