LE MONDE (France), THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL (UK) Worldcrunch They’re not allowed to drive or to vote, writes Le Monde, but the women of Saudi Arabia will soon have their own city. How to create more job opportunities for woman in gender-segregated society? Build female-only city! gu.com/p/39y2a/tw #SaudiArabia — Guardian World (@guardianworld) August 13, 2012 […]
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EL PAIS (Spain) Worldcrunch On Tuesday, hundreds of members of the Spanish SAT workers’ union walked out of two supermarkets without paying for the shopping carts they had filled with food. The supermarket raids took place in Andalusia, in southern Spain. “Is this a theft? A symbolic act? An atrocity? An act of violence ?” […]
LA TRIBUNE (France) JERUSALEM – France has prepared a contingency plan to evacuate its citizens from Israel, La Tribunehas learned. According to diplomatic sources, a plan to evacuate the 200,000 French nationals living in Israel has been drafted to prepare for the enventuality of conflict between Iran and Israel. The objective, says the French financial […]
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The Fauxlympics of Advertising
LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR (France), THE DRUM (UK) Worldcrunch LONDON – To protest against strict adverstising rules imposed by the IOC on everything Olympic-related, reports Le Nouvel Observateur, a British website has launched a “Fauxlympics” advertising campaign. People were invited to send in Fauxlympic adverts in four different categories: The Sprint: Guerrilla ads that would be […]
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Snap! Cuba’s Pole Fault
LE MONDE, FRANCE TV (France) Cuba’s dreams of winning Olympic gold in the pole vault today were left in shatters – after Lázaro Borges’ pole snapped into pieces. The 26-year-old slammed the pole into the ground when attempting to clear a height of 5.35 meters but ended up awkwardly crashing into the mat when the […]
LAUSANNE – Inevitably, any question on the importance of science in sports brings up the topic of doping. “We tend to focus on the cheaters and not enough on clean athletes,” says Swiss judo champion Sergei Aschwanden, bronze medalist in Beijing. “What message do we want to send to young athletes? That doping is required […]
London 2012 roundup for the week: everything you need to know — and some things you don’t: OK Great Britain. Let’s rock! #olympicceremony #theempirestrikesback — Elizabeth Windsor (@Queen_UK) July 27, 2012 Articles: Welcome To The *Lodnon Oimplycs* Finally A Chance To Shine: Libya’s First Olympics Without Gaddafi Olympic Biz – Why London Is Rolling Out […]
LE PARISIEN, L’EQUIPE (France), TELEGRAPH (UK), L.A. TIMES (USA) Worldcrunch LONDON – Just after winning the team gold in the men’s team track sprint, British cyclist Philip Hindes admitted he had deliberately crashed in the heats in order to get a second chance at the race, the Telegraph reported. “We were saying if we have […]
YAHOO! (USA), NEW ZEALAND HERALD (NZ), THE AUSTRALIAN (AUS) LONDON – New Zealand taekwondo athlete Logan Campbell has rejected being labeled “a pimp” after it was known he had financed his dream to take part in the London Olympics by running a brothel. The Kiwi athlete came under fire for opening a 14-room brothel in […]
BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), BLOOMBERG (USA) Worldcrunch PYONGYANG –North Korea has requested immediate aid from the United Nations, including food supplies, after being hit by devastating floods last month. The aid also includes fuel and clean water to avoid diseases, as wells have been strongly damaged by the floods. UN officials in Pyongyang said […]
BBC (UK), CNN (US), FINANCIAL TIMES (UK) Worldcrunch The UN General Assembly is set to vote on a resolution to increase pressure on the UN Security Council in a bid to resolve the Syrian conflict, reports the BBC. Drafted by Saudi Arabia’s government, who openly support the rebel forces in the country, the resolution condemns […]
TRIPOLI – There were just five Libyan athletes in the delegation that walked out in London’s Olympic stadium for the Opening Ceremony. After 42 years of dictatorship, they want to “show they’re proud of being Libyan” under their new flag. A white crescent and star centered on a horizontal tricolor of red, black and green […]
