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The Battle For Ukraine Is Being Fought Using Ancient Military Tactics
Things got pretty hairy in Kiev, Ukraine, in the last week due in large part to the government banning protests.As a result, riot police broke out their Roman army tactics.This formation is called the...
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Iran President Rouhani: Elections Should Decide Fate Of Assad
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday that elections would be the best way of ending the civil war in Syria and warned the West it could not impose a political solution on Tehran's neighbor...
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Ukrainian Protestors Give President Ultimatum After Five Die In Police Clashes
Ukraine's opposition agreed Thursday to observe an eight-hour truce in clashes with security forces after five days of deadly fighting but threatened to go on the attack if the government failed to...
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A Stunning Photo Of The Border Between Nogales, USA And Nogales, Mexico
The border between Nogales, Arizona in the U.S. and Nogales, Sonora in Mexico used to be a pretty relaxed.“Floats went down the street and into Nogales, Arizona. A coronation was held on a platform on...
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15 Apocalyptic Pictures From The Protests In Ukraine
Since last November, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have gathered and marched through the streets of Kiev to protest President Viktor Yanukovych's rejection of trade agreements with the European...
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The Globe's Elite At Davos Spent Hours Pretending To Be Refugees
Executives, billionaires, and the global economic elite at Davos are not just discussing the course of the global economy at Davos; many of them also attended a complex simulation aimed at making them...
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Ukrainian Government Apologizes After Video Of Humiliated Naked Protester...
The Ukrainian interior ministry has been forced to apologize after footage that appeared to show a member of the country's Berkut security services abusing and humiliating a naked protester went...
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Three Questions About Russia Everyone Should #AskSnowden
While many folks rush to thank fugitive leaker Edward Snowden for "starting a conversation" around surveillance, they seem to forget that the U.S. isn't the only state which keeps an eye on people.This...
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Dennis Rodman Is Being Investigated Over Luxury Birthday Gifts For Kim Jong-un
The U.S. is investigating whether Dennis Rodman violated U.S. sanctions against North Korea earlier this month when he brought thousands of dollars worth of luxury goods to the country for Kim...
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Ian Bremmer Explains What's REALLY Going On Between China And Japan And The...
The dominant theme of the World Economic Forum in Davos is geopolitics. Specifically, there's a lot of interest in the mounting tensions between Japan and China and there's a lot of interest in Iran,...
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Russia Admits It Needs US Military Experience To Secure Sochi From Bombs
The 2014 Sochi Olympics are two weeks away and the Russian government is looking to the U.S. for guidance in detecting and disarming Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), reports Military.com.Russia...
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BREMMER: North Korea Is A Regime That Could Implode
Earlier we published a Q&A with Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer about the big geopolitical discussions taking place at Davos.The big two are China-Japan tensions and optimism about Iran, thanks to the...
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You Won't Believe That These Hands And Feet Are Not Real
In a recent article for BBC Future, Frank Swain called Sophie de Oliveira Barata "the undisputed queen of personalized prosthetics."With a background in art and special-effects makeup, she worked for a...
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This World Map Shows The Enormity Of America's Prison Problem
About 2.4 million people live behind bars in America — the highest number in the world. That's a little more than 0.7% of the population and more than 700 for every 100,000 people.This world map...
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Google's Boasts About Ending Surveillance Are Hard To Swallow
Google's Eric Schmidt is at the Davos World Economic forum right now talking up his company's potential to end government surveillance and censorship completely using solely "strong encryption,"reports...
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New DC Missile Defense Blimps Can Also Monitor Your Every Move
Later this year, two blimps will float 10,000 feet over the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland as a new defense system for the nation's capital, reports CBS News.Known as JLENS, or Joint Land...
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TSA Reveals The Craziest Things It Found In 2013
The TSA has published its annual "Year in Review" blog post for 2013, counting up the craziest and scariest things it found last year.It was a record-breaking 12 months. TSA officers discovered 1,813...
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Is It Time For The West To Stop Calling It 'Kiev' And Start Calling It 'Kyiv'?
For the past few months, Business Insider has been following the rapidly intensifying anti-government protests within Ukraine, watching as the Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev becomes more and more...
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The Amazing Story Of The Japanese Soldier Who Hid In The Jungle For 29 Years...
Hiroo Onoda, soldier of the Japanese imperial army, died on January 16th, aged 91Before he approached the tent where his commanding officer waited on March 9th 1974, Hiroo Onoda did two things. First,...
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Industry Leaders Can Do Little To Avoid The Next Wave Of Cyber Espionage
US cyber security firm Crowdstrike recently released its 2013 Global Threat Report on state and non-state sponsored cyber espionage campaigns, and it has some interesting implications.In short, if the...
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