Picture this: The European champions and current highest-ranked soccer team in the world, Spain, are beaten 3-0…by a team of robots. It may sound ridiculous, but robot developers in Asia, the U.S
Soccer robots being built to beat humans
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Belarus: Can Europe Really Change the Continent’s ‘Last Dictatorship’?
Belarus is in many ways a post-Soviet nation in name only. Its state security service is still called the KGB and the iron-fisted rule of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has led the U.S
Banker’s home attacked as pension fury grows
A warning of more attacks on UK bankers was made on Wednesday after the home of former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin was vandalized. Windows were smashed in Goodwin’s house in the Scottish capital Edinburgh and those of a Mercedes-Benz limousine parked outside.
U.N. report condemns Israel for Gaza operation
Israeli soldiers routinely and intentionally put children in harm’s way during their 22-day offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza, according to a United Nations report made public Monday.
Tragic poet Sylvia Plath’s son kills himself
The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic turn Monday when it was revealed that their son had committed suicide after battling depression. Nicholas Hughes, whose mother gassed herself in 1963 at her London home while her two children slept in the next room, hanged himself at his home in Alaska, his sister Frieda told The Times newspaper. Hughes, 47, was unmarried with no children of his own and had until recently been a marine biologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alibi undermined in Kercher murder trial
A grocer has told a court in Italy that an American woman accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher was in his shop the morning after the death, contradicting the timeline she had previously given. Amanda Knox, 21, has said she was at the home of her former boyfriend and co-accused Raffaele Sollecito, 24, until 10 a.m. on the day after Knox’s roommate, Meredith Kercher, was stabbed to death
Reports: UK reality TV star Jade Goody dies
British reality TV celebrity Jade Goody died in her sleep this weekend following a public battle with cancer, British media reported. Citing Goody’s publicist Max Clifford, both the Press Association and the BBC reported that Goody died at her home in Upshire, Essex
Israeli Soldiers Allege Indiscriminate Killing in Gaza
Whenever concerns are expressed over civilian casualties inflicted in Israeli military operations, the country’s generals and political leaders are quick to insist that theirs is the “world’s most moral army.” That claim was challenged by human rights observers over Israel’s recent offensive in Gaza, although such criticism is reflexively dismissed by Israel as driven by pro-Palestinian bias.
‘Battlestar Galactica’ to air final episode
"Battlestar Galactica," the TV series that has held up a mirror to post-9/11 politics and paranoia for the past four seasons, comes to an end Friday. The show’s legions of fans may be in mourning, but executive producer David Eick finds the looming finale bittersweet. “It’s a combination of deep sadness and a little bit of relief,” he told CNN by phone from Los Angeles
Obama announces new housing money for California
President Barack Obama continued a two-day campaign-style swing through California Thursday, announcing the distribution of $145 million in new Housing and Urban Development funds at a town hall meeting in Los Angeles. The funds, which will target those communities hardest hit by the home foreclosure crisis, “will be used to buy up and rehabilitate vacant and foreclosed homes, and resell those homes with affordable mortgages, (as well as) to provide mortgage assistance and rehabilitation loans for low-income and middle-income families,” Obama said to an enthusiastic crowd at the Miguel Contreras Learning Center