A YFP Gas tanker Argentina has ordered the seizure of YFP Gas, another company controlled by the Spanish firm Repsol, as part of plans to take control of the country’s natural resources and increase production. “There’s a division (of Repsol) called YPF Gas and that’s what will be expropriated,” Argentine Senator Marcelo Fuentes said on Wednesday. The move to declare YPF Gas... 

Theft: Omer Petti, 95 and Madge Woodward, 85, have filed a police report alleging $300 stolen after the cash was ordered through a detector's conveyor belt by airport security Wheelchair-bound 95-year-old US Air Force veteran Omer Petti and his 85-year-old partner Madge Woodward were treated like terrorists by TSA agents at San Diego International airport, ostensibly so TSA workers could separate... 

Iraqi activists said this unnamed teenager was brutally killed by religious police for having an 'emo' hairstyle Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers by religious police for having “emo” haircuts reported the Daily Mail and Al Arabiya in March 2012. Activists told the Lebanon-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances... 

The parliamentary faction leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU), Volker Kauder A leading member of the German parliament’s conservative bloc and an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel says Islam is not part of the German society. “Islam is not part of our tradition and identity in Germany and so does not belong in Germany,” Volker Kauder, who heads Merkel’s conservative bloc at... 

India has test-launched its first long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, significantly upgrading the emerging Asian nation’s military capabilities. It has the capacity to target major Chinese cities and Europe. According to Indian media the missile was launched just after 8am local time from WheelerIsland off India’s east coast. It rose to an altitude of 600 kilometers and successfully... 

TEPCO plans to use a robot today to photograph possible damage inside the suppression pool at the bottom of Fukushima’s damaged number 2 reactor. TEPCO is the operator of the tsunami damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. “We want to check whether there is no deformation or damage in the suppression pool. And, with any luck, we hope to see areas where water (injected into the reactor... 

Over 50 Chinese cities are sinking into the ground because of the continuous subsidence of the soil. The excessive consumption of ground water is to blame. As its result, under many Chinese cities, including Beijing, the world’s largest underground funnels have formed. But there are other environmental problems in the country. In China lakes are evaporating, rivers are drying out, 75 percent... 

Father and son: The Barack Obamas together, when the US President was just 10 years old In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough. Last year he even had to publish his birth certificate to silence doubters who suggested he was not born an American. Now it emerges that similar fears were expressed about his father, who was categorised with... 

Secondary school students sit at the Abu Baker Al Arabi government school in Riyadh Gays, tomboys and “emos” can no long enter public schools and universities in Saudi Arabia, until they change their appearance and behavior. That is how the country has chosen to tackle the spread of these “phenomena”. ­The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the country’s... 

For now the Endangered Species Act will not be used to shut down power plants and factories in the United States in order to save polar bears. On Tuesday, the Obama administration proposed a rule that would exempt operations outside polar bear territory from restrictions on activity. It is considered a setback for environmentalists who want to put coal-fired power plants and large factories on a different... 

Bolivian President Evo Morales Bolivian President Evo Morales says that Latin American countries are in rebellion against the United States after years of domination by their northern neighbor. He made the remarks on Monday in Cartagena, Colombia on the last day of the Summit of the Americas, which gathered leaders and representatives of members of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes... 

The Voronezh DM radar station, a part of the Aerospace Defense System, in the Kaliningrad region. A Russian missile defense radar could be placed in Transdniester in reply to US plans for a European AMD system, a newspaper reported as Russia’s special envoy Dmitry Rogozin began his first trip to the region. Nezavisimaya Gazeta quoted an unnamed source as saying that “Russia intends to maintain... 

After the president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff accused the United States of the organization of “money tsunami” and “reckless” expansionary monetary policy, leading to currency wars and devastation of the national industry, she arrived in Washington with a return official visit. After these statements the Western media tried to present her visit as a mere formality, without any... 

A new study conducted by French researchers has suggested that Baboons are capable of experiencing the first step in reading and can identify actual words. Researchers tested a group of Guinea baboons in a specially built facility at the Aix-Marseille University in France. The study revealed that after being trained, the animals were able to recognize words after seeing them once and differentiate... 

Election Day is still nine months away, but Mitt Romney wants his supporters to know that all of their hard work and thousands of dollars worth of donations won’t be forgotten. Romney is prepping for a victory party and you’re invited! All it will take is some serious wishful thinking and around $50,000. One of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s biggest supporters began circulating an email...