By Neale Gulley NIAGARA FALLS, New York | Wed May 2, 2012 5:24pm EDT NIAGARA FALLS, New York (Reuters) – High-wire performer Nik Wallenda announced on Wednesday that June 15 is the day his boyhood dream to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls will become a reality. Wallenda, 33, a seventh-generation member of the famed [...]
Read MoreBy Megan Rowling Wed May 2, 2012 10:34am EDT LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) – Two years ago, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a petition to fight hunger with the slogan: “1,000,000,000 people live in chronic hunger and I’m mad as hell.” Since then, more than 3.4 million people, including actors, pop stars [...]
Read MoreBy Nita Bhalla Wed May 2, 2012 6:49am EDT KHAMMAM, India, May 2 (AlertNet) – It was a deal struck almost 40 years ago by a poor, illiterate Indian farmer, driven by desperation after a drought wiped out his crops and left his family close to starvation. The agreement: 10 acres of land, the size [...]
Read MoreBy Philip Pullella ROME | Wed May 2, 2012 1:44pm EDT ROME (Reuters) – Scientists examining the remains of “Otzi,” Italy’s prehistoric iceman who roamed the Alps some 5,300 years ago, said on Wednesday they have isolated what are believed to be the oldest traces of human blood ever found. The German and Italian scientists [...]
Read MoreVIENNA | Tue May 1, 2012 1:56pm EDT VIENNA (Reuters) – Scientists were out of this world on Tuesday about tests in icy Alpine caves of the technology needed for a mission to Mars one day. “We have learned an infinite amount in the past three days,” project leader Gernot Groemer from the Austrian Space [...]
Read MoreBy Li-mei Hoang NORTHAMPTON | Tue May 1, 2012 10:32am EDT NORTHAMPTON (Reuters) – The small wooden door of Tricker’s shoe factory unexpectedly leads to a smartly polished showroom, its dark wooden shelves home to some of the world’s finest handmade shoes, as a collection of workers visible through clear glass windows go about their [...]
Read MoreBy Andrew Stern CHICAGO | Tue May 1, 2012 7:07pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – American Muslims grew in number over the past decade, outnumbering Jews for the first time in most of the Midwest and part of the South, while most mainline churches lost adherents, according to a census of American religions released on Tuesday. [...]
Read MoreBy Kara Newman NEW YORK | Tue May 1, 2012 5:27am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – You can lead the locals to the whisky bar, but you can’t make them drink. That’s the lesson to be learned in Glasgow. Just minutes outside of the city, Scotch whisky (no “e” in “whisky” here) distilleries dot the [...]
Read MoreBy Svebor Kranjc and Thomas Escritt MAASTRICHT/TILBURG, The Netherlands | Tue May 1, 2012 12:31pm EDT MAASTRICHT/TILBURG, The Netherlands (Reuters) – Tourists puffed on spliffs in the streets of southern Dutch cities and defiant coffee-shops sold joints to visitors in protest against a ban on selling cannabis to foreigners which took effect on Tuesday. In [...]
Read MoreBy Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO | Tue May 1, 2012 3:01pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – Tired of the long wait for a new kidney, Michael Shelling, a 50-year-old video game marketing consultant based in San Diego, decided to take a more active role in the search. About three months ago, he decided to tap into his [...]
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