China allegedly barred Canada's Miss World contender from boarding a plane at Hong Kong to the Chinese city hosting this year's pageant.   Since an invitation for the event had not been given to 25 year old Chinese born Anastasia Lin, she says she could not apply for a visa.  ...

Britain says its time it stepped directly into the Syrian crisis with possible joint air strikes.   British Prime Minister David Cameron said that "subcontract its security to other countries" was no longer an option for Britain and it was time to to join air strikes against Islamic State in...

Developing nations are starting to seek green technologies through a UN system meant as a building block for a global deal on climate change next month with projects including solar power in Mali or energy from cow manure in Ecuador.   To help unlock a UN deal to slow global warming at a 30...

While denying charges that their warplane had violated Syrian airspace, Russia claimed they had proof that the jet had not left Syrian air space after Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday after repeated warnings over air space violations.  ...

During his confirmation of the Strategic Defence and Security Review for the parliamentary term British Prime Minister David Cameron announced an additional £12bn in defence equipment spending and two new 5,000-strong "strike brigades" on Monday afternoon.   The announcement was made after a...

The Syrian crisis is being viewed as an entangled war between Syrian government, the rebel forces and Islamist fundamentalists – Isis, aimed to gain regional dominance based on an overlapping mixture of ideologies and political agendas.   But experts say that this is only the reason as is...

US regulators allowed production and consumption of genetically modified salmon, said Department of Health and Human Services of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA has been conducting research for several years. As a result, the organization determined that salmon AquAdvantage, manufactured...

El Nino is getting stronger and it is affecting certain parts of the globe than others.   Record temperatures were experienced by South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, for two days in a row in November. While Tuesday clocked a highest temperature of 103.6 degrees fahrenheit, Wednesday was hotter...

Alleging that it has helped the Islamic state propagandas, Anonymous has attacked web services startup CloudFlare for providing protection against cyberattacks to pro-Isis websites.   The company is popular amongst groups like Anonymous by routing connections through its own content delivery...