Published time: April 07, 2015 12:23Edited time: April 07, 2015 14:04 K-266 Oryol A fire has broken out on a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repair work at a shipyard in Severodvinsk. The cause of the fire is believed to be related to welding work. The incident occurred at the Zvezdochka shipyard, in the Arkhangelsk region […] ...

On the morning of April 1st, the Whitehouse issued a new executive order (EO) that asserts that malicious “cyber-enabled activities” are a national threat, declares a national emergency, and establishes sanctions and other consequences for individuals and entities. While computer and information security is certainly very important, this EO could dangerously backfire, and chill the […] ...

Published time: April 07, 2015 02:09Edited time: April 07, 2015 02:44 Image from facebook.com A Ukrainian-born pianist was barred from playing at Canada’s Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) for expressing views on the situation in Ukraine via Twitter, according to the soloist herself. The move led to a social media storm tagged #LetValentinaPlay. READ MORE: Ukraine’s […] ...

Published time: April 06, 2015 21:16 Kyushu University (Image from wikipedia.org) A new medical history museum in Fukuoka, Japan, has opened an exhibition which includes items related to the infamous live dissections of US prisoners of war which were conducted 70 years ago in Kyushu University’s medical school. A section of a new museum exhibition […] ...

Published time: April 06, 2015 13:08Edited time: April 06, 2015 14:27 Members of the Saudi police force (Reuters/Hassan Ali) One Saudi policeman was killed and four injured during raids on a Shia-dominated oil-rich eastern province, as the Saudi-led coalition bombardment of rebels in neighboring Yemen prompted fears of the fighting spilling over the border. It […] ...

Published time: April 06, 2015 04:56 RIA Novosti / Mikhail Markiv As the world prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany, Ukraine’s lawmakers have vowed to pass a “decommunization” law banning Soviet Union “symbols and propaganda”, equating beliefs of victors to those of the Nazi ideology. “Before May 9th, parliament will […] ...

Published time: April 05, 2015 22:25 The Mantes-la-Jolie mosque, in a suburb of Paris (Reuters / Youssef Boudlal) France’s total of some 2,200 mosques is not enough for the national Muslim community, the head of the French Muslim Council, Dalil Boubakeur, told an annual gathering of Muslim organizations. He insisted that the number should be […] ...

Published time: April 05, 2015 14:24 Reuters / Eric Thayer A sexology professor has called on Danish schools to show students porn to help them become “critical consumers.” Christian Graugaard believes it’s important for teens to distinguish between adult movies and real sex relationships. “Instead of having sex education be boring and technical, where you […] ...

Published time: April 05, 2015 05:41 RIA Novosti / Vitaliy Ankov Russian scientists have created a new biological material they called “bone cement”, which after 3D printing into a fracture or a crack, completely dissolves over time, while in its place the human body regenerates the missing part of the bone tissue. The new substance […] ...

Published time: April 04, 2015 21:34 The moon is seen behind downtown high-rise buildings during the shortest total lunar eclipse of the century before dawn on April 4, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (David McNew / Getty Images / AFP) Millions of skywatchers around the globe admired the ‘blood moon’ in what was the shortest […] ...