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Today in Tabs: These Tabs Are Cursed
Greetings from the burning sage bush I live in now, because it is Friday the 13th, a full (super?)moon, and Mercury’s in retrograde. On curse days, Maine enters its own pocket universe where lobsters...
View ArticleWant to Watch a House on a Cliff in Texas Burn and Fall Into a Lake?
That’s not a metaphor for anything, or if it is, we’ll spent decades parsing out what it means. There is a luxury house suspended at the edge of a massive, crumbling cliff overlooking a lake 60 miles...
View ArticleBig Boy Toys: Shake Some Righteous Golf Booty for Father’s Day
What better way to honor the old paterfamilias than to regale him with golf gifts on Father's Day? After all, part of a good Roman daddy's responsibilities included his priestly duties, which in this...
View ArticleGM Recalls Half Million Camaros, Safety Crisis Deepens
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co recalled 511,528 Chevrolet Camaros on Friday for an ignition switch problem similar to the defect linked to at least 13 deaths in Chevrolet Cobalts and other...
View ArticleFormer POW Bergdahl in Texas Medical Center, Still Hasn't Met Parents
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner of war before being released on May 31, was in stable condition at a military hospital in Texas and...
View ArticleAs Iraq Teeters, Washington Plays Blame Game
As Iraq descends deeper into turmoil with the advance of Al-Qaeda-inspired militants across large swaths of the north, Democrats are quick to remind Americans who they blame for the current...
View ArticleU.S. Says Russia Sends Tanks, Rocket Launchers Into Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia has sent tanks, heavy weapons and rocket launchers to Ukraine in recent days in support of separatists in the east of the country, the U.S. State Department said on...
View ArticleWorld Cup: Qatar Goes to Penalties
Reports that the bidding process for the 2022 soccer World Cup has been tainted by bribery have directed an unwanted spotlight onto the tiny Arab kingdom of Qatar, a peninsula in the Persian Gulf that...
View ArticleYellow: The New Dazzling White
“Smile! Not so fast you Brits.” Britons have become the laughing stock the world over for the bad state of their teeth. In Mexico, bad or crooked teeth are known as dientes Ingles. And not without...
View ArticleRebels Shoot Down Ukrainian Military Plane, 49 Killed
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian army transport plane with an anti-aircraft missile as it came in to land early on Saturday in the eastern city of Luhansk,...
View ArticleAfghans Vote Again in Final Test as Taliban Threats Loom
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghans headed back to the polls on Saturday for a second round of voting to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai in a decisive test of Afghanistan's ambitions to transfer...
View ArticleIsrael Reinforces West Bank Troops to Search for Three Missing Teens
HEBRON West Bank (Reuters) - Israel was reinforcing troops in the occupied West Bank on Saturday to step up searches for three Israeli teenagers believed to have been abducted by Palestinians, a...
View Article50,000 Children Face Death in South Sudan: U.N.
JUBA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of children in South Sudan could die this year without assistance from aid agencies, the United Nations said on Saturday, as it appealed for more than $1 billion to...
View ArticleMeet the Assassin Who Sparked World War One
Gavrilo Princip is a handsome man, walking through the marble cafe of his motel in a Serb-suburb of Sarajevo. He has the same high cheek-bones, the same piercing gaze as his great-uncle, Gavrilo...
View ArticleSpain in the World Cup: What Went Wrong?
Oranje is the new black. The Dutch, avenging a 1-0 loss to Spain in the World Cup final four years ago, thoroughly humiliated the defending champions, 5-1, on Friday. It was the worst loss a defending...
View ArticleAre British Muslim Schools Teaching Hatred?
On a damp day in Britain in May, with the sky threatening worse, the long residential streets are quiet. It could be almost anywhere: two-story brick terraces, front gardens paved and parked over,...
View ArticleWhat Should Teenagers Read at School?
You might call it texting. Britain’s education secretary, Michael Gove, has called on the country’s high school exam boards to include more British authors at the expense of American ones. Although he...
View ArticleSwiss Soccer’s Multi-Colored Strip
A 40-minute boat ride across Lake Lucerne brought the Swiss national football team to the village of Weggis in late May, where they finished their final training sessions before flying to Brazil to...
View ArticleU.S. Sends Carrier to Gulf as Iraq Teeters
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An offensive by insurgents that threatens to dismember Iraq seemed to slow after days of lightning advances as government forces regained some territory in counter-attacks, easing...
View ArticleDubai Faces Moment of Truth Over Looming Property Bubble
DUBAI (Reuters) - "Keep calm. There's no bubble", proclaimed a giant poster on a 40-storey building overlooking a Dubai highway, advertising a property finding portal late last year. That may have been...
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