6,000 aboriginal children died in 'cultural genocide' in Canadian residential school system, officials say

Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who is responsible for studying the legacy of the residential schools, said the figure is an estimate and the true figure could be much higher. "We think that we have not uncovered anywhere near what the total would be because the record keeping around that question was very poor," Sin
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Obama Ordered to Release Guantanamo Force-Feeding Video

The government has argued against redacting and releasing the footage, but a federal court has upheld the ruling it must go public. The U.S. government has been ordered to redact and release footage of the force-feeding of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Prison after a federal Court of Appeals rejected on Friday the Obama administration's arguments for withholding the classified videos from the public.
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Italian boy survives being underwater for an extraordinarily long time

An Italian boy who fell into a canal in Milan has survived despite being held underwater for as long as 42 minutes. The 14-year-old, who is said to have jumped off a bridge in Cuggiono with five friends into water which was just 6.5-feet deep, was in hospital for a month, Time reported. His heart stopped beating while he was in the water and he was assumed dead, until it was restarted with a defibrillator.
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Microsoft registers "HoloPet" trademark, likelihood of augmented reality kittens rises

During Build 2015 Microsoft very briefly showed an augmented reality dog as part of their HoloLens presentation. It now seems as though the pixel pup could represent a flagship HoloLens brand. Microsoft registered the "HoloPet" trademark a few days ago, which means I may soon be able to circumvent my girlfriend's aversion to dogs by getting an augmented reality companion instead.
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Grandmother who ran her granddaughter to death sentenced to life in prison

That is what Alabama grandmother Joyce Hardin Garrard told her granddaughter’s bus driver, Raeanna Holmes, when Holmes stopped at the house on her end-of-day route on Feb. 17, 2012: Savannah Hardin was in trouble for lying about some candy she took from a classmate. As punishment, her grandmother told the 9-year-old to run.
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Europeans are so sick of being unemployed that they're working fake jobs at fake companies

While Europe battles long-term unemployment, some people have grown so restless that they've started working fake jobs at fake companies all around the continent. The New York Times' Liz Alderman reports that thousands of fake companies across Europe hire fake employees to sell fake products to fake customers. Products like perfume, porcelain, and exotic pets.
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Woman misses out on £130,000 after leaving early Apple computer at recycling centre

Owner of the Californian recycling centre now seeking the woman to give her half the sale proceeds
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John Kerry cuts short week-long trip after bicycling accident

The secretary of state, who is returning to Boston for treatment, suffered a broken right femur.
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War Clouds Over South China Sea As U.S. Declares Right To Waters And U.S. Warship Arrives At Subic

The drumbeat of war on distant horizons is reverberating through Southeast Asia with increasingly strong declarations of U.S. determination to stop the Chinese from expanding their writ over the South China Sea, notably islands claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
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Weak electric current to the brain may improve thinking in people with schizophrenia

Lightly stimulating the brain with electricity may improve short-term memory in people with schizophrenia, according to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Proposal to Massively Expand FBI's Legal Hacking Abilities Moves Forward

Oh, good. A Department of Justice-proposed rule change that would make it way easier for FBI agents to obtain warrants to hack a computer from basically anywhere was just approved by a US Court committee. Which is to say, we’re one step closer to having our digital privacy rights eviscerated in the name of federal investigations.
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Massive triumphal marble arch built by Romans to honour Emperor Titus discovered

Archaeologists in Rome discover, at one end of the Circus Maximus chariot racing arena, the foundations of a huge triumphal arch built for the Emperor Titus.
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2,400-year-old gold bongs discovered in Russia

The “once-in-a-century” discovery of a set of solid gold bongs has offered a glimpse into the little-understood lives of Scythians, who ruled vast areas of Eurasia for a thousand years 2,400 years ago.
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Jetliner dodges possibly 'catastrophic' collision with drone in NYC

A passenger plane about to land at La Guardia Airport avoided a potentially catastrophic collision with a drone over Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Friday morning, authorities said. Shuttle America Flight 2708 from Washington, DC, was about 10 miles from touchdown when the unmanned craft flew into its path at about 11 a.m., forcing the plane’s co-pilot to pull up about 200 feet to avoid a collision, they said. “The crew of the Embraer E170 reported...
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Porn stars will have to wear protection. Eye protection that is

A handsome delivery man arrives offering more than just a pizza. A pretty young woman opens the door. Flirtation ensues. Clothes are cast off. Then out come the goggles. Goggles? Porn stars could soon be forced to don far more protection than just condoms in California. New rules proposed last week by the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHA) would require adult film actors to wear eye gear for many scenes.
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House bill would require gun owners to have liability insurance

House Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) has introduced a bill that would require gun owners to carry liability insurance. The Firearm Risk Protection Act, unveiled Friday, would require gun buyers to have liability insurance coverage before being allowed to purchase a weapon, and would impose a fine of $10,000 if an owner is found not to have it. Service members and law enforcement officers, however, would be exempt from the requirement.
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Uber updates privacy policy, but can still track users

The ride-hailing service revises its privacy policies to be "easier to understand," but it also mentions it can access passengers' location data even when they're not actively using the app.
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Japan Earthquake: Magnitude 8.5 Quake Strikes off East Coast

A magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings in Tokyo, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate reports of damage since the quake was extremely deep.
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Air strikes kill at least 80 in deadliest bombings of Yemen war

Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 80 people near Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized Sanaa last September and then thrust into central and south Yemen. Seeing the Houthi advance as a bridgehead for Iranian influence in the region, a Saudi-led coalition...
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Beau Biden, vice president’s son, dies of brain cancer

The vice president said in a statement Saturday that his son had died at 46 after battling brain cancer.
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Bird accused of working for Pakistani intelligence placed in custody

With a wire-like object on its body and a mysterious stamped message on its tail, it's no wonder the bird had security services in a flap. A pigeon was been arrested and jailed in India on suspicion of being a 'spy' after it landed in Manwal village, around two and a half miles from the Pakistan border. It was discovered on Wednesday by a 14-year-old boy whose suspicions were aroused when he spotted a stamped message in Urdu on its tail that read...
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Boulder Cops Declare ‘Rock Stacking’ a Jailable Offense to Stop Local Artist Who Spent 7 Years Creating Sculptures

Cops in Colorado seem to be cracking down on art.
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CBS' Bob Schieffer Retires Sunday As Last Of The Old-School TV Anchors

Bob Schieffer, anchor of CBS' Face the Nation, retires Sunday after 46 years at the network.
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World hunger drops below 800 million for the first time in 25 years

In promising news, a new report has revealed that there are now less then 800 million hungry people around the world, despite significant population growth - the lowest number since the United Nations (UN) first started counting back in 1990. Obviously we can't celebrate the fact that there are still 795 million people worldwide who don't have sufficient access to food, but that's 216 million fewer than in 1990-92, and the UN believes it's on track to...
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Judge Tells Defendant She Can Serve Jail Time Or Be Pepper-Sprayed By Victim

An assault suspect who pepper-sprayed someone in the face at a fast-food restaurant received similar treatment in court as punishment from a Cleveland-area judge embracing the principle of “an eye for an eye.” Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti on Thursday told Diamond Gaston she could serve 30 days in jail or be pepper-sprayed by her victim, and she chose the second option.
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Bob Saget joins 'Fuller House'

The final puzzle piece is in place! John Stamos announced via Twitter Thursday that Bob Saget will reprise his role as Danny on Fuller House, the Netflix revival of the old ABC comedy. News of Saget’s addition comes just hours after it was announced that Lori Loughlin will join the reunion series that will also feature Stamos, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron-Bure, Jodie Sweetin, and Andrea Barber.
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Police Called Over Ice-Cream Cone With Not Enough Sprinkles

After receiving an ice-cream cone with not enough sprinkles over the weekend, a woman in Michigan decided to take matters into her own hands — literally — by screaming at a store clerk and attempting to punch the friend trying to calm her down. The unnamed woman entered a local gas station on Saturday and ordered an ice-cream cone. When the clerk put too few sprinkles on it, she began to throw a tantrum.
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Russia releases 89-name EU travel blacklist

Moscow has released a blacklist of European Union politicians barred from Russia in response to EU sanctions over Crimea and Ukraine, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday. "Russia yesterday handed over a list of people to diverse EU embassies who may not enter Russia any longer," Rutte said at a weekly press conference, adding that two Dutch MPs and a Dutch MEP were on the list. The list contains 89 names, according to a letter from Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders tweeted by...
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U.K. wants to force Internet companies to decrypt messages

The U.K. government has not given up on the idea that its secret services must be given access to communications between individuals who are suspects in an ongoing investigation, even if said communications are protected by encryption. Under the proposed new law, intelligence agencies including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ will be able to obtain a warrant from the Home Secretary that will force an Internet company to “break down its encryption protection” for a suspect’s communication.
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Award-Winning Teacher Fired for Reading an Allen Ginsberg Poem

Defenders of Connecticut teacher David Olio say one mistake shouldn’t have cost him his job. But why is the work of a towering figure of 20th-century American poetry out of bounds?
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Michael Jackson's Former Neverland Ranch up for Sale at $100 Million

Neverland, the onetime ranch of international superstar Michael Jackson in Los Olivos, is up for sale at $100 million.
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Mexican taxis promise to 'hunt down' Uber drivers

