The last few years haven’t been good for North Korea as crippling sanctions and isolationism have caused the rogue country to turn inward and continue showing the world the country is doing fine.But now North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has put his soldier-builders to work on yet another major project — a series of apartments and high-rises that are once again changing the Pyongyang skyline, The Associated Press reported Wednesday....
Egyptian aviation investigators confirmed a black box recording from EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo that plunged into the Mediterranean on May 19 and killed all 66 people aboard showed smoke onboard, BBCNews reported Wednesday. Automated electronic messages sent by the plane had shown that smoke detectors went off in a toilet and in the avionics area below the cockpit, minutes before the plane disappeared....
Article by WN.com GuestWriterGilad Atzmon. Despite the Brexit referendum, Britain is not leaving the European Union in the foreseeable future. No one in Britain has expressed a desire to issue Article 50 and officially launch withdrawal from the EU ... They clearly do not know how to rid themselves of the spoils of their achievement ... Michael Gove, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson share the ambition to become the next British prime minister....
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) has pushed back an offensive led by US-trained rebels targeting a key route linking eastern Syria to Iraq, according to a monitor and rebel sources ... "The attack failed. they lost control of the airport," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ... READ MORE. Syria. Kurdish-led forces edge into ISIL-held Manbij ... ....
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is running Illinois delegate slates packed with some of the best-connected political figures in the state the Sun-Times has learned ... Conlon was the Illinois 2008 Clinton presidential campaign co-chair ... Relationships matter ... Leslie Hairston ... One is to be co-hosted by developer Elzie Higginbotton, attorney TedTetzlaff and real estate brokers Thad and Emily Wong ... 6. ....
FREE TO AIR. BritishGardens in Time, SBS, 7.30pm . ‘‘The greatest conceit about modernism is that it can do better than nature,’’ former PM Paul Keating harrumphed in a recent interview ... Counting Cars, 7Mate, 9.30pm Advertisement ... Chicago Fire, Seven, 11.15pm ... Few people alive today would have seen TedTetzlaff’s A Dangerous Profession and most would have forgotten it even if they have ... ....
When Carole Lombard and the family maid discuss the newly hired butler, we can read her mind when she says, “I’d like to sew his buttons on sometime, when they come off.” In 1936, when elegant men’s formalwear didn’t use zippers, audiences must have had an even better idea of what she was thinking ... He has one ... The cinematography by TedTetzlaff is a shimmering argument for everything I’ve ever tried to say in praise of black and white....