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A woman begs on the street in Budapest, Hungary. If new laws pass in the Hungarian parliament, living on the streets could soon be a crime.  (Photo by Klearchos Kapoutsis) Hungary moves to criminalize the homeless The Hungarian parliament is currently debating a bill that would allow local municipalities to fine and eventually jail people for living on the streets. Al Jazeera Blog: Hungary’s war on the homeless  (Human Rights Watch) Dispatches Amid surge of the cut-rate ‘sharing economy,’ a backlash grows They call it the ‘sharing economy’: people going online to rent out rooms in their homes, set up informal ride-shares, or repair car brakes in your driveway. Even as the trend booms, some want it stopped. Christian Science Monitor US consumer spending rises as wages boost family income Reuters   US-Iran: Breakthrough after decades of silence By the end of a groundbreaking conversation, the first in more than three decades, Obama was suggesting that a breakthrough on the nuclear issue could portend even deeper ties between the U.S. and Iran. ABC News US-Iran relations: A brief guide BBC Defiant House delays Obamacare; government shutdown looms In a move that makes a government shutdown very likely, House Republicans approved a spending plan that would delay Obamacare for a year and repeal its tax on medical devices. CNN Blog: Political clock ticks: What would happen with shutdown  (Christian Science Monitor) DC Decoder NSA maps some Americans’ social connections, says report National Security Agency dips into its database of phone and email info to create complex “social graphs” for foreign intelligence purposes, says a report. Some American citizens get swept up in the effort. CNET News   PHILANTHROPY AND AID Latest UNHCR relief consignment from Dubai to help 150,000 Syrians Relief items for internally displaced Syrians left Dubai for Syria, from the UNHCR’s International Humanitarian City-based stockpile to help meet the needs of thousands of internally displaced persons in Syria. Gulf News Aid groups say relief should be part of UN deal on Syria NPR Pakistanis in quake disaster zone struggle for food, shelter, medical supplies Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets, a day after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 285 people in southwestern Pakistan and pushed a new island up out of the Arabian Sea. Japan Times HUMAN RIGHTS Top Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries One of Saudi Arabia‘s top conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom’s male-only driving rules. Reuters Baka pygmies drink up their voting rights Trade amongst the Baka — historically called pygmies — is basically by barter rather than financial exchange. People can exchange a voter ID card for two “sachets” of the liquor, worth CFA 200 — less than half a dollar. IPS DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE One-fifth in H.K. ‘living in poverty’ A fifth of Hong Kong’s population is living in poverty, underscoring the challenge Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying faces in seeking to narrow a record wealth gap. Japan Times African leaders say ‘unfinished business’ of Millennium targets must be completed A host of African leaders stressed that while the continent’s progress is beyond doubt, consolidating social and economic gains requires global approaches that ensure that agreed development targets can be achieved. allAfrica.com POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE Nannies to get overtime under new California law Nannies and other domestic workers in California will be entitled to overtime pay under a law signed by Governor Jerry Brown, in a second major victory for lower-wage employees this week in the most populous U.S. state. Reuters Blog: 4 Reasons why the White House’s domestic-worker protections matter  (Mother Jones) Political Mojo Japan’s Abe says no concessions, but no escalation in islet spat with China Japan will make no concessions on sovereignty over Pacific islets also claimed by China, but will not make any moves to escalate the situation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. Reuters SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Accelerator on a chip A dramatic advance for science and medicine: researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice. ScienceDaily DARPA spends $10 million to make BigDog stronger and stealthier DARPA and Boston Dynamics are developing a four-legged robot to go anywhere troops can go on foot, while carrying up to 400 pounds of gear for them. It’s basically a donkey without a head or any distracting biological needs. Popular Science   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Column (Sherif Elsayed-Ali): Five ways the international community can alleviate Syria’s refugee crisis Al Jazeera Column (Kelly Sims Gallagher): EPA regulations give Obama standing to influence global climate action GlobalPost Column (Emad Mekay): More Egyptian unrest rises in social media IPS   Site edited by: Audrey Harry, Darling Gutierrez and Amy Marie Phillips.   GOOD NEWS A first for Germany Senegalese-born Karamba Diaby just won a historic seat, becoming one of Germany’s first black parliamentarians. Newsweek Ginger Passarelli is a good Samaritan with a soup ladle Whenever there‘s an emergency, you can bet that Passarelli is there with a soup ladle, feeding the firefighters, policemen or search-and-rescue crews. Christian Science Monitor NGOS AND NONPROFITS First nonprofit supermarket opens in struggling Pa. city In the city of Chester, a “food desert” where hard times often plow under shiny promises, a hunger-relief agency‘s pledge to build America’s first nonprofit supermarket was greeted skeptically at first. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette How a nonprofit clears land mines with a Google map and trowels HALO Trust is a nonprofit that specializes in identifying and helping to clear land mines in war-torn countries. Since 2006, the group has used Google Earth to plot mine fields and track clearance efforts. Bloomberg ENVIRONMENT IPCC report is ‘full of hocus pocus science’, claim skeptics The evidence for man-made climate change has been growing “weaker and weaker” while the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been ramping up “alarmism” about it, skeptics have claimed. Telegraph.co.uk Climate change: See the dramatic new data for yourself Scientific American How do earthquake early warning systems work? Earthquakes seem to come out of nowhere and can cause widespread devastation. Building codes and safety videos provide only so much protection. National Geographic   Photo of the Day People run through a Xi’an street about twenty minutes after the earthquake as a school is being evacuated. With early warning systems in place, local governments can warn communities minutes before a quake. California has signed a law to put such systems in place.  (Photo by Ronnie Grob)	DailySource Most Popular Most viewed Most shared Most recent Connect with Us Or enter Amazon via the box below and they will donate 4-7% of all purchases you make in the next 24 hours to us. Take a Quick Tour The Daily Quote You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. 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