It appears to be linked to pharmaceuticals.

Small amounts of nuclear radiation spread across Europe last month, and no one can figure out why.

First detected over the Norway-Russia border in January, the radioactive Iodine-131 bloom was then found over several European countries, and while unsubstantiated rumours of nuclear testing by Russia have been cropping up, officials say it's most likely linked to an unreported pharmaceutical mishap.

While the radiation spike happened in January, officials in Finland and France have only just gone public with information on the incident, announcing that after the spike was detected in Norway, it appeared in Finland, Poland, Czechia (Czech Republic), Germany, France and Spain, until the end of January.

When asked why Norway didn't inform the public last month, when it was the first to detect the radiation in its northernmost county, Finnmark, Astrid Liland from the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority told the Barents Observer:

"The measurements at Svanhovd in January were very, very low. So were the measurements made in neighbouring countries, like Finland. The levels raise no concern for humans or the environment. Therefore, we believe this had no news value."

Video-sharing website YouTube briefly went down for many users across parts of Europe on Tuesday, according to online outage reports, prompting panicked social media messages from disappointed users.

Disruption to the website was felt in areas including Ireland, the UK, France and Germany, reported Down Detector.

An error message appeared on the YouTube site during its disruption, accompanied by a cartoon monkey with a hammer.

"Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them)," the message read, alongside a paragraph of code.

Youtube has since fixed the server error, which saw many users react with messages of frustration on Twitter.

While some were clearly annoyed at the outage, others, meanwhile, poked fun at the brief but sudden service failure.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange called "very, very, very inaccurate" corporate presstitutes "opportunistic snipers" in an interview over the weekend, accusing newspapers of printing "weaponized text."

And the outspoken publisher isn't at all dissatisfied with the current propaganda of "fake news" — because, as Assange explained to Australian comedian Chas Licciardello, according to CNET,

"WikiLeaks is very happy that there is a narrative about fake news out there because we have a perfect record of having never got it wrong in terms of authentications."

Activists opposed to President Donald Trump gathered across the US for protests dubbed "Not my President's Day" on a federal holiday commemorating the birthday of George Washington.

Monday protests were scheduled to happen in 29 cities, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Opposition to President Trump and his administration's policies has centered on women's reproductive rights, immigration and climate change.

"A lot of people are angry because he lost the popular vote and is ruling like somebody who won by a landslide," Ogla Lexell, who along with 20 others helped organize the rallies in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, told CNN.

NBC News released two videos on their website showing American children delivering personal messages to President Donald Trump, and most of the children had less-than-stellar things to say about Trump only a month into his presidency.

"Dear Mr. President: Letters from the American Children," opens with a young boy expressing his excitement to have a political outsider solve the disconnect between the Washington establishment and the American people. But the conversation quickly turns to much more mature subjects, such as racism, a border wall, and Trump's immigration executive order.

"When you speak on things that make me feel uncomfortable or I disagree with, you make me feel small because I know I can't change it," one girl remarks.

Supreme Court justices are likely split over a case in which a US border agent killed a Mexican teen just feet away from American territory. Conservative justices suggested that allowing the lawsuit to advance could allow similar claims by drone victims.

On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Hernandez v. Mesa, which centers around the 2010 fatal shooting of 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez by US Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa. Hernandez, who was Mexican, was shot in a culvert that encompasses the US-Mexico border, between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico.

From the US side of the culvert, Mesa shot Hernandez, who was on the Mexican side. Hernandez's family has sued Mesa in US federal court, seeking American constitutional protections for their son despite his location on the Mexican side of the border when he was killed.

Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war through sheer ignorance and dislike of the sanctimoniousness of the protesters, some of whom were surely making their way to Canada to live in exile on daddy's money while I was on a bus going to Fort Leonard Wood for basic combat training. I can't even claim that I had some grudging respect for the antiwar crowd because I didn't, but I did believe that at least some of them who were not being motivated by being personally afraid of getting hurt were actually sincere in their opposition to the awful things that were happening in Southeast Asia.

As I look around now, however, I see something quite different. The lefties I knew in college are now part of the Establishment and generally speaking are retired limousine liberals. And they now call themselves progressives, of course, because it sounds more educated and sends a better message, implying as it does that troglodytic conservatives are anti-progress. But they also have done a flip on the issue of war and peace. In its most recent incarnation some of this might be attributed to a desperate desire to relate to the Hillary Clinton campaign with its bellicosity towards Russia, Syria and Iran, but I suspect that the inclination to identify enemies goes much deeper than that, back as far as the Bill Clinton Administration with its sanctions on Iraq and the Balkan adventure, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and the creation of a terror-narco state in the heart of Europe. And more recently we have seen the Obama meddling in Libya, Yemen and Syria in so called humanitarian interventions which have turned out to be largely fraudulent. Yes, under the Obama Dems it was "responsibility to protect time" (r2p) and all the world trembled as the drones were let loose.

Meeting local Jews was one of the goals of my visit to Iran. Besides curiosity and scholarly concern, practical concerns such as finding kosher food and celebrating the Sabbath and the holiday of Purim also brought me in contact with Iranian Jews. Besides, I was invited to give academic lectures on the way Jewish law (halakha) treats Islam and Muslims.

Compared with many other Jewish communities in today's world, Iranian Jews seem safe. There are no guards at the entrances to synagogues and Jewish institutions, just as it used to be when I first came to know Jewish venues in Montreal, Baltimore and Paris. My memories, admittedly vague, of the synagogue in Leningrad during my youth do not include any image of guards, let alone armed soldiers who guard synagogues in major European cities. Most of the Jewish homes that I visited are quite modest. This, of course, did not prevent them from being very hospitable.

Police in Houston, Texas responded to reports of an active shooter at Ben Taub Hospital. The hospital was placed on lockdown, and some patients were evacuated. No suspect or evidence of the shooting have been found, HPD Chief Art Acevedo told reporters.

Officers are searching the hospital, but have not found any victims so far, the Houston Police Department said.

"We have not found the suspect, and we have not found evidence of an active shooter," Chief Art Acevedo told reporters at 3:15pm local time.

Several witnesses have described the suspect as a bald white male of unknown age, Acevedo said, but the police have not found any trace of him, or evidence of the shooting.

Is Sweden the "rape capital" of the world, as Breitbart and Islamophobes worldwide claim? What is the background to the high figures of reported rape in Sweden? Is it the so called "Muslim invasion of immigrants" that is responsible for it? Is "the Muslim rape culture" behind it? Or is it simply that Sweden has stronger laws against sexual offenses like rape, and that Swedish women are raised not to take shit!

I am from Sweden. When I went to school 30 years ago I heard about a case of two young white American exchange students who raped Swedish young girls. Many Swedes reacted with horror. Many blamed ALL Americans for the wrongdoings of these two. "All American white youngsters are like that, racists and rapists," "USA is insane," "Americans are rapists." "Too much American TV-violence."

Breitbart and Islamophobes worldwide do the same thing to Muslims. "Muslims rape women" they claim. "Muslims" are currently "raping" Europe, according to the Breitbart Senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos.

The so-called "evidence" for this is the claim that the numbers of rapes allegedly is "skyrocketing" in Europe, and it is all blamed on Muslim immigrants.

It is worst in Sweden they claim. Sweden is a burning hell were "Muslims" rape, kill and burn down cars, they say.