Tips for Your Graduation Day
I have been in academia nonstop for 24 years now, and I have been to many a graduation. Here is some unsolicited advice for those about to get their diplomas:1) Wear your graduation cap on top of your...
View ArticleTurkey to Ignore Court Order to Pay Compensation to Cyprus
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has no plans to pay 90 million euros ($124 million) to Cyprus as ordered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday.The...
View ArticleKerry Says China Action in Seas Dispute 'Provocative'
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States sees China's introduction of an oil rig and several vessels in waters disputed with Vietnam as "provocative", U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told...
View ArticleSorry America, Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai Plans to Stick Around
KABUL (Reuters) - In central Kabul, a few minutes' walk from the ornate presidential office, workmen are putting the finishing touches to an imposing new residence and office complex: the retirement...
View ArticleRussia Pulls Space Cooperation in Response to Ukraine Sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will bar the United States from using Russian-made rocket engines for military satellite launches, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday, retaliating for...
View ArticleStarting Five: Donald Sterling Flops, Lebron's Near 50 and Elin Nordegren...
1. Donald: Duck!Clipper owner Donald Sterling steps deeper into it during an on-air apology, saying Magic Johnson "ought to be ashamed of himself" and accusing interviewer Anderson Cooper of being...
View ArticleShipwreck Off Haiti Could be Columbus's Santa Maria, Explorers Say
(Reuters) - A shipwreck found off the north coast of Haiti could be the 500-year-old remains of the Santa Maria, which led Christopher Columbus's famed voyage to the New World, according to a team of...
View ArticleHow a Spaniard's Eviction Created the 'Right to Be Forgotten' for Google
(Reuters) - Internet companies can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive personal information from search engine results, Europe's top court ruled on Tuesday in a case pitting privacy campaigners...
View ArticleProsecutor Wants Pistorius To Have His Mental Health Evaluated
PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African prosecutor asked on Tuesday for Oscar Pistorius to be sent for a mental evaluation after a psychiatrist told the Olympic and Paralympic track star's murder trial he...
View ArticleDanish Parliament Pulls Cartoon That Pushed Voting With Sex, Violence
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The Danish parliament has withdrawn a cartoon video featuring a scene of group sex and a non-voter being punched in the face that had been aimed at motivating young people to...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act: A Bitter but Futile Exchange
Few government policies today are as controversial as Obamacare, but love it or hate it, the overall impact may not be as big as you think.Take a main goal of Obamacare: to decrease the number of...
View ArticleSatellite Photos Show Russian Forces Still on Ukraine's Border, U.S. Says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The U.S. government released new satellite pictures on Tuesday which it said showed Russian forces were still near the Ukrainian border in recent days, contradicting Russian...
View ArticleTwo U.S. Health Workers Ill After MERS Exposure
(Reuters) - Two health workers at a Florida hospital exposed to a patient with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome have begun showing flu-like symptoms, raising concerns about the ability of global health...
View ArticleWatch Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' While You Still Can
You have until midnight to watch the best music video ever filmed in space. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s serene, soulful cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity comes off YouTube at the end of the...
View ArticleA Breath of Fresh Air in the Kremlin
Nina Khrushcheva’s grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, was the leader of the Soviet Union who wrestled with President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing the world to the edge of...
View ArticleToday in Tabs Dot Com: The Game Needs Me
@asimone'Solange', also known as 'spice', is a potent drug found only on the desert planet Arakkis. It is addictive and withdrawal is fatal— Jeb (@jeb) May 13, 2014Obviously the biggest news in Tabs is...
View ArticleFeinstein Takes Trust But Verify Approach on Israeli Spying
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday she accepted “at face value” a top Israeli official’s denial of spying on the United States, but suggested she would explore the matter...
View ArticleMore Than 20,000 Homes Evacuated in Path of San Diego Wildfire
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than 20,000 homes and other residences were being evacuated in and around San Diego on Tuesday as a fast-moving California wildfire driven by high winds blackened more than...
View ArticleWhite House Says No Issue With Biden's Son, Ukraine Gas Company
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday brushed aside questions about whether the involvement of Vice President Joe Biden's son in a Ukrainian natural gas company raised ethical issues at a...
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Ambassador Tefft Would Upset Russia, and That's the Point
When the man most likely to be America’s next ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, moves into the stately Spaso House embassy in Moscow, he will dwell there amid the iciest relations between the Kremlin...
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