TORONTO – Two young brothers die after they were asphyxiated by a python in New Brunswick.A group of mice show off their skateboarding skills.A terminally ill toddler who served as a best man at his parents’ wedding over the weekend dies two days later.Here’s a look at this week’s heartwarming and heart-wrenching news photos.Two brothers killed by a python are remembered at a vigil:Mourners gather in Campbellton, N.B. to remember Noah and Connor Barthe on Wednesday, August 7, 2013. Read more [...]

Prominent Bahraini activist, Maryam Al-Khwaja, was prevented from boarding a British Airways flight from Copenhagen Friday, according to IBTimes UK. Airport personnel later told Al-Khwaja that her named flashed in a message from the Bahraini government to airport authorities. Al-Khwaja later tweeted, "What I want to know is what the regime is so afraid of that they [would] issue a ban preventing me from travelling to bahrain." According to a Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BHCR) statement, Read more [...]

Home / Bahrain / Industry The Eurofighter combat jet is made by BAE Systems and Italian weapons maker Finmeccanica and EADS British defence firm BAE Systems said the Gulf state of Bahrain was in talks about the possibility of buying an unspecified number of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets. The Eurofighter combat jet is made by BAE Systems and Italian weapons maker Finmeccanica, and EADS, representative of Germany and Spain, with each taking responsibility for particular campaigns. “Bahrain Read more [...]

Cowardice reverberatesAs a World War II veteran I am appalled by the recent Obama administration reaction to the so called “chatter” by unnamed “sources” making threats against our embassies around the world. Obama had ample warning of embassy threats when the shameful Benghazi debacle went down.The U.S. Marine Corps was created in 1775 to “project American power worldwide” and to face down just such threats, with which they have dealt ever since.The cowardly closure of 21 embassies Read more [...]