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Gunmen face off in Tripoli as sectarian battle escalates
Mazen Zred was one of the 30 lucky ones yesterday morning.
independent.co.uk (15 seconds ago)
Champions League Final: Can Jürgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund stop the Bayern Munich machine?
If you were seeking the distillation of the confidence playing for Bayern Munich breeds in its players, especially this recent gilded generation of Germans, then watching Philipp Lahm and Thomas Müller face questions yesterday at Wembley was an emphatic reminder of how they regard themselves.
independent.co.uk (16 seconds ago)
Minister pledges help for migrants as riots continue
Further police reinforcements were being moved into Stockholm yesterday to try to prevent a sixth night of rioting in the...
thetimes.co.uk (46 seconds ago)
Left attacks Hollande for praising German reform
President Hollande came under fire from the left of his Socialist party yesterday after he embraced German-style reform as a...
thetimes.co.uk (47 seconds ago)
Princess to be investigated over Spanish tax charges
A judge yesterday ordered an investigation into the youngest daughter of King Juan Carlos of Spain for possible tax fraud and...
thetimes.co.uk (48 seconds ago)
Chance of two-state solution slipping away, Britain warns
Israel and the Palestinians have “weeks, not months” to make progress on peace talks, William Hague warned yesterday. On the...
thetimes.co.uk (1 minute ago)
LOOK: Painting Elephant Arrives In True D.C. Style
WASHINGTON -- Washingtonians are used to presidential motorcades snarling afternoon traffic. But an elephant? Now that is something new! That's exactly what happened yesterday afternoon on Connecticut Avenue as Bozie the painting elephant completed her 1,100-mile journey from the Baton Rouge Zoo to Washington's...
huffingtonpost.com (1 minute ago)
Lee Westwood in contention at Wentworth as big four buckle
To lose one of the star turns from the field at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth yesterday was bad...
thetimes.co.uk (3 minutes ago)
Joe Lydon’s role designed to lighten load of Stuart Lancaster
Joe Lydon’s appointment yesterday as the RFU’s head of international player development is a crucial step to ending the boom-and-bust...
thetimes.co.uk (3 minutes ago)
David Moyes gets to work straight away clearing out backroom
David Moyes started the process of overhauling his backroom staff at Manchester United yesterday as David Gill, the club’s chief...
thetimes.co.uk (3 minutes ago)
David Gill backs Wembley for Euro 2020 final
David Gill, the outgoing Manchester United director who was elected to be a member of Uefa yesterday, is backing a...
thetimes.co.uk (3 minutes ago)
Andros Townsend out of England’s Under-21 squad after betting charge
Andros Townsend, the Tottenham Hotspur player, pulled out of the England Under-21 squad for the European Championships yesterday after he...
thetimes.co.uk (4 minutes ago)
Cloud hangs over international ticket costs for cricket
As the first day of the second Test at Headingley Carnegie between England and New Zealand was washed out yesterday,...
thetimes.co.uk (4 minutes ago)
Jerry Lewis: Le Nutty Professor Takes Cannes
A half-century ago, French film critics proclaimed Jerry Lewis a master auteur for the raucous comedies he wrote, directed and starred in. At the time, it was hard to say which side took more derisive heat from mainstream America: Lewis or France. But time heals all wounds, or wounds all heels; and nostalgia is a...
time.com (1 hour ago)
Heritage and their critics agree: amnesty is a drain on taxpayers
Conn Carroll Shortly after The Heritage Foundation released it’s controversial cost-of-amnesty report, former-National Economic Council Director Keith Hennessey wrote a highly critical response disputing Heritage’s final $6.3 trillion price tag. Yesterday, Heritage’s Vice President, Domestic & Economic Policy...
washingtonexaminer.com (1 hour ago)
Fighting has turned Tripoli, Lebanon, into a battleground – and brought the Syrian war home
Mazen Zred was one of the 30 lucky ones yesterday morning.
independent.co.uk (1 hour ago)
Blip: Google photo search learns to recognise sunsets
Google has announced a new feature on its search engine that will help you find your own pictures. So long as you've posted them to Google+, that is. The new feature was posted up on Google's Inside Search blog yesterday and means users will be able to search for photos using terms like "Steve's birthday party". And...
techradar.com (2 hours ago)
Incredible Photos of a Melting Ice Hotel
Every year, Lapland erects a hotel made of ice in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. And every year, when the weather turns warmer, the IceHotel melts back into where it originated: the Torne River. Here's what the twenty-third incarnation of the IceHotel looked like when we visited it last year: Ben Nilsson/Big Ben Productions...
gizmodo.com (2 hours ago)
What If Stocks, Bonds and Housing All Go Down Together?
