The Outsiders turns 50 today, but don’t let its age fool you: This book is a teenager, has always been a teenager, and always will be a teenager. It is adolescent in every way, from its creation story to its legacy to — most especially — its contents.
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Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz remains calm after receiving online death threats following his criticizm of Turkey's plan to reintroduce the death penalty, the Austrian press reported on Monday.
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The offense of the Seattle Seahawks is stumbling toward the midway point of the season.
Melbourne Cup fervour got the better of two people arrested by police on Tuesday – a young drunk bleeding from a facial wound and a drink-driving octogenarian.
Ed Adamczyk
MIMIKA, Indonesia, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Searchers said Tuesday they found the bodies of four people who died in a cargo plane crash in Indonesia's Papua province.
Once described by their own coach as soft, the Vikings may have a hard time putting an offensive line together in the future. Via Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, left guard Alex Boone was the latest Vikings blocker to go down with injury, leaving with a possible concussion in the fourth quarter.…
As the Canadian oilpatch slowly emerges from a two-year price collapse, one investor suggests the industry would have gone belly up if the downturn had dragged on for another year.
The latest clamor over Hillary Clinton's emails has put Barack Obama in a spot where no president wants to be: caught between his attorney general, his FBI director and his … Click to Continue »
A drink-driver is facing jail after admitting causing the death of a 63-year-old in a crash.
Wade Sheridan
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Director Rick Famuyiwa has exited Warner Bros. upcoming superhero epic "The Flash" as preproduction is underway.
TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda attends a press conference at the central bank's Tokyo headqu...
TOKYO (AP) — The rowing and canoeing venue for the 2020 Olympics should either be moved to a site hundreds of miles (kilometers) away in northern Japan or downgraded to a temporary facility in Tokyo, a city government cost-cutting panel…
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike looks over a report during an expert panel at the Tokyo Metropolitan government office in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. A Tokyo metropolitan government panel reviewing costly Olympic venues has proposed downgrading the expensive rowing and…
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, right top, speaks during an expert panel at the Tokyo Metropolitan government office in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. A Tokyo metropolitan government panel reviewing costly Olympic venues has proposed downgrading the expensive rowing and canoeing…
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, second right, speaks during an expert panel at the Tokyo Metropolitan government office in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. A Tokyo metropolitan government panel reviewing costly Olympic venues has proposed downgrading the expensive rowing and canoeing…
TOKYO (AP) — The rowing and canoeing venue for the 2020 Olympics should either be moved to a site hundreds of miles (kilometers) away in northern Japan or downgraded to a temporary facility in Tokyo, a city government cost-cutting panel…
James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, in Washington in March.
ALMELO - Ronnie Braak is bezig aan zijn laatste seizoen bij AVC Heracles. De clubleiding en de coach hebben deze week besloten na dit seizoen afscheid van elkaar te nemen.
TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda attends a press conference at the central bank's Tokyo headqu...
Yum Brands Inc. said Tuesday that it has completed the separation of Yum China Holdings Inc. and the new Yum China will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the "YUMC" ticker. Yum and Yum China executives will ring the opening bell. Yum China has exclusive rights in mainland China to KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, which will open in China in 2016. Yum China has more than 7,300 restaurants and 400,000 employees in more than 1,100 cities. It generated more than $8 billion in sales in 2015. Читать дальше...
Malgré une actualité morose, je vous propose de marquer la Journée international pour l'élimination de la pauvreté en jetant un coup de projecteur sur une nouvelle encourageante : la pauvreté a atteint son niveau historique le plus bas. Les progrès sont immenses. De 1990 à 2015, le nombre de personnes vivant dans une extrême pauvreté a été réduit de moitié, passant de 1.9 milliards à 836 millions de personnes. C'est une excellente nouvelle. Mais la bataille n'est pas gagnée pour autant. Il nous faut... Читать дальше...
Cops found a 43-year-old Queens woman missing since Saturday stabbed in the neck and dead in her SUV, officials said Tuesday.