Ferguson Police Chief Marches With Protesters Calling for His Resignation;...
An attempt by the police chief in Ferguson, Missouri, to join a march Thursday that included protesters calling for his resignation dissolved into a confrontation, with several arrests made, according...
View ArticleFifa President Confirms Corruption Report Will Be Kept Secret
Fifa’s president Sepp Blatter confirmed today that the results of an investigation into allegations of corruption surrounding Qatar’s World Cup bid will be kept secret. At a press conference in Zurich,...
View ArticlePalestinian President: No Peace Talks Until There's a 'Firm Timetable' to End...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - There is no value in peace talks with Israel unless the goal is ending its 47-year occupation of the Palestinian territories within a "firm timetable", Palestinian President...
View ArticleBritain, Belgium and Denmark to Join Coalition Against ISIS
Three European nations committed to joining the global fight against the Islamic State, the militant group commonly known as ISIS, on Friday. Early in the day, Denmark and Belgium pledged to aid the...
View ArticleHow India Achieved the Cheapest-Ever Interplanetary Mission to Mars
Late Wednesday night, India made history by becoming the first nation to successfully enter Mars’s orbit on its first attempt. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K Radhakrishnan claimed...
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The Wider the BlackBerry, the Better the Sales?
The unusually shaped Blackberry Passport has amassed 200,000 orders since launching on Wednesday, according to CEO John Chen. Chen says the new smartphone sold out in six hours on Blackberry’s website...
View Article‘Bond King’ Bill Gross Departs Pimco for Janus Capital Group
Bill Gross, one of the best-known bond fund managers in the world, caused a stir in global stock and bond markets Friday as he departed from Pimco, the mammoth Newport Beach, California, firm he...
View ArticleRadiohead Frontman Thom Yorke Releases New Solo Album via BitTorrent
Twitchy Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke announced a new solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, late Friday morning. Like most Radiohead-ed projects, this release comes with a quirk: according to the press...
View ArticleTapes Show How Fed Was Soft on Goldman Sachs
Turns out Wall Street banks weren’t the only cause of the 2008 financial crisis, the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. The Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank, also played a...
View ArticleAbbas: Let the UN Fix a Timetable for Israel’s Withdrawal
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, has proposed a new path for a peace treaty with Israel: the United Nations should determine a deadline for the talks and force Israel to...
View ArticleGreen Cuisine Sweeps the Fleshpots of Paris
Farewell Chateaubriand, goodbye confit de canard. As Alain Ducasse, one of the high priests of haute cuisine, announced he was taking meat off the menu at his restaurant at the Plaza Athénée hotel in...
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Arrests as Hong Kong Police Clear Protesters From Buildings; Protests Remain...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong riot police used pepper spray to disperse protesters around government headquarters on Saturday, fuelling tension ahead of a planned sit-in by pro-democracy activists to...
View ArticleChelsea Clinton Gives Birth to Daughter
Chelsea Clinton, 34, daughter of former President of the United States Bill Clinton and likely future presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, announced on Twitter that she has given birth to a...
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Ai Weiwei’s @Large Exhibit Opens at Alcatraz
When Tim Hallman received a request for volunteers to help assemble an exhibition of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s work at Alcatraz, the former prison in San Francisco, he jumped at the chance.“I knew it...
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United Nations Ban on Trade in Syrian Antiquities Urged by Scholars
Scholars are calling on the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution banning the illicit sale of antiquities, similar to the one passed in 2003 during the Iraq War.Supporters of the ban say...
View ArticleJapanese Volcano Kills One, Over 30 Seriously Injured
A Japanese volcano popular with hikers erupted on Saturday, killing one woman and seriously injuring more than 30 people, officials and media said.The mountain draws walkers who come to admire the...
View ArticleThousands Gather for Second Day of Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, protests continued for a second day following a night of rare political violence in the territory. Tens of thousands of demonstrators opposed to China’s plans to limit the choice of...
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Can We Rely on the Private Sector to Halt Malaria in Africa?
One afternoon this summer, I came across a Duka la Dawa—the drug shops that are as common in Tanzania as bodegas are in Brooklyn—on a winding dirt road in a southwestern town, Mlowo. Beside the store,...
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Quora Question: How Does a Veteran Deal With the Bitterness of Returning Home?
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 ArticleIs the Cassette Renaissance For Real?
On Saturdays outside my Brooklyn apartment, you can buy used cassette tapes from an older couple who set up shop each week with a modest tag sale. The tapes are dusty and cost $1, though on Amazon they...
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