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Hong Kong Police Use Tear Gas on Pro-Democracy Protesters
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police used tear gas for the first time on Sunday to disperse pro-democracy protests and baton-charged the crowd blocking a key road in the government district after...
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The Curious Case of the Chinese Chicken Import-Export Business
In 2006, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) submitted a list of regulations to the White House aimed at helping China get into the U.S. chicken market by certifying Chinese facilities...
View ArticleCop Shot in Ferguson, Suspect at Large
A police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot late Saturday night, police said. He was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive, reports KMOV, a St. Louis-based TV station.The shooting...
View ArticleBritish Conservative Party Rocked by Second Defection to Anti-EU Party
The British Conservative party's schism over Europe marred Prime Minister David Cameron's last major party conference before a 2015 election, overshadowing his party's attempt to pitch a growing...
View ArticleStory Festivals Herald the Return of the Spoken Word
“Our mission is to connect people through stories.” So says Catherine Burns, the ebullient director of the non-profit storytelling group The Moth as she waits for their first English story slam to...
View ArticleAir Strikes Hit Makeshift Refineries in Syria: Monitoring Group
Air strikes believed to have been carried out by U.S.-led forces hit three makeshift oil refineries in Syria's Raqqa province early on Sunday as part of an assault to weaken Islamic State (IS)...
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Annie Lennox is Red, Hot and Blue
There are few more cautionary tales in rock than Randy Newman’s “He’s Dead (But He Don’t Know It),” the lament of a worn-out star (“I’ve nothing left to say / But I’m going to say it anyway”). On...
View ArticleFrance's Far-Right Grabs First Ever Senate Seats
The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France's upper house of parliament on Sunday, as President Francois Hollande's Socialist party lost its Senate majority.The left still controls...
View ArticleOnce-Banned Indian Leader Woos Diaspora at Giant New York Rally
In a glitzy show of lights, lasers and slogans, populist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a triumphal address to tens of thousands of Indian-Americans and U.S. dignitaries in New York on...
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A Look Inside the ‘Closed Cities’ Where Russia Tested the Effects of Nuclear...
Priozersk and Kurchatov, located on the border between Russia and Kazakhstan, are “closed cities”—relics of the Cold War, former military test sites. Nadav Kander. Courtesy Flowers GallerySince the...
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Anatomy of a Drink: Labu Kelapa Pouring Ribbons's New Cocktail Is Fall in a...
"You're kind of dumb if you don't do something with pumpkin in the fall," Joaquín Simó says very matter of factly at his Alphabet City cocktail bar, Pouring Ribbons. "It's like not doing hot drinks in...
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Narendra Modi to U.S. Indians: Come Home, Come Buy
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, made an emotional appeal to Americans of Indian descent to follow Mahatma Gandhi’s example and give back to the old country, either by returning to live there or...
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Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas on Democracy Protesters; Instagram Blocked
Hong Kong (Reuters) - Hong Kong police unleashed repeated rounds of tear gas to clear a street blocked with thousands of democracy protesters on Sunday as the city's government district degenerated...
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Hong Kong Protesters Take to Social Media, When They're Not Blocked
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests turned violent on Sunday as police tried to clear the crowds with tear gas and batons. The Chinese government has refused to grant universal suffrage to Hong Kong until...
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Tear Gas and Arrests Don't Deter Hong Kong Democracy Protests
A stand-off between police and demonstrators continued throughout the night in Hong Kong, following a day of high tension, when police fired teargas on a number of occasions, in an attempt to disperse...
View ArticleSpanish Government Asks Court to Declare Catalonia Independence Vote Illegal
Spain's government moved to block a planned independence referendum in its Catalonia region by asking the constitutional court on Monday to declare the vote illegal.The leader of the wealthy north...
View ArticleHong Kong's Umbrella Revolution Stands Up to China's 'Mainlandisation'
They are dubbed the "umbrella generation" - teenaged students who have stormed the streets of Hong Kong in their tens of thousands and electrified a long-running protest campaign against Beijing's...
View ArticleSeven Ukrainian Soldiers Killed as Fighting Near Donetsk Airport Disrupts...
Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed when separatist shelling hit their armoured vehicle near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine, a military spokesman said on Monday, putting a fragile ceasefire under...
View ArticleThe Three Letter Word Driving a Gender Revolution
“We haven’t started using it at home yet, but it’s just a matter of habit,” says Sofia Bergman, a Swedish mother of two. “But it’s a good thing if nurseries and schools use it.”She’s referring to hen,...
View Article'Your Hour May Be at Hand': Winston Churchill's Letter to Boris Johnson
Through the medium of our political editor, Newsweek invited Sir Winston Churchill to review the new book about him by Boris Johnson. Unable to find a copy, Sir Winston instead dictated this remarkable...
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