Engineering Evil

Deaths due to medical error in US hospitals estimated to be greater than 200,000 deaths per year

Public Release: 13-Feb-2017 Preventing hospital-related deaths due to medical errors — ‘We can and must do better’ Wolters Kluwer Health Februar…

British PM wins landslide final battle in House of Commons to trigger EU exit

Source: Xinhua | 2017-02-09 04:44:54 | Editor: huaxia British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street for Prime Minister’s questions…

Turkey test Greek defenses, violates Greek airspace 138 times in one day.

Rising Airspace tensions between Greece and Turkey Thursday, 02 February 2017 The Turkish planes, one pair and four single aircraft, entered the…

Germany accuses US of ‘economic war’ over Deutsche Bank

Some of Germany’s industrial chiefs have rallied to the cause after the market storm that threatened to engulf the country’s biggest lender. Ger…

Russian warship makes ‘AGGRESSIVE’ approach with weapons drawn to US navy cruiser

TROUBLE has flared again in the Mediterranean as a notorious Russian frigate confronted an American warship as it shadowed an aircraft carrier.…

Donetsk republic to get down to resolving its social, economic, defense problems – Military bases either change sides or be considered occupation troops

May 13, 7:34 UTC+4 “We are planning an appeal to the UN for declaring us a sovereign state but we don’t hope to get a positive answer”, co-chair…

Experts warn that the global shipping industry is vulnerable to cyber-attack

Experts warn that the global shipping industry is vulnerable to cyber-attack Security experts warn that the sector transporting 90 per cent of w…

EU rules “mean children can’t get life-saving cancer drugs”

Source: Reuters – Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:00 PM Author: Reuters * Adult medicines not licensed for children under system * Yet such drugs may be eff…

Is laughter really the best medicine?

Contact: Stephanie Burns sburns@bmj.com 44-020-738-36920 BMJ-British Medical Journal Food for thought: Laughter and MIRTH (methodical investigat…

Criminal who burned woman’s face can stay in Britain because of his human rights

A violent foreign criminal who burned a woman’s face with melted plastic and scalded her with boiling water has defeated a bid to deport him fro…

Scientists to make mutant forms of new bird flu to assess risk

Source: Reuters – Wed, 7 Aug 2013 05:00 PM Author: Reuters * Controversial research sparked previous security fears * Flu experts say it is crit…

Journalist who brought down U.S. general is killed in Los Angeles car crash

Source: Reuters – Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:35 AM Author: Reuters LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Reuters) – Journalist Michael Hastings, whose 2010 Rolling Sto…

Secret Service Director to resign after 30 years with agency and less than a year after Colombian prostitution scandal that involved a dozen agents

By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 00:00 EST, 1 February 2013 | UPDATED: 18:51 EST, 1 February 2013 Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is retiring…

Ambassador Anna? Further speculation at Vogue’s editor-in-chief may retire in order to take up residence in the British- or French- embassies as a thank you from Obama

By Meghan Keneally PUBLISHED: 23:52 EST, 3 December 2012 | UPDATED: 23:53 EST, 3 December 2012 Rumors that Vode editor-in-chief Anna Wintour may…

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: I was naive to think I could get away with orgies: “You’d be surprised who turned up to them”.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has broken his silence to admit he had been “naïve” to think he could get away with attending orgies, but added: “You’d b…