Heirs can access Facebook account of deceased relatives – German court decides in a ruling after a years-long proces Heirs in Germany have the right to access the Facebook accounts of their deceased relatives, a court said in a landmark privacy ruling on Thursday, July 12 saying a social media account can be inherited in the same way as…

Dehydration can impair your ability to think clearly, a new study suggests. Researchers found that athletes who lost fluid equal to 2 percent their weight took a hit to their cognition. Even this mild to moderate level of dehydration – the loss of 2 pounds for someone who weighs 100 pounds – led to attention problems and impaired decision making, according to the report in Medicine & Science in…

At an abandoned train station in Buenos Aires’ working-class suburbof San Miguel, hundreds of Argentines gather with bags of clothes, rice, flour and sugar to trade. Most are women, some accompanied by children. Cardboard signs with their names scrawled in black marker hang from strings around their necks. They walk around the old concrete platform yelling out the names of people they had agreed to trade with in a forum…

Reindeer herders and fishermen tangle with new industries as climate change and technology enable mineral extraction When he’s not out on the Arctic tundra with his 2,000 reindeer, his dog and Whitney Houston blasting through his headphones, Nils Mathis Sara is often busy explaining to people how a planned copper mine threatens his livelihood. Along with other Sami herders…

Volkswagen loses bid to block investigators examining the unpublished legal files about its emission scandal Volkswagen has lost a legal challenge to prevent prosecutors from examining unpublished documents about its emission scandal, with Germany’s top court ruling on Friday, July 6 that files seized from a U.S. law firm may be reviewed. It means the information from the files may be made public…

Japan executed on Friday, July 6 the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 13 people and shattering the country’s myth of public safety. The Aum Shinrikyo, or Aum Supreme Truth cult, which mixed Buddhist and Hindu meditation with…