Street Food Takes Cover
How does a trend go mainstream? An idiosyncratically dressed teenager is spotted in a market or nightclub, and suddenly becomes the new “face” of a perfume or fashion line. Something similar is...
View ArticleSterling Set to Make 160 Times What He Paid for the LA Clippers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Sterling, forced to sell his National Basketball Association team after a lifetime ban for making racist comments, is not going to be remembered as a "visionary,""icon" or...
View ArticleNBA Moves on Clippers Sale, Sterling Sues for $1 Billion
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The National Basketball Association said on Friday that it has reached an agreement with the estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team,...
View ArticlePirates Suspected as Authorities Lose Contact With Thai Oil Tanker
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Thai diesel oil tanker with 14 crew members en route from Singapore to Indonesia is believed to have been hijacked, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on Saturday,...
View ArticleBowe Bergdahl Freed in Afghanistan, Five Taliban Prisoners to Leave Guantanamo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The last U.S. prisoner of war from America's waning Afgan war, was handed over to U.S. Special Operations forces in Afghanistan on Saturday in a dramatic swap for five Taliban...
View ArticleFamily, Hometown Celebrate U.S. Soldier's Release From Taliban
(Reuters) - Balloons and celebratory signs sprouted up in the small mountain community of Hailey, Idaho, on Saturday after news that native son U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had been freed after...
View ArticleHow a Private Commemoration of the Tiananmen Protests Riled Chinese Police
BEIJING (Reuters) - Early last month, 15 people went to a Beijing apartment to mark the 25th anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. Among them were scholars, a...
View ArticleSyria Bomber Was Florida-Born, Raised in Middle-Class Family
SEBASTIAN Fla. (Reuters) - The man believed to be the first American suicide bomber in Syria was born in Florida and loved to play basketball. He was an average student who grew up in a well-kept...
View ArticleNetanyahu Urges World Not to Recognize Palestinian Unity Government
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned against any international rush to recognize a Palestinian government due to be announced under a unity pact between the...
View ArticleOnce on the Edge of Defeat, Syria's Assad Runs Again for President
BEIRUT (Reuters) - It was not so long ago that Bashar al-Assad’s enemies thought he was finished.In the summer of 2012, the rebels were not just at the gates of Damascus, but inside the capital,...
View ArticleNearly 800 Killed in Iraq's Bloodiest Month This Year: U.N.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nearly 800 people were killed in violence across Iraq in May, the United Nations said on Sunday, making it the deadliest month so far this year.Of the total 799 people killed, 196...
View ArticleJewish Museum Shooting Suspect Spent Year in Syria: Prosecutor
PARIS (Reuters) - The 29-year-old Frenchman arrested on Friday over the fatal shooting of three people at Brussels' Jewish Museum spent a year in Syria after becoming radicalised during the last of...
View ArticleAfghans Say Taliban Prisoners Freed By U.S. Will Rejoin Battle
KABUL (Reuters) - The release of five Taliban prisoners in exchange for a U.S. soldier has drawn criticism from some Afghans, who say the detainees are dangerous and will rekindle ties with terrorist...
View ArticleRepublicans Attack Obama Over Bergdahl Prisoner Swap
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. politicians questioned whether the deal that freed Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five Taliban militants amounted to a negotiation with terrorists as the U.S. soldier was...
View ArticleSpain's King Juan Carlos Abdicates
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's King Juan Carlos has decided to abdicate for political reasons rather than because of his ailing health, a source at the royal palace told Reuters on Monday."It's a political...
View ArticleRussia Says Ukraine Situation Worsening, Will Submit U.N. Resolution
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will submit a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council on Monday calling for an immediate end to worsening violence in Ukraine and the creation of humanitarian corridors...
View ArticleRepairing the Brain
Will the problem of memory loss one day be forgotten? In the next few weeks the Pentagon’s research-and-development arm will announce a plan to fund the creation of a brain implant to help wounded...
View ArticleThe Return of the Dictators
It’s a bright spring afternoon in Freedom Square in downtown Budapest. Lampposts are covered with posters for the opposition parties which had contested the European elections last weekend. Protesters...
View ArticleThe Trouble with French Restaurant Food
French restaurant food is supposed to be one of the great wonders of the world and I have just spent a couple of weeks in France: not once did I eat an even half-decent, let alone memorable, meal. The...
View ArticleWar in Afghanistan: What Was Won, What Was Lost?
Afghanistan is about to go back to the polls to pick a new president. Both candidates boast anti-Al-Qaeda credentials. But after America is gone, will the winner manage to keep a country that is...
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