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Tel Aviv Diary: Netanyahu Loses His Security Edge
Israel is very tense this afternoon. There is a concern that the situation in the north could spin out of control and a third Lebanon war might be about to start. On Tuesday four rockets were fired...
View ArticleAre Cellphones Really Changing the World?
At first glance, the numbers seem staggering. Global mobile phone penetration is 96 percent. In sub-Saharan Africa, where 47 percent of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day, mobile data use is...
View ArticlePutin Announces Plans to Sell More Guns to Africa, Asia and Latin America
Russia is planning to strengthen its presence in the arms dealing market across Asia, Africa and Latin America, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin who addressed members of the Kremlin’s...
View ArticleQataris Add to London Property Portfolio With Acquisition of Canary Wharf
Qatari investors have successfully bid an impressive £2.6 billion to buy London’s Canary Wharf. After months of negotiations it was announced today that the Wharf’s majority owner Songbird Estates had...
View ArticleBritish Healthcare ‘Amongst Poorest in Western Europe’
British healthcare remains “amongst the poorest of Western European countries”, according to an annual report presented in Brussels on Tuesday that compares healthcare systems of 36 countries in the...
View ArticleHear Bill De Blasio's Dramatic Reading of an Onion Article About Bill De Blasio
For reasons perhaps clear only to the man himself, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has given us a dramatic reading of an Onion article mocking Bill de Blasio. The mayor read the story aloud to...
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Beating the Dark Days in Europe's Northernmost City
Last week, for the first time in 59 days, the sun rose over Europe’s northernmost city. The official end of the morketiden – the murky time – means a party: “A lot of people put on yellow clothes, and...
View ArticleSeventh-Grader Investigates the ‘Anatomy of a Snow Day’
New York City all but shut down late Monday and Tuesday in anticipation of a “crippling”nor’easter that never showed. Schools around the city announced a snow day on Tuesday for what ended up being a...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman Talk New Indie Comedy ‘The...
What’s the strangest dinner party you’ve ever been to? Whatever went down, it probably pales in comparison to the revelry and revelations in Patrick Brice’s hysterical slapstick indie comedy The...
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Charles Brackett's Tales of a 'Foolish' Tinseltown
The story goes that Alan Ladd, a huge star in 1946, complained to the producer of a war picture that was about to start shooting: “Just for a change, can I have a finished script before I start? I’m...
View Article‘Tangible’ Terror Threat at Euro 2016, Warn Organisers
There is a “palpable” threat of acts of terror being carried out at the tournament after the recent Paris attacks, according to the president of the Euro 2016 organising committee, Jacques Lambert.The...
View ArticleBid to Condemn ‘Annexation of East Germany’ in Russian Parliament
The speaker of the Russian Parliament, today announced that if Russia ‘annexed’ Crimea, then the West ‘annexed’ eastern Germany in 1989. Sergey Naryshkin put forward a motion in front of the...
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Obama Lectures Modi on Religious Tolerance
President Obama flew out of Delhi yesterday after a visit spread over three days that, as he put it, was “rich in symbolism but also in substance.”The symbolism included choreographed meetings and hugs...
View ArticleOklahoma Court to Decide Whether Fracking Companies Are to Blame for Spate of...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court is set to make a decision that could, for the first time, legally acknowledge that the oil and gas industry may have something to do with the swarm of earthquakes the state...
View ArticleTwo Numbers: Homesick for Syria
Photographs of a rare snowstorm in January that flattened refugee camp tents in Lebanon and Jordan brought new attention to the plight of millions of Syrians driven from their homes by nearly four...
View ArticleThe Saga Continues: Marshawn Lynch Still Doesn't Have Time for Questions
Marshawn Lynch has not been enjoying the Super Bowl press coverage. The Seattle Seahawks running back spent an entire event answering questions "you know why I'm here," today. Lynch, who notoriously...
View ArticleStudy: Inflammation Causes Depression in Many Cases
Depression is one of the most common mental health problems, affecting about one in 10 Americans every year. And it remains difficult to treat; As many as 50 percent of people don’t respond to typical...
View ArticleACLU: Don’t Let Senate Block Full CIA ‘Torture Report’ Release
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday night in an effort to block the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from retrieving all the copies of the...
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Loretta Lynch Defends Obama’s Executive Action, NSA Surveillance
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, endured her first day of grilling by members the Senate Judiciary Committee today. While...
View Article'There Had Been a Death in the Family': The Story of Challenger Victim...
On the anniversary of the 1986 Challenger disaster, revisit Mike Pride's tribute to teacher Christa McAuliffe, who perished in the explosion. This story was originally published in the February 10,...
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