China’s economy, the world’s second-largest, grew at its slowest pace in 14 years in 2013, latest figures show. Its gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 7.7% from a year ago, the slowest pace of growth since 1999. The growth rate was better than the government’s target of 7.5%. The pace of expansion was also the same as 2012. The data highlights the challenge policymakers face in sustaining China’s high growth […]
Press reports about the French president’s complicated love life highlight the difference between Anglo-Saxon and Gallic attitudes towards sex, adultery, but above all appetite, writes Adam Gopnik. Whenever a French man of state has sex with someone not his wife, people call me up and ask why he did it. When I say people do, I really mean journalists (a sub-species whose personhood is sometimes in doubt) and I suppose […]
The Carretera Austral could be one of the most spectacular and challenging cycle tours in the world. It is made of endless stretches of empty dirt roads surrounded by forests, mountains, glaciers and lakes, with scenic villages, free campsites and hot springs along the way. The route is so remote that some days you might only see a jinete (horseman) trot by with his band of dogs. But the journey […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Number of female recruits training to be bodyguards on the rise Female bodyguards are in demand among China’s elite Women said to blend in better than male bodyguards The training is extremely tough and some students quit Yang Donglan has had an unusual career trajectory. The 22-year-old once made a living selling cosmetics, but a year ago she switched her make-up brushes for nunchucks, undergoing a grueling […]
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS The law required women to get an ultrasound and see the image “Today’s court ruling protects the rights of women,” an ACLU spokeswoman says Supporters of the law had argued that it would promote childbirth A North Carolina law that made women who wanted an abortion get an ultrasound and then have the image described to them is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday. “The Supreme Court […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Hiroo Onoda wouldn’t accept Japan’s World War II defeat until 1974 He stayed in the jungle on the Philippines island where he had been deployed His former commanding officer had to travel to the island to persuade him to give up Onoda died of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital Thursday, a collegue says A Japanese soldier who hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three […]
A senior IMF official and four UN employees were among 21 people killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack on a restaurant in Kabul, officials say. Wabel Abdallah, the head of the IMF’s Afghanistan office, and the UN civilian staff died in what UN chief Ban Ki-moon said was a “horrific attack”. Canadians, Lebanese and a Briton were among the 13 foreign victims; the other eight were Afghans. […]
New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Shashi Tharoor, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, found dead in a hotel in Delhi. Her dead body was found in suspicious condition in room number 345 of The Leela Palace, a hotel in Chanakyapuri area of New Delhi. The wife of Union Minister was in news yesterday due to a Twitter controversy. The couple yesterday cleared about “unseemly controversy” over some “unauthorised […]
