Britain Steps Up Airport Security After U.S. Warns of Undetectable Bomb Threat
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has stepped up security at airports after U.S. officials said they were concerned that al Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen were developing bombs that could be smuggled...
View ArticleTalks Resume Over Iran Nuclear Deal - Here Are the Major Sticking Points
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and six world powers are aiming for a deal this month in marathon talks to end their long-running dispute over Tehran's nuclear program and dispel fears of a new Middle East...
View ArticleArthur Becomes First Hurricane of 2014, Disrupts 4th July Celebrations
(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Arthur became the first hurricane of the 2014 Atlantic season on Thursday after sparking evacuations, closing beaches and tourist sites and disrupting Independence Day...
View ArticleU.S. Economy Posts Huge Job Gains
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth jumped in June and the unemployment rate declined to near a six-year low of 6.1 percent, effectively dispelling fears about the economy's health and...
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Who’s Afraid of Soccer in America?
Domingo did not wear his uniform to work last Sunday.Domingo did not wear his uniform to work last Sunday --a sentence that is one degree more confusing if you are bilingual-- because he is the head...
View ArticleIraq Chases Baghdad Sleeper Cells as Battle for the City Looms
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents are preparing for an assault on Baghdad, with sleeper cells planted inside the capital to rise up at "Zero Hour" and aid fighters pushing in from the outskirts,...
View ArticleAlgerian World Cup Team to Donate Winnings to Gaza: Report
The Algerian soccer team plans to donate their World Cup winnings to Palestinians in Gaza, according to Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, which quoted the team’s star Islam Slimani as making the...
View ArticleThe Kardashians Killed the Hamptons
If you, like me, are of a nostalgic disposition, then you think the Hamptons have always been dying. Maybe you think the slide toward trashy irrelevance started in 1659, when Chief Wyandanch sold...
View ArticleRained-Out 4th: Hurricane Arthur Heads for North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C., (Reuters) - The first hurricane of the Atlantic season gained strength on Thursday is expected to attain Category 2 status as it reaches the North Carolina coast, where thousands of...
View ArticleQuora Question: What Is the History of America's Relationship With Saudi Arabia?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
View ArticleWhy Wine Can Cost up to Four Times as Much in Restaurants
Whether you eat out in New York City, San Diego or Kalamazoo, Michigan, you may have noticed a similar phenomenon in restaurants around the country. Wine costs much more at restaurants than it does at...
View ArticleYoung Israeli Entrepreneurs Are Flocking to Germany
When Elad Leshem graduated with an MBA two years ago, he immediately started a company. So far, so conventional. But Leshem, an Israeli, launched his business career in Berlin.“In Berlin there are a...
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The Zojirushi Home Bakery Virtuoso Makes Gluten-Free Bread That Will Not Sink...
The loaf of gluten-free bread looked like a dead possum and tasted like a doormat.It had been made with kindness and concern by my friend Monica. Her teenage daughter Julia has Lyme disease, and the...
View ArticleRoald Dahl and Francis Bacon's Deep Friendship, Captured in a Portrait of...
It is only a small painting but a hypnotic one that rewards endless examination. Francis Bacon’s 1967 portrait of Lucian Freud is a lesson in the uses of oil paint—saturated, stippled and laid on in...
View ArticleEddie Izzard on Drastic Weight Loss and the Paucity of Wise Nazis
Eddie Izzard is not content to be a world-famous comedian and proud cross-dresser known for his surreal and intelligent humor. Along with acting (NBC’s Hannibal, the upcoming film Boychoir, with Dustin...
View ArticleMelatonin Supplements Could Prevent Osteoarthritis
In recent years, melatonin supplements have exploded on the market as a tool to help people get to sleep—the Nutrition Business Journal estimated that in 2012 (the most recent year for which data are...
View ArticleU.S. Puts Little Hope in Iraq Being Able to Push ISIS Back
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces will probably not be able to recapture ground they have lost to Islamist militants without assistance, the top U.S. military officer said on...
View ArticleThe Better Life: Lenovo’s Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ Tries to Relax Your Tablet Stress
’Tis veritable heresy to take on the hegemonic iPad, the reigning Tablet of Tablets, but that hasn’t prevented the likes of Lenovo from giving it the old college try. The Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ is its...
View ArticleAfter Heavy Criticism, Harvard Revises Its Sexual Assault Policies
In late March, Harvard faced sharp criticism after an anonymous sexual-assault survivor described the administrative indifference she'd experienced in an account in The Harvard Crimson. A month later,...
View ArticleOverpass Collapses in World Cup Host City; At Least One Dead
BELO HORIZONTE Brazil (Reuters) - An unfinished overpass collapsed in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people, emergency officials said.Television...
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