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Man stabbed during Sydney home invasion
A MAN has been stabbed multiple times during a home invasion in Sydney's northwest, but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
news.com.au (22 minutes ago)
One giant leap for Britain: UK's first official astronaut Major Tim Peake on tweeting like Chris...
Britain's first astronaut in more than 20 years, a 41-year-old Apache helicopter pilot called Major Tim Peake, said today that his biggest anxiety about spending six months on the International Space Station as a flight engineer was the thought of leaving his young family behind on Earth.
independent.co.uk (49 minutes ago)
'I once thought Maryland was below me'
The University of Maryland's English Department held its commencement ceremonies on Monday and student Jamie Lee gave the following unusually honest speech in which she concedes that she once thought going to College Park was beneath her and that studying English was a self-indulgent exercise. Here's her speech:
washingtonpost.com (51 minutes ago)
PSA: Your Skype Messages Aren't As Private as You Think They Are
Most people think of Skype as a secure means of communication, with messages kindly delivered using end-to-end encryption. But a new report by Ars Technica suggests that's far from the case-and Microsoft is often dipping into your communications. Having teamed up with security researcher Ashkan Soltani, Ars sent...
gizmodo.com (1 hour ago)
Obamacare, Part 2
The following editorial appeared in Monday’s Washington Post: Thought you had seen the last of the fighting over the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare? Since its passage in 2010, after all, it has survived Supreme Court review, innumerable challenges from House Republicans and Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful...
sltrib.com (1 hour ago)
Robert Scheer: When Good Sites Sell Out, Who Loses?
I have nothing against the folks who created Tumblr and managed to get Yahoo to bid a whopping $1.1 billion this week to buy the company. More power to them, I thought as I attended the event they helped sponsor Monday night for winners of this year's Webby Awards, one of which--best political site--went to...
huffingtonpost.com (2 hours ago)
Tornado Devastates Oklahoma City Suburb
MOORE, Okla., May 20 (Reuters) - A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. Twenty of the 51 confirmed deaths were...
huffingtonpost.com (2 hours ago)
Pueblo cops rescue man from angry mob
Pueblo residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks
denverpost.com (2 hours ago)
El Margarita wells face testing after groundwater contamination
When Rick Butler's father became ill in February 2012, he never thought the cause was the well water his parents drank and showered in every day. He shrugged off a friend's advice to check the family's personal well. His parents had been living in...
appeal-democrat.com (2 hours ago)
The wonderfully weird world of webcomics | Dean Burnett
Webcomics are increasingly widespread and popular. It could be argued their proliferation is linked to the decline of print comics, in the same way that free news site and blogging is often blamed for the decline in newspapers. Webcomics don't get nearly as much mainstream publicity though (at least none that I've...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
The woman on a mission to expose sexual abuse
Anna Hall is nothing if not patient. It was 17 years ago, over a cup of coffee in her adopted home city of Leeds, when she first heard that some British Pakistani men were grooming, raping and trafficking young white girls. She immediately knew she should bring the evidence to a wider public, yet it took three years...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Mervyn King's housing warning is too little, too late | Polly Toynbee
The French call it l'esprit de l'escalier, that brilliant thought on the way out, too late for some brilliant aperçu. Alas, that is Sir Mervyn King's parting contribution as he warns that the Help to Buy scheme risks setting off a housing bubble. In his long years at the Bank of England he presided nonchalantly over...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Seniors on the move
After 52 years in one much-loved Moorestown home, the thought of moving and leaving behind all those memories - and joyfully-acquired treasures - was certainly unsettling for Virginia Sheppard.
phillyburbs.com (4 hours ago)
The Local Agenda: Germans to come to Hall to study immigration
A group from Germany will be visiting Hall County on Wednesday, looking to learn about American cultural life and political issues but particularly immigration. The group from the German-American Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, will discuss the issue as immigration has become an issue in its country as economics...
gainesvilletimes.com (4 hours ago)
Berlin tax hike not expected to be as high as once thought
Berlin property owners will likely face a hike in their local 2013 taxes, but not as much as first feared. Residents will get to have their say on the fiscal year 2014 proposed budget on Monday, May 29 at a public hearing which begins at 630 p.m. in the Berlin City Hall auditorium.
unionleader.com (5 hours ago)
Despite road closures, kids get to school
Though severe weather Saturday night washed out roadways in Flowery Branch, most students in the area made it to school Monday morning. Jewel Armour, executive director of transportation for Hall County Schools, said he and his staff were out surveying the damage and speaking with emergency management personnel...
