Worldcrunch TIANFU MORNING POST (China) CHENGDU – These days in China, marriage proposals are over-the-top and the richer you are the better it is. Last month, the spotlight was on 11 very rich men looking for wives, kicking off a high-profile search in ten major cities. Needless to say, the ladies the men were looking […]
Month: July 2012
The bumps and bruises continue 15 years after Hong Kong returned into Chinese hands. Now it’s up to both to try harder.
Worldcrunch EL DIARIO, EL INFORMADOR (Mexico) L.A. TIMES (USA) MEXICO CITY – Though his main challenger has yet to concede defeat, Enrique Peña Nieto appears set to become Mexico’s next President, which would mark a return to power after 12 years for his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. Mexico’s federal elections commission is reporting that […]
Worldcrunch THE PRESS ASSOCIATION (UK), KHAAMA PRESS (Afghanistan), REUTERS The UK Defense Ministry confirmed Monday that three British soldiers were shot to death at a check-point in southwest Afghanistan by a man wearing an Afghan police uniform. The gunman was injured and detained after the Sunday attack, a spokesperson for the Ministry told Reuters. According […]
Worldcrunch LA REPUBBLICA (Italy), EL DIARIO VASCO (Spain) , SPORTS ILLUSTRATED With Spain’s Euro 2012 soccer championship victory, a 4-0 trouncing of Italy (the biggest ever margin in a European final) that secures an unprecedented third major title in a row, the question is on every sports fan’s lips: Is Spain the best national soccer […]
It may look like art, but it’s just a beautiful dress: Mary Katrantzou is leading fashion’s digital print boom, a new generation of designers creating clothes with the help of such tools as Photoshop.
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The Afro Is Back
A return to what is considered “natural” hair for African-American women is also showing up on Europe’s top fashion runways. The afro used to be a political statement, today it’s more likely a fashion statement.
Centuries after Potosí, Bolivia’s legendary but now dried-up silver reserve, the small South American country may have struck a new enormous source of precious metal wealth. But locals may stand in the way.
In the region of Bavaria, there is an often hidden parallel justice system, where imams and self-appointed judges circumvent the German legal system and Islamic law prevails.