A grim report prepared by Russia’s Agricultural Ministry for Prime Minister Putin warns that our world’s ability to feed itself in 2011 has been ‘doomed’ due the latest Superstorms that slammed into the United States and Australia this past week. A Superstorm is an extremely large and powerful storm that forms when conditions of the atmosphere are right to support a storm of its magnitude.... 

The crewmembers will soon step out on a simulated Martian surface. The crew of the Mars500 simulated mission to the Red Planet have reached a key milestone. The six men, sealed since June inside steel containers representing a spacecraft, have “gone into orbit” at their destination. Three of the group will now “descend” to the planet, don real spacesuits and walk on the “surface”... 

Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other. NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it…geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples. Now “it” is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the... 

Supporters of Serbian opposition during a mass protest in downtown Belgrade yesterday. Tens of thousands of disenchanted Serbs protested in central Belgrade Saturday in the biggest anti-government rally in years aimed at showing opposition strength ahead of scheduled 2012 elections. A pro-European Union coalition has governed Serbia since 2008, but persistent economic hardship and frustration with... 

Residents of a Papua New Guinea mining town say they found a man with a history of drug abuse allegedly eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony. Police said locals on the outskirts of the town of Tabubil, in Western Province, woke on Thursday to the screams of the baby. Beset with the grisly sight of the father allegedly eating his child, an angry mob chased him to the... 

The former President had been due to address a dinner next weekend. Former US President George W Bush has cancelled a visit to Switzerland amid concerns he could be arrested. The former leader had been due to speak at a charity gala, making the keynote speech at Keren Hayesod’s annual dinner on February 12. But human rights groups in the country have been calling for the Swiss government to arrest... 

David Cameron said Britain had encouraged different cultures to live separate lives. David Cameron has criticised “state multiculturalism” in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism. At a security conference in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism. He also signalled a tougher... 

Afghan fears of proselytizing have been brought on by the influx of foreigners since the U.S.-led invasion. Demonstrators protested against Christian organizations in Mazar-i-Sharif in June 2010. The jail commander had remained silent as the prisoner, Sayed Mussa, told a reporter about his journey from Islam to Christianity: his secret baptism nine years earlier, his faith in Jesus Christ and the promise... 

Yemenis chant slogans and hold banners during a demonstration against the government, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Thousands of opponents of Yemen's government and its supporters are demonstrating in the capital and other cities a day after the president pledged not to seek another term in office. Banner reads in Arabic, ' Raise your voice, No for corruption and poverty policy'. Tens... 

Supporters of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have been assaulted this week. State-run radio has accused him of inciting anti-government protests. Zimbabwe’s state-run radio has accused the prime minister of trying to spark anti-government uprisings similar to those seen in Tunisia and Egypt, as an independent doctors’ group said recent political violence has left at least three... 

As Congress seeks to renew the Patriot Act, new information exposes egregious FBI violations. Last week, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-VT, introduced legislation to extend the Patriot Act past its February 28 expiration date to December 2013. Though the extension once again saves some of the most nefarious, First-Amendment trampling provisions of the act — roving wiretaps, secret... 

Houston activist Quanell X shows a videotape of an alleged 2010 beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect by Houston police on Thursday. A surveillance video shot almost a year ago apparently shows Houston police officers relentlessly beating, kicking and stomping on a teen burglary suspect was just released to the public. The footage was released by Quanell X, a Houston activist, on Wednesday. It... 

Donors: Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and rock star Bono are among some of the Global Fund's high profile supporters. A multi billion dollar global health fund backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is being probed for widespread fraud after it emerged grant money to developing countries had been ‘eaten up by corruption.’ The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria... 

With protests erupting across the region, one of the first protests in Iraq, in the impoverished southern city of Diwaniyah, ended in violence when Iraqi police opened fire on the crowd, wounded at least three. Roughly 1,000 people were said to have gathered in the provincial capital, demanding increases to their food rations and improvements in the state’s crumbling power and water infrastructure. Lack... 

'Well-known cloud over his head': Jailed financier Bernie Madoff. It has emerged that JPMorgan Chase were suspicious of his activities... but continued doing business with him anyway. A top Wall Street bank is said to have suspected Bernie Madoff was a crook more than 18 months before he was exposed as the world’s biggest swindler. But JPMorgan Chase executives continued to do business with...