All is breaking news
Across Europe, a new generation is trying to enter the workforce to no avail. Youth unemployment skyrocketed across the continent in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and remains…
Benjamin Netanyahu believes he has just one job, and that is to stop Iran from getting hold of nuclear weapons. Read the whole story at The Atlantic
This groovy teacher’s giving us a lesson in funk. Scott Pankey led his students at A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas, Texas, in an epic dance to…
A senior State Department official is confirming the death of one U.S. citizen in Tuesday’s attack on a Libyan hotel. – Libyan officials said four foreigners and five guards were…
Despite travel bans and city slowdowns brought on by Winter Storm Juno, these people (and a dog!) below made snow cones out of snow. From a snowplower doing donuts to…
Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has lined up a formidable coterie of academics, human rights advocates, mavericks and visionaries to participate in Europe’s first anti-austerity government. Displaying few signs of…
For some New Yorkers, Monday’s blizzard conditions meant braving the cold for the sake of others who needed some help. Although the winter storm fell short of historic expectations when…
DUBLIN — The police in Northern Ireland, tongues firmly in cheek, have issued a missing-person appeal to the public after a statue of a Celtic god of the sea was…
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops moved through the town of Oswiecim, Poland, and liberated the concentration camp complex of Auschwitz. In the weeks before, the majority of the prisoners…
On August 12, 1985, the largest number of deaths in a single commercial airplane crash occurred when a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into Mt. Ogura in Japan, killing…
It’s the “crippling and potentially historic” blizzard that turned out to be neither. “They were trying to out-drama each other,” architect Rebecca Uss in New York City said Tuesday, speaking…
Fabio the miniature horse earned his name due to a certain natural follicular resemblance to this guy. But though his golden mane is spectacular, neglect left this gorgeous animal with…
ATHENS — The leftist-led coalition that won Greece’s elections unveiled its government on Tuesday, with the crucial post of finance minister going to an economist who has called the eurozone’s…
I found myself talking back to the radio this morning in a way that I’ve never quite done before. The station was LBC, one of the UK’s leading radio stations,…
Rich countries must act swiftly to repair battered health systems and get cash to millions of families in the three countries hit hardest by the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, the…
One in particular could have a dramatic impact on the safety of the U.S. food supply: It is the mandate of the EPA to regulate the use of agricultural chemicals…
It’s not a coincidence that several homeless people in Tuscon, Arizona, have chosen a highly trafficked park downtown to stake their territory. – “We have to navigate the judge’s injunction…
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! … Is definitely what this guy in Stony Brook, New York, said on Monday night. While many in the Northeast stayed indoors during winter storm Juno, this driver was…
Millions of people will be inconvenienced by the blizzard hitting the Northeast, but for the most vulnerable populations — such as the elderly, homeless and kids who go hungry —…
On Jan. 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet army entered the gates of Auschwitz in southern Poland, liberating the largest and most notorious network of Nazi concentration camps. Just 7,000…
A Greek economist and outspoken bailout critic has been named as finance minister in the country’s new left-wing government. The 53-year-old Yanis Varoufakis was named as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’…
A 90-year-old woman is going to school to learn skills that she never had the opportunity to acquire when she was younger. Priscilla Sitienei has been attending Leaders Vision Preparatory…
When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz exactly 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a small and hungry 11-year-old girl into…
Speaking at a news conference in Paris, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said “a new blow has been dealt to terrorism” with the arrests in the Herault region. Police units…
Liberation 70 years ago today at Auschwitz-Birkenau was anything but a celebration for my mother, Rena Margulies, who as an 11-year-old prisoner was one of the very few children to…
At least two rockets launched from Syria struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Tuesday and Israel responded with artillery fire, the Israeli military said. – Israel believes most fire is…
Anti-terror raids in France and Belgium netted eight more suspects on Tuesday as Paris urged its European Union partners to step up the fight against terror financing with new measures…
But for millions of our young peopleparticularly young men and women of color in our citiessummer employment is primarily a story of opportunity denied. According to 2013 data, young white…
Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Libya’s capital Tuesday, killing at least five foreigners and three guards, authorities said. The attack, which included a car bombing, struck the Corinthia Hotel,…