Japan has hit the skids in the past few months, with a mixture of national and international developments complicating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to release the country from decades of low growth and near-deflation. The headwinds are giving Abe, who has staked his career on a brand of economic policy known as Abenomics, a renewed reason to try more government spending and new kinds of tax breaks.
The Die Roten captain is expecting a tough 90 minutes at the Estadio da Luz, with the Germans holding on to the slimmest of advantages after the opener
EVANSVILLE, Indiana - The Indiana campaigns for Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ted Cruz will be neighbors to each other in Evansville.
Kevin Costner is one nasty criminal, and yet someone from the government has the brilliant idea to implant him with the memories of a dead CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds). First Monday in May: Live vicariously through this documentary about preparations for the Met Ball and the Chinese art exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Director Jon Favreau takes on Disney’s 1960s animation classic and Rudyard Kipling’s book with a live-action version of Mowgli, a young boy raised by animals in the jungle. Читать дальше...
Sealy-based Hennessey Performance Engineering broke the world record this year for the world's fastest convertible with an open-top sports car that reached 265 miles per hour.
The general overseeing Guantanamo war court defense teams has issued an order forbidding his staff to sleep at the Camp Justice compound following a new health risk assessment on cancer-causing agents there.
May 27, 1947 — April 8, 2016
Jeremy Berke
A few weeks ago, my editor asked me if I'd be willing to go without my phone — and most computer use (outside of work, of course) — for a week.
I actually pulled it off. I didn't touch my phone for a whole week, which was a huge accomplishment.
And after a few phoneless days, I felt more relaxed — and less rushed — without that ceaseless buzzing in my hip pocket.
Here's why this was such a big deal for me: I'm 23, and I've been attached to a cellphone since shortly after I started walking. Читать дальше...
Production designer Ken Adam (1921-2016): In a happy coincidence last month, just a week after the death of Ken Adam at age 95, five of his James Bond movies were screened as part of a Sean Connery series. Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” (1, 7:15 p.m.); “The Spy Who Loved Me” (2:50, 9:05 p.m.), his sixth of seven Bond films; and “The Madness of King George” (5:10 p.m.), Nicholas Hytner’s 1995 adaptation of Alan Bennett’s play starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren and Ian Holm, for which Adam won his second Oscar. Читать дальше...
Brooks Hays
WOODS HOLE, Mass., April 12 (UPI) -- Researchers spotted thousands of red crabs swarming in the deep, low-oxygen waters off the coast of Panama.
A man is understood to have been assaulted and then thrown off the Govan Mbeki bridge onto the R300 road Mitchell’s Plain and Nyanga near Cape Town on Tuesday morning‚ paramedics said.
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Deutsche Bank is done with North Carolina. For now.
On Tuesday, the German bank announced that due to a law that allows some private businesses and religious groups to refuse service to gay couples, the bank will put plans on hold to create 250 new jobs in the state. Читать дальше...
A secret group has reportedly come up with a plan to draft retired Marine Gen. James Mattis into the presidential race.
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Shastrinagar SHO S A Hashmi will probe the allegations that ASI Basant Tiwary of the same police station mercilessly beat up Harshit Sinha and his cousin Raunak for arguing with him on April 7, said SSP Manu Maharaaj on Tuesday.
Shastrinagar SHO S A Hashmi will probe the allegations that ASI Basant Tiwary of the same police station mercilessly beat up Harshit Sinha and his cousin Raunak for arguing with him on April 7, said SSP Manu Maharaaj on Tuesday.
HSBC says investors assuming a competitive advantage from better equipment have misread figures
Alex Butler
NEW ORLEANS, April 12 (UPI) -- Love from around the NFL is flowing into bayou following the death of New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith.
De Britse producent en tv-persoonlijkheid David Gest is op 62-jarige leeftijd overleden. Hij werd dood gevonden in een hotel in Londen, melden Britse media. Gest was een ex van Liza Minelli en een vriend van Michael Jackson.
Saudi Arabia's hope to emerge as the Middle East’s preeminent military power is just wishful thinking, Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman notes, adding that Riyadh has fundamental weaknesses in its economic and military systems.
Romanian athlete Mirela Lavric has tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, joining a long list of athletes to do so.
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