• American Kindergarten Teacher Ibolya Ryan Stabbed to Death in Abu Dhabi

  Ibolya Ryan, a 47-year old mother of two twin boys, was a kindergarten teacher at Al Oula KG, an Abu Dhabi school about 35 minutes from the downtown area. She was murdered in a bathroom stall of a busy shopping mall on Reem Island in the United Arab Emirates.

  

• NBA Great Charles Barkley Defends Cops, Calls Ferguson Rioters 'Scumbags' And 'Crooks'

  "We as black people, we got a lot of crooks," Barkley said during an interview with CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday. Barkley was already in hot water after a radio interview on Philadelphia's 97.5 last week where he commented on the riots in Ferguson, Missouri. "Those aren't real black people, those are scumbags," he said.

  

• Nokia N1 Tablet Release Date, Review: Complete Specs and Price

  Nokia's latest entry into the portable device market comes in the form of the newly announced Nokia N1 tablet. At first glance, it seems to be yet another iPad clone, but the affordable 7.9-inch tablet may surprise you, especially considering the fact that it comes from Nokia.

  

• Atheist Group Launches Christmas Billboard Campaign Telling Children to 'Skip Church' and Avoid 'Fairy Tale'

  The Cranford, New Jersey American Atheists group is continuing its trend of attacks on Christianity through billboard advertising during Christmas time with a new campaign aimed directly at children. "Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is to skip church! I'm too old for fairy tales," the billboard reads. Despite the irony of redirecting young attention from Christ to Santa Claus for the sake of avoiding fairy tales, the billboards are currently up from now until December 24 in areas where the

  

• Over 12,000 People Resign from Finland's Majority Lutheran Church over Archbishop's Pro-Gay Message

  An historic vote passed on Friday that allows same-sex marriage in Finland, but it was the support of that vote from Finland's archbishop that led nearly 12,000 people to resign from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in that country.