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'Yugonostalgia' as Croatia prepares to join EU
Croatia may be on the doorstep of the European Union, but in this tiny village another union of nations was getting all the glory. In Kumrovec, the birthplace of Yugoslavia's late communist leader Josip Broz Tito, thousands gathered Saturday to mark his birthday and pay their respects to him and the ex-federation...
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Ex-sex slave says Japan mayor's remark 'absurd'
A former sex slave says a Japanese mayor's remarks about Japan's wartime sex slavery are "absurd." Kim Bok-dong, who is from South Korea, was referring Saturday to comments by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto. He has angered many by saying Japan's wartime practice of forcing many Asian women into prostitution for its...
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Veterans needed to complete survey about Medicare
An organization called 65 Incorporated, dedicated to providing seniors and their families information about Medicare, has launched a brief survey for veterans.
statesmanjournal.com (1 hour ago)
A Memorial Day event — Monticello chorus Rotunda concert
Monticello, the Mid-Missouri men’s chorus, presents a free Memorial Day concert in the Capitol Rotunda called “A Salute to Fallen Heroes and Living Veterans.”
newstribune.com (2 hours ago)
Jordan king says extremism 'grown fat' on conflict
Jordan's King Abdullah II says extremism has "grown fat" off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. "Good faith talks must get going," he said in Saturday remarks at the opening of a two-day meeting of the Geneva-based World Economic Forum on the shores of the Dead Sea. He pointed to an...
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Female suicide bomber injures 11 in Russian region
Police in the southern Russian region of Dagestan say a female suicide bomber has injured at least 11 police officers and civilians. Dagestan's police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said the bomber blew herself up Saturday on the central square in the provincial capital, Makhachkala. Since 2000, at least two dozen...
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The secret lives of North Koreans | Ryū Murakami
To Japanese citizens like me, the people of North Korea, though geographically close, are practically invisible. When I decided to write a novel about North Korea – now called From the Fatherland, With Love – I was faced with the challenge of creating believable portraits based strictly on source materials and the...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Restaurant: Social Eating House, London W1
We all have our irrational prejudices. One of mine might be called le style Gordon Ramsay – I can't be doing with the whole soulless but oh-so-slick shtick that he and his stable churn out. I'm also inclined to mistrust a chef with tentacles spreading all over the nouveau riche territories of Asia. And (a lonely...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
All Fall Down by Sally Nicholl - review
All Fall Down is a book about the Black Death and how it has effected the lives of a young girl called Isabel and her family and friends. She experiences a lot of tragedies and has to face many opportunities. She was raised in Ingleforn, a small village in London but is forced to flee to York when the disease...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
The hottest French TV of 2013: The Returned
It's four years since a coach taking local teenagers on a school trip plunged down a French mountain, killing several students. But, just as final plans for a much-debated memorial are being passed round the weekly bereavement support group, the children start to come home, acting as if nothing has happened,...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Abused workers
As Michael Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, was responding to nationwide outrage over his statement that Abercrombie’s “exclusionary” clothes are meant for “the cool kids … the attractive all-American kids,” the death toll rose to more than 1,000 from the collapse of a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that was...
sltrib.com (4 hours ago)
Jim Kershner's this day in history - Sat, 25 May 2013 PST
From our archives, 100 years ago Joseph Anthony, the so-called “Wild Man” of Lincoln Heights, was caught by police after he allegedly “terrorized women and children” in that neighborhood for 10 days.
spokesman.com (4 hours ago)
Collapse could motivate Legislature to pass projects - Sat, 25 May 2013 PST
OLYMPIA – The collapse of a section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River could spur the Legislature into action on the much-debated transportation package with its increased gasoline taxes, but some of that action could be to rearrange how money is spent. Sen. Tracie Eide, D-Federal Way and a co-chair of...
spokesman.com (4 hours ago)
The superstar you don't know (yet)
Philadelphia Wings midfielder Paul Rabil, who has been called the Face of Lacrosse, is being heralded for his crossover appeal.
philly.com (4 hours ago)
Evesham school official accused of anti-Semitic remarks
An Evesham school board member accused of making anti-Semitic statements at Thursday's meeting says she was misunderstood. But there were calls for Rosemary Bernardi's resignation after she allegedly called for non-Jewish residents to seek election to the board to offset the Jewish presence on it.
