The Bureau of Justice Statistic’s report on 2012 hate crimes exposes an alarming rise in attacks on a population made up of more than 53 million: Hispanics. Attacks against the Hispanic community have more than tripled in a year according to an official report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The Hate Crime Victimizations report, a Census-driven study, shows an alarming rise in violent anti-Hispanic crime from 0.6 per […]

Asian elephants caress each other when stressed. The short list of animals that console stressed-out friends just got longer … and heavier. Asian elephants, like great apes, dogs, certain corvids (the bird group that includes ravens), and us, have now been shown to recognize when a herd mate is upset and to offer gentle caresses and chirps of sympathy, according to a study published February 18 in the online journal […]

A luxury fortress resort with cow dung and clay fireplaces in the middle of Rajasthan’s Thar Desert has been named by Lonely Planet as the world’s most extraordinary hotel beating resorts in New York,  Laos, and Italy to make the top spot. Mihir Garh, or the Fort of the Sun, whose turreted walls and honey-colored towers are described as “an enormous sandcastle,” by the travel guide, was purpose-built in India’s […]

A student demonstrator and beauty queen died Wednesday from a bullet wound to the head, the latest and most high-profile casualty in Venezuela’s political unrest. Genesis Carmona, 22, was shot in the head during a protest on Tuesday in the city of Valencia. The Venezuelan newspaper El Universal showed the dramatic image of Carmona being carried away from the protests in a motorcycle.   She is the fifth fatality blamed […]

Sequoia Capital took a victory lap Wednesday after Facebook Inc.’s $19 billion deal for WhatsApp. The venture-capital firm, which invested $8 million in the smartphone-messaging app in 2011, stands to reap a huge return on that investment following Wednesday’s deal.Facebooks said it will pay $19bn in cash and stock to acquire WhatsApp, a deal that further emphasizes the social network’s mobile push. In a blog post, Jim Goetz, a partner […]

(KTVI) – The body of a missing Southern Illinois University student has been found in Carbondale, but police don’t believe there was any foul play surrounding nineteen year old Pravin Varughese’s death. The young man disappeared after leaving a party last Wednesday.  He had tweeted that his knuckles were bloody and that he may have been in a fight.  Police now say an altercation occurred, but it had nothing to […]

A Facebook picture circulating Thursday has a lot of people up there worried. The post was shared thousands of times within a few hours and had a lot of people uttering the word skinwalker, a well-known legend in Indian country. The picture shows an unexplained being lurking on the side of a road. The person who posted it claimed it was taken near Lybrook and Counselor, which is near the […]

This is the terrifying moment a passenger jet narrowly averts disaster after being buffeted by high winds as it comes into land at a UK airport. Video footage shows the Boeing 767 swaying wildly in the air in crosswinds of up to 40mph. But the pilot skilfully manages to keep control by appearing to bring the plane down at a steeper angle than the normal descent. A passenger jet tilts […]

Mexico simply doesn’t meet the federal government’s requirements for visa free travel to Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday. Harper addressed the thorny issue that has threatened to overshadow his trip here. But both he and his host, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, appeared to take steps — in public, at least — to play down any tension. The two leaders presided over the signing of an agreement to […]

Run as fast as you can! It’s a stampede! … of cute, little bunnies? Oh, yes. Watch out or they just might cuddle you to death! This is an everyday occurrence on the very small island of Okunoshima, which is nicknamed ‘Rabbit Island’, for obvious reasons. With a circumference of merely 2.5 miles, these rabbits have claimed the island as their new home and trust me, the tourists love it. […]