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Around the world, bees are dying in their millions and there’s something in this mysterious, silent tragedy that has seized public consciousness. Two missiles hit a militant hideout in the village of Damadola, in the border district of Bajaur, a Pakistani military and political officials said.
For Kenny Ortega, Travis Payne and Michael Bearden, “it” is a bittersweet feeling.
Three U.N. ambassadors on the front lines of the fight against radical Islamist terrorism presented a united front Thursday against extremism in an unprecedented joint public appearance on a major television news program
Antonio Valencia struck a late winner as Manchester United maintained their 100 per cent record in Champions League Group B with a 1-0 victory at CSKA Moscow.
The State Department has decided to authorize visas for a North Korean nuclear delegation so they can attend conferences in the United States later this month, a department spokesman said Friday.
There’s more to wearing the “niqab” — the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women — than meets the eye. A recent declaration by a leading Egyptian cleric that women will not be allowed to wear the niqab in university areas frequented only by women has sparked demonstrations by female students in Cairo determined to wear the all-encompassing veil wherever they go
David Beckham looks set to rejoin AC Milan on loan after the vice-president of the Serie A giants claimed it was “very probable” that a deal would be reached to secure the services of the soccer icon. Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Beckham sparked controversy last season when he extended his loan with Milan until June and missed the start of the Major League Soccer season in the United States
Among Manchester United Football Club’s 300 million or so supporters worldwide are two Burmese men whose love of the game spans generations. One is a stout, bespectacled, betel nut — chewing septuagenarian, the other his favorite teenage grandson, and like many of their soccer-mad compatriots they stay up late into Burma’s tropical nights to watch live broadcasts from faraway England.
President Barack Obama’s Nobel peace surprise was given “primarily for his work on and commitment to nuclear disarmament,” according to Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician who served on the award committee.
Expect Delays: An Analysis of Air Travel Trends in the United States Adie Tomer and Robert Puentes, Metropolitan Policy Program Brookings Institution; 40 pages The Gist: We all know flying can be a miserable way to travel. Most of us have suffered airport gridlock, interminable flights in cramped seats or vanishing luggage — and those of us who haven’t have surely endured the horror stories second-hand