San Antonio Stars moving to Las Vegas, bought by MGM Resorts

Las Vegas is getting a WNBA franchise. The San Antonio Stars are moving to the gambling mecca after being bought by MGM Resorts International, the league said

19th Party Congress | Conflicted goals: Freer markets, more party control

China’s ruling Communist Party is expanding its role in business even as it promises freer markets and support for entrepreneurs on the eve of President

China’s steel boom stutters

Steel output in China sank from a record, sliding to the lowest level in at least six months, as the anti-pollution drive touted in President

Myanmar | Fire rips through luxury hotel, one body recovered

A fire gutted a luxury teakwood hotel popular with foreigners in Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon before dawn yesterday, causing one death. Firefighters who carried a

Tillerson seeks stronger ties with India, chides China

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Wednesday for the U.S. and India to expand strategic ties. He also pointedly criticized China, which he accused of challenging

Spain ready to revoke Catalan autonomy

Spain’s government yesterday immediately rejected a threat by Catalonia’s leader to declare independence unless talks are held, calling a special Cabinet session for the weekend to activate

Letters from young Obama show a man trying to find his way

A young Barack Obama questioned his place in the world and his racial identity, agonized over whether he’d make enough money as a community organizer, and lamented

Offbeat | Some flowers create blue halo to say hello to foraging bees

Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday.

This Day in History | 1973 – Dalai Lama makes first UK visit

The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama, has arrived in Britain for the start of a 10-day tour during which he will “administer vows to people

Football | What to watch on the weekend

What to watch in the leading football leagues in Europe this weekend: ENGLAND Back-to-back losses in the Premier League to Manchester City and

Olympics | Beijing forms ‘snow affairs work team’ for 2022

Beijing, host of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, has a snow problem: Hardly any of the white stuff falls on the Chinese capital despite freezing temperatures.

World briefs

SPAIN’s government yesterday set in motion plans to take away Catalonia’s local powers after its defiant regional president refused to give up his demands for Catalan independence.

The Buzz | Investigators appeal for information about Buk photo

An international team investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine appealed yesterday for information about a photograph which prosecutors believe features the Buk rocket that

Las Vegas shooting | Guard describes getting shot before massacre

The gunman who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history first wounded an unsuspecting hotel security guard in a hallway who promptly radioed for help,

Kapok | Everything must change…

In The Leopard, the beautiful novel by Lampedusa set in slow-changing Sicily, Trancredi’s famous assertion that “everything must change for everything to remain the same” holds a particular

Friday, October 20, 2017 – edition no. 2910

* Five months of Marawi siege reveals Philippine city in ruins * Portuguese revisit Macau in soap opera * Angola sees macau as a platform * Conflicted goals   DOWNLOAD

Einstein, and the Origins of GOLD

  * Movies: the mountain between us * Books: Death in the Air by Kate Winkler Dawson * Music: Carry Fire by Robert Plant * Wine: Faulty Wines * KitchenWise: Butternut Squash and Leek Soup

Romance, survival mix in ‘The Mountain Between Us’

The Mountain Between Us” is about two strangers who survive a plane crash only to end up in the unforgiving snowy Utah mountains, with no cell reception

‘Death in the Air’ tells story of the great London smog

In 1952, post-World War II London was battling more than reconstruction, and Kate Winkler Dawson’s “Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, The

Robert Plant radiantly returns with rootsy, achy CD

One of the weirder chapters in rock history happened in 2014. That’s when Led Zeppelin won a Grammy for best rock album for a seven-year-old concert recording

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