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– Paul Feig, director of the upcoming Ghostbusters movie, tweeted out a few pictures of the revamped Ecto-1 that the lady Ghostbusters will drive. It’s, uh, a lot different than the old one. – #whattheygonnadrive pic.twitter.com/bBLEhrfTEQ – — Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July 8, 2015 – – Even to someone who hasn’t memorized the entire Ghostbusters canon, this is very obviously a completely different animal from the iconic 1959 Cadillac ambulance
– Decades are measured by calendars, yet the eras they represent do not always fit neatly in the small boxes. Cultural historians, for example, usually peg the end of the 1960s at the infamous December 1969 Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, during which a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, acting as security, stabbed and killed a pistol-wielding member of the audience. We might ourselves look back 20
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By Barbara Lewis STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called in a speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday for a fair deal to keep his country in the euro zone, acknowledging Greece’s own responsibility for its plight, after EU leaders gave him five days to come up with convincing reforms. The Greek government formally submitted a request for a three-year loan from the European Stability Mechanism bailout
By John Irish and Arshad Mohammed VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has offered “constructive solutions” to resolve disputes in nuclear talks with six major powers, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported on Wednesday, but Western officials suggested they had heard nothing new from Tehran. Iran and the powers are in the last stretch of talks to reach a final agreement to end a more than 12-year standoff over Iran’s nuclear
Both China and Taiwan have an obligation to assert claims to the South China Sea, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, in a sign of rare political agreement between the old foes on either side of the Taiwan Strait. Rivals China and Taiwan share claims to virtually the entire South China Sea, a legacy of the Chinese civil war when the Communists beat the Nationalists and took control of the
By Ercan Gurses and Nick Tattersall ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Delays in efforts to form a coalition government in Turkey are buying time for President Tayyip Erdogan, heightening the chances of a snap election which could see his AK Party regain its majority and leaving the opposition floundering. Opposition parties are as fragmented as ever, and Erdogan – from the shadows – is calculating how best to maintain his grip. The
By Girish Gupta and Philip Pullella QUITO (Reuters) – Pope Francis flies to Bolivia on Wednesday after drawing about 1.5 million people to Masses in Ecuador on the first leg of a “homecoming” tour, where he urged the world to take better care of the environment and the poor. The Argentine-born pontiff was spending his last few hours at a home for the elderly in Ecuador’s highland capital Quito and
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have condemned the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide to mark the 20th anniversary of the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The vote was delayed a day as Britain and the United States tried to persuade Russia not to veto the resolution, which would have also condemned denial of the
A Turkish opposition leader sparked fury Wednesday by saying a mistaken attack on Korean tourists by anti-Chinese protesters was understandable, given that both peoples have “slitty eyes”. The comments by Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) chief Devlet Bahceli were particularly sensitive at a time when his party is seen as a possible partner for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a government coalition after June 7 elections. Over
