Chinese government officials have confirmed that the country’s satellite navigation system, called Beidou, is now operational. For now, the system only covers China; however, the announcement said that China plans for have free global coverage by 2020. This development, of course, creates potential problems for the United States. For example, a global positioning system is ... Read More

As one would expect, any time a group of world leaders gathers for a meeting, news headlines about said meeting are bound to start popping up all over the place. It was no different when APEC member country leaders met in Hawaii this past weekend. A multitude of topics of great importance were on the ... Read More

Australian troops in Afghanistan who were on a training mission were attacked by one of the Afghan soldiers they were training, officials reported on Wednesday. The incident occured in the Southern Afghan province of Oruzgan. The gunman who attacked the Australian soldiers fled in a stolen Humvee, which was later found abandoned and on fire. ... Read More

That’s pretty much the headline that CBS News chose for a story they ran about Prince William and his wife on their trip to Denmark, which was to help draw attention to hunger in East Africa. The CBS headline is “Kate avoids gaffes in Denmark trip with William.” Of course other news outlets ran the ... Read More

PETA has announced that it will be launching its own porn site when the .xxx domains become available.  Of course it’s PETA so there’s a catch.  What will first appear to be your run-o-the-mill porn site will give way to their usual message of “Don’t hurt animals” or whatever it is. Now PETA has had ... Read More