World leaders and leading experts in international relations left Munich’s 2018 Security Conference uncertain about how to avoid an international catastrophe. And these were experts, mind you. There are enough crises going on right now for three Munich Security Conferences….

Sweden’s rapidly disappearing cash is actually a problem, says, said Mats Dillen, the head of a parliamentary review. “If this development with cash disappearing happens too fast, it can be difficult to maintain the infrastructure” for handling cash, he said….

The study was about terrorism fears. Almost half of respondents said they believe the U.S. government should – in some way – curtail civil liberties for Muslim Americans. These included registration for Muslims, monitoring of mosques by U.S. law enforcement,…

The majority of Americans in 2017 did not identify themselves as Protestants, according to a Gallup surveys conducted during the year, and the differing religious denominations tended to be concentrated in certain geographical areas.    “About half of Americans (48…

A picture of the Florida high school shooting suspect has emerged of a deeply troubled and violent teenager who tortured animals, had no parents, trained with a white supremacist paramilitary group and was the subject of numerous calls to police….

A new study finds that even the best-case scenario of “only” a 1-degree rise in global temperatures could increase the likelihood of extreme weather — including floods, droughts and heat waves — in the U.S. and around the world. The frequency of…

Some times unexpected things happen prophetically. Bermuda has become the first country to legalize and then repeal same-sex marriage. They have swapped same-sex marriage law for a domestic partnerships law for LGBT couples. Needless to say the move was criticized…

The US is being ravaged by a deadly strain of influenza with over 4,000 deaths a week at the time of this briefing, and rate is still raising. It rivals levels normally seen when an altogether new virus emerges, decimating…

In a special investigation by The Age, Melbourne’s major paper, it has been revealed that the value of the Catholic Church’s wealth in Australia is at least $30 billion, and raises serious questions about compensation payments to victims of child sex…

Reflecting the spirit of the age, the Canadian Senate has approved new gender-neutral wording for O Canada, Canada’s national anthem. And now the new lyrics to are official. Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly says the two word revision to the…

At least ten people died as Taiwan was hit with a 6.4 earthquake just after midnight on Wednesday the 7th of February. Rescuers combed through rubble at Hualien, a tourist city of about 100,000 people about 120km south from Taipei,…

Weather manipulation, known as geoengineering, has been around for millennia and is just as controversial as ever. Now the US government has recommended studies into two areas of geoengineering research. It is even talking about spraying sulfur dioxide in the…