Armed police officers patrol outside a terminal building at Oslo Airport July 24, 2014.
Credit: Audun Braastad/Reuters
Police in Norway hardly ever use their guns, a new report released by the Scandinavian country’s government shows. In fact, it’s been almost 10 years since law enforcement shot and killed someone, in 2006. (emphasis added)
Perhaps the most telling instance was when terrorist Anders Breivik opened fire in 2011 and killed 77 people in Utoya and Oslo. Authorities fired back at him, all right, but only a single time. In 2014, officers drew their guns 42 times, but they fired just two shots while on duty. No one was hurt in either of those instances.
Considering that police officers in the United States have killed more than 600 people this year alone, the report certainly is eye-opening. Of course, law enforcement officials in the United States face greater threats of violence […]
Cecil the Lion
Cecil the lion was brutally killed three months after another lion in the same Zimbabwean park
The second American, Jan Casimir Seski of Murrysville, Pennsylvania, was allegedly involved in an illegal lion hunt in April in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, the same park where the world’s most famous lion was killed last month resulting in a global outcry.
The cold-blooded killer is a gynecological oncologist who is a director at the Centre for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital – and is also a highly active big-game hunter.
Pictures of him standing next to slain animals on hunting websites reveal he has killed many majestic animals, including elephants, impala, hippo, ostrich, kudu and a nyala – both types of antelope.
This afternoon the National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said Zimabwean landowner, Headman Sibanda, was arrested in the April case and is assisting police with their investigation as they look into the American who gave the final blow.
Authorities in Zimbabwe yesterday revealed they have started […]
Dan Price, Gravity Payment Founder
There are times when Dan Price feels as if he stumbled into the middle of the street with a flag and found himself at the head of a parade.
Three months ago, Mr. Price, 31, announced he was setting a new minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle credit card processing firm, Gravity Payments, and slashing his own million-dollar pay package to do it. He wasn’t thinking about the current political clamor over low wages or the growing gap between rich and poor, he said. He was just thinking of the 120 people who worked for him and, let’s be honest, a bit of free publicity. The idea struck him when a friend shared her worries about paying both her rent and student loans on a $40,000 salary. He realized a lot of his own employees earned that or less.
Yet almost overnight, a decision by one small-business man in the northwestern corner of the […]
A graphic showing temperatures on Thursday
Credit: The Telegraph
‘That was one of the most incredible temperature observations I have ever seen and it is one of the most extreme readings ever in the world,’ said AccuWeather meteorologist Anthony Saglia.
It is just a few degrees lower than the highest ever recorded heat index, which was 178F (81C) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on July 8, 2003.
In neigbouring countries such as Iraq the government has urged residents to drink plenty of water and stay out of the sun amid fears they could be struck down by what experts refer to as a “heat dome” rampaging across the Middle East.
The dome – a type of high pressure ridge that is passing over the region – has exacerbated electricity and water supply issues and makes the scorching heat even more unbearable.
In the south residents have cranked up the air conditioning as high as it will go, while the more lucky among them have escaped to nearby beaches […]