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LONDON – The telephone at Stephen Holt’s tailoring business hasn’t stopped ringing for days. Photos of his shop-front window in the English town of Surbiton are all over the Internet. Holt wanted to feature the Olympics somehow in his window display, but as a “non-sponsor” of the Games, he was strictly forbidden to do so: […]
REUTERS, AL JAZEERA (Qatar), NEW YORK TIMES (USA) Worldcrunch Barack Obama has authorized covert US support of Syrian rebels in order to oust President Bashar al-Assad, reports Reuters. The secret order, which was allegedly signed earlier this year allows the CIA to offer support and assistance to rebel fighters engaged in conflict, with similar reports […]
XINHUA (China), CHINA DAILY (China), BBC NEWS (UK) LONDON – Eight women badminton players from Korea, China, and Indonesia were disqualified from the London Olympics for unsporting conduct on Wednesday. Chinese double players Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli are accused by the Badminton World Federation of deliberately losing a game on Tuesday to get easier […]
REUTERS, BBC NEWS, AL ARABIYA (Saudi Arabia) Worldcrunch Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that the conflict between rebels and government forces across Syria will “decide the fate of the nation.” This is a big admission by Assad: “the fate of Syria hinges on this battle”. Likely to be justification for the scale of the […]
DIE WELT (Germany)Worldcrunch LONDON – Different strokes for different folks, as the saying goes – although different courses for different horses might be more apt as far as the four-legged athletes competing in the Summer Olympics go. What makes the horses happy makes the riders happy, and that includes providing their mounts with the equine […]
THE INDEPENDENT, THE GUARDIAN (UK), BRISBANE TIMES, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD (Australia) Worldcrunch LONDON – Sixteen-year-old Ye Shiwen is the teenage torpedo, the Chinese swimming prodigy whose devastating performances have already made her the Games’ most talked-about new star, writes the Independent. But on Monday, after winning the 400 meters individual medley in a world-record […]
The Tate Modern museum in London, is not like any museum you’ve every seen. It’s an ever-evolving space, adapting to new art forms as they come along.
Brigadier General Manaf Tlas is the most senior Syrian army deserter since the beginning of the uprising. One of President Assad’s oldest friends, Tlas has offered himself up as the man to rally the opposition. But many doubt the sincerity of thi
DIE WELT (Germany) Worldcrunch LONDON – Naples may be battling an infestation of large red cockroaches this summer, but not to be outdone is London which, experts say, will be awash in bed bugs (Cimex lectularius). So anyone planning to visit the British capital for the Olympics is likely not only to encounter heightened security […]
THE GUARDIAN, THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH, ULSTER TV (UK) Worldcrunch In a statement released to the Guardian on Thursday, three republican terror groups announced they were merging to form a new IRA in Northern Ireland. The Real IRA, the vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) as well as a coalition of smaller dissident groups will […]
FRANCE TV INFO (France), BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), LOS ANGELES TIMES (USA) Worldcrunch “Is this the worst marketing in the world?” asks France TV Info. Every Olympic Games has to have their official clip, logo, mascot and anthem, says the French TV news channel, but the choices made by London 2012 are just terrible. […]
AFP (France), THE TELEGRAPH (UK), YONHAP (South Korea) Worldcrunch LONDON – Day one of Olympic events started with a major diplomatic gaffe on Wednesday. As the North Korean women’s soccer team was entering Glaskgow’s Hampden Park stadium for the opening match with Colombia, a giant screen showed images of the South Korean flag, French news […]
In parts of northern Syria, Assad’s regime has fallen. In the region between the city of Aleppo and Turkey, the Sunni villagers have already taken control. But what comes next?
