FBI zeroes in on Benghazi attack suspects, lacks evidence for civilian prosec...
21 May 2013 at 10:38pm
Five men have been identified by the US as linked to the September 2012 attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, though they remain at large as the FBI seeks to gather sufficient evidence...

?US opened Pandora?s box in Iraq, regional sectarian violence almost impossib...
21 May 2013 at 9:51pm
Sectarian violence unleashed after the US disintegration of Iraq is linked to the Syrian conflict and the death toll will only climb since extremist elements hijacked the sectarian instability in t...

US aims to boost combat manhunt precision
21 May 2013 at 9:32pm
The US military is planning to launch a new, efficient method of sending small satellites into space which will dramatically boost soldiers? ability to locate, track and eventually annihilate poten...

Federal court strikes down Arizona abortion ban
21 May 2013 at 8:57pm
A federal court has struck down an Arizona state ban on abortions beyond 20 weeks, signed into law last year. As is often the case with the contentious issue of abortion rights, at question was the...

?Multiculturalism failing?: Stockholm suburbs enflamed with riots for days, S...
21 May 2013 at 7:33pm
Hundreds youths hurling rocks, burning cars and smashing windows for the second day in a row in Stockholm say they are protesting against police brutality and inequality. In Sweden, critics of the ...

Investigative journalists threatened with felony for exposing security flaw
21 May 2013 at 5:17pm
Investigative journalists with Scripps News Service have discovered a major security lapse, in turn accessing the private data of tens of thousands of cell phone customers in the United States.

?Shocking incompetence?: UK health officials threw away £74m of bird flu ?won...
21 May 2013 at 4:06pm
UK?s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on d...

Rand Paul blasts Congress for attacking Apple over taxes
21 May 2013 at 4:03pm
Sen. Rand Paul is outraged that Congress held a hearing to ?bully one of America?s greatest success stories.? The Kentucky lawmaker believes Apple was unfairly targeted for trying to minimize its t...

Notre Dame de Paris suicide: French writer takes own life after lashing out a...
21 May 2013 at 3:11pm
A far-right writer has shot himself dead inside Paris? Notre Dame Cathedral, after calling for ?spectacular? action to protect France?s identity. The activist reportedly left a note on the altar de...

Vermont legalizes assisted suicide
21 May 2013 at 2:54pm
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed a bill into law that has legalized physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who want to end their lives.

Britain's House of Commons votes to legalize gay marriage in England, Wales
21 May 2013 at 2:33pm
Britain's House of Commons has voted to legalize gay marriage in England and Wales. British MPs approved the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill by 366 votes to 161.

Pizza from a printer: NASA to spend $125,000 funding 3D food production project
21 May 2013 at 1:49pm
NASA is funding research into 3D printed food which would provide astronauts with meals during long space flights. The futuristic food printers would use cartridges of powder and oils which would h...

Terrorist ?military emir? killed in Russia?s North Caucasus (PHOTOS)
21 May 2013 at 12:23pm
A key militant leader, described as the right-hand man of the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, was killed by special operations soldiers in a shootout in the North Caucasus, the Russian National Anti-T...

Obama to hand over some CIA drone operations to Pentagon
21 May 2013 at 12:23pm
President Barack Obama has allegedly decided to hand over part of the CIA?s drone program to the Pentagon. The administration plans to gradually shift responsibility in stages, thereby providing gr...

?Guantanamo guards shot my client 5 times for no reason?
21 May 2013 at 12:06pm
Over 100 Guantanamo prisoners continue their hunger strike in protest against unlawful ? and as it turns out, violent ? detention. RT met with the lawyer of inmate Moath al Alawi, who has been shot...


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