(CNN) — After a series of raids, police made new arrests in the public stoning death of a pregnant Pakistani woman, bringing the total of people in custody to 12. Farzana Parveen, 25, was killed in Lahore last month because she married a man against her family’s wishes. READ MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/world/asia/pakistan-stoning-death/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
Do you live in one of the world’s unhappiest places? A new study released this week by Gallup cited Iran as the country with the highest negative emotions — a close second behind Iraq. READ MORE: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/iraq-iran-top-worlds-unhappiest-countries-list/
The 13-year-old daughter of poor Indian farmers who became the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest said Wednesday that she “shed joyful tears” at the summit after a grueling climb across difficult terrain and personal fear. Nepal requires climbers to be at least 16 years old to scale its peaks, but Malavath Poorna said she […]
SAO PAULO – Brazil will temporarily ban the catch of a type of catfish in an effort to halt the killing of the Amazon pink dolphin, whose flesh is used as bait, the Fishing and Aquaculture Ministry said Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Ultimo Valadares said the government is working out the details of a five-year moratorium […]
By Miriam Kramer BOSTON – Scientists have just discovered the “Godzilla of Earths” — a new type of huge and rocky alien world about 560 light-years from Earth. Dubbed a “mega-Earth,” the exoplanet Kepler-10c weighs 17 times as much as Earth and it circles a sunlike star in the constellation Draco. The mega-Earth is rocky and also bigger […]
FOXNEWS Chinese family members of those aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Monday called the airline and the nation’s government the “true murderers” of the plane’s victims, accusing authorities of concealing facts after the flight vanished. Around 10 family members calling themselves the “committee for family of passengers of MH370” spoke to the media at […]