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What will, and what should, the U.S. do if it's true that a "red line" in the Syrian conflict has been crossed?

Saudi Arabia may change its weekend to bring it closer to Western standards, and further from its founding principles.

We cover lots of science here at IBTimes, but we can't get to everything. Here's a roundup of news we missed.

Despite the commonly accepted narrative that Bashar Assad is a bad man who has to go, some in the West still support the Syrian president.

Never heard of German rapper Bushido? He's big in his home country, and he's also allegedly buddies with the mafia.

Conservative Republicans wasted no time in seizing the Boston suspects' non-American birth as a political tool.

Pavel Durov, the "Russian Mark Zuckerberg" and founder of social networking site, VKontakte, is under investigation in relation to a hit-and-run incident.

Google Fiber has been put to shame by a new Sony-owned ISP based in Japan, which offers 2 Gbps download speeds for $51 a month.

The employees were reportedly removed based merely on physical appearance.

Redoine Faid's lawyer wasn't surprised by the prison break, saying his client "couldn't stand" confinement.

For the second time this month, Anonymous launched a successful cyberattack against several North Korean websites.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad has resigned in what could be a major blow to peace process negotiations with Israel.

Palestine is nowhere near as successful as Israel when it comes to tech startups. Brave young entrepreneurs hope to change that.

Human Rights Watch put out a statement condemning Hamas's inaction on the murders of seven Palestinian men last November.

Any sanctions that the U.N. might place on al-Nusra would freeze their assets, prohibit transfers of arms, and subject members to a travel ban

A photo of an Orthodox Jewish man who covered himself in plastic on an airplane has gone viral.

Of the four countries that occupy the bottom of the list, the U.S. is by far the richest.

Israel has been covertly aiding Syrian rebels with medical resources for months, and some wounded fighters are taken to Israel for treatment.

A seven-volume encyclopedia is expected to completely change the way we look at and think about the Holocaust.

To expand out of social media platforms, Your Anon News, an affiliate of the hactivist collective Anonymous, raises funds with a successful Indiegogo campaign.

Ahmadinejad has also ordered the development of new nuclear reactors; the country still claims its nuclear tech plans are energy-related.