Teenage girl admits making up migrant rape claim that outraged Germany

Allegation by 13-year-old sparked far-right protests and anger in the Kremlin
Read more: http://snapzu.com/zritic/teenage-girl-admits-making-up-migrant-rape-claim-that-outraged-germany

The Resilient Pagans of Russia

Raffaele Petralla captures the resilient traditions of the Mari in Russia’s tiny Mari-El republic.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/the-resilient-pagans-of-russia

US pledges $97m in emergency aid to drought-stricken Ethiopia

East African country has been especially hard hit by the seasonal warming over the Pacific Ocean – brought on by the El Niño climate phenomenon
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Apolatia/us-pledges-97m-in-emergency-aid-to-drought-stricken-ethiopia

Bangladesh's 'Tree Man' to undergo surgery

Abul Bajandar preparing for operation to remove extremely rare epidermodysplasia verruciformis warts
Read more: http://snapzu.com/kxh/bangladeshs-tree-man-to-undergo-surgery

Iraq: Possible War Crimes by Shia Militia

(Beirut) – Members of Shia militias, who the Iraqi government has included among its state forces, abducted and killed scores of Sunni residents in a central Iraq town and demolished Sunni homes, stores, and mosques following January 11, 2016 bombings claimed by the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS. None of those responsible have been brought to justice.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Mai/iraq-possible-war-crimes-by-shia-militia

Vulture Returned to Israel After Bird Is Cleared of Spying

Villagers who found the bird were suspicious of its tracking device...
Read more: http://snapzu.com/cone/vulture-returned-to-israel-after-bird-is-cleared-of-spying

Crown Casino high-roller named as threat to Australian sport

One of Asia's biggest unregulated bookmakers, an alleged organised crime figure, is identified by law enforcement as a potential threat to the integrity of sport across Australia.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/crown-casino-high-roller-named-as-threat-to-australian-sport

Super Djokovic wins sixth Australian Open title

Novak Djokovic wins the Australian Open title for a sixth time, beating Andy Murray in straight sets at Rod Laver Arena.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/super-djokovic-wins-sixth-australian-open-title

The European country that wants to pay all of its citizens £1,700-a-month – whether they work or not

Switzerland is set to vote on a proposal that wants to pay everyone 2,500 Swiss francs (£1,700) a month regardless of whether people are working or not. If the plans go through, it will become the first country in the world to provide a basic unconditional monthly income, and they are already the first country to vote on the matter. 
Read more: http://snapzu.com/mtnrg/the-european-country-that-wants-to-pay-all-of-its-citizens-1700-a-month-whether-they-work-or-not

Video Shows State Police Discussing How To Charge Protester

The state police internal affairs division is reviewing a video that surfaced recently that appears to show several troopers discussing what charges to levy against a man who was protesting a DUI enforcement checkpoint near Park Road in West Hartford last year.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/rexall/video-shows-state-police-discussing-how-to-charge-protester

Japan is sinking in a sea of money

Author: Masanaga Kumakura, Komazawa University According to conventional economic theory, the monetisation of government debt is a recipe for fiscal profligacy and hyperinflation. It should be the last thing any credible central bank turns its hand to. But this is precisely what the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has been doing for the last three years.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/japan-is-sinking-in-a-sea-of-money

Kalamazoo

Every year, three thousand people gather in Kalamazoo for the sake of the years 400 to 1400 (approximately) of the Common Era. The International Congress on Medieval Studies, held annually at Western Michigan University, is the largest gathering of medievalists on earth.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/kalamazoo

See inside a notorious Siberian prison

Travellers can now check into a “sweat-box” punishment cell at the Prison Castle – where Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Tsar Nicholas II and Stalin’s victims did time.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/see-inside-a-notorious-siberian-prison

The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities

Since 2014, at least 49 deaths have been precipitated by taking a selfie. Breaking down the data behind them yields an interesting story.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/melaniee/the-tragic-data-behind-selfie-fatalities

Ontario man changes name to 'Above Znoneofthe' so it can appear at bottom of byelection ballot

Ever wish you could choose "None of the Above" in an election? Voters in the Ontario riding of Whitby-Oshawa will soon see that option at the bottom of their ballot in an upcoming byelection​.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/everlost/ontario-man-changes-name-to-above-znoneofthe-so-it-can-appear-at-bottom-of-byelection-ballot

Locked up for life

Bronson Blessington was just 14 when he committed one of Australia’s most shocking crimes. But is it right to put a child behind bars indefinitely?
Read more: http://snapzu.com/melaniee/locked-up-for-life

U.S Attorney Preet Bharara Assesses Eric Holder's Failure to Prosecute Wall Street

"Decisions were made about who would look at which bad things," Preet Bharara said of Eric Holder's handling of the 2008 financial crisis fallout.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Appaloosa/us-attorney-preet-bharara-assesses-eric-holders-failure-to-prosecute-wall-street

Sir Terry Wogan: Veteran broadcaster dies, aged 77

Veteran BBC broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan has died aged 77, after a "short but brave battle with cancer", his family says.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/TNY/sir-terry-wogan-veteran-broadcaster-dies-aged-77

