The shocking moment a young girl was attacked by a tiger at a market in northwest Saudi Arabia was captured on video, stirring outrage among people in the region. Footage from the scene shows a tiger being walked around on a leash as entertainment in an open area near a market in Sakaka. A few…
The Los Angeles Auto Show has morphed into a tech conference/exposition and car show in order to improve its stature among the world’s major shows. LA is arguably the style capital for the world’s car culture. Even in the snug confines of the LA Civic Center, there was lots of serious news being made. Much…
I recently returned from a trip to Central America. I am fluent in Spanish and traveled at first alone, managing foreign border crossings on foot, and later with a local female. During my trip I made an important discovery: most Americans talk about the most boring, inane topics. It’s Not Me, It’s You I often…
Introduction Four decades of rapid economic growth in China has come at a huge price to the environment, from smog-ridden skies to contaminated rivers, toxic soils and “cancer villages”. These increasingly intolerable costs have emerged as a major source of social unrest in recent years. Premier Li Keqiang acknowledged this in his opening address to…
President-elect Donald Trump has a complicated history with Jews. On the one hand, his daughter Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism before marrying Jared Kushner, and he’s spoken fondly about having Jewish grandchildren. On the other, some of Trump’s supporters identify with anti-Semitic elements of the alt-right movement, and he’s a favorite of prominent white supremacist David…
One bungee jumper brought a significantly greater level of peril to the quintessentially British habit of dipping biscuits in tea by dunking a chocolate snack while plummeting more than 70 meters (230ft). Simon Berry, 24, leapt from a towering platform erected by the shore of Bray Lakes, Berkshire, holding a chocolate Hobnob biscuit – and…