gainesvilletimes.com (5 hours ago)
Alden’s workers’ comp rates won’t go up
Alden Supervisor Harry Milligan announced at the Town Board meeting Monday night that New York State had recently told the town that its workers’ compensation rates would increase significantly – around $30,000 per year.But Alden fought back.“The state just wanted to jack up our rates,” Milligan said. “They were...
buffalonews.com (5 hours ago)
Much at Stake as Energy Department Weighs Permits for Exporting Natural Gas
Christopher Smith, the Energy Department official in charge of shaping the Obama administration’s policy on exporting natural gas, recalls working for Chevron on an import facility during the first part of the last decade. At the time, U.S. reserves were thought to be scarce and fuel prices were accordingly high.
yahoo.com (6 hours ago)
Contractor collateral in mining's stark retreat
Transfield has joined its peers in painting an outlook worst than first thought. And the market's ferocious reaction reminds us mining investment is still yet to peak.
businessspectator.com.au (6 hours ago)
Massachusetts G.O.P. Again Seeks Senate Seat Left by Democrat
The chances of Gabriel Gomez, the Republican running against Representative Edward J. Markey for John Kerry’s vacated Senate seat, are thought to be fair.
nytimes.com (6 hours ago)
A Former Subway Worker Made a Breakthrough Discovery in Math
A completely unknown guy in the world of math has made a breakthrough discovery that will help us understand numbers better. Basically, a guy who once struggled to find a job and had to work at Subway, is helping math geniuses understand the twin prime conjecture, one of math's oldest problems. Now, Yitang Zhang,...
gizmodo.com (7 hours ago)
Safeway Shopper Thwarts Pharmacy Robbery
An armed robber thought he'd gotten away with some prescription drugs, but a quick-thinking customer saw the crime ending differently.
cbslocal.com (7 hours ago)
Think You're An Adventurous Food Fan? Let's See You Try This
If you're like pretty much no one else in the universe, the first thing you thought when Rafiki held up Simba at the beginning of "The Lion King" was, "I wonder what that adorable lion cub would taste like smothered in barbeque sauce?" But lion is what was for dinner at Mokutanya, a Japanese restaurant in the San...
huffingtonpost.com (7 hours ago)
Ryan Thomas Neace: I And My Father Are One
Shortly after my recent blog about Christian masculinity, I read a moving, related piece by Alan Noble, of ChristandPopCulture.com. It was a response to an interview with Christian author Eric Metaxas about his newest book, "Seven Men," which chronicles the lives of seven of Metaxas' heroes. Noble admits he didn't...
huffingtonpost.com (7 hours ago)
Brian Penny: The Power of a Yoga Book
Yoga is a personal journey. Everyone has a different journey, and there are plenty of ways to choose from. There's a plethora of books, magazines, DVDs, and information all over the Web. Any major city has dozens of studios to choose from. With so much out there, it's very difficult to decide how to start. I've...
huffingtonpost.com (7 hours ago)
PHOTO: Generous Tip Funds Waitress's Dream Vacation
We've all had moments at work and thought, "I need a vacation." And fortunately for one over-worked waitress, a dream vacation just became reality, courtesy of a stranger's kindness. Per the Tumblr of "Casual Cynic," a photo of a restaurant receipt shows a $60.42 charge for the diner's meal. Below that, in the "+...
huffingtonpost.com (7 hours ago)
Officials knew of US tax scandal in April
THE White House has revealed knowledge of a report on tax officials targeting conservative groups was more widespread than first thought.
news.com.au (7 hours ago)
That pre-holiday tan session to protect your skin could be fatal
Like many, Jackie thought a few minutes on a sunbed would prepare her for the beach. She couldn’t have been more wrong.
dailymail.co.uk (7 hours ago)
Teen thanks paramedics who treated him after gruesome bike accident
Caide Neff stood Monday morning holding three bouquets of flowers outside the new Rural/Metro Medical Services training center in West Seneca. The 14-year-old and his mother were about to meet the three first responders who were credited with helping to save Caide after he was seriously injured while biking with a...
buffalonews.com (8 hours ago)
White House helps fuel its own political controversies
Brian Hughes The White House on Monday acknowledged that top officials there knew a month ago that the IRS was being investigated for targeting conservative groups, but offered no apology for the Justice Department's spying on a second news organization. Even as they labored to put controversy behind them, the White...
washingtonexaminer.com (8 hours ago)
