Orangutan activists, trespassing veterans and Chinese floods are among this week’s most striking photographs.
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Snapshot Of The World, Oct. 1-7
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01.10.2014 BRITAIN BEGINS AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISIS Britain’s Royal Air Force has joined the anti-ISIS coalition, launching its first airstrikes last night against the jihadist group in Iraq, before U.S.-led forces targeted fighters in villages near the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, not far from the Turkish border. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby warned yesterday […]
LIMA — Why are more and more Mashco-Piro native Indians who have always lived in deep isolation in the Amazon jungle being spotted around inhabited areas? This question is worrying Peru as never-before-seen photographs of the tribe emerged in August. “We usually get a glimpse of them once a year, but their appearances have been […]
Animals are adorable. Usually. In a recent competition on YouTube, the blobfish was voted the ugliest animal in the world and is now the face of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. But is it truly the least fairest of them all? We took a look and found some creatures that only a mother that ugly […]
-Editorial- BEIJING – At the recent International Investment Forum, Justin Lin Yifu, the former World Bank chief economist, was asked how he personally invested his money. “All my money is in the bank, in fixed deposits,” he said, before adding with a smile, “When I sleep at night, they are still earning interest for me, […]
CORNWALL — Every year we holiday in a small village in Cornwall, where there’s a church, the odd gift shop, a gastro pub and a bar. From the main street, concrete steps lead to a beach that is almost always deserted, and buffeted by the wind. The few brave souls who venture into the water […]
-OpEd- BOGOTA — “Thinking that everything can stay the same is the biggest utopia of all…” Margarita Marino de Botero is a Colombian environmentalist who aims to be as creative as she is dedicated. Environmentalism — dynamic and obsessed with changing reality — is continually touching upon the concept of utopia. This is, in fact, […]
Bruno Strebel spends his days tracking missing persons, insurance scammers and white-collar criminals. The former cop founded a detective school that teaches others to do the same.
High-stakes gambling machines involve billions of pounds, and prey on the destitute and unemployed. Most of the technology comes courtesy of Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi.
Monday, September 8, 2014 RUSSIA THREATENS RETALIATION Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned in an interview that further Western sanctions against Russia will see Moscow “respond asymmetrically.” According to news agency Ria Novosti, Medvedev suggested that Russia could decide to close its air space to Western companies, a move that he believes would lead some […]
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Cover Issues – Magazines, Mapped!
What is the world reading this week? The situation in Syria and its consequences features on several magazine covers, 21th century explorers from Portugal are preparing for Mars colonization and Quebec discovers it has surprisingly good wine. Check out our selection of covers from top magazines around the world…
Chinese companies justify shoddy products because of fierce competition. One businessman explains why this approach is nothing but a dead end.
Exhibitions in Matisse’s favorite French town provide new and informative contexts for the artist’s work. Given his fame, that’s no small feat.
MUNICH – When Johannes Langner (not his real name) heard about the grade, he wished he’d never written the paper. He found the outstanding mark, virtually the highest available in the German grading system, almost embarassing — after all, he’d never in his life set foot in a philosophy seminar. He’d been hoping for something […]
Exactly 40 years after a hostage situation in a Stockholm bank, the now 72-year-old ex-convict recalls the bond formed with his captives. The psychiatrist who coined the term helps explain.
If fast food is a symbol of the world’s Western domination, then their franchises are like lone scouts inspecting the area before the rest of the army arrives. To satisfy their traveling Western customers or to gain new ones, the biggest fast-food chains have, sometimes unintentionally, set up shop in some of the most remote, […]
BERLIN – Denise from Sossenheim does it. “Mmm…,” it says under the picture of ochre-yellow lentil soup. David from Berlin does it too. On his Facebook page he shows what looks like the pizza he ordered for lunch with the words “Super Pizza” written underneath the image. For many young people, photographing their food and […]
Stiffer penalties for baby traffickers are all well and good, but what China really needs is to regain its moral integrity.
After decades behind bars, a court suddenly orders the release of a lifelong criminal in Bavaria who says he’s unprepared to be “out there in the world.”
Two environmentalists are killed on average every week as land struggles intensify violence against green activists worldwide.
