In November conservative Trump supporters were outraged at Megyn Kelly after targeting Donald Trump during the first Republican FOX News debate. After this debate, my opinion changed the MOST about @foxnews, @megynkelly, @BretBaier & Chris Wallace! Utterly Disappointed…#GOPDebate — Amy Mek (@AmyMek) 7...
Taxi drivers in France are blockading roads with burning tires in protest at the low-cost Uber app, resulting in at least 20 arrests. Air traffic controllers are also staging a demonstration, leading to dozens of canceled flights. At least 20 arrests had already been made by 10 a.m. local time, following taxi driver protests...
Islamic State is expanding its activities to a global level, with a focus on the European Union, which should prepare for more frequent acts of terror similar to the recent Paris attacks, the chief of EU police agency Europol said. “The so-called Islamic State has developed a new combat-style capability to carry out a...
What to do about the Zika virus? As this — another viral disease — emerges, we're again facing down a primordial threat that reminds us we are animals in an ecosystem. It's an ecosystem that's changing with us and because of us. Beating back Zika will require openness to innovation in both technology and...
A beached sperm whale has been discovered on England’s east coast, making it the fifth whale to wash ashore in recent days. The carcass of a fifth sperm whale washed up on a beach in the county of Lincolnshire, the coastguard reported on Monday The police have closed off the site and sightseers have been asked to stay...
Islamic State has set up a special operations command to mastermind more terrorist attacks on “soft targets” in Europe, drawing on training camps on European soil and with France as the most at-risk country, the European Union’s crime-fighting agency said. The model is the simultaneous shootings at several...
A Swedish activist who was detained in China on charges of damaging national security has been released and deported. Peter Dahlin, 35, has been held since early January amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. Last week he appeared on state media apparently confessing to breaking the law through his...
Amid a growing number of asylum seekers trying to make it into the European Union, EU ministers have asked the European Commission to prepare the basis for prolonging temporary border controls in the Schengen zone for up to two years. “Currently, the temporary border measures can be taken only for a limited period of six...
Storm Jonas may have brought recording-breaking blizzards and devastation to the east coast of the United States but one woman has refused to let the extreme weather get her down. She has joined the snowdiving craze, which in recent days has seen thousands of Americans donning just their swimming costumes and taking...
Dozens of fatalities have been reported across Taiwan, Japan, and China due to relatively severe weather conditions that suddenly hit the region over the weekend. At least 57 people are believed to have died in Taiwan since Saturday as a result of a rare cold snap sweeping through East Asia. Taiwan’s Central News Agency...
EU ministers will meet in Amsterdam to discuss steps to allow states to reintroduce national border controls for two years, possibly spelling the end for the 30-year-old Schengen Agreement allowing passport-free travel across 26 states, according to The refugee crisis has pushed Europe to “a make or break”...
Australian leaders say the nation shouldn’t wait for the end of Queen Elizabeth II's reign to become a republic. Seven of Australia’s eight state and territory leaders have signed a declaration urging for a homegrown head of state to replace the monarch. The only state leader not to sign the document, on the eve...