Students burned effigies of Barack Obama and chanted ‘death to America’ in eastern Afghanistan today – as anger towards the U.S. soldier who massacred 16 civilians on Sunday continued to rise. Taliban militants also opened fire on a delegation of senior Afghan officials – including two of President Hamid Karzai’s brothers – who were visiting the southern villages he targeted. The attack raised worries of a repeat... 

The fate of Osama bin Laden’s remains have been called into question after emails leaked from an intelligence firm say the body of the terror leader was actually sent to the U.S. for cremation. According to the emails, the Al Qaeda boss was shot and killed during the famous Navy SEAL Team Six raid on his Pakistan compound, was transported back to the U.S. and cremated. The emails were allegedly obtained by the hacker group Anonymous from Stratfor,... 

New figures show that more people are flocking to Apple stores than any other U.S. retailer – and the iPad 3 hasn’t even come out yet. The tech manufacturer beat out jewellery giant Tiffany & Co. and upscale bag-maker Coach in sales per square feet of store space over the past year. Apple came away with $5,647 in sales per square foot, more than $2,000 more than Tiffany with $3,085. Also rounding out the top 10 by researcher RetailSails... 

There are over 50 STD’s some can be treated and some can’t. There are about 3 to 4 that are commonly contracted. Please practice safe sex! An STD is any disease that is spread primarily by sexual contact. One partner transmits the disease-causing organism to the other partner during sex (oral/vaginal/anal/etc.). Not all diseases that affect the sex organs are STDs. Some are not at all connected with sex. Chlamydia is the most common curable STD.... 

Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an academic who also worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and the driver of the car were killed in the attack. The blast happened after a motorcyclist stuck an apparent bomb to the car. Several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in recent years, with Iran blaming Israel and the US. Both countries deny the accusations. The US state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters she did not... 

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has described Iran and Cuba as threats to the national security of the United States as the leaders of the two nations met in the island’s capital of Havana today. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in the country for a brief meeting with Raul Castro during his Latin American tour which has already taken in Venezuela and Nicaragua. But in a statement issued earlier this week Ros-Lehtinen described... 

The U.S. government could be responsible for a recent spate of cancer among South American leaders, according to Venezuela’s outspoken president Hugo Chavez. He suggested that the U.S. might have ‘invented technology to spread cancer’, and warned other left-wing heads of state that they could be targeted next. Mr Chavez, one of several Latin American leaders to have contracted the disease in the last year, said he had developed... 

It’s official: The U.S. government hit the debt ceiling on May 16. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told Congress he would have to suspend investments in federal retirement funds until Aug. 2 in order to create room for the government to continue borrowing in the debt markets. The funds will be made whole once the debt limit is increased, Geithner said in a letter. “Federal retirees and employees will be unaffected by these actions.” He...