Photos: Pamela Littky's 'Vacancy' Shows Stunning Images of Life in Death Valley
Despite descriptions of unholy temperatures and dust storms, the deserted towns of Death Valley are cloaked in mystique. How do lives converge in a place defined by decay? How do people live in a place...
View ArticleShow Us the Money: EU Seeks Billions of Euros to Revive Economy
The European Union sought ways on Saturday to marshal billions of euros into its sluggish economy without getting deeper into debt, considering options from a pan-European capital market to a huge...
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Bad Cops Can Be Fixed With More Video... Maybe Even the Ones in Ferguson
On a recent evening in New York City’s West Harlem neighborhood, police stopped and questioned a young black man who was walking on the sidewalk across the street from me. Within minutes, about a dozen...
View ArticleFerry Sinks in Philippines, at Least 21 Missing
A ferry with at least 84 passengers and crew onboard sank on Saturday off the coast of central Philippines after a mechanical problem, and authorities said they were searching for at least 21...
View ArticleIslamic State Destroys Sufi Shrines
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The hardline al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State has destroyed several Sufi Muslim shrines and tombs in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor, a monitoring group said on...
View ArticleReview: 'Against Football' Is Hard to Shake, Even for a Fan
Nearly 27 million viewers watched NBC’s coverage of the Seattle Seahawks game against the Green Bay Packers on September 4th in what was the kickoff of the NFL’s 2014 regular season. This signaled the...
View ArticleStay or Go: Scotland's Independence Vote Nears With Polls Neck-and-Neck
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scottish support for independence has declined, a poll for Survation showed on Saturday, widening the lead for the pro-union campaign just 5 days before Scotland votes on whether...
View ArticleIslamic State Video Purports to Show Beheading of UK Hostage David Haines
Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Saturday that purported to show the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.Reuters could not immediately verify the footage....
View ArticleCyber Moths With Backpacks Set to Fly Into Disaster Zones
Sinister cyborgs, part animal or human and part machine, have been a staple of science fiction for decades. We’ve had the Cybermen in Doctor Who, the Borg from Star Trek and of course Dr Julius No in...
View ArticleTurning the Tables on the Tasting Menu
What has been the biggest change in fine dining in recent years? Before you guess, let me narrow down the options. It is not the foraged food at Noma in Denmark, the Modernist offerings of the late...
View ArticleWomen in the U.S. Join Islamic State's Jihad
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement is investigating a new phenomenon of women from the American heartland joining Islamic State as President Barack Obama vows to cut off the militants'...
View ArticleUganda Arrests 19 Tied to Suspected Attack Plot
Ugandan police have arrested 19 people in connection with a foiled attack in central Kampala that the United States has said was hatched by Somali militants al Shabaab.Fred Enanga, a spokesman for...
View ArticlePost-war Counseling Awaits Gaza Children Going Back to School
Some 500,000 children returned on Sunday to school in the Gaza Strip, where many will be given psychological counseling before regular studies begin after a devastating 50-day war between Palestinian...
View ArticleNorth Korean Court Sentences American Matthew Miller to 6 Years Hard Labor
On Sunday, 24-year-old American Matthew Miller was sentenced to six years of hard labor by North Korea’s Supreme Court. The crime? That the California-bred Miller entered the country illegally to...
View ArticleQuora Question: What do police officers think about Ferguson, MO police...
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 Article‘Django Unchained’ Actress Danièle Watts Mistaken for a Prostitute,...
On Thursday African-American actress Danièle Watts, of Django Unchained acclaim, shared on Facebook that she was handcuffed by Studio City police after kissing her husband, Brian James Lucas, in...
View ArticleNFL's Carolina Deactivates Hardy as the League Draws More Fire
The NFL's Carolina Panthers deactivated defensive end Greg Hardy for Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions, according to the team's website, in a reversal of an earlier decision to let him play while...
View ArticleBanners Reading "Goodell Must Go" Fly Over NFL Games
Right before Sunday afternoon’s Giants-Cardinals game kicked off, a banner flew over MetLife Stadium reading: “@ULTRAVIOLET: #GOODELL MUST GO,” refencing the National Football League current...
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Scotland's Orange Order Petition Countrymen and Women to Vote 'No' on...
“It was a cry we made in 1914, it was a cry we made in 1939,” Henry Williamson, Grand Chaplain of the Orange Order declares passionately from underneath a great banner in Edinburgh’s Meadows park that...
View ArticleUgandan Police Seize Explosives, Suicide Vests from Suspected al Shabaab Cell
Police in the Ugandan capital Kampala seized "substantial amounts of explosives" and suicide vests in raids on a suspected al Shabaab cell that was planning an imminent attack, a Ugandan official said...
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