The United Nations announced in a statement over the weekend that unstable security, logistical problems and bad weather will likely delay the move of Syria's chemical weapons out of the country. The weapons were due to be transported out by December 31st.
A second blast tore through a trolley bus in Volgograd on Monday, coming only hours before a similar blast on Sunday, Monday's blast prompted Russia's president, Vladimir Putin to step the country's anti-terrorism security units throughout the country.
A U.S. federal judge has ruled that the National Security Agency's telephone surveillance program is legal and useful in fighting terrorism.
The designer of the iconic and most popular firearm in the world, the AK-47, Russian, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is dead at the age of 94.