This Day in History | 1973 – Concorde slashes Atlantic flight time

Concorde has made its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. The French model of the supersonic airliner flew from the US capital, Washington, to Orly airport in Paris

Offbeat | Al Capone letter written in prison shows mobster’s soft side

Did notorious gangster Al Capone have a soft spot? An intimate letter he penned from prison suggests the ruthless racketeer could handle tenderness almost as skillfully as his Tommy Gun. The

The Buzz | Lang Lang playing Boston Symphony opener

A classical music superstar from China helped the Boston Symphony Orchestra kick off its new season this weekend. Piano virtuoso Lang Lang performed Prokofiev’s “Piano Concerto No. 3” as the orchestra

World briefs

SYRIA At least 23 civilians were killed in renewed government airstrikes on the contested city of Aleppo, Syrian activists said yesterday, as the United Nations Security Council convened an emergency

US election | NYT endorses ‘tenacious’ Clinton for president

The New York Times endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president, saying the Democrat’s “record of service and a raft of pragmatic ideas” represent the best choice to

Feature | Syria believes it’s on way to military victory

Syria’s top diplomat told the world’s nations Saturday that his country’s belief in military victory is greater now because the army “is making great strides in its war against terrorism”

Nature | Africa is divided over ivory trade

Africa is divided over whether to sell the ivory of its elephants, whose continent-wide population has plummeted because of poaching. Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa will argue for the right to

Nature | Warmer waters might prevent baby lobsters from surviving

Baby lobsters might not be able to survive in the ocean’s waters if the ocean continues to warm at the expected rate. That is the key finding of a study performed

United Nations | World leaders rage against neighbors on second day of debate

World leaders from Pakistan to Ukraine unleashed their regional grievances yesterday , taking the stage of the U.N. General Assembly to rage against their neighbors and presenting a picture of

Suu Kyi makes first speech as Myanmar leader

Former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi made her first speech Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly since forming a democratically elected government and called for international understanding as Myanmar

This Day in History | 1952 Charlie Chaplin comes home

World famous film actor and director Charlie Chaplin has returned to England for the first time in 21 years. He arrived with his wife Oona - daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill

Offbeat | Man who lost phone fleeing cops posts online: Don’t call me

Authorities say a Pennsylvania drug suspect who dropped his cellphone while running away from police took to Facebook to warn his friends not to call that phone number. Lackawanna County detectives

The Buzz | German nationalist probed for selling Nazi-era memorabilia

Prosecutors are investigating a leading member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party following reports he sold Nazi-era memorabilia. Rudolf Mueller, the party’s top candidate for elections in the western state

Brangelina | Pitt, Jolie star power mightier than box office power

By the Sea” didn’t just flop at the box office. It was a flat out rejection, making a mere USD538,000 domestically. How could a movie starring the modern king and

World Briefs

SYRIA President Bashar Assad rejected U.S. accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo or that his troops were preventing food from entering the city’s rebel-held

Terrorism | Court papers: Suspect vowed ‘bombs will be heard’ in streets

Ahmad Khan Rahami vowed to martyr himself rather than be caught after setting off explosives in New York and New Jersey, and he’d hoped in a handwritten journal championing jihad

USA | Protesters in police shooting injure officers, shut highway

Authorities used tear gas to disperse protesters in an overnight demonstration that left about a dozen officers injured in North Carolina’s largest city and shut down a highway after the

Syria | Aid group: Strike hit mobile unit not medical facility

An airstrike in northern Syria that killed five members of medical staff hit a mobile emergency unit and not a medical facility, a relief organization said yesterday. The mobile medical team

This Day in History | 2001 Simpson smuggled into Afghanistan

The BBC’s world affairs editor has become the only television reporter to broadcast from Taleban-held Afghanistan as the country prepares for an American attack. John Simpson and a cameraman were smuggled

Offbeat | Danish Elvis fan loses ‘Graceland’ trademark dispute

A court in Denmark has ordered the owner of a museum modeled after Elvis Presley’s Graceland Mansion to pay 500,000 kroner (USD75,000) in damages to a U.S. company that owns

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