philly.com (4 hours ago)
Sons and Lovers: a century on
'I tell you I've written a great book," DH Lawrence informed his publisher Edward Garnett, after sending him the manuscript of Sons and Lovers in November 1912. "Read my novel – it's a great novel." Lawrence's immodesty is forgivable: the book had been through four drafts, and after two years of struggle he was...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
Why marathon productions are big among the YouTube generation | Kirsty Lang
Two artistic marathons are taking place this weekend. Theatregoers at the Norfolk and Norwich festival will sit through a 12-hour experimental play called Life and Times, which chronicles the life of an ordinary young woman in the US. And in Brighton, film fans will watch the final four-hour instalment of Berlin...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
Why Jelly is good for small businesses
Working from home has many advantages but also a number of challenges, among which is the danger of becoming isolated. Working alone in your spare room may make you not only feel lonely and cut-off, but has longer term threats for your own and your business's potential. It can lead to "small fish" syndrome, where...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
Pitt face blindness sufferer? Brad Pitt may be diagnosed with prosopagnosia (Video)
Brad Pitt may be facing face blindness. According to a May 24 report in the New York Daily News written by Margaret Eby, the actor is not able to distinguish faces possibly as the result of a disease called prosopagnosia...
examiner.com (4 hours ago)
Teens Build Car Fueled By Social Media (VIDEO)
A group of high schoolers from Kansas City, Mo. are about to embark on a very special road trip, using a car fueled entirely by social media. (Yes, you heard that right.) According to WKMG Local 6, teens involved in an after-school program called Minddrive -- a non-profit that inspires at-risk teens by focusing on...
huffingtonpost.com (5 hours ago)
A bring-and-share tapas spread | get-togethers
We're a group of like-minded women, who mostly met through a youth empowerment organisation called the Woodcraft Folk. We're always looking for wacky things to do together – we've been bivouacking in Derbyshire, we've tried chocolate tasting sessions and trapeze workshops, a cake flashmob … This gathering was a...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Goat's milk ice cream | Meet the producer
We've had people in tears of joy at our stall in Borough Market, London. These people are tasting ice‑cream for the first time in years, because they're lactose-intolerant or have an allergy. They well up; then we well up. It's so rewarding. Goat's milk is easier to digest than cow's milk. It does contain lactose,...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Police: Woman accidentally backs car into husband
RYE - Police and firefighters were called to an Ocean Boulevard residence Thursday night when a woman backed her car into her husband, pinning him against a stone wall, Police Chief Kevin Walsh said.
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MasterCard and Visa battle it out with retailers in world war fees
Are MasterCard and Visa ripping us off every time we make a payment using a debit or credit card? In a class action that makes the battle fought by Erin Brockovich look like peanuts, American retailers last year secured a giant $7.25bn payout from payment processors and card issuers after a bitterly-fought legal...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Stabbing, arrest in Monroe leaves two injured
Police used a Taser and an unidentified “less-than-lethal” impact weapon to subdue a man suspected of stabbing a woman in Monroe Friday night. Snohomish County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said the county’s Multiple Agency Response Team, called out when someone is injur
seattletimes.com (6 hours ago)
Horrible Histories is back and it's as brilliant as ever
Eleven months after it clattered off on a horse called Blazing Historical Irreverence – and two years after it won best sketch show at the British comedy awards – Horrible Histories (Monday, 4.30pm, CBBC) is back for a fifth series of rambunctious yore-times glee. Let joy be unconfined, yo. Any fears that...
guardian.co.uk (6 hours ago)
Obama OKs honor for bomb victims
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama signed legislation Friday to award Congress’ highest civilian honor to four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing during the civil rights movement. He called it a tragic loss that “helped to trigger triumph and a more just and equal and fair America.” The Congressional Gold...
gadsdentimes.com (7 hours ago)
Unemployed white-collar workers in Central Jersey help each other find work
They walk into the boardroom dressed in their suits and ties. Laptops and folders cover the table. It's Monday and the weekly 9 a.m. is called to order.
mycentraljersey.com (7 hours ago)
Monty: Controversy 'mountain out of a molehill'
AP Colin Montgomerie called the Sergio Garcia quotfried chickenquot controversy a quotmountain out of a molehill.quot
timesleader.com (7 hours ago)
Monty: Controversy `mountain out of a molehill'
Colin Montgomerie called the Sergio Garcia "fried chicken" controversy a "mountain out of a molehill."
miamiherald.com (7 hours ago)
