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Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage. Young Adults Put Life on Hold Over Economy - But most remain upbeat about their future: Pew survey. I've read the final version of ACTA, here's what you need to know about it. : politics. Hypocritical GOP Wages Class Warfare on Romney - They're the 99%... of the 1%: Jon Stewart. It is 5 Minutes to Midnight. American Troops Leaving Iraq, But 5,500 Mercenaries Are Staying Behind. Google's Broken Promise: The End of "Don't Be Evil" Israel, Iran and the US: Axis of instability. Cairo, Egypt - In Iran, it doesn't take much to capture the interest of "terrorists".

Israel, Iran and the US: Axis of instability

The pursuit of a career in material sciences, for instance, is enough to animate their small minds. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was a 32-year-old Iranian father and a nuclear scientist. Earlier this month, an assassin attached a magnetic explosive device to his car in Tehran. The bomb was detonated and both Ahmadi-Roshan and his driver were killed in the explosion. In the civilised world, the lives of scientists and other civilians are formally protected from directed inter-state violence. Events unfolded predictably after Ahmadi-Roshan's murder.

Unsurprisingly, it has been reported that Israeli Mossad agents were responsible for killing the young scientist; the hit had all the agency's flamboyant and theatrical hallmarks. Israeli leaders are not irrational. Power struggle The most popular refrain in Israel (and Congress) today is that Iran poses an existential threat to the small Jewish-majority state. Breaking-up Britain? - Features. Britain once ruled a vast empire from India to Singapore and South Africa, but its own borders are now being threatened.

Breaking-up Britain? - Features

The Scottish National Party, which won last May's Scottish election, has pencilled in autumn 2014 as the date for a referendum on independence. Voters will be asked whether Scotland should secede from the UK and become the world's newest independent state. It is likely to be the most important democratic decision that many Scots will make. Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, on a visit this week to the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, told Al Jazeera, "I want Scotland to be independent because independence is the natural state for most nations around the world - not being independent is the exception.

" A concern for Cameron British Prime Minister David Cameron has good reason to be concerned. Wall Street CEO confronts "Occupy Wall Street" Neighbors react to ID of prime suspect in Barrera homicide. AUSTIN -- A West Campus neighborhood is feeling a mix of shock and relief after police identified their prime suspect in a New Year's Day homicide and a string of attacks stretching back to July.

Neighbors react to ID of prime suspect in Barrera homicide

“We've been a little anxious. We brought a baseball bat home after the holidays,” said UT student Spencer Mainka. APD detectives say DNA links James Loren Brown, 25, to several attacks that occurred in July and January. They also believe he killed beloved Austin educator, Esme Barrera, 29. Officers found Brown on Jan. 12 at his West Campus apartment. O’Brien says officers recognized a resemblance with Brown to a suspect sketch developed after the most recent attacks. It matched DNA collected in five separate attacks and assaults stretching from Central Austin to South Congress dating back to last July. Although police haven't yet linked Brown's DNA to Barrera’s murder, they are calling him the prime suspect. Brown's only prior offense is a speeding ticket, according to public records.

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