North Korea appears to have fired a ballistic missile from a submarine off its eastern coast, South Korea says. It is not clear whether the test was authentic, and if it was, whether it will be considered a success by the North. A successful test would be significant because submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) are hard to detect. It comes as North Korea gears up for a rare and significant party congress next month ... ....
Foreign leaders visiting KingSalman of Saudi Arabia have noticed that there is a large flower display just in front of the 80-year-old monarch ... Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers ... ....
(CNN)Eight family members found dead in a rural southern Ohio community were shot in the head "execution style," most while they slept, authorities said Friday. Officers are searching for the killer or killers, who are probably armed and a danger to surviving family members, Pike CountySheriffCharlesReader said ... "I've given the family precautionary measures to make. They know we're available." ... Read More ... 'Doesn't happen every day' ... ......
Brazilian PresidentDilma Rousseff on Friday said she would appeal to South American trade blocs if she is removed from office, blasting the push to impeach her as a coup and a naked attempt by Brazil’s elite to snatch power back from her Worker’s Party... She told her opponents that her impeachment would have “serious consequences for the Brazilian political process.” ... “I can’t say today what is going to happen ... ....
But how many know that the model behind many contemporary poster images was P Sardar, a Muslim bodybuilder from Kolhapur? Your book mentions the movie's representation of community-based "ghetto" neighbourhoods within the city, like the so-called Muslim Quarter and Anthonywadi, or Anthonyville ... In effect, they dismissed the majority of colonial Bombay's diverse neighbourhoods as one giant ghetto....
The Ministry of Education has moved to effect a ban on improvised students' hostels, known among students as 'ghettos'. The implementation of the directives at most schools was to take effect at the beginning of the new term, which started last week ... ....
Peter James. The bestselling author of the Roy Grace mysteries explains how, when he is planning a new villain, the Bard’s murderous, manipulative creations are his primary inspiration ... Twitter ... Literary snobs have always viewed crime fiction as some kind of ghetto genre, not worthy of serious consideration ... Twitter ... Literary snobs have always viewed crime fiction as some kind of ghetto genre, not worthy of serious consideration ... ....
INDIO, United States (AFP) – As a crowd dominated by young Americans swayed under the hot California sun, Chronixx roused them with his relentlessly positive explanation of reggae. "Reggae music is good for the spirit ... "Tell the rich man – a foreigner and the politician / Ghetto youths don't need more guns and no more ammunition / We need a change in we tradition / We need some other things like computer," he sings ... ....
BI ...MR ...IPG has been no exception with what happened at Campbell Ewald (IPG fired the agency's CEO and a staffer who sent a racist email to colleagues inviting them to take part in a "Ghetto Day") the ongoing JWT discrimination suit (in which the agency's now former CEO is accused of making racist and sexist slurs — allegations he denies.) What are holding groups like yourselves doing to ensure there are less of these cases happening?....
Ladies and Gentlemen, where we are standing right now, there used to be the WarsawGhetto in which people were locked away, ordinary Polish citizens who lived on that soil, who in most cases were born here, lived here, being just part of the great community which inhabited the Second Republic of Poland...Glory to the heroes of the Warsaw GhettoUprising, may their names live on!....
Ladies and Gentlemen, where we are standing right now, there used to be the WarsawGhetto in which people were locked away, ordinary Polish citizens who lived on that soil, who in most cases were born here, lived here, being just part of the great community which inhabited the Second Republic of Poland...Glory to the heroes of the Warsaw GhettoUprising, may their names live on!....
His early albums – For You (1978), Prince, Dirty Mind (both 1980) and Controversy (1981) – saw significant US chart success, but kept him in an R&B ghetto where, as the album titles acknowledged, songs such as “Soft and Wet” had him tagged as a creatively filthy-minded, funk provocateur ... heyday, that ghetto was where Prince was meant to stay....
(credit. GHETTOUBERDRIVER). Note. This ruling only affects the employment status of Uber drivers in Massachusetts and California, but similar battles are ongoing in the UK and other territories. Late Thursday, the lawyer representing a class-action of Uber drivers e-mailed members of the press to say that two pivotal labor cases have been settled ... Read 11 remaining paragraphs . Comments ... ....