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Pick Your Favorite Sheep
There is a popular show on television in Senegal called Khar Bii, or This Sheep. It’s an American Idol-style contest show in Dakar which seeks to find the finest sheep before the Eid al-Adha festival. Taking inspiration from the show, here are eight great sheep for you to rate [...]
Haiti Medical Volunteers: Starting a Dialogue
Reporter Amy Costello will be speaking on Huffington Post Live to discuss problems about the way international emergency medicine is led, structured and staffed.
9/11 Mastermind Harangues US Gov’t at Guantanamo Hearing
After assuring the judge he wouldn’t speak to anything classified, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed delivered a diatribe against the American government at Wednesday’s military commission hearing at Guantanamo [...]
Pakistani-American Raps For Malala Yousafzai
The day after 14-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for speaking out for women’s education, Zaki Syed, a 24-year-old Pakistani-American rapper from Sacramento, California, started getting a lot of phone calls asking him to write a rap about it.
US Appeals Court Ruling on Former Bin Laden Driver Could Derail Other Guantanamo Cases
A US court has quashed the conviction of Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, who had been jailed in Guantanamo Bay for giving material support to terrorism.
9/11 Motion Hearings Proceed Despite Health Concerns at Gitmo
Motion hearings for the military commission trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants begin here on Monday, and the proceedings are beset with controversy before the court is even in session [...]
EU Nobel Prize: The Greatest Honor in the Darkest Hour
I grew up in that European Union when it was still called the European Economic Community or EEC, later shortened to EC before turning into the European Union in the 1990s. Like many Europeans, I have been taking European integration for granted over the years [...]
No Rush
I have to come clean. For most of my adult life I’ve been lying to friends, co-workers, and loved ones. I’ve been dishonest about a crucial milestone in my life [...]
What a Corpse is Worth and Why
Many people were surprised this week by some news out of Mexico. Not only did authorities shoot dead one of the country’s most notorious drug bosses, Heriberto Lazcano, capo of the Zetas cartel. Afterwards, Lazcano managed to escape. That’s right. He escaped, dead [...]
‘Hunger and Austerity’ in Spain
A couple of weeks ago Spaniards were shown some photos of themselves in the New York Times, and many didn’t like what they saw. The photographer: A certain Samuel Aranda [...]
Ike the Peacenik
The term, “military industrial complex,” tends to be associated with anti-war conspiracy theorists, but it was coined by none other than President Eisenhower (anti-war conspiracy theorists are rather fond of pointing this out) [...]
The World on Twitter: Monday, Oct. 8
Here are some of the stories we’re thinking about this morning through a selection of tweets from The World’s newsroom, Monday, October 8.
Lessons from Ike if Iran Goes Nuclear
The image many of us have of President Dwight Eisenhower is an affable, grandfatherly figure, with that comforting, simple smile. You wouldn’t think he bore the burden of being the first human in history with the power to destroy civilization [...]
Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders
The new PBS series Sound Tracks roams the world in search of the most compelling music, musicians and singers. A new one-hour episode hosted by The World’s Marco Werman airs nationally on PBS on Friday, October 5, 2012 at 9 pm.
The Band Really Was on the Run: McCartney in Lagos
For me, an avowed Beatles and Fela fan, this is like a musical Reese’s peanut butter cup: two great tastes that taste great together. Perhaps not as much as the originals listened to separately. But still great [...]
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