NEW YORK (AP) — Spanning five brief acts, "L'Amour de Loin (Love from Afar)" tells of a long-distance and ultimately doomed romance between a medieval French troubadour and the countess of Tripoli.
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Visiting Prime Minister Theresa May also tells Persian Gulf leaders she understands the Iranian threat in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
The Pakistan International Airlines plane "lost its contact with control tower" en route from Chitral to the capital Islamabad, the airline said. Spokespeople for the country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and military confirmed that the plane had crashed and said they were sending teams to the site.
Karnataka Education and Cultural Children's Film Institute, Chikkaballapur is organizing a four-day children’s film festival in the district from December 19.
Jane Klain, the indefatigable research manager at the Paley Center for Media, which houses a vast collection of old television and radio programs, goes on archival treasure hunts that sometimes last for years. She spent four and a half years trying to identify the uncredited soloist who sings “I Feel Like I’m Not Out of Bed Yet” on the 1960 studio recording of the musical “On the Town.” (It was Michael Kermoyan, who’s been credited on the reissue.) It took her ten years—on and off—to find the... Читать дальше...
(AP) — Fairfax County police say two women were shot and a third woman and a girl also needed medical treatment after a fight outside an Annandale home. A girl injured during the fight was taken to a hospital and a third woman was treated after she suffered a medical emergency.
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Model Taylor Hill says she was convinced she had messed up her audition to become a Victoria’s Secret Angel - because she swore too much.
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TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2013 shows a U.S. military F/A-18 fighter jet. The same kind of the jet cra...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission calls the deaths of the sow and the cubs “highly suspicious.”
President-elect Donald Trump has offered Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad the job of ambassador to China, a transition aide confirmed Wednesday.
He'll meet with some victims of last week's attack.
WATERTOWN, Conn. — Police in Connecticut are investigating the theft of dozens of toys collected for underprivileged children from a Watertown church.
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FUKUOKA - Kyushu Electric Power Co. will reactivate a reactor Thursday in the southwestern Japanese prefecture...
YouTube denies changing its algorithms, after its most popular star threatens to delete his channel.
On the day British MPs debate the government's proposed agenda for new terms of dealing with the European Union post-Brexit, union leaders have warned that there is growing concern among British workers that the UK could become the bargain basement capital of Europe after leaving the EU.
The Russian Security Council has approved a draft strategy of Russia's economic security until 2030, Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Wednesday.
The Republican businessman largely stuck to the script — even stopped the crowd when it started to boo the media — and avoided some of the score-settling and scorched-earth rhetoric that defined his campaign and was present last week in Cincinnati. [...] Trump was named Time magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday, a choice the magazine's managing editor said was "straightforward" given that Trump had upended politics-as-usual during the course of his extraordinary race for the White House. In North Carolina... Читать дальше...
The Republican businessman largely stuck to the script — even stopped the crowd when it started to boo the media — and avoided some of the score-settling and scorched-earth rhetoric that defined his campaign and was present last week in Cincinnati. [...] Trump was named Time magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday, a choice the magazine's managing editor said was "straightforward" given that Trump had upended politics-as-usual during the course of his extraordinary race for the White House. In North Carolina... Читать дальше...
President-elect Donald Trump took to the stage in North Carolina on Tuesday offering his vision for the U.S. Military and introducing retired Marine General James Mattis—his pick for Secretary of Defense. Mark Kelly reports. Image: AFP/Getty