Gay Men's Chorus of Washington breaks barriers in Cuba
Washington's premier gay choir sings all-American songbook classics in Havana. Gavino Garay reports.
Washington's premier gay choir sings all-American songbook classics in Havana. Gavino Garay reports.
Washington's premier gay choir sings all-American songbook classics in Havana. Gavino Garay reports.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - As a feeble sun came up out of a grey Brussels dawn on Monday, for a time it looked like it might be about to set on Greek hopes of clinging on to the euro.
WHITE HOUSE SAYS IT HOPES NEGOTIATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO REACH FINAL AGREEMENT ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City are about to find out whether Raheem Sterling has the ability to justify his enormous price tag or is just another over-rated young English footballer motivated purely by his bank balance.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter is set to face the media in Zurich on July 20 for the first time since he announced last month that he would step down as president of soccer's governing body FIFA.
MOSCOW/YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Despite a faltering economy, international tension over Ukraine, and an investigation into its World Cup bid, Russia is confident everything will be ready by the time the soccer extravaganza kicks off on June 14, 2018.
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft will launch Windows 10 on July 29. The upgraded operating system will allow users to switch seamlessly between personal computers, tablets, smartphones and other gadgets. Windows 10 is intended to give apps a similar feel on all devices and comes with a new Web browser integrated with Cortana, the company’s […]
Greece's bailout deal isn't a deal - yet.
In a middle-class Athens neighborhood full of boarded-up storefronts, customers lined up at the Rizos Bakery on Monday to inhale the lovely smells of fresh bread and emerge with loaves still warm from the ovens. Co-owner...
By TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer Natural gas overtook coal as the top source of U.S. electric power generation for the first time ever earlier this spring, a milestone that has been in the making for...
GULFPORT -- A deeper ship channel has been scrapped as part of a study on future expansion at the state port, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has confirmed.
Читать дальше...MADRID (AP) — European Union authorities have fined Spain almost 19 million euros ($21 million) for manipulating economic statistics for one of its regions, the first penalty of its kind. The European Council said in a statement Monday that an investigation showed “serious negligence” concerning the recording of health expenditure in the eastern region […]
A New Jersey man is in custody, accused of stealing electronics, sunglasses, cash and a credit card after a party at a State College residence over the weekend.
Читать дальше...BEIJING (Reuters) - China's state media last month accused Wang Yu, the country's most prominent female human rights lawyer, of "blabbering about the rule of law and human rights".
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology monitoring center in Sorsogon has warned the public not to be deceived by the present silence of the Bulusan Volcano after no quakes have been registered since July 10 up to the past 24-hour observation period. Henry Imperial, science research assistant based in the Phivolcs Cabid-an monitoring station, […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — After grueling, often angry negotiations that tested the limits of European unity, Greece on Monday won a preliminary deal that averts financial catastrophe but also guarantees years more of hardship and sacrifice for its people. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras flew home to sell the plan to skeptical lawmakers and political allies, some […]
Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said Monday eurozone finance ministers had not been able to find a solution to provide short-term funding to Greece while it negotiates another debt rescue programme. “This is very complex, we looked at a number of possibilities,” Dijsselbloem said, adding: “We have not yet found the ‘golden key’ to solve this […]
Beijing effectively bans Tibetans and other ethnic minorities from obtaining passports, rights groups said Monday, amid a surge in Chinese tourists travelling abroad. Chinese authorities have created a two-tier system — one for areas populated by the country’s ethnic Han majority and another, more cumbersome system for areas inhabited by the country’s Tibetan and Muslim […]
Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3021 The prevalence and mortality of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasing globally. However, Martin Miller, honorary professor of medicine at the University of Birmingham, and Mark Levy, GP with a special interest in respiratory medicine, argue that the GOLD...
As The Independent revealed on Monday, a bound collection of the 19th century magazine ‘All the Year Round’, annotated by its editor Charles Dickens, has yielded the names of the articles’ anonymous authors; among them Lewis Carroll, Elizabeth Gaskell and Dickens himself.
As The Independent revealed on Monday, a bound collection of the 19th century magazine ‘All the Year Round’, annotated by its editor Charles Dickens, has yielded the names of the articles’ anonymous authors; among them Lewis Carroll, Elizabeth Gaskell and Dickens himself.
Romanian prosecutors on Monday charged Prime Minister Victor Ponta as part of a corruption probe, piling more pressure on the embattled politician to resign. Ponta became the highest-ranking official to be swept up in a major drive by the DNA anti-corruption agency, which has seen dozens of former politicians and judges convicted over the […]
North Korea has proposed an inter-Korean border meeting this week over the proposed repatriation of its citizens rescued from a drifting fishing boat, officials in the South said Monday. A South Korean coastguard vessel picked up five North Koreans on July 4 after their boat was found drifting across the sea border off the eastern […]
Athens, Greece | AFP –Greece’s public servants are being called to stage a 24-hour strike for Wednesday, the day their country’s parliament is to vote on reforms needed to unlock a crucial eurozone rescue. Their union, Adedy, called for the stoppage in a statement issued Monday, saying it was against the agreement with the eurozone.