Malala has given her first in-depth interview since being shot on a bus on her way home from school A Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban for championing girls’ rights to education has said talks with the militants are needed for peace. Malala Yousafzai was attacked by a gunman on a school bus near her former home in Pakistan in October 2012. The targeting of a schoolgirl […]
At least 28 people have been killed and dozens hurt in Egypt in clashes between police and supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. More than 200 members of his Muslim Brotherhood were arrested in Cairo, where 26 of the deaths were reported. Supporters of Mr Morsi marched in several cities, as the military-backed government marked the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Morsi supporters say he was […]
Edinburgh, Oct. 2 (ANI): The Vatican bank has published the first annual report in its 125-year history, as part of an attempt to become more financially transparent. Bank President Ernst Von Freyberg said the 100-page report was an attempt to meet the commitment to transparency that Catholics around the world ‘rightfully expect’. According to the Scotsman, a five-member committee appointed by Pope Francis, who has promised to clean up the […]
US special forces have carried out two separate raids in Africa targeting senior Islamist militants, American officials say. In Libya, US commandos captured an al-Qaeda leader accused of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Anas al-Libi was seized in the capital Tripoli. And a leader of the al-Shabab group was targeted in southern Somalia, but that raid appears to have failed. The al-Shabab leader – […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS More than one million people expected to turn out for Seoul’s annual fireworks festival Visitors advised to use public transport, arrive hours early for good riverside viewing spot Over 100,000 fireworks from designers around the world will be set off Expect debilitating traffic jams and crammed subways as hordes of joyous, beer-guzzling, gimbap eating, DSLR-toting visitors hit the streets of Seoul this Saturday for the city’s most explosive […]
The debt ceiling is a cap on the total amount the US government can borrow, set by US lawmakers. The current debt limit of $16.699 trillion was reached in May. Since then the US Treasury has been using what are called extraordinary measures to keep paying the bills. Why does the US government need to borrow so much? If you compare borrowing to the size of the US economy, it […]
TORY HIGHLIGHTS Meet Ocearch, a gutsy team of scientists and sailors examining sharks close-up Researchers haul great whites on board ship as part of investigation into living habits Attach $10,000 worth of equipment to feared creatures, expected to last five years Cape Cod, Massachusetts (CNN) — When coming face to face with the monstrous jaws of a great white shark, you’d probably want to be armed with more than […]
At least 82 people have died after a boat carrying African migrants sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the island’s mayor says. More than 140 have been rescued but hundreds are missing, officials say. Passengers reportedly threw themselves into the sea as the vessel got into trouble and Italian officials were quoted as saying that dozens of people were still in the water. Earlier this week, 13 migrants […]
Verdi’s operas are well known – but what about his work as a member of parliament and fervent supporter of Italian unification? On the eve of the composer’s 200th anniversary, Clemency Burton-Hill looks back at Verdi’s life and times. Can you imagine any country today in national mourning over the death of a classical composer? When Giuseppe Verdi, born 200 years ago next week, died in January 1901, Italy wept […]
The ferocious Republican distaste for President Obama, and their hatred of his changes to America’s healthcare system have plunged the United States into crisis. The economy may not suffer that much, it is hard to tell, but the country’s image will be hurt. “Dysfunctional” is merely polite. “Weird” is more like it. For the past two years, the US government has staggered from one funding crisis to the next, reeling […]
