Abused animals in Lebanon face losing safe haven
Beirut, Lebanon - Helena Hesayne used to be an architect, but she gave up her successful career for her passion: looking after mistreated animals. It is not a popular cause in her native Lebanon, a country still healing from years of civil war. Here, unemployment, poverty and political stability are more pressing concerns for most people. Hesayne, 47, More...
Spanish king’s teenage grandson shoots himself in foot
The 13-year-old grandson of Spain’s King Juan Carlos is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the foot. Felipe Juan Froilan was doing target practice outside a family home north of Madrid when More...
Supreme court rules against Nestle unit on patent
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Prometheus Laboratories could not patent a diagnostic method to observe changes in a patient’s body to determine the best drug dosage for certain diseases, a decision More...
Nazi looted art must be returned
A Jewish man has won his fight against a German museum for the return of thousands of rare posters stolen from his father by the Nazis in 1938. Berlin’s Federal Court of Justice ruled Peter Sachs, who now More...
McNugget sold on eBay for $8,100
A three-year-old McDonald’s McNugget resembling first US President George Washington has sold on eBay for $8,100. Its owner Rebekah Speight, of Nebraska, said she auctioned it to raise money to send children More...
Restored masterpiece returning home
A newly restored painting by the Dutch master Vermeer will shortly return to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam following a tour of Japanese galleries. It will be the first time visitors will have the chance to see Woman More...
Kim Dotcom extradition papers filed by US
A formal request for the extradition of Megaupload’s founder has been filed in New Zealand by the US government. Prosecutors had had 45 days to make the application following Kim Dotcom’s arrest in January. More...
Interracial marriage, acceptance growing: Study
Forty-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage in the United States, the rate of marriage across racial and ethnic lines is on the rise, according to a new study released Thursday. And More...