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WILLISTON - Corey Driver, 21, had never seen snow in his life. Back home in Jacksonville, Florida, nobody wears boots in April. When he got off the Greyhound bus at Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the new shale oil frenzy, the cold night had already taken hold. And he only had $30 in his […]
BBC (UK), CNN, WASHINGTON POST (USA) Worldcrunch NEW YORK – A key United Nations lawyer leading a probe on the use of drones has praised President Barack Obama’s speech on changes to the United States’ anti-terrorism policy, which included new more restrictive guidelines for using unmanned aircrafts to strike targets on the ground. UN attorney […]
A Muslim-American writer recounts the days after the Boston Marathon attack. No doubt, parents in the UK are having similar conversations right now.
CNN (US), THE WASHINGTON POST (US), REUTERS Worldcrunch MOORE – The search for survivors was coming to an end Wednesday after a deadly tornado tore through the city of Moore, in the suburbs of Oklahoma City. The tornado killed at least 24 people and injured about 240, Reuters reports, a revised toll after initial reports […]
REUTERS, NME Worldcrunch Ray Manzarek, keyboard player and founder member of the 1960s rock band The Doors died late Monday aged 74, following a battle with cancer. Manzarek, who lived in Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country for the past decade, had been seeking treatment for bile duct cancer at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, […]
AFP, AP, CNN, NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, NEWS 9, REUTERS (U.S.) Worldcrunch MOORE – The death toll from Monday’s mile-wide tornado in Oklahoma has risen to 91 people and is expected to keep rising. The deadly twister tore across Oklahoma City and its suburbs flattening houses, offices and elementary schools. According to Reuters, the town of […]
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 THAILAND ARMY DECLARES MARTIAL LAW Thailand army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha declared martial law throughout the country this morning in an attempt to restore peace and order after months of anti-government protests and the recent dismissal of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, The Nationreports. But the army insisted that the move was […]
REUTERS, CNN (US) Worldcrunch GRANBURY – For seven hours overnight, at least 16 different twisters ripped through the town of Granbury, Texas, killing six people and leaving at least seven others missing. Sixteen injuries, some serious, were reported. CNN reports that the search for survivors is still ongoing in the central Texas town of 8,000: […]
Friday, May 16, 2014 UN WARNING ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN EASTERN UKRAINE In its monthly report on the Ukrainian crisis, the United Nations warned of an “alarming deterioration” in eastern regions of the country, the BBC reports. The organization denounces violent attacks on “peaceful demonstrations, primarily by supporters of Ukraine’s unity,” adding that local police […]
BBC (UK), BOSTON GLOBE, NBC NEWS, NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS (U.S.) Worldcrunch WASHINGTON D.C.– President Barack Obama announced Wednesday night that acting head of the Internal Revenus Service (IRS), the nation’s central tax-collecting agency, had been forced to resign after it emerged that the agency improperly targeted certain groups. A special report released on Tuesday […]
NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE, CNN (USA), REUTERS Worldcrunch NEW ORLEANS – Police have arrested the main suspect in the New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting that left 19 people wounded last Sunday. Nineteen-year-old Akein Scott had been on the run for three days. New Orleans police spokesman Garry Flot told Reuters that Scott was arrested late Wednesday […]
CNN (USA), REUTERS Worldcrunch NEW ORLEANS – Police have identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting during a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans that left 19 injured. New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas told CNN late Monday that authorities are looking for 19-year-old Akein Scott. WANTED: 19yr old Akein Scott, ID’d […]
AP, CNN, REUTERS, WASHINGTON POST (USA) Worldcrunch CLEVELAND – Ariel Castro, 52, the man charged with keeping three women captive for almost a decade will appear in court for the first time on Thursday. Castro is accused of kidnapping Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32, between 2002 and 2004. At the […]
How the always changing ‘work-in-progress’ that is the United States of America looks to a European, where the past still holds everything in place.
NBC NEWS (USA) Worldcrunch Southern California firefighters early Friday were battling a growing, brush-fueled wildfire that had reached the beach in Ventura County and was pushing toward the upscale city of Malibu, officials said. The so-called Springs Fire, made worse by howling Santa Ana winds and unusually dry vegetation, was within “seven or eight miles” […]
Talk about Tiny, Tiny Toons… Granted, the 90-second-long cartoon doesn’t look like much. If anything, it reminds you of early arcade games like Pong. But once you realize that each pixel is actually an individual atom, things get way more interesting… Watch IBM’s A Boy and His Atom, officially the smallest movie ever made: Here […]
Meet Bjoern Werner, who was drafted in the first round of the NFL draft this week. And yes, soccer came first.
WEST STRENGTHENS ANTI-RUSSIA RHETORIC In what marks a further escalation of the war of words between the pro-Ukraine and Russian Federation factions, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said Moscow wanted “to start World War III.” The comment came after Russian President Vladimir Putin increased military exercises along the border following yesterday’s deadly fights in Eastern […]
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First Photo Of Gerard Depardieu As DSK
LE PARISIEN (France) Worldcrunch PARIS – No, Gérard Depardieu has not just been arrested in New York for nothing of the kind.. Instead, this is reportedly the first photo of the new DSK movie, directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Depardieu as the disgraced IMF boss accused and later cleared of raping a maid at […]
Even as it continues to report record earnings, certain trends remind us that even the smartest, most dominant tech companies eventually are brought down to size.
