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July 17, 2015 AUTOS

Brand-New Daytona Coupes Coming from Shelby American

-The Shelby Daytona coupe is one of the most beautiful and desirable racers in the history of American motorsport. Originals, of which only six were built, now demand upwards of $7 million at auction. Numerous kit car manufacturers have taken a stab at building rough approximations, but now Shelby American is getting in on the act, with a limited run of 50 brand-new Daytona Coupes to commemorate the 50th anniversary

July 17, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

German lawmakers back Greek bailout talks after Merkel's chaos warning

By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) – German lawmakers gave their go ahead on Friday for the euro zone to negotiate a third bailout for Greece, heeding a warning from Chancellor Angela Merkel that the alternative to a deal with Athens was chaos. Popular misgivings run deep in Germany, the euro zone country which has already contributed most to Greece’s two bailouts since 2010, about funneling yet more aid to Athens.

July 17, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

Kerry: 'very, very hopeful' Iran will release detained Americans

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he raised the topic of detained Americans at every meeting he held with Iranians during the final weeks of nuclear negotiations and said he is hopeful Tehran would release them. The Obama administration has faced criticism for not securing the Americans’ release as part of the landmark deal reached on Tuesday in Vienna to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions

July 17, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

Yemen's Aden falls to Saudi-backed fighters, clashes subside: residents

ADEN (Reuters) – Saudi-backed Yemeni fighters completed their offensive to retake the southern city of Aden from the Houthi militia on Friday, residents said, as fighting in one main district subsided. Several residents displaced from their homes in Tawahi, a district in the west of the port city which had been the last redoubt of the Houthis in Aden, told Reuters they had returned to their homes and that despite

July 17, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

Irked by U.S., but EU keeps own spy projects quiet

By Francesco Guarascio and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Revelations of U.S. spying in Europe have soured transatlantic relations, prompting a White House apology and, as leak followed leak over the past two years, have fostered feelings of moral superiority among Europeans. Less well known still is that the 28-nation European Union itself, as a collective institution, is spending hundreds of millions of euros developing security technologies that civil liberties

July 17, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

China's Xi visits sensitive North Korean border area

Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited a sensitive border area with North Korea populated by ethnic Koreans, state media said on Friday, amid tension over the North’s disputed nuclear program and killings blamed on North Korean troops. While the report made no direct mention of North Korea, a country Xi has yet to visit since assuming power in late 2012, he talked up Yanbian’s agricultural prowess – something that stands