Turks awoke to ‘the sound of screaming': 35 migrants dead after boat capsizes

At least 35 migrants, including five children, drowned Saturday as they traveled the well-worn and dangerous route used by those seeking asylum in Europe. Officials said they rescued 75 people — some of whom were subsequently treated for hypothermia — after the migrants's Greece-bound boat slammed into rocks off the Turkish coast, according to the Associated Press. The number of dead […]











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The country with the world’s worst breast-feeding rate will shock you

LONDON — Only 1 in 200 women in the U.K., or 0.5 percent, breastfeed their children until they are 1 year old — the lowest rate in the world. That jaw-dropping figure was published this week in the Lancet medical journal in a study analyzing global trends in breastfeeding. To put that in context: 27 […]











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Syria’s leading Roman Catholic is upset Iran’s president didn’t see naked figures

The kerfuffle over the decision by Italian authorities to cover up statues of nude figures during the visit this week of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani isn't quite finished. The initial uproar was sparked after the Iranian president toured the Capitoline museum alongside Italian Premier Mateo Renzi. The institution houses some priceless objects of Roman antiquity — including a number […]











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Brazil may have fewer Zika-related microcephaly cases than previously reported

Brazil is enduring an extraordinary outbreak of microcephaly, a rare birth defect that results in infants being born with abnormally small heads and brains.  Since last fall, more than 4,000 suspected cases have been reported, and authorities have blamed an unusual virus, Zika, carried by mosquitos. But now it appears that a number of those […]











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An alleged rape sparked tensions between Russia and Germany. Now police say it was fabricated.

Over the past few years, Germany's relationship with Russia has repeatedly proven important for the West. Yet a mysterious disappearance and rumors of a horrific crime has cast that relationship in a difficult light recently, with accusations of a cover-up and government propaganda being made by both sides. The disappearance that sparked all this took place Jan. 11, when a […]











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