ABC NEWS, BOSTON HERALD, NBC NEWS, REUTERS (U.S.A.) Worldcrunch BOSTON – As the United States prepares Monday to mark one week since the bombing at the Boston Marathon, the lone surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is reported now to be conscious and responding sporadically in writing to questions. Investigators are asking the Chechen suspect about other […]
New York 2001. Bali 2002. Djerba 2002. Istanbul 2003. Madrid 2004. London 2005. Mumbai 2006. Boston 2013. “Terror Is Back,” trumpeted newspaper headlines in the U.S. – as if it had ever left. Only minutes after the latest terror attack, German Wikipedia had updated its List of Bomb Attacks. The list begins on Dec. 13, […]
AP, REUTERS, CNN, NEW YORK TIMES (U.S.), BBC (UK) Worldcrunch WATERTOWN — Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT university police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and […]
BBC, CNN, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, WACO TRIBUNE-HERALD, WASHINGTON POST (U.S.) Worldcrunch WEST – A massive explosion Wednesday night in this town near Waco, Texas has left more than 160 people wounded, as well as an unspecified death toll that could quickly mount as search and rescue efforts continue into Thursday morning. A fire began in […]
BOSTON GLOBE, BOSTON HERALD, CNN (USA), REUTERS Worldcrunch BOSTON – Amidst conflicting reports, the around-the-clock investigation continues three days after bombs killed three people and wounded more than 180 during the Boston Marathon. U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to fly to Boston on Thursday to lead an interfaith service for the victims of the […]
After the most serious terror attack on US soil since 9/11, some believe the culprits will turn out looking more like Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik than Osama Bin Laden.
Margaret Thatcher’s legacy was forever tarnished by the ten IRA hunger strikers who died on her watch. Will Guantanamo’s protesters be Obama’s black mark?
A French correspondent gauges reaction to the Boston Marathon attack, noting how much has changed since 9/11 in the way America faces its fears and vulnerabilities.
Worldcrunch The world is in shock after Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings, which claimed the lives of three people, including an eight-year-old boy, and injured more than 140. Read the full coverage on the Boston Globe, including a moving editorial here. More front pages from the U.S. and the world: USA CANADA UK BELGIUM BRAZIL ARGENTINA […]
BOSTON GLOBE, TWITTER, CNN, REUTERS Worldcrunch BOSTON – Two explosions near the finish line at the prestigious Boston Marathon on Monday have killed at least two people and left dozens injured. During a news conference late Monday afternoon, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said a third explosion was registered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential […]
UKRAINE LAUNCHES MILITARY OPERATION Acting Ukraine President Olexandr Turchynov announced the launch of a military “anti-terrorist” operation in the northern region of Donetsk, The Kyiv Post reports. Speaking to the country’s parliament, Turchynov said that the operation “will be conducted step by step, responsibly, deliberately. The goal of these actions, I want to underline, is […]
MIAMI – Throughout the history of the United States, the main divisions have traditionally been between the North and the South, an economic and political rivalry that we know also produced a civil war. But there is also an important rivalry between the West Coast and the East Coast, a battle for cultural, academic and […]
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A New Push For Mideast Peace
After a successful visit to Israel, President Obama has apparently turned the Israeli-Palestinian portfolio over to Secretary of State John Kerry, says Martin Indyk, a leading Middle East expert. Past secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, James Baker, and Warren Christopher, distinguished for their work on Middle East issues, always had their president’s complete […]
Even Ivy League graduates have to settle for serial internships.
NEW YORK TIMES, HARTFORD COURANT (USA) Worldcrunch WASHINGTON – Connecticut lawmakers approved a comprehensive package of gun laws in the early hours of Thursday. The sweeping package bans the sale of magazines carrying ten or more bullets, requires background checks on all firearms sales, sets up a registry of weapons offenders and imposes mental health […]
Worldcrunch SEATTLE – Did you ever wonder what the Big Bang sounded like? Physics Professor John Cramer at the University of Washington has spent a chunk of his career trying to recreate what the ecoustic experience was like back billions of years ago when the universe was formed. Cramer has just released his most precise […]
UKRAINE RIOT POLICE SUSPECTED OF ‘MASS MURDER’Twelve members of Ukraine’s now disbanded Berkut riot police have been arrested on suspicion of “mass murder” during Kiev’s Independence Square protests in late February, where over 100 people were killed, Reuters quotes a spokesman for the general prosecutor as saying. But RT reminds readers that both protesters and […]
Welcome to the international day of distrust for everything and everyone you know. As we are coming to discover, April Fool’s Day was both made for the Internet — and made for the Internet to eventually destroy. Here are some of this year’s early entries: 1) Google Nose Pick your smell, get your nose against […]
Tony Hsieh, the founder of e-commerce powerhouse Zappos, is moving his 2,000 staffers to Sin City. Can he help seduce Vegas with new economy dreams?