Russians have called for the resignation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev over his remarks about an under-paid university professor.

Until Friday, more than 170,000 Russians had signed an online petition on Change.org regarding the matter.

Medvedev was asked by a university lecturer at a conference on youth education on August 2 why teachers' salaries were as little as 15,000 rubles (about USD 230) per month.

"If you want to earn money, there are a bunch of great places where you can do that quicker and better," Medvedev replied. He also told the unsatisfied teachers to take on a second job and venture into "business."

His comments were widely seen by his compatriots as inappropriate, out of touch with reality, and uncaring about the plight of the educated working class.

"The cabinet should be led by a person who is competent, educated and cares about the country," Alexander Li, who launched the anti-Medvedev petition, wrote on social media. "We are seeing the opposite right now."

The lower house of parliament is obliged to take into consideration any petition that gets 100,000 signatures.

Bresha Meadows is facing aggravated murder charges for allegedly shooting her father with his gun. However, her mother claims that the 14-year-old's actions saved the rest of the family from further domestic abuse.

Brandi Meadows gave a tearful interview to local Fox affiliate WGHP about her daughter's arrest for the murder of her husband. However, none of her tears were for the husband, Jonathan Meadows, who she claims would drunkenly threaten them with the gun that Bresha allegedly used to kill him.

"She is my hero; I wasn't strong enough to get out and she helped me," Meadows told the local station.

Authorities in Arizona are now offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the "Serial Street Shooter" who has been on the loose since April, after a shooting in July was linked to the same suspect -- or suspects.

The "Serial Street Shooter" is believed to be responsible for killing seven people, and injuring two more.


On the evening of July 11, a vehicle occupied by a 21-year-old man and a 4-year-old boy was fired on. Neither were injured. This incident brings the total number of shootings believed to have been committed by the elusive shooter to nine.

Sergeant Jonathan Howard of the Phoenix Police Department explained to the local CBS affiliate that there have been recurring patterns in the shootings.

"It's occurring within a residential area in front of a home," Howard said. "A vehicle, related in the sense that people are either near or in a vehicle, as well as in or next to the street."

The department is asking residents to remain "vigilant" and to alert police of any strange people or vehicles in their neighborhoods. The suspect is said to be switching cars, between a white Cadillac or Lincoln type vehicle and a black late 90s or early 2000s 5 Series BMW.

"At this point, we believe there is one person responsible for these shootings, but again, we're going to keep an open mind," Howard said. "It takes time to go through the evidence,"

"Again, we don't have the suspect. So in all of these, we don't have a motive, there's no apparent relationship, so it does take time for the investigators to process the evidence and to factually confirm, yes, this is related to the others."

Anyone with information about the shooter is urged to call the Phoenix Police Department.

The international Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne has ruled that some of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s criteria for Russian athletes to participate at the Rio games are "unenforceable" as they do not respect the right of natural justice.

Two Russian rowers, Anastasia Karabelshikova and Ivan Podshivalov have won their appeal against an IOC ban from the Rio Olympics on the grounds that they had already served suspensions over past doping accusations. The case has been sent back to the International Rowing Federation (FISA) to render their decision "without delay."

"The IOC Decision deprives the Russian athletes of the presumption of innocence and rather establishes a presumption of guilt, but one that is rebuttable by the athletes on an individual basis," the court ruling said, referring to paragraph three of the IOC Executive Board decision of July 24, 2016.

The controversial paragraph said that the Russian Olympic Committee "is not allowed to enter any athlete for the Olympic Games Rio 2016 who has ever been sanctioned for doping, even if he or she has served the sanction."

This wording, CAS ruled, "contains a simple, unqualified and absolute criterion" which is difficult to reconcile with the "stated aim to provide the athletes with an opportunity to rebut the presumption of guilt and to recognise the right to natural justice."

The US Department of Justice has arrested a Chinese national for trying to smuggle airplane parts intended for China into Iran, by illegally diverting them from Canada.

Yaohong Gong appeared in federal court on Wednesday in Buffalo, New York and was ordered detained.

"She's a Chinese national," Assistant US Attorney Joel A. Violanti told the court, according to the Buffalo News. "And we know of no ties to the community."

