The most important news for Monday, July 26th, 2010....
It is being reported that the European Union plans to target Iran with its "toughest ever" package of economic sanctions directed at officials, banks and the country's oil industry.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light a possible Israeli bombing campaign against Iran.
The foreign ministers of Turkey and Brazil, speaking Sunday ahead of a trilateral meeting with their Iranian counterpart, said they still believe in the nuclear swap deal signed between the three countries in May.
Iran has announced that it plans to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
One former CIA director recently stated that military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.
North Korea says that it is ready to launch a "retaliatory sacred war" at any time in response to joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises this weekend.
It is being reported that Turkey is considering whether or not it should move rapidly to develop nuclear weapons while so much attention is being paid to nuclear programs in other nations.
BBC is reporting that BP's chief executive Tony Hayward has been negotiating the terms of his exit, with a formal announcement likely within 24 hours.
It turns out that BP has been using cheap or free prison labor to clean up the oil spill even as so many people along the Gulf coast are absolutely desperate for work.
Florida researchers have announced that they had for the first time conclusively linked vast plumes of microscopic oil droplets drifting in the Gulf of Mexico to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
U.S. bank failures reached 103 so far in 2010 on Friday when federal regulators seized seven small banks. In 2009, it was not until October that a hundred banks had been shut down.
As "contactless payment technology" continues to develop, will it ultimately mean that cash will become extinct?
Wal-Mart is putting electronic identification tags on men's clothing like jeans starting on August 1st as the world's largest retailer tries to gain more control of its inventory.
Software that can predict when and where future violent crimes will be committed is being tested in the U.K. for the first time.
An influential Pentagon defense advisory panel says that the United States is now woefully unprepared for any kind of nuclear attack.
The Obama administration is trying to reach an understanding with Senate Republicans to approve its new arms control treaty with Russia by committing to modernizing the nuclear arsenal and making additional guarantees about missile defense.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there would eventually be a public option.
CNN analyst Warren Ballentine recently declared that the ideology of the entire Tea Party movement is "racism".
It is being reported that Democrat leaders in the U.S. Senate have decided to shelve global warming legislation - at least for now.
WikiLeaks has published what it says are more than 90,000 United States military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this year.
According to a new study, dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by U.S. Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Is the area of the U.S/Mexican border near Laredo, Texas turning into a war zone?
A mass grave containing more than 50 bodies has been discovered by authorities in northern Mexico.
Anti-illegal immigration anger has spilled out onto Arizona's streets.
According to a new survey, half of all journalists think the print publications (or TV/radio stations) they work for will eventually fold.
Are some doctors actually starting to use large doses of Vitamin C to treat cancer?
There have been several dozen confirmed cases of dengue fever in the state of Florida in recent days.
In fact, there is great concern about new reports of dengue fever that have popped up all over central Florida.
According to a new study, remnants of antidepressant drugs flushed into waterways worldwide are altering shrimp behavior and making them easier prey.
Russia's worst drought in 130 years became a political issue on Friday as the Kremlin held an emergency meeting to combat the impact of a month long heat wave that is shriveling crops, forcing up food prices, and causing hundreds of drownings as Russians jump into rivers to escape heat funneled up from North Africa.
Three earthquakes measuring between 7.3 and 7.6 on the Richter scale struck the Philippines on Saturday but fortunately it looks like not much damage was done.
A car was literally swallowed by a massive sinkhole that suddenly opened up in the middle of a street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin recently.
A new lawsuit against Augusta State University in Georgia alleges that school officials essentially gave a graduate student in counseling the choice of giving up her Christian beliefs or being expelled from the graduate program.
Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in America's largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are now being openly welcomed into the denomination.
Lastly, using hidden cameras, the weekly Panorama, owned by Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, recently captured priests visiting gay clubs and bars and having sex.
