A Spanish parliament session has once again highlighted the divide over Catalan independence.

The future of open online communication is under threat, according to web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee who believes ‘the system is failing’ when it comes to the internet. When he first dreamt up his information sharing model, the British computer scientist envisioned it as a free platform for collaboration and the exchange of ideas. Almost forty years […]

“Whoever has no house now will not build one anymore.” As beautiful as the Rilke poem about the approaching end of the year may sound—for the homeless, the onset of winter is the worst punishment. The Federal Working Group for Homelessness (BAG W) reported this week that the homeless now number almost 1 million in […]

Police have surrounded a neighborhood in West Baltimore in search of the gunman who shot and gravely injured a veteran detective. A $64,000 reward has been offered for his capture. The Baltimore PD detective, who has not been identified by name, was investigating a murder in the Harlem Park neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon. Around 4:30 […]

Theresa May’s husband has been linked to the Paradise Papers after his company was accused of arranging investments in tax havens. Thousands of documents have exposed how Britain’s mega rich invest their money abroad to legally avoid paying hefty tax bills. Although not illegal, they are depriving the Treasury of juicy tax revenues at a […]

Created by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, professors of ophthalmology, neurology, physiology, and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, the book is a fascinating compilation of award-winning images from the Best Illusion of the Year contest, which Martinez-Conde and Macknik first created for a neuroscience conference in 2005. Since then, the […]

An ex-Google engineer who has registered the first church of AI says he is ‘raising a god’ that will that charge of humans. The robot god will head a religion called Way Of The Future (WOTF), which will eventually have a gospel called ‘The Manual’, rituals and even a physical place of worship, Anthony Levandowski first […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she is looking forward that the European Union would respond “positively” to her proposals for Brexit. May made the remarks as she arrived for a summit in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Friday to launch reforms for the bloc’s post-Brexit survival. She will hold talks with EU President Donald Tusk, and […]

The Pentagon has revealed that the United States now has some 500 troops on the ground in Somalia even as it denies a “build-up” of forces in the African country. The Pentagon announced in a statement on Thursday that there were now more than 500 US troops on the ground in Somalia, Fox News reported on […]

A police chase involving a motorist in Houston ended with some unexpected moves when the suspect was eventually caught. The man decided to catch pursuing officers off guard by showing off his twerking and shaking skills before trying to back away. Houston police were given the runaround when they tried to stop the driver for […]