The Economist, which has been under fire from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over a recent editorial column that called on Turkish voters to cast their votes for the main opposition party in Sunday’s elections, said in another article on Thursday that Erdoğan’s accusations of the magazine being part…
Almanya’daki koli basili salgınının nedeni hala bilinmiyor. En az 20 kişinin ölümüne, 2 bin 400 kişininse hastalanmasına neden olan salgın, modern tarihin en ölümcül koli basili salgını oldu. 11 Avrupa ülkesi ve Amerika da koli basili vakalarına rastlandığını, hastalanan kişilerin kısa süre önce Almanya’da bulunduğunu bildiriyor. Amerikalı uzmanlar benzer bir…
Amerikan ekonomisi yavaşlama belirtileri gösteriyor. Mayıs ayında sadece 54 bin kişiye istihdam sağlandı. Bu sayı, ekonominin istihdam alanında son sekiz ayın en düşük seviyesine gerilediğini gösteriyor. Geçen ay işsizlik oranının yüzde 9,1’e yükselmesi Amerikan ekonomisinin durumuyla ilgili kaygıları arttırdı. Mayıs’ta 150 bin kişinin iş bulacağı tahmin ediliyordu. Ancak açıklanan rakamların…
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly became one…
Turkey is considering creating a buffer zone on its border with Syria if hundreds of thousands flee the unrest there, a Turkish daily newspaper reported on Friday. Nearly 3,000 Syrians have fled into southern Turkey fearing a military assault, and the Syrian army has begun a military operation near the…
A daughter of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X has pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of an elderly family friend to run up more than $55,000 in credit card bills. Malikah Shabazz was freed from jail Thursday after entering the plea at a courthouse in New York City. She…
A hazy 204 minutes of languid youths in a drugged stupor, contemporary art icon Andy Warhol’s “Chelsea Girls,” an experimental underground film shot at the Hotel Chelsea and other New York locations in the summer of 1966, has afforded countless cult followers a cherished peek into the sad-glam New York…
America’s military alliance with Europe — the cornerstone of U.S. security policy for six decades — faces a “dim, if not dismal” future, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday in a blunt valedictory address. In his final policy speech as Pentagon chief, Gates questioned the viability of NATO, saying…
İngiltere’nin en ünlü akademisyenlerinden bazılarının, dünyaca ünlü Oxford ve Cambridge üniversitelerine rakip olacak yeni bir özel üniversite hazırlığına giriştikleri belirtildi. Sunday Times gazetesinin haberine göre, öğrencilerden yılda 18 bin sterlin alması planlanan üniversite için kimliği gizli tutulan yatırımcıların milyarlarca dolar para verdikleri ve üniversitenin, Amerika’nın saygın, liberal sanat kolejleri model alınarak…
1 – The Six-Mile-Fest whitewater kayak and pack raft festival on Saturday August 21, 2010. The whitewater event featured Kayak and pack raft time trials, mass start races and and a rodeo at the Boston Bar with beer and food and camping at the bar. 2- A skate skier takes advantage…