Cincinnati Built a Subway System 100 Years Ago–But Never Used It

Interstate 75 slices the city of Cincinnati in half like an orange. On one side is the city’s Catholic working class west, while the east side is favored by...
Read more: http://snapzu.com/ubthejudge/cincinnati-built-a-subway-system-100-years-agobut-never-used-it

‘This Man Will Almost Certainly Die’

Dozens of men have died in disturbing circumstances in privatized, immigrant-only prisons. The Bureau of Prisons itself says there’s a problem. And yet the privatization scheme continues. By Seth Freed Wessler.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/this-man-will-almost-certainly-die

How a Mathematical Superstition Stultified Algebra for Over a Thousand Years

Like most people, my high-school training in mathematics involved next-to-no history, barely touching on the names of a few mathematicians, like Pythagoras, and their theorems. I graduated only vaguely aware that geometry came from ancient Greece and algebra came from the Babylonians... By Robert Coolman.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/how-a-mathematical-superstition-stultified-algebra-for-over-a-thousand-years

Chicago announces new police training for dealing with mentally ill

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, facing sharp criticism over police shootings of civilians, announced reforms on Friday to address how police and other emergency workers respond to the mentally ill, including new crisis training for officers.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Petrox/chicago-announces-new-police-training-for-dealing-with-mentally-ill

Judge rules FBI unlawfully refused to comply with information act requests

FBI’s policy ‘at odds’ with the Foia statute as court rules in favor of plaintiffs, who contend government was trying to shield itself from scrutiny
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Appaloosa/judge-rules-fbi-unlawfully-refused-to-comply-with-information-act-requests

Marietta Police K-9 to be auctioned off despite handler's request to keep him

A Marietta police officer who retired earlier this week wants his partner to retire with him. Instead, the city says Ajax, his K-9 partner for the last four years, will be auctioned off.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Appaloosa/marietta-police-k-9-to-be-auctioned-off-despite-handlers-request-to-keep-him

Pirate Party Risks Future to Protect Hyperlinks

Earlier this week it was revealed that the Czech Pirate Party is being prosecuted for running a pirate TV show site. The party faces 200,000 euros in damages and could even be dissolved as a legal entity, but according to the chief of the party's International Department, defending Internet hyperlinking is worth the risk.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/kxh/pirate-party-risks-future-to-protect-hyperlinks

Italians rally against rights for gay couples

Italy is the last major country in Western Europe to not offer rights or recognition to same-sex couples
Read more: http://snapzu.com/lostwonder/italians-rally-against-rights-for-gay-couples

New York Times Gets it Wrong: Bernie Sanders Not “Top Beneficiary of Outside Money”

The Times article hinges on a technicality in campaign finance law. Hillary Clinton, not Bernie Sanders, is the top beneficiary of outside money — by far.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/kxh/new-york-times-gets-it-wrong-bernie-sanders-not-top-beneficiary-of-outside-money

Cops Caught on Camera in Cowardly Gang-Style Beating of an Unarmed Man Lying Face Down

Watch the video and then ask yourself why so many people, both innocent and guilty, so often run from police.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/kxh/cops-caught-on-camera-in-cowardly-gang-style-beating-of-an-unarmed-man-lying-face-down

Campaigning in style: How Jeb Bush blew through his warchest

There were stays at boutique hotels featuring rooftop pools, private soirees at members-only, jacket-and-tie clubs and fundraisers at the Four Seasons, the St. Regis and the Mandarin Oriental. By Michelle Conlin and Grant Smith.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/campaigning-in-style-how-jeb-bush-blew-through-his-warchest

Angelique Kerber stuns Serena Williams to clinch Australian Open title

Angelique Kerber stunned Serena Williams to claim a first major title at the Australian Open, denying the world No1 her seventh crown in Melbourne and the chance to pull level with Steffi Graf on 22 grand slam victories
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/angelique-kerber-stuns-serena-williams-to-clinch-australian-open-title

Obama Pledges $4 Billion to Computer Science in US Schools

President Obama today revealed his plan to give students across the nation to learn computer science skills in school.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/baron778/obama-pledges-4-billion-to-computer-science-in-us-schools

Multiple people shot, 1 stabbed at Denver Coliseum, Denver Police says

The DPD is working multiple shootings at the Denver Coliseum. 
Read more: http://snapzu.com/b1ackbird/multiple-people-shot-1-stabbed-at-denver-coliseum-denver-police-says

Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site and Instagram

Facebook is banning private sales of guns on its flagship social network and its Instagram photo-sharing service, a move meant to clamp down on unlicensed gun transactions.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/ubthejudge/facebook-moves-to-ban-private-gun-sales-on-its-site-and-instagram

Fired Wal-Mart Worker Who Claimed Discrimination Wins $31M

A jury has awarded more than $31 million in damages to a former Wal-Mart pharmacist in New Hampshire who claimed she was wrongly fired after reporting safety concerns about co-workers dispensing prescriptions. Maureen McPadden was a 13-year employee who reported her concerns to management...
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Petrox/fired-wal-mart-worker-who-claimed-discrimination-wins-31m

