Bend It Like Beckham” has scored with critics in London. A new stage musical based on the 2002 film about aspiring female soccer players has opened to rave reviews. The
The 130-meter-high ferris wheel will be located at the central point between the resort’s twin hotel towers, which are described as having a theme of “Art Deco meets Gotham City.” As
HONG KONG Regulators reject an application for a budget airline joint venture involving Australia’s Qantas and China Eastern Airlines after local carriers objected. NORTH KOREA Instagram appears to be back to
Islamic State militants attacked the Syrian Kurdish stronghold of Kobani, site of one of the group’s biggest setbacks, in an effort to halt the Kurds’ military advance in the country’s
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev broke his silence on the death and devastation he caused two years ago with words that were not a political tirade or a justification. He apologized
French taxis went on a nationwide strike yesterday, snarling traffic in major cities after weeks of rising and sometimes violent tensions over Uber. Travelers hoping to catch a flight walked
Crowds cheered and waved flags, church bells rang out, sirens wailed and bands played as the Royal Yacht Britannia began the first leg of the journey from Montreal harbour to
A Spanish man has died after being gored by bull during a summer festival in a southwestern Spanish town. Coria town spokeswoman Clara Iglesias said yesterday the man was standing
Hungary’s foreign minister says the government has decided to build a temporary fence on the border with Serbia as fast as possible to stop the flow of illegal migrants. Peter
TAP Air Portugal’s new owners said yesterday they intend to expand operations to 10 more U.S. destinations and eight more in Brazil, while bringing more passengers from those countries into
PAKISTAN A spokesman for the international aid group Save the Children says Pakistan’s government has allowed it to reopen its locked offices. PHILIPPINES Two Philippine soldiers are killed and three others
France summoned the U.S. ambassador to the Foreign Ministry and the French president held a high-level emergency meeting yesterday following revelations by WikiLeaks that the U.S. National Security Agency had
In a sweeping victory for Dutch environmental activists that could have global repercussions, a court ordered the government yesterday to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 percent by
The United States President Harry S Truman has gone a step further and urged western nations to go out to Korea and help repel the communist invasion. “By their actions
A Syrian official says the Islamic State group has destroyed two mausoleums in the historic central town of Palmyra. Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of the Antiquities and Museums Department in
Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market. The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out
Syrian Kurdish fighters and their allies yesterday captured a town once held by the Islamic State group, inching closer to the main IS stronghold in Syria and the de facto
A Rwandan military general was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport and will appear in court later this week, British police said yesterday, prompting an angry response from Rwandan leaders. Police said
For 15 years, South Carolina lawmakers refused to consider removing the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds, insisting renewing the debate would unnecessarily expose divisive wounds. But opinions changed within five days
Ms Ride, a former tennis champion, decided to become an astronaut in 1977 after she saw a Nasa advertisement in the campus newsletter while studying English and physics. She was one
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