USA | Baltimore officials: No immediate decision in Gray case

Having weathered two all-night curfews with no major disturbances, Baltimore officials are now trying to manage growing expectations they will immediately decide whether to prosecute six police officers involved in

Briefs| France – Hollande vows punishment for any child rapes in Africa

Russia | Kremlin: North Korean leader not coming to Moscow on May 9 

The reclusive leader of North Korea will not be coming to Moscow next month for the Victory Day celebration, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman announced yesterday. The highly anticipated visit would have

This Day in History | 1973 – Thousands strike over pay and prices

The worst affected industries were the railways, car manufacturing, newspaper production, mining and docks. Despite the large turn-out many of the big unions voted against industrial action and thousands of workers

Offbeat | Greek justice pursues jobless father-of-3 beyond the grave

A Greek court has convicted a dead man of stealing electricity from a power utility, giving him a six-month suspended jail sentence. Defense lawyer Christos Bakelas told the Thessaloniki court that

Mayweather-Pacquiao tops unbelievable Saturday sports lineup

The most-anticipated fight of all time. The best-known horse race. The premier baseball rivalry. The NFL draft. And those are just the highlights. Super Saturday (Sunday in Macau) — perhaps a day

Kapok | Groundhog Day

In the 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day”, Bill Murray plays a weatherman who falls victim of some form of never ending time loop while reluctantly covering a seemingly dull and repetitive

Abandoned, orphaned, unwanted

* Movies: Avengers: Age of Ultron * Books: Pleasantville by Attica Locke * Music: Cama Incendiada by Mana * Wine: The English Connection * Food: Shower Your Mother With Love     DOWNLOAD

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‘Age of Ultron’ is an Avengers overdose

It will surely stand as one of the most peculiar and possibly ironic entries in a director’s filmography that in between Joss Whedon’s two “Avengers” films there reads “Much Ado

‘Pleasantville’ has gripping, believable plot

The compelling “Pleasantville” continues Attica Locke’s insightful look at African-American life in Houston, where politics, race and classism converge in myriad ways. Locke sets her third novel in Pleasantville, a Houston

Pop-rockers Mana reignite on ‘Cama Incendiada’

It’s a given that pop-rock band Mana will sell out shows wherever they go, whether it’s the Staples Center (where they set the mark with 11 sell-out concerts) or in

News of the World | For Afghanistan’s abandoned children, help is scarce

  Starved and beaten by his step-mother, the little boy with big brown eyes was already withdrawn and unhappy by the time his father banished him from the family home and

The English Connection

Partly due to its geographical location, the inland Alentejo region is by no means as heavily influenced by the English as the Douro region. However, in view of the Anglo-Portuguese

Food | Shower you mother with love

The spectacular menu continues on to the main entrée, saffron risotto with green asparagus, parmesan tuile and orange reduction, making a grand entrance to impress your mother with its refreshing

Beauty | Ultimate moisturization

“Don’t use just any cream that you can buy from a beauty counter at a department store. It’s not going to work. We need state-of-the-art technology backed with science. That’s

Friday, May 1, 2015 – edition no. 2303

* Pacquiao vs Mayweather | Closing in ‘the fight of the century’ * Employment security tops May 1 concerns * New pair of pandas arrives in Macau * Nepal capital remains on edge

The Buzz | Tropicana Las Vegas hotel and casino to be sold for USD360M

The Tropicana hotel and casino in Las Vegas is being sold for USD360 million. A group of shareholders, including private equity firm Onex Corp., say they will sell the 58-year-old Tropicana

World briefs

CHINA Women in the Chinese capital in the final stage of pregnancy during the 2008 Beijing Olympics — when officials strictly controlled air pollution — gave birth to heavier babies

Norway’s finance minister doubts global warming is man-made

Norway’s finance minister says she doubts that global warming is man-made, seemingly contradicting the country’s official position in U.N. climate talks. In an on-camera interview posted on the Aftenposten newspaper’s website,

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