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, About the claim that central banks will never let asset bubbles pop ever again--their track record of permanently inflating asset bubbles leaves much to be desired. The problem with trying to solve all our structural problems by injecting "free money" liquidity...
zerohedge.com (2 hours ago)
Jon Stewart ridicules Obama for persecuting the press
Charlie Spiering Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart ridiculed President Obama for persecuting the press in the name of national security. “You see they believes in the freedom of the press - just not freedom of speech for people who might talk to the press,” Stewart said, highlighting the President’s remarks...
washingtonexaminer.com (2 hours ago)
On his 100th birthday a bomber pilot recalls an act of heroism
At 100 years old yesterday, Jim Flint still shows traces of the dapper young pilot with the fur flying jacket,...
thetimes.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Julianne Moore Explains Her Cannes Foot Crisis
Yesterday on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the actress chatted about the "big controversy" and "wardrobe malfunction" that made her pinky toes shine in the limelight after they got their own thong treatment on the Cannes red carpet. While calling the incident "toe-gate" and "toe-maggedon," she declared, "I didn't...
nymag.com (3 hours ago)
Code Pink Protester Who Interrupted Obama To CNN: I’m Not A ‘Heckler’ …And I’m Not ‘Crazy’
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin not only managed to completely derail President Obama's hour-long counterterrorism speech yesterday, she also got to bring her message to CNN today. Benjamin faced off with CNN's Carol Costello for a somewhat contentious interview Friday morning, with the protester pushing back on...
mediaite.com (3 hours ago)
LEGO unveils a 1:1 replica X-Wing in Times Square (Photos)
LEGO unveiled yesterday the single largest LEGO Star Wars ship ever built. They built a 1:1 scale replica of an X-wing in Lego, and you can even get in and have your picture taken inside the cockpit.The...
examiner.com (3 hours ago)
BNP Warns On Japanese Repression: Echoes Of The 1940s Fed
In the 1940s, the Fed adopted pegging operations to protect the financial system against rising interest rates and to ensure the smooth financing of the war effort. In effect, the Fed became part of the Treasury’s debt management team; as the budget deficit hit 25% of GDP in WW2, it capped 1Y notes at 87.5bps and...
zerohedge.com (3 hours ago)
Steak Labels Will Now Show Where Animals Were Born, Raised, and Slaughtered
Out with the old. A big step for food transparency: There's a new federal rule that requires labels of steaks and roasts (but not ground meat) to reveal not only the animal's country of origin, but also where it was raised and slaughtered. The World Trade Organization found that when using the old labels, which only...
nymag.com (3 hours ago)
R.I.P. BSA: 6 Typically Over-The-Top Christian Conservative Reactions To Boy Scouts Allowing Gay...
Yesterday brought us the news that the Boy Scouts of America voted to end its policy of banning gay kids and teens from joining the popular youth organization. More than 61 percent of the group's 1,232 delegates voted to end the ban, sending many Christian conservatives into a tizzy over the "death" of a...
mediaite.com (4 hours ago)
Bridge Collapse in Washington State Sends Two Cars Plunging Into The Skagit River
No one was killed, but it's just another example of how badly American infrastructure is crumbling. It’s been a rough week for bridges around the U.S. At about 7 p.m. local time in Washington state yesterday a bridge spanning the Skagit river north of Seattle (part of Interstate 5) collapsed after a truck carrying a...
popsci.com (4 hours ago)
U.S. infrastructure spending has plummeted since 2008
Not surprisingly, the collapse of a bridge along Interstate 5 in Washington state yesterday has revived the long-standing debate over whether Congress should spend more to repair the nation's aging roads and bridges.
washingtonpost.com (4 hours ago)
Jason Sudeikis Undecided on 'SNL' Return
Jason Sudeikis is still undecided about whether he'll follow Fred Armisen and Bill Hader in leaving Saturday Night Live The Epic actor stopped by The View yesterday where Barbara Walters pressed him about his future on the show Jason Sudeikis Envisions Life After 'Saturday Night Live' "Well you never leave the show...
rollingstone.com (4 hours ago)