Uber, beware: Mexican taxi drivers will hunt you down. A leader of Mexico State's taxi drivers said as much. "We are not going to leave (Uber cars) alone. We are tracking these colleagues and hunting them down," Esteban Meza, who represents about 13,000 cabbies, told the country's top-selling newspaper, El Universal.
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Ted Cruz adopts a new posture on disaster aid

When Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast, Ted Cruz opposed emergency relief. In the wake of Texas flooding, however, he's found a new position.
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In the Bay Area, Adjuncts and Artists Unite to Unionize

It is no longer a stretch to draw connections between adjunct professors and other workers in the service economy. The corporate university model is deeply invested in the notion that treating all of its employees as disposable labor (while at the same time raising student tuitions at an unbelievable rate) can maximize profits.
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Biker arrested in Waco shooting files federal lawsuit

A 30-year old father and former firefighter who is also a member of a motorcycle club has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging he was illegally swept up in the police dragnet following this month's Twin Peaks biker shootout in Waco. Matthew Clendennen of Hewitt is a member of the Scimitars motorcycle club and was at Twin Peaks on May 17.
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Zuck-Up as Facebook Messenger app tracks you everywhere forever

The ZuckerBorg collects so much data on its users that even visiting the site tags your ineffable soul for eternal tracking. But now a Harvard student's browser extension can now exploit the default location sharing setting to literally plot Facebook Messenger app users' movements on a map. Aran Khanna, a CompSci student at Harvard, noted the location data leakage and wrote the Chrome extension Marauders Map to plot where his friends have been contacting him from.
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Android M: Top Features That You Need To Know

Google has announced the latest version of Android, called Android M, at its annual Google I/O developer conference on May 28. The pre-release version for deve…
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Sepp Blatter re-elected as Fifa president for fifth term

Sepp Blatter has been officially re-elected as Fifa’s president for a fifth term by the world governing body’s 209 member associations
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California Legislature Moves Forward With Assisted Suicide Bill

California lawmakers on Thursday revived a bill that would allow physician
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Snapchat's Evan Spiegel: 'We need to IPO'

Evan Spiegel, the notoriously secretive and prickly chief executive of Snapchat, has revealed one juicy tidbit: The Venice startup wants to go public, and plans are underway for an IPO. The 24-year-old made the admission Tuesday evening during an onstage conversation with Re/code founders Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at their Code conference in Rancho Palos Verdes.
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US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror

The United States has removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terror, allowing the country to conduct banking in the United States, among other activities.
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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison

After being found guilty of seven criminal counts, including drug trafficking and money laundering, Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the illegal online marketplace known as Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison by Judge Katherine Forrest.
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Fifa 16 to add women's teams for the first time

In what is likely to be the only piece of positive PR that the world football governing body will receive this week, publisher Electronic Arts has announced it will be introducing female footballers into its Fifa video game series, beginning with the forthcoming Fifa 16 edition. The game features 12 international all-female teams, 11 of whom will appear at next month’s World Cup finals, including hosts Canada as well as England, Brazil, Germany and Spain.
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Mystery of holes in Swiss cheese finally solved

The mystery of Swiss cheese and its disappearing holes has finally been solved.
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Researchers find ‘lost’ memories using light

Memories that have been 'lost' as a result of amnesia can be recalled by activating brain cells with light.
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Alberta creationist Edgar Nernberg digs up what scientists are calling the most important fossil finds in decades

The Lord works in mysterious ways — and apparently, He has a pretty ironic sense of humour, too.
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Iconic Martha's Vineyard Lighthouse is Moving Inland

An iconic Martha's Vineyard lighthouse has begun its gradual move from its rapidly eroding cliffside perch. Powerful hydraulic jacks inched the Gay Head Lighthouse roughly 5 feet along steel rail.
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Lockheed Martin says NSA testing smartphones that can identify you from finger swipes

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been testing out a new technology that can identify a user by the shape and swiftness of their finger swipe strokes on a smartphone screen, according to Lockheed Martin. The technology, known as Mandrake, is similar to Dynamic Signature – a motion-recognition technology originally invented by the US Air Force in 1978 for the Pentagon that makes use of the behavioural biometrics of a handwritten signature.
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Queen's Speech: New monitoring powers 'to tackle terrorism'

New laws to give police and spies greater powers to monitor internet and phone use are in the Queen's Speech. Downing Street said that measures in the Investigatory Powers Bill would provide the authorities "with the tools to keep you and your family safe". It will "address gaps" in intelligence gathering and access to communications data which is putting "lives at risk".
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Corrupt FIFA Has Clinton Foundation Ties; World Cup Host Qatar Gave Millions

Both Bill Clinton and his family’s charity have been tied to soccer’s governing body, as well as Qatar’s disastrous World Cup bid. And just like that, another Clinton Foundation donor is in the news. The Clinton global charity has received between $50,000 and $100,000 from soccer’s governing body and has partnered with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association on several occasions, according to donor listings on the foundation’s website.
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