Rarely does a whole life’s work crumble in a single week, but james wilson’s did. The first glimmer of impending ruin came on a Tuesday morning—September 14, 1999—as he sat in his office at the University of Pennsylvania. In his role as founder and director of Penn’s Institute for Human …
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Justice Department will pay $4.1 million to a California college student left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for four days without food or water last year, two people familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Daniel Chong, 23, was detained …
A Turkish protester dubbed the “standing man” has led a vigil on Istanbul’s Taksim Square days after the authorities evicted demonstrators. Performance artist Erdem Gunduz stood silently for eight hours, facing a portrait of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern, secular Turkey. Hundreds of others joined him in the square, …
PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Suspected militants robbed and killed four fruit traders in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south on Tuesday, while police arrested a suspect wanted for a deadly hotel bombing in the region. The insurgents stormed a shelter in Yala province’s Krong Pinang district Tuesday morning and tied up the four …
BANGKOK (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in the death of a British tourist struck by a stray bullet at a New Year’s beach party on a popular Thai island. Police Col. Krittakarn Kramomthong said Wednesday that 22-year-old Stephen David Ashton was shot in his torso early Tuesday morning …
Burger King mascot invades McDonald’s ROME, Ga., Sept. 25 (UPI) — Police in Georgia said a man dressed as Burger King’s mascot entered a McDonald’s restaurant and handed out free food. Officers said they were called to the McDonald’s in Rome, Ga., around 1 p.m. Sept. 17 by the restaurant’s …
The news may look grim, but the United States is poised to remain the dominant power in the Middle East. The attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, this Sept. 11 echoed the worst moments of American impotence in the Middle East. They not …
An airport in one of Vietnam’s tourist cities has been closed because of a roaming bull. The animal was first spotted on Monday morning in a wooded area that borders the airport’s runway in the central city of Hue. Nearly 100 police officers, soldiers and rangers were mobilised to stop …
In an anti-climatic finish to the Court Case of the Century, hedge fund manager Daniel Shak withdrew his lawsuit seeking his share of his ex-wife’s million dollar shoe collection. Beth Shak, the ex-wife, and, according to the New York Post, a “pretty pro poker player,” denied any wrong doing, saying …
Why Google Drive, Dropbox, and other online file-storage services will be better together. Rumors that Google would get into the online storage game have been swirling longer than some of its rivals have been in business. The first bit of evidence appeared online in 2004, the year Mark Zuckerberg launched …
Artists hold online vote for fate of sheep BERLIN, April 25 (UPI) — A pair of German artists are allowing visitors to their Web site to vote on whether or not they will use a guillotine to behead a sheep. Berlin artists Iman Rezai and Rouven Materne created a fully …
ROME (AP) — Vandals have made a fist-sized hole in the bronze central door of one of Rome’s main basilicas, St. Mary Major. The damage, seemingly made by a small-tipped hammer or rock, was discovered Tuesday morning on a panel of the door depicting the angel Gabriel appearing to Mary. …