UN observer chief in Syria to emphasize 'suffering' of people during Annan visit - 680 News
28 May 2012, 4:33 am
BEIRUT - The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria said Monday he will emphasize "the suffering of the Syrian people" during special envoy Kofi Annan's visit, which comes just days after a gruesome weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people.

Syria massacre: '116 people killed and 300 injured' - ITV
28 May 2012, 2:17 am
Head of the United Nations monitors has told the UN Security Council that 116 people were killed and 300 injured in the Syria massacre in Houlaon Friday. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to appear at the Leveson Inquiry today where he is ...

Nigeria: Gunmen Kill 3 people 'Resting Under Tree' - ABC News
27 May 2012, 7:15 pm
Police say gunmen have shot dead three people in a major northern Nigerian city where sect attacks have claimed more than a hundred lives. Kano state police spokesman Rilwanu Dutse says the attack occurred Saturday just before the predominantly Muslim city ...

Hospitals discharging homeless people onto the street - YAHOO!
27 May 2012, 6:03 pm
More than 70 per cent of homeless people are being discharged from hospital back onto the streets in England, damaging their health and costing the NHS money, new Homeless Link and St. Mungo's report indicates. (PRWEB UK) 28 May 2012 The report has found ...

5 Ways to Hire people Who May be Smarter Than You - The Business Insider
27 May 2012, 5:21 pm
Helpers do what you say, while good help does what you need, without you saying anything. people who can help you the most are actually smarter than you, at least in their domain. Top entrepreneurs spend more time putting the right team in place to ...

Should David Brooks Be Blaming Young people? - Forbes
25 May 2012, 8:29 pm
David Brooks, the conservative columnist for the New York Times, is always interesting. Even when misguided, he prompts us to think. Take for instance today’s column, The Service Patch, in which he argues from a Stanford student discussion ...

Why people Stick with Cancer Screening, Even When It Causes Harm - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 9:45 am
The data on PSA testing to detect prostate cancer has long been shaky -- so much so that the discoverer of PSA (or prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme made by the prostate) himself decried the test two years ago as "hardly more effective than a coin toss.

Q. and A.: Linking people’s Needs to Nature’s - New York Times
25 May 2012, 7:57 am
It has been a generation since the rise of environmental economics. Yet even after years of groundbreaking research and support from governmental agencies and nonprofits, the work of such economists has tended to be tangential to the aims of ...

Melungeon DNA Study Reveals Ancestry, Upsets 'A Whole Lot Of people' - Huffington Post
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese ...

More than 2,000 wrongfully convicted people exonerated in 23 years, researchers say - CNN (blog)
21 May 2012, 12:34 pm
More than 2,000 people have been exonerated of serious crimes since 1989 in the United States, according to a report by college researchers who have established the first national registry of exonerations. Researchers say their registry is th ...