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MARSEILLE, FRANCE — Notre Dame de la Garde, an elegant Roman Catholic basilica, has stood for 150 years on a promontory just south of Marseille’s Old Port, looking down protectively as fishermen push out to the sea and symbolizing the irrepressible spirit of this fabled Mediterranean city. Read more
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The White House announced Wednesday that President Obama will attend U.N.-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month and commit the United States to specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
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PAKISTAN Seven men charged in Mumbai attacks Pakistan on Wednesday charged seven men in connection with last year’s Mumbai attacks, its first round of indictments in a case being monitored by India and the United States to see whether Islamabad makes good on promises to bring those responsible to justice. Despite a crackdown in the [...]
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Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a “special mission” to try to persuade China to pressure Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program. Read more
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s armed forces and a senior defense ministry official were forced to resign on Thursday over reports the military withheld details about a deadly September 4 air strike in Afghanistan. Read more
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. shoppers may stretch tight budgets this year to reward loved ones after months of thrift, a softening of heart that store chains hope will erase the holiday season sales debacle of 2008. Read more
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Germany’s top soldier has resigned over allegations of a cover-up related to a deadly Nato air strike in Afghanistan. Read more
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LONDON – World stock markets fell sharply Thursday as investors fretted over the debt problems at Dubai World, a government investment company, and the continued fall in the dollar. Markets are usually relatively quiet when Wall Street is closed for a holiday, as it is Thursday for Thanksgiving Day — not so today. In Europe, [...]
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GENEVA – Roman Polanski appeared set to be released from jail on bail Thursday and placed under house arrest in his chalet in the Alps pending a decision on his extradition to the U.S. for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski was believed to be held in a Zurich-area jail a day [...]
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TONY Blair received intelligence that Saddam Hussein‘s weapons of mass destruction had been “dismantled” 10 days before Britain invaded Iraq, the inquiry into the 2003 war was told yesterday. Read more
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Yves Rossy, the Jet Man, ditched safely into the Atlantic on Wednesday after hitting turbulence and clouds so thick he could not tell if he was flying up or down. His endeavor had been billed as the first intercontinental crossing by man using jet-powered wings — over the North Atlantic between Africa and Europe. Read [...]
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Gordon Brown was accused of engineering a new Iraq cover-up yesterday by handing Whitehall departments the right to block the release of secret documents about the war. Read more
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They started the day with bagels, coffee, and a boring commute. Then a plane crashed into the World Trade Centre. Several terrifying hours later, thousands were dead, Manhattan had become a disaster zone, and life would never be quite the same. Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the temblor struck 85 miles northeast of Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga, followed by aftershocks registering 5.1 and 5.6 on the Richter scale. There was no tsunami alert afterward. More: “There were no immediate reports of damage from the quake which was felt with a moderate [...]
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 A great and relatively new entry to my podcast feeds is “Hang Up and Listen,” Slate’s weekly sports roundtable featuring Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin and Mike Pesca.  I’m particularly moved to recommend it after hearing this week’s episode — more than half the time was devoted to soccer and NASCAR, two sports I find [...]