Care providers and policemen walk on the site where two trains collided between train stations Amsterdam-Sloterdijk and Amsterdam-Centraal in Amsterdam, on April 21, 2012. Two trains have collided in Amsterdam, Dutch media reports. At least 125 people were injured in the accident, around 50 seriously. A spokeswoman for Dutch Railways said the injuries mainly consist of broken bones and bruises. The... 

Captured US RQ-170 drone Iran has completed reverse-engineering of the captured US spy drone and has started building its own copy, Iranian media reports. The Revolutionary Guard is yet to decode parts of the software the Sentinel aircraft uses, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the force’s aerospace division, said on Sunday. “The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated... 

The first studies on radiation: Geissler, Crookes and Rontgen. The second half of the nineteenth century was particularly fruitful for the development of Physical Science, which began to shed light on the intimate constitution of matter with constant and meticulous efforts of a large group of scientists from various European nations. The principle of self-reliance was released, as the scientific research,... 

Pentagon building in Washington, DC The Pentagon is pushing for more power when it comes to international spying. The US military is now making a case to open up an undercover operation aimed at the overseas civilian sector. The US Department of Defense has asked Congress to approve a change in intelligence outlines which would permit America’s undercover units to send spies into the offices of foreign... 

Marine Le Pen, who heads France's National Front party, has highlighted the country's right to defend its national identity France’s politics would appear to be in deceptively rude health. As Sunday’s first stage of the country’s two-round presidential election approaches, the vital indicators return vivid signs of life. Mass meetings in Paris and elsewhere have drawn numbers and passion... 

Maritime scientists in Peru are trying to solve a mystery that has turned stretches of the country’s beaches into a grim dolphin morgue. Officials in Lima said last week that 877 carcasses have washed up, an unprecedented number, along 100 miles of the Piura and Lambayeque coast. Nearly all are bottle-nosed dolphins, many in an advanced state of decomposition. A possible explanation for the... 

A Red Cross volunteer talks to Hoang Thi Kim Phung, whose two-and-a-half -month-old son was admitted to hospital in Long An, Vietnam, with symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease Hanoi has asked the World Health Organization for help to cure a virulent disease affecting children. Symptoms include blistering on hands, feet and mouths accompanied by high fever and eventual organ failure. ­Nineteen... 

Bahraini protests attend a demonstration calling for the cancellation of the upcoming Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix race in Isa town, near Manama. Anti-regime protesters stage a mass demonstration near Manama to demand the cancellation of the Formula One Grand Prix which is slated to start on April 22 in Bahrain, Press TV reports. Demonstrators took to the streets of Karrana, a village in the Northern... 

Hollywood’s latest dystopic film of the month has arrived, attempting to vindicate Al Gore, and glamorize pedophilia. Not surprisingly, fawning critics are labeling it ‘a masterpiece’. It’s the end of the world… but that doesn’t stop director Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York) from exploiting the pseudo-science theory that humans have destroyed the Earth’s ozone layer,... 

There has been quite a lot of news about self-driving vehicles in recent months. Google is currently working on an autonomous car, while BMW is designing a “highly automated” vehicle capable of navigating through traffic. Now Cadillac has announced a new self-driving vehicle that seems somewhat similar to BMW’s approach, with “super cruise” technology that could be ready... 

China will send 16 naval ships and two submarines to its first joint naval exercise with Russia, slated to start this weekend in the Yellow Sea, the Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday. The drill, which Russian authorities said will involve warships cruising near Japanese waters, has rattled the nerves of media from Japan and South Korea. Japanese media speculated that the move is aimed at... 

Moscow has the largest Muslim population in Europe, with four mosques in the city serving more than two million people. The country has become a multi-confessional state in which Muslims and Christians have had to learn to live together. But according to experts, every day the problems connected with international and religious issues come up. On April 10, murder of the representative of the Azerbaijani... 

A North Korean soldier stands guard in front of an Unha-3 rocket at Tangachai-ri space center on April 8, 2012 Seoul claims North Korea is assembling another heavy ballistic missile similar to the ill-fated one launched on April 13. ­Seoul’s assumptions are based on American space reconnaissance data. They say both rockets were delivered at the site simultaneously around March 23. One rocket was... 

The federal government is about to become the country’s worst backseat driver. Congress wants to put tracking devices in the car of every American, and that’s not even the scariest provision in a new bill being passed around Washington. The US Senate has already signed off on a new legislation that, if cleared by the rest of Congress, will see to it that the government gets its eyes and ears inside... 

“What if aliens were to make contact—do we have an E.T. contingency plan? Sort of. The U.S. government is not particularly interested in alien planning.” -Slate, If Mars Attacks, Do we have an alien-contact contingency plan?, July 16, 2010 A bizarre scenario played out in Australia Easter morning: while children hunted for Easter eggs and the faithful attended church Australia’s Channel Nine...