Music, Madness and Mutants: A Conversation With Horror King John Carpenter
John Carpenter is the master of the campy horror film, responsible for classics such as Halloween and Escape from New York. The king of dread, now age 66, hasn’t made a film since 2009’s The Ward but...
View ArticleChild Who Survived Israeli Strike on Gaza Beach that Killed His Cousins...
When four children were killed by an Israeli airstrike right in front of a hotel full of journalists this summer, the dispatches that emerged were harrowing. The four children, all between nine and...
View ArticleFormer New York Governor Mario Cuomo Dies at 82
ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Mario Cuomo, the three-time Democratic governor of New York who turned down several invitations to seek the U.S. presidency, has died at the age of 82.The precise circumstances...
View ArticleSearch Teams Battle Rough Weather in Hunt for AirAsia Wreck
Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo on Friday hunting for the wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, but bad weather was again hindering the search for the plane and the black...
View ArticleMadrid's Atocha Station Evacuated After Bomb Threat
Madrid's Atocha main train station, the scene of a 2004 bomb attack which killed nearly 200 people, was evacuated on Friday after a bomb warning that turned out to be false.A man on a commuter train...
View ArticleAbbas Trades Stalemate for Confrontation in Move to Join ICC
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has entered into his most serious confrontation yet with Israel by signing onto the International Criminal Court.His decision on Wednesday gives the court...
View ArticleCologne Cathedral to Turn Out Lights in Protest at Anti-Muslim March
One of Germany's most famous landmarks, Cologne Cathedral, will be plunged into darkness on Monday evening in protest at a march by a growing grass-roots anti-Muslim movement through the western German...
View Article2014 Was Deadliest Year For Iraq in Years: U.N.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Violence in Iraq in 2014 killed at least 12,282 civilians, making it the deadliest year since the sectarian bloodshed of 2006-07, the United Nations said in a statement.The majority...
View ArticleHarry Reid Breaks Ribs, Facial Bones While Exercising
Updated | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke ribs and facial bones when a piece of exercise equipment malfunctioned while he was working out on New Year's Day...
View ArticleFlorida County Courts Go Rogue, Refuse to Marry Anyone to Avoid Same-Sex...
Three counties in Florida ended the practice of courthouse marriage ceremonies to avoid having to perform same-sex weddings in county court, the Florida Times-Union reported Wednesday.The next day,...
View ArticleReport: Kim Jong-Un’s Sister Marries Son of Dictator’s Right-Hand Man
Kim Yo-Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, has reportedly married Choe Song, the son of Vice Marshall Choe Ryong-Hae. The Vice Marshall “is widely viewed as Kim’s number two,”...
View ArticleSpain’s Judges Begin Work on Backlog of Corruption Cases Involving 2,000 People
Spanish judges will begin 2015 by dealing with a backlog of corruption cases left unresolved from last year, totalling at 150 according to Spanish daily newspaper El Pais which called the upcoming...
View ArticleU.S., Allies Launch 23 Air Strikes Against Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and allies staged 23 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Thursday, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Friday.A dozen strikes near the...
View ArticleIsraeli Settlers Threw Stones at U.S. Diplomats' Cars
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish settlers threw stones at the cars of a U.S. diplomatic delegation which came to inspect vandalism to nearby Palestinian-owned trees in the occupied West Bank on Friday,...
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Seven Ways to Raise Wages
A wage rate is a market price. The hourly wage is what it costs to purchase one hour of labor services of a certain type, in a certain place.Economists generally disbelieve in tampering with market...
View ArticleParents of Abducted Nigerian Girls Appeal to U.N.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Parents of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist rebels in April said they were appealing directly to the United Nations for help after losing hope that the Nigerian...
View ArticleSwitzerland Dismantles Cold War Explosive Network
Switzerland planned to dismantle the remaining components of its vast network of Cold War defenses by the end of 2014, including explosives stashed away on bridges and airstrips. The Swiss army had...
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12 Writers Confess the Worst Thing They Wrote in 2014
What’s the worst thing you wrote in 2014? We posed the question to a bunch of prominent Internet writers and journalists, hoping that their painful answers might reveal something of the regret and...
View ArticleUp to 40,000 Zimbabweans Could Face Deportation From South Africa
As many as 40,000 Zimbabweans could face deportation from South Africa after the application process for a new kind of residence permit came to a close on Wednesday. The Department for Home Affairs...
View ArticleNYPD Officer Turns Himself in After Attacking MTA Employee
New York Police Department Officer Mirjan Lolja has turned himself in as the perpetrator of an attack last week on a female Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) employee.The employee, a...
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