China Just Released True Color HD Photos Of The Moon

This month, the China National Space Administration released all of the images from their recent moon landing to the public. There are now hundreds and hundreds of never-before-seen true color, high definition photos of the lunar surface available for download.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/baron778/china-just-released-true-color-hd-photos-of-themoon

Georgian jailbirds and celebrity highwaymen shaped modern Britain, say historians

Eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen helped shape the evolution of modern justice and welfare systems, according to new evidence uncovered by historians.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/georgian-jailbirds-and-celebrity-highwaymen-shaped-modern-britain-say-historians

10 Things You’re Taught Growing Up as a Christian Woman

As you read the examples below of things you learn in conservative Christianity about godly womanhood, imagine that you are a young woman and these are the messages you are receiving from the people that you trust the most in your life. Some of these messages are taught directly and others are mostly just implied or demonstrated in the Bible.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/spaceghoti/10-things-youre-taught-growing-up-as-a-christian-woman

Mexican cops again at center of a mass disappearance

For more than two weeks, the parents of five missing young people have been living inside a Mexican state prosecutor's office in an attempt to pressure authorities to find their children. "It's our home now," said Columba Arroniz Gonzalez as she heated up some tortillas and soup for her gaunt-looking husband in the patio of the prosecutor's office in Tierra Blanca, in the eastern state of Veracruz.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/junglman/mexican-cops-again-at-center-of-a-mass-disappearance

World's oldest tea remains discovered on ancient trade route

Residues found in burial pits near tomb of Han dynasty emperor Liu Qi shows plant was being transported along Silk Road route over 2,000 years ago. The oldest physical remains ever discovered previously were hundreds of years younger than the new find – dating from the northern Song Dynasty (AD960-AD1,127).
Read more: http://snapzu.com/nanno/worlds-oldest-tea-remains-discovered-on-ancient-trade-route

What’s stupid this month: Xerox patents sharing documents online

Xerox gets a new toy, and it may be visiting a courthouse near you.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Appaloosa/whats-stupid-this-month-xerox-patents-sharing-documents-online

Cyclone Stan Powers Up Off Pilbara,Australia

Tropical cyclone Stan has slowed, but is expected to cross the east Pilbara coast as a category 3 cyclone at midnight.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/jcscher/cyclone-stan-powers-up-off-pilbaraaustralia

Kenya to destroy largest ever ivory stockpile

Kenya will set ablaze 120 tonnes of ivory worth $270 million, the biggest to be burned by any country in one go, in April this year. The event will be attended by Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman along with several other celebrities.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/ilyas/kenya-to-destroy-largest-ever-ivory-stockpile

'This is system collapse': Fire ravages world heritage area

The first images to emerge from within Tasmania's fire-affected World Heritage Area illustrate the level of destruction caused by bushfire.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/this-is-system-collapse-fire-ravages-world-heritage-area

A Father Searches For Justice Five Years After Tahrir Square

A father’s search for meaning and justice five years after his son was killed during the Tahrir Square uprising. By Jared Maslin.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/a-father-searches-for-justice-five-years-after-tahrir-square

The Great Whiskey Heist

How one distillery worker enlisted friends, family, and a few fellow steroid enthusiasts to liberate hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of premium bourbon, one barrel at a time. By Reeves Wiedeman.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/the-great-whiskey-heist

In Fragments from Fustat, Glimpses of a Cosmopolitan Old Cairo

Its 2015 exhibition A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Old Cairo introduced the urban world of Islamic Egypt, a world much closer to our own today yet often overlooked amid the spectacular wonders of the country’s deep Pharaonic past. The show focused on the now-obscure medieval city of Fustat through artifacts of daily life and items highlighting the art and literature of the period—many of which were brought newly to light out of the Institute’s own storerooms.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Dino55/in-fragments-from-fustat-glimpses-of-a-cosmopolitan-old-cairo

“We cannot talk about it”: Factory workers for major fashion labels live confined by guards

Many female workers were only allowed to leave their "hostels" for two hours a week.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/imokruok/we-cannot-talk-about-it-factory-workers-for-major-fashion-labels-live-confined-by-guards

Russian Lawyer Claims Coverage of Tiger-Goat Friendship Is 'Gay Propaganda'

A lawyer in Novosibirsk has called for a ban on stories about a goat and a tiger in a national park in Russia's Far East, arguing that the widespread media coverage of the pair is 'covert gay propaganda.'
Read more: http://snapzu.com/wildcard/russian-lawyer-claims-coverage-of-tiger-goat-friendship-is-gay-propaganda

Russian fighter within 15 feet of U.S. Air Force jet

A Russian fighter jet came within 15 feet of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea this week in what the Pentagon is calling an "unsafe" incident, U.S. officials say.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/socialiguana/russian-fighter-within-15-feet-of-us-air-force-jet

Escaped California Inmate in Police Custody

One of the three inmates who escaped a maximum-security California jail has been caught, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said Friday. Bac Tien Duong, 43, was in police custody after telling residents in Santa Ana, Calif. that he wanted to turn himself in, according to the OCSD.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/TNY/escaped-california-inmate-in-police-custody