ANSA, TGCOM24 (Italy) Worldcrunch ROME – Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi broadcasted an angry video late Thursday, after a high court upheld his four-year prison sentence in a tax fraud case. The center-right leader strongly denounced the jail ruling, claiming his innocence and accusing the Italian Justice of persecuting him. “No-one can understand the […]
AFP (France), CNN (US) Worldcrunch CANNES – Only three days after France’s biggest heist ever, two gunmen robbed a luxury watchmaker on Wednesday morning in the French resort city of Cannes in southern France. The value of the theft at the Kronometry store on the famous Croisette is not yet known. The store had already […]
BYDGOSZCZ – Five-year-old Dobrusia has been in the Pediatric Oncology Division at Jurasz Hospital in this northern Polish city for a week now. “We are still waiting for the diagnosis, so we are not sure what to expect,” says her mother. As she and her family anxiously anticipate her exam results, Dobrusia spends much of […]
BURZACO – Carrot leaves are poking through the soil, the lettuces are green and leafy, and the spring onions are standing tall: these vegetables are being nurured at secondary school No. 56 in Burzaco, 25 kilometers south of Buenos Aires. And as the vegetables have put down roots, classroom violence has been on a sharp […]
Young Israelis and Palestinians alike are getting caught by the wave of Korean pop music, television and attitudes. For some, it’s just good fun — for others, a much-needed escape.
A niggling feeling of doubt came over me. Had the school trip been educational? Was it even a school trip, i.e. was the presence of two teachers and a class of students any guarantee of learning? We had worked hard all year, I can tell you that much. We knew everything there was to know […]
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Royal Baby, Meet The Internet
Worldcrunch As the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent their first night at home with their newborn son, the Internet celebrated the royal baby’s birth in its own way. Twitter trolls had a blast: He’s not ginger 😉 #itsaboy — Prince Harry (@Prince___Harry) July 22, 2013 Dear William & Kate: If William is 100% royal […]
Worldcrunch On Monday, in a rather surreal moment a town crier annouced the birth of Prince William and Kate’s baby boy outside St Mary’s Hospital, in London. The British and world press had been waiting nearly nine months for the news. Here is how papers from all over the world covered the royal event. The […]
MUNICH – As a measure of Microsoft’s hold over the technology-driven economy, one American tabloid once published a “Countdown to World Domination” calendar in the lead-up to the company’s launch of its new operating system. That was nearly 12 years ago. Today, we are living in a completely different era as the number of PC […]
The 82-year-old “godfather” of F1 has built the motor sport into a billion-dollar business with a very Bernie-centric system. But bribery charges may force the sport to find a new formula.
IL MESSAGGERO (Italy), BBC Worldcrunch RIO DE JANEIRO – Crowds of faithful gathered in this popular Brazilian city to welcome Pope Francis, who set off from Rome on Monday morning for his first official foreign trip and preside over the 28th edition of the Roman Catholic World Youth Day. Here are five things you need […]
The protests that led to the Egyptian president’s fall began in a tiny Cairo apartment, but ultimately got the backing of anti-Muslim Brotherhood businessmen — and the military.
That is one bold idea floated to prevent older voters from paralyzing the democracy and blocking necessary reforms for the future.
MAIL & GUARDIAN (South Africa), SKY NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch JOHANNESBURG – The world is celebrating a very special Mandela Day on Thursday, as the ailing Apartheid icon spends his 95th birthday in a Pretoria hospital, slowly recovering from a recurring lung infection. “Madiba Nelson Mandela’s nickname remains in hospital in Pretoria but his doctors have […]
Plans include a modern art museum double the size of London’s Tate Modern, the world’s most visited museum.
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Bangladesh Islamist Leader To Be Hanged
BDNEWS24 (Bangladesh), AFP Worldcrunch DHAKA – A Bangladeshi war crime tribunal Wednesday sentenced to death a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist party. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, 65, who was accused of mass killing and torture during the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan, was found guilty of five charges including abduction and […]
Domestic workers from the Philippines have faced sexual abuse by their employers in places like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan. Now they also accuse Manila’s own embassy employees.
Shiva was not like the other detainees in the Argentina prison. For one thing, this convicted kidnapper was studying to be a lawyer — which turned out to be the ticket for his daring escape.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 ISRAEL TARGETS HAMAS LEADERS IN FRESH STRIKES The Israeli air force is continuing to strike Gaza, targeting the residences of four Hamas leaders hours after warning 100,000 Gazans to flee their homes, AP reports. This comes after Hamas rejected an Egypt-brokered ceasefire yesterday. Blogger Richard Silverstein writes that a well-placed Israeli […]
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Mexico Captures Zeta Cartel Leader
SDP NOTICIAS (Mexico), DALLAS MORNING NEWS (USA) Worldcrunch MEXICO – Mexican Marines have captured Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, leader of the Zetas, one of the most brutal and feared cartel of the country. Late Monday, the Mexican government confirmed the arrest earlier in the day of the man knows as “El Z-40.” Treviño Morales was […]