PRESS ASSOCIATION (UK), AP, PRESSE CITRON (France) DIE WELT (Germany) Worldcrunch One would think composing the mini “Twitter bio” for Jamaican 100-meter dash superstar Usain Bolt would be simple enough: “Fastest man on the planet” That covers it, no? But never underestimate the never-humble Olympian. Here’s the subtle social network CV he chose instead: The […]
KOREA TIMES (South Korea), TWITTER Worldcrunch More than two weeks after the first photos of the couple surfaced, North Korean state media has announced that the nation’s young leader Kim Jong-un is indeed married to “Comrade Ri Sol-ju.” The couple had been photographed together early July at a concert, during a visit to an amusement […]
LIBERATION (France), ATLANTIC WIRE (USA), THE GUARDIAN (UK) Worldcrunch LONDON – British “masked street artist” Banksy has created two new murals for the Olympic Games, reports Libération. The first Olympic-themed mural, called “Going for Mould” shows a javelin thrower getting ready to throw a missile. The second mural, called “Hackney Welcomes the Olympics’ represents a […]
REUTERS, BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), HURRIYET (Turkey) Worldcrunch Troops loyal to Syrian president Bashar al- Assad converged on Aleppo on Wednesday as fighting between rebel and governmental forces intensified, signaling a shift of the uprising against the regime that began last year to a full-blown insurgency. BBC News and Reuters reported that the regime […]
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Where Planes Go To Die…. And Be Born Again
Maybe you didn’t know that the cutting-edge jumbo jets we fly around the world are often filled with recycled used parts.
LE MONDE, AFP (France), AL JAZEERA (Qatar), HRW (USA) On Tuesday, eight people were killed in a mutiny at a prison in Syria’s second city Aleppo, where the conflict has intensified. The opposition Syrian National Council told AFP that security forces opened fire and used tear gas on prisoners during a peaceful sit-in to protest […]
A friend in need is a friend indeed: Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s chief, has never wavered in his support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The stakes are high: if Assad goes, chances are Hezbollah goes too.
NEW WEEKLY, HAN HAN BLOG (China) CHINA TIMES, UNITED DAILY NEWS (Taiwan) Worldcrunch TAIPEI – The half-century political standoff across the Taiwan Strait is slowly easing. But it may be China’s new waves of globetrotting tourists who help bury the axe once and for all, making the island nation a favorite new travel destination. Chinese […]
BBC, AP Syrian TV announced the death of a fourth top regime official Friday morning from the suicide bombing earlier in the week that killed members of Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle. AP reported that Syria’s national security chief Gen. Hisham Ikhtiar died at a Damascus hospital from injuries from the attack carried out Wednesday by […]
North Korea’s young new leader Kim Jong-un was believed to rely on the counsel of top general Ri Yong-ho, 69, who was suddenly removed Monday for “health” problems. Few believe that line, and see his departure as a sign of a maj
THE GUARDIAN, REUTERS, AFP Worldcrunch Heavy fighting continues between Syrian rebels and government security forces in Damascus on Thursday, as the country reels from yesterday’s bombing that killed three top regime military officials, including President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law. The attack has plunged Syria into perhaps its deepest state of uncertainty since the uprising began last […]
In Congo, too often aid gets diverted from those most needy to those best connected. The devastating rains this spring were a tragic case in point.
REUTERS, BBC, AL ARABIYA, THE GUARDIAN Worldcrunch DAMASCUS – Syrian State television is reporting that Syria’s Defense Minister Gen. Dawoud Rajha and intelligence chief Assef Shawkat were killed in a bombing at the National Security Bureau in Damascus on Thursday. Other ministers and officials were hurt and were brought to the capital’s al-Shami hospital, including […]
BLOOMBERG, KCNA (North Korea) Worldcrunch Two days after the surprise departure of the army chief, North Korea’s Supreme leader Kim Jong-un is furthering his grip on the military by adding a new title to an already long list of honors. A statement by state-run news agency KCNA announced that “”A decision was made to award […]
MEHR NEWS AGENCY, KALEME (Iran), LE MONDE (France) Worldcrunch As a last resort to fight soaring food prices, a top Iranian official has proposed a ban on images of people eating chicken on television. National Police Chief Esma’il Ahmadi Moghadam suggested that images of chicken should be banned from state television, fearing that they may […]