Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to wipe out disease by the end of the century. The billionaire CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said they are giving $3 billion over the next ten years to advance research toward that end. A huge chunk, $600 million, will be dedicated to a new research center at the […]
Images of a man dragging a young girl around by her hair has sparked anger on the Internet as well as revived the debate on the appropriate discipline of children after they were posted to Facebook by Texas woman Erika Burch. The posting on Facebook has been shared well over 153,000 times and garnered over 8,000 comments […]
UNITED NATIONS — In his final address at the United Nations, President Barack Obama reiterated his strong commitment to multilateralism and the world body. “We can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration or we can retreat into a world sharply divided and ultimately in conflict along old lines of nation […]
The man who stabbed nine people at a mall in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota has been identified as a 22-year-old Somali-American. The leader of the Somali community in the state told VOA Somali service that the suspect, who was shot and killed by police during the attack Saturday, was Dahir Adan. Abdul Kulane […]