| Few options for Roy Moore as Alabama certifies Jones win Posted: 29 Dec 2017 10:36 AM PST  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — With Alabama officials certifying Doug Jones' win in the U.S. Senate election, Republican Roy Moore has few options left to turn back a defeat that he has yet to concede.
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| A Zimbabwean Family Has Been Stranded in a Thai Airport for Almost Three Months Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:48 AM PST  The family were reportedly refusing to travel back to Zimbabwe because of political concerns
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| NYPD Officers Suspended After Witnesses Say They Didn't Check On Woman Later Found Dead Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:29 AM PST  Two New York City police officers were suspended after witnesses said they failed to leave their car to check on a young woman who was later found dead at the bottom of a stairwell.
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| China denies improper NK oil supplies after Trump criticism Posted: 29 Dec 2017 05:45 AM PST  BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday denied violating U.N.-imposed limits on oil supplies to North Korea after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Beijing for allowing oil to reach the North.
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| Female Comedian From 'Last Comic Standing' Sued For Banning Men From Show Posted: 29 Dec 2017 04:22 AM PST  A man is suing comedian Iliza Shlesinger for waging a "War On Men" after he was denied entry to her November show, "Girls Night In With Iliza — No Boys Allowed."
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| Reuters journalists in Myanmar appear in court, remanded for another 14 days Posted: 29 Dec 2017 01:49 AM PST ![Reuters journalists in Myanmar appear in court, remanded for another 14 days]( "Reuters journalists in Myanmar appear in court, remanded for another 14 days") Two Reuters journalists who have been detained in Myanmar for the past two weeks were remanded in custody for a further two weeks on Wednesday as a probe continues into allegations they breached the nation's Official Secrets Act. Judge Ohn Myint granted the 14-day extension in the case of the journalists, Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, at the request of the police, who then took them to Yangon's Insein prison. When they appeared at the Mingaladon court for the proceedings, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were allowed to meet their families and their lawyer for the first time since their arrest.
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| 'I’m Not Giving up My Voice.' Sen. Al Franken Makes First Public Statement Since Resigning Posted: 29 Dec 2017 01:32 AM PST  Sen. Al Franken spoke to his supporters in Minneapolis Thursday evening after resigning due to sexual harassment allegations made against him.
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| Mindfulness can lead to selfishness, warns psychiatry expert Posted: 28 Dec 2017 10:25 PM PST  Mindfulness has grown in popularity as people search for meaning in life. But doing it alone could actually make you more selfish, an expert at the Royal College of Psychiatrists has warned. Dr Alison Gray, chair of the spirituality special interest group at the College, which advises psychiatrists on how to deal with spiritual issues, said more "inward-focused" types of spirituality "can become self-involved". "In as much as religion is about binding people together, spirituality can become inward looking and selfish," she said. "In no way does that happen to everyone - in many cases increases their passion for the whole world. But there's a potential for it to become inward-looking and basically self-centred." She warned that meditation can lead to problems as people uncover the more negative aspects of their personality, which they might previously have buried. "When you look inside yourself what you find can be quite negative and quite destabilising, and so you need a community around you to help process this stuff and keep you healthy", she told the Daily Telegraph. Meditation and mindfulness can mean people notice "selfish drives and ambitions, bits of themselves that they previously projected onto other people, anger hatred, all the negative emotions." To counter this, the practises should be done in groups. "I would encourage people to be in with a community," she said. Practises such as meditation and mindfulness have been growing in popularity in the UK and other western countries as people who do not have religious beliefs turn to "spirituality" instead. Mindfulness is increasingly offered by schools and workplaces to help employees and students improve their mental health. Dr Gray said she believed people were "rediscovering the old ways". Mindfulness: a cheat's guide "We're still the same human beings that have been around for thousands of years. The neanderthals had basic religion and ways of burying the dead, it's always been there. "I would suggest that it's a rediscovery of the old ways rather than anything completely new - the newness is the recombination of different traditions." Several studies have linked religion with better health and wellbeing. Data from the Office for National Statistics published last year found that people with no religion have below-average happiness and life satisfaction levels. On average respondents scored their life satisfaction as 7.53 out of 10 and their happiness the previous day as 7.38, while those who describe themselves as having no religion scored their happiness slightly below average, at 7.22 out of 10. But the data on spirituality is less clear, with the vague meaning of the word making it hard for scientists to define.
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| Gruesome murder leaves 2 children, 2 adults dead Posted: 28 Dec 2017 08:48 PM PST  Investigators in Troy, New York are on the hunt for the people responsible for murdering two children, their mother and her girlfriend. The bodies were found a day after Christmas.
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| Suicide bombers kill dozens at Shi'ite center in Afghan capital Posted: 28 Dec 2017 07:35 PM PST  By Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi and Akram Walizada KABUL (Reuters) - Suicide bombers stormed a Shi'ite cultural center and news agency in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing more than 40 people and wounding scores, many of them students attending a conference. Islamic State said in an online statement that it was responsible for the attack, saying the center received support from Iran. It was the latest in a series that the movement has claimed on Shi'ite targets in Kabul.
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