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SERTÃOZINHO — In a simple house here, 330 kilometers northwest of São Paulo in Brazil, Glauber Pereira Souza, 36, is the head of a four-legged family: He owns five dogs, two cats and two rabbits. The youngest member of his household is Preta, a mongrel female who had been run over by a bus, but […]
The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history was the top story in newspapers around the world, after a gunman opened fire at a country music concert Sunday night in Las Vegas. Here’s a sample of front pages from 14 countries: UNITED STATES Las Vegas Review Journal USA Today Tampa Bay Times MEXICO “Terror in […]
The setting and timing of this shot coincide perfectly with the release, half-way around the world, of the seminal surfer album Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. But this summer in Romania was also just a year after the rise of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu. We didn’t know it then, but he would become one […]
With designs that imitate fakes, luxury fashion brands try to attract a younger and more connected clientele.
Each year, about 200 soldiers from the elite military unit become naturalized French citizens.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct. 2, 2017 “Mass shooting on Strip,” reads the front page of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, just hours after a man opened fire on a crowd of an open-air country music festival in Las Vegas. At least 50 people were killed and 406 people transported to hospitals according to the latest report […]
MADRID — For Mariano Rajoy, it’s as if October 1 never happened. The Spanish Prime Minister insisted that his government was simply implementing Spain’s democratic constitution in sending gendarmes to stop an illegal, separatist referendum organized by the Catalan regional authority on Sunday. But October 1 may go down as a turning point in Spanish, […]
KOTA BHARU — On Sultan Zaineb street, congregants leave the mosque one by one in Kota Bharu, the capital of the rural Kelantan state, in northeastern Malaysia. After Friday prayers, the loudspeakers are put on standby. Some men wearing the traditional kufi turban cross a square at the heart of which stands a white arrow-shaped […]
With the arrival of tech-heavy, self-driving vehicles, makers of traditional cars will have to adapt. But so too will everyone from real estate agents to insurers and tax collectors.