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Tributes have been flooding in following the sudden death of Spanish Primera Liga side Espanyol’s captain Daniel Jarque at the age of 26 on Saturday night. Jarque passed away around 8pm local time when his heart stopped following a training session in Coverciano, Italy, where the squad are on a pre-season camp. Reports suggest Jarque was on the phone to his fiancee — who is eight months pregnant — at the time and she alerted two of his team-mates, who raced to his hotel room.
Blair MacIntyre imagines a world where tiny clouds of information — Facebook statuses, business cards, Twitter posts — float above all of our heads. In some ways, it’s not that far from reality
In his first public appearance since the "Beer Summit" at the White House, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates joked about his controversial arrest last month in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and said he likes police Sgt. James Crowley
Don’t look now, but they’re all around you. They’re standing by the copy machine, hovering by the printer, and answering the phone. Yes, they’re the overworked, underappreciated interns: young, eager, and not always paid.
A 27-year-old mother of five was bludgeoned to death with an iron chain by her father last week in Gaza in what human rights groups report was an honor killing. According to police in Gaza, the father, Jawdat al-Najar, heard his daughter Fadia, who had divorced in 2005, speaking on the phone with a man. He believed she was having a relationship with him.
“Sometimes I get a little frustrated,” Barack Obama admitted to AARP in late July, “because this is one of those situations where it’s so obvious that the system we have isn’t working well for too many people, and that we could just be doing better.” He was talking about health care, of course.
TIME senior writer Karen Tumulty sat down with President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon to talk about his work both in public and behind the scenes to push a health-care-reform measure through Congress. Here’s the full transcript. TIME: I thought I’d talk to you a little bit about just sort of the whole degree to which this is really a test of leadership, health care is, as much as anything
After a week in the fast lane, Jon Gosselin returned to suburban life with his kids Tuesday. The father of eight, who has been spending time in Saint-Tropez, Manhattan and the Hamptons, arrived back at the family home in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, around noon, where his two eldest daughters, twins Mady and Cara, 8, squealed with delight at the sight of their dad
Shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons purchased by Venezuela have ended up in the hands of guerrillas, Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos said. In an interview with Caracol Radio Monday, Santos addressed local reports of anti-tank weapons manufactured in Sweden being seized from members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and traced to Venezuela. “This is not the first time that this happens,” Santos said
Ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border on Saturday, a day after crossing a few yards into the country.