If this is your first time visiting Bible Prophecy In The News, I’d like to invite you to subscribe to our RSS feed. Never miss an update.. Thanks for visiting!Americans who have traveled to Japan are no doubt familiar with the ubiquitous jidoohanbaiki: standalone vending machines that dispense soft drinks, coffee, food, comic books, paperbacks, clothing (including underwear and stockings), videos, CDs, jewelry, flowers and booze (beer, whiskey, sake).
California went a big step further today: Vending machines that dispense medical marijuana.
The first two were activated today in Los Angeles …

The big question about Russia these days is whether her domestic backsliding and international obstreperousness are transitional or terminal: Is this a bend in the road to democracy or journey’s end?
Edward Lucas, an Economist correspondent who specializes in Russia, gives a pessimistic answer in his book, “The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West.”
Russia in his view has embarked on a course of authoritarian, nationalist rule. Antagonistic to open debate and determined to keep Eastern Europe in its sphere of influence, Vladimir Putin’s government retains …

International health agencies say the world is on the brink of a cancer epidemic. The World Health Organization reports 7.6 million people died of the disease in 2005. It predicts the number of cancer deaths and new cases of the disease will rise astronomically in the coming years, unless action is taken now to reverse smoking trends and provide treatment to patients in developing countries.
To mark World Cancer Day, Monday, health campaigners are sending out a message that cancer need not and should not be a death sentence. Lisa Schlein …

Palestinian bomber blew himself up Monday in this desert town near Israels nuclear reactor, killing an Israeli woman and wounding 11 people in the first suicide attack inside Israel in a year.
Police killed a second attacker after a doctor found a suicide vest while treating him for wounds suffered in the blast.
The attack fueled Israels fears that Gaza militants would exploit a border breach with Egypt to sneak into Israel. Militants claimed the bombers entered Israel through the porous Egyptian border, about 35 miles from Dimona, and said more militants …

For the first time in the seven decade-long history of the search for the legendary Noah’s Ark, a Turkish-Hong Kong exploration team on Tuesday came out with “material evidence”, to prove that the Ark was nestled on Mount Ararat, Turkey’s highest mountain peak bordering Iran and Armenia.
A panel of experts, comprising Turkish authorities, veteran mountaineers, archaeologists, geologists and members of Hong Kong-based Noah’s Ark Ministries International, also displayed an almost one-metre-long peice of petrified wood before the media and specially invited international experts.
The experts claimed it to be a part …

Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer items and, by extension, consumers wherever they go, from a distance.
A seamless, global network of electronic “sniffers” will scan radio tags in myriad public settings, identifying people and their tastes instantly so that customized ads, “live spam,” may be beamed at them.
In “Smart Homes,” sensors built into walls, floors and appliances will inventory possessions, record eating habits, monitor medicine cabinets — all the while, silently reporting data …

The case of a Christian photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex “commitment ceremony”, was heard before the New Mexico Human Rights Division on Monday.
A same-sex couple asked Elaine Huguenin, co-owner with her husband of Elane Photography, to photograph a “commitment ceremony” that the two women wanted to hold. Huguenin declined because her Christian beliefs are in conflict with the message communicated by the ceremony.
The same-sex couple filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Division, which is now trying Elane Photography under state antidiscrimination laws for sexual orientation …

Iranian president says, ‘It’s time to end the puppet theater of the fake regime’; adds his country is approaching nuclear ‘peak’.
Iran is approaching the “peak” in its nuclear program and will not yield to Western pressure to halt its activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad was speaking in the southwestern town of Bushehr near the site of Iran’s planned first nuclear power plant, being built with Russian help, and predicted the country would have nuclear electricity by this time next year.
Turning his attention to Israel, Ahmadinejad said, “The religious …