WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG Woman forced from Florida hospital dies after arrest; audio of scene released Barbara Dawson has no intention of leaving her hospital room. Although the staff at the hospital in the Florida Panhandle town of Blountstown has discharged her, the patient refuses to leave, prompting a call to the police department on December 21. “No, no, ...

WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG The desert playground of Dubai is a bit of an enigma. It’s part of the Muslim world, yet has a nightlife that rivals Sin City. It’s dripping with money, yet is built by impoverished slave labor. Middle-east and western values collide in this eclectic city of extremes. Many foreigners who visit are impressed by its ...

WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG How far do some people want to go in order to stay young and what a price they have to pay for their unrestrainable desires?Being a celebrity comes with a great deal of pressure to look PERFECT. To deal with this pressure, a lot of celebs decide to go down the plastic surgery route to ...

Israel’s David’s Sling missile defense system has passed final tests and should be ready for deployment next year as part of the country’s efforts to defend against regional threats, officials said Monday. The medium-range interceptor, developed with United States backing, is due to be handed to the Israeli air force “at the end of the first quarter of 2016,” said ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) may have stolen “tens of thousands” of blank passports that it could use to smuggle its fighters into Europe as refugees. Western intelligence sources as saying that ISIS could have acquired the stolen travel documents in areas of Syria, Iraq and Libya it now controls. The passports could be issued to would-be ...

Six people are on trial in the United Arab Emirates on charges of providing supplies to the country’s enemies from the Iran-allied Houthi movement in Yemen, the state news agency WAM said Monday. It was the first reported instance of people in the UAE being accused of helping the Houthis, who have killed scores of Emirati soldiers deployed in battlefronts ...

Iraq’s armed forces will start an operation to retake the western city of Ramadi from ISIS militants very soon, army chief of staff Lt. General Othman al-Ghanemi told state TV on Monday. “There is an ongoing operation to control a sector in preparation of the onslaught on the city center within the coming hours, God willing,” he said. Iraqi intelligence ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group lost around 14 percent of its territory in 2015, while Syria’s Kurds almost tripled the land they control, thinktank IHS Jane’s said on Monday. The development is a blow to the group given that its aim is to capture and hold territory to expand its so-called “caliphate”, where it imposes a ...

Data on the flight recorder of the Russian war plane downed by Turkey last month has so far proved to be unreadable, Russia’s military has said. It said the memory chips from the Su-24 bomber downed on the Syrian border were destroyed or badly damaged. The Russians had hoped to prove the plane never entered Turkish airspace, as claimed by ...

Masked men on a motorcycle shot and wounded the dean of an Egyptian university on Thursday outside his home, police said. Abdel Hakim Nur al-Din, head of the Zagazig University, was shot in the leg as he waited for his driver in the northern province of Sharqiya. Police said the unidentified gunmen had fled. Their motive was unclear. Militants have ...