Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hailed a decision by Germany’s Siemens AG to join his ‘Silicon Valley’ innovation project in Moscow’s Skolkovo suburb, run by billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. “We hope that the participation of German business will be very, very active in the big project to be realized in Skolkovo,” Medvedev told reporters in Yekaterinburg today after talks with German... 

US soldiers in Afghanistan, file photo The suicide rate among US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has escalated to a record high, with an average of one suicide per day in June. According to US Army statistics, a total of 32 soldiers took their own lives last month, making it the worst month on record for Army suicides. Twenty-one were on active duty, with the rest being among National Guards... 

Female soldiers use remote-controlled weapons with PlayStation-style joysticks to kill Gaza people. A new report has revealed that young women serving in the Israeli army kill the besieged people of Gaza by remote-controlled weapons like video games. Turkish daily Haber Turk website reported on Friday the female soldiers aged from 18 to 20-year-old operate the weapons to kill Palestinian civilians... 

Hundreds of Somalis, including al Shabaab terrorists have been smuggled into the United States by Anthony Joseph Tracy, a native of Pennsylvania. Tracy, who is white, converted to Islam while spending time in state prison. In 2008, he traveled to the Horn of Africa, where he sold counterfeit documentation to Somalis who wished either to escape from their war-torn country or to launch terror attacks... 

Mike Tyson is 44 year old, 20 years removed from Buster Douglas knocking him out in Tokyo and the downward spiral that followed, including prison time on a 1992 rape conviction and quitting mid-fight against journeyman Kevin McBride during a 2005 match before promptly announcing that he didn’t have “the fighting guts or the heart anymore.” Often when Tyson has spoken publicly about... 

Shahram Amiri is reunited with his son at Imam Khomeini airport near Tehran An Iranian scientist who says he was abducted and taken to the United States by the CIA returned to Tehran yesterday to a hero’s welcome and claimed that he had been pressured into lying about his country’s nuclear programme. Shahram Amiri said that he was on the hajj pilgrimage when he was seized at gunpoint in... 

Muscovites attempt to keep cool in a fountain in central Moscow on July 15, 2010. More than 1,000 Russians have drowned recently as they attempted to find relief from a stifling heat wave — many of them after drinking alcohol, officials said. Vadim Seryogin, a department head at Russia’s Emergencies Ministry, told reporters Wednesday that 49 people, including two children, had drowned in... 

When the 20 agents arrived bearing a search warrant at her Ventura County farmhouse door at 7 a.m. on a Wednesday a couple weeks back, Sharon Palmer didn’t know what to say. This was the third time she was being raided in 18 months, and she had thought she was on her way to resolving the problem over labeling of her goat cheese that prompted the other two raids. (In addition to producing goat’s... 

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said on Twitter that he was instructing authorities to investigate if the list of supposed illegals had been leaked illegally by a state employee. Officials in Utah fear that a group of anti-immigration activists may have taken matters into their own hands. An anonymous group of “concerned citizens” sent a letter this week to newspapers in Utah containing more than... 

EU bureaucrats are reportedly considering an overhaul of rules to encourage more migrants to come to the European Union, a move that has raised concerns given the rising levels of unemployment in the region. Brussels officials, led by EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, plan to simplify entry rules for workers seeking temporary seasonal jobs in various sectors, including farming and tourism. Malmstrom... 

UN Security Council members vote on broader military and financial sanctions on Iran The US has warned India to honour UN sanctions against Iran after its foreign secretary criticised “unilateral” measures against Tehran over suspicions it is developing a nuclear weapons programme. Phillip J. Crowley, a spokesman for the US State Department, said it was for India to decide what individual... 

In this image taken from undated video footage, people on board the Amalthea wave Palestinian flag at sea in unknown country. A Libyan boat carrying supplies for Gaza was sailing toward Egypt late Tuesday, July 13, 2010 instead of trying to run a naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, Israeli military officials said, apparently defusing a potential confrontation on the high seas. The Gadhafi... 

When Wayne Hedgepath opened the door to his daughter Tracy’s home Friday night, he found her and two of his grandchildren dead, and a third clinging to life with a gunshot wound to the head. “Daddy did it,” the surviving girl, 7-year-old Destiny Minter, can be heard telling her grandfather on a recording of his call to 911. Court records show her father, Austen Minter, had a history... 

The Obama administration has developed a keen interest in the Amish folks of Lancaster County, Pa., due to their lifestyle and not their carbon footprint. The cattle on their dairy farms produce milk and manure. It is claimed that great piles of manure are the source of pollutants from Lancaster County to the Chesapeake Bay due to run-off from heavy rains. Lancaster County is far from the Chesapeake... 

Immigrants working as crop-pickers wait to be transferred from Rosarno, Italy, after clashes with locals in some of the worst episodes of racial unrest in years. Authorities remove all remaining immigrants out of Rosarno for own protection after locals unleash bloody ethnic cleansing. Rosarno in southern Italy had, by last night, been turned into what one politician termed the world’s only entirely...