Violanti said Gong, a resident of Florida, was arrested with her 9-year-old son while trying to cross the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, an international bridge between the US and Canada. Authorities believed the woman was trying to head for Toronto where she has family.

The criminal complaint against Gong alleges she falsely told companies in Florida that the parts were headed for Hong Kong or China, when the parts were actually being directed to Iran. The complaint also claims the parts were intended for military aircraft such as the F-14 Tomcat, F-4 Phantom Fighter and C-130 Transport.

Oliver Stone, director of the upcoming film Snowden, will deliver a dark warning to moviegoers at the start of the movie: turn your phone off, and keep it off.

In an ominous one-minute clip, Stone appears in a decadent den with a smartphone in his hand. He discusses the benefits of the technology, compete with a cut to cute cats, before warning that users are giving all their information to "them."

"That's not all it does," Stone says as the tone of the PSA intensifies. "It allows certain parties to track your every move every time you make a call or send a text. We are giving them access. The information you've put out into the world voluntarily is enough to burn your life to the ground. This will be our undoing."

A knife-wielding man attacked people at Russell Square, central London, killing one and injuring at least six. Police apprehended the suspect and are investigating the incident as a possible act of terrorism.

Police were called in response to an ongoing attack at Russell Square, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden at 10:33pm local time, according to the Metropolitan Police. Upon arrival, officers discovered six people with wounds, with one person later dying from her injuries.

"Up to six people were found injured at the location," police said in a statement. "A female (no further details) was treated at the scene but was pronounced dead a short time later. "Police have also notified that they arrested the suspect after one of the officers took him down using a Taser. The London Ambulance Service was dispatched to the site. Additional police units have been deployed to the area to provide reassurance.

"Terrorism is one possibility being explored at this stage," the official statement added. Police did not mention which other possible motives for the attack are being investigated.

Earlier, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe announced that additional armed police would be deployed to patrol London's streets following a wave of terror attacks across Europe.

Deutsche Bank is starting to resemble the financial basket case that Citigroup became in 2008, leading to Citigroup's partial ownership by the U.S. government for a time and the bank requiring the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. financial history. Citigroup's teetering condition and its interconnectedness to other mega banks played a critical role in the Wall Street crash and collapse of the U.S. economy.

That Deutsche Bank (which is highly interconnected to other major Wall Street banks and locked and loaded with tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives) is now showing the same kind of stresses as Citigroup back in 2008, raises the obvious question about just how effectively the Obama administration has reined in systemic financial risk after six years of reassurances that Dodd-Frank financial reform was getting the job done.

It's been a no-good, very bad week for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the GOP, marked by controversial statements, disagreements and public backlash. But how much of the problems are from the media making a mountain out of a molehill?

From party desertions over Trump's multi-day spat with a Gold Star father to the candidate's ejection of a crying baby at a campaign rally, the mainstream media has had a field day with the myriad missteps by the billionaire businessman and his surrogates.

"There is something very wrong with Donald Trump," read the headline of a Washington Post Op-Ed on Monday. "He is a defective candidate who can't even control himself," added the article's preview on Facebook.

CNBC listed 15 Trump gaffes and Republican reactions that took place between 8 a.m. Tuesday morning and the same time on Wednesday, supposedly proving the candidate and party have gone from "unraveling" to "'break glass' mode."

Raw Story created its own smaller list of "crazy, totally unhinged moments" that showed "Trump's descent into madness."

Top executives at one of America's most prominent Olympic organizations failed to alert authorities to many allegations of sexual abuse by coaches — relying on a policy that enabled predators to abuse gymnasts long after USA Gymnastics had received warnings.

An IndyStar investigation uncovered multiple examples of children suffering the consequences, including a Georgia case in which a coach preyed on young female athletes for seven years after USA Gymnastics dismissed the first of four warnings about him.

In a 2013 lawsuit filed by one of that coach's victims, two former USA Gymnastics officials admitted under oath that the organization routinely dismissed sexual abuse allegations as hearsay unless they came directly from a victim or victim's parent.

Legal experts and child advocates expressed alarm about that approach, saying the best practice is to report every allegation to authorities. Laws in every state require people to report suspected child abuse.