Frida Garza

Ireland, a country with a growing heroin addiction problem, is trying a new solution: medically-supervised heroin-injection centers throughout the country, so addicts won’t inject themselves in public. The initiative is expected to be announced today (Nov. 2) by Ireland’s minister of national drugs strategy, Aodhán Ó Riordáin, and will begin in Dublin next year, followed by Cork, Galway, and Limerick.

According to new research, being born a white male doesn’t necessarily mean you get a head start. The UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has found that white male students from poor families are getting a “worse start in life,” as they perform worse on the GCSE, the national exam for 16-year-olds, than students of any other socioeconomic and ethnic group.

Prehistoric carnivores may have been bad for plant-eaters, but good for the environment. After analyzing 15,000-year-old fossil records, a group of evolutionary biologists calculated the size of prehistoric carnivores and herbivores and concluded that huge ”hypercarnivores” could have hunted massive mammoths, mastodons, and ground sloths—curbing any potential overconsumption of plant life.

Astronaut Scott Kelly, a day shy of the record for the longest continuous stay in space by any American, has taken his first steps outside the International Space Station (ISS) since his arrival there in March.

Abu Dhabi, the Gulf emirate with scorching temperatures that are only going to get worse thanks to global warming, is going to make it snow in the desert.

The Austin, Texas music and tech festival, South by Southwest, has canceled two panels on the current state of the gaming community, one of which focused on creating solutions to online abuse, after the organizers received “numerous” threats of violence.

In a world where anyone, government agencies and adulterers alike, can get hacked, a really, really strong password is invaluable. That’s why a 11-year-old from New York is selling cryptographically secure passwords for just $2 a pop.

A teacher and a student were killed, and another student gravely injured, by a masked attacker who stabbed his victims at a school in Sweden. The attacker was shot by authorities and later died at a nearby hospital.

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The US and Russia reached an agreement on Tuesday (Oct. 19) on how to make sure their aircrafts and drones over Syria do not run afoul of each other. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the memorandum of understanding calls for both countries to maintain professional airmanship, use specific radio frequencies, and establish a ground line for communication.

A policy document advocating for the decriminalization of drugs around the world, drafted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, was leaked to the public yesterday.

Drones aren’t just for airplanes and helicopters: British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is switching exclusively to remote-operated trucks at two major iron-ore mines in western Australia’s remote Pilbara region.

A large share of the migrants making their way to Europe from Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere pass through Turkey. European Union leaders—chief among them German chancellor Angela Merkel—want to help the country stem the flow, but Turkey wants more than just financial aid in return.

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It’s climate change, stupid. For the first time since 2008, at least seven out of 10 Americans correctly believe there is strong evidence that climate change is real. That’s up seven percent points from April this year and 10 percentage points from last fall, according to a new survey by the National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE).

A video of four hostages being threatened by armed men surfaced on Twitter yesterday (Oct. 12), and has caught the attention of Philippine military officials.

Star restauranteur Danny Meyer is getting rid of tipping at his restaurants—and is hiking prices to match. Meyer is the chief executive of Union Square Hospitality group, which owns a string of cosmopolitan New York dining staples like The Modern and Gramercy Tavern, and he announced the policy change today (Oct. 14) in a letter on the group’s website.

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UK prime minister David Cameron is seeking the release of Karl Andree, a 74-year-old British man who was arrested last year in Saudi Arabia for making homemade wine, who faces the prospect of 360 lashes as punishment.

A word of caution to drone-owners: don’t fly your UAV near the White House. Early this morning (Oct. 9), two men were cited for flying a drone around the Washington Monument and landing it on the Ellipse, the park just south of the White House, according to a report by the Washington Post.

There’s nothing new about a public figure questioning US president Barack Obama’s citizenship—his political rivals and voters alike have done that since he first entered national politics. But Rupert Murdoch, the founder and executive chairman of Fox News parent company News Corp, took things a step further today, essentially questioning the president’s blackness.

Spencer Stone, one of the three Americans who helped tackle a gunman on a French train in August, was stabbed in Sacramento, California early this morning (Oct. 8), according to CBS Sacramento. The Pentagon confirmed that Stone, an airman in the US air force, is in stable condition at a local hospital.

The popular polling firm Gallup won’t cover the US presidential primary race this year, and may sit out the general election as well, after an internal review into its troubled 2012 polling and a decision to focus more on issues-based polling.

Last week, United Auto Workers (UAW) and Fiat Chrysler wrapped up two months of negotiations over a four-year plan to secure better pay and more benefits for the company’s autoworkers, and that plan was rejected by the union members.