IMF Protesters Met With Tear Gas In Turkey

Police threw tear gas at the hundreds that protested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Istanbul, Turkey on Tuesday. Some of the protesters threw fire bombs at a convention centre where leaders of the IMF and the World Bank were meeting. Bank windows were...

Cocaine Vaccine Can Stop Addiction

A british pharmaceutical company, Xenova, has developed a vaccine that could help cocaine addicts break their addiction. The vaccine, TA-CD, blocks the body from absorbing cocaine into the brain, and therefore does not produce a high. The scientists who developed the vaccine...

Germany's Biggest Women's Magazine Bans Models From Its Pages

Germany's most popular magazine for women, Brigitte, will no longer feature professional models on its pages. Instead, it will use images of "real life" women. Brigitte's editor-in-chief Andreas Lebert told the Guardian that the magazine will stop using skinny models from the...

Price Of Gold At All-Time High

The price of gold keeps on rising and has hit an all-time high of $1,040.15 per ounce after the dollar loses some of its value. The last time gold hit a new high, 1,032.80, was in March 2008. Gold and other metals have become increasingly popular among investors as the dollar...

Bomb Threat Note On American Airlines Plane In Boston

A flight attendant found a note which read "Bomb onboard. Boston to Miami" on American Airlines Flight 1318 at 2:30 pm Wednesday. The flight was pre-boarding when the note was discovered in the lavatory, and all passengers were taken off the plane. The plane was searched, but...