There’s a 100 percent chance of pregnancy for Ginger Zee! On Monday’s Good Morning America, the ABC News chief meteorologist revealed she and her husband, NBC News correspondent…
Introduction and design Last year’s Galaxy Alpha and Note 4 signified the beginning of the end for all plastic, high-end Samsung smartphones. While the inclusion of a metal frame on both devices was certainly welcome, the Korean firm wasn’t ready to forgo its beloved plastic entirely. With the more affordable A Series, Samsung has bowed to consumer pressure, opting for a metal unibody design, waving goodbye to the company’s signature
Dragon déjà vu! Attending Balmain’s menswear spring 2016 show in Paris over the weekend, Kris Jenner dabbled in the label’s lux collection, landing on this enviable…
– Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental. – – German carmakers appear to still be on a crusade to get everyone to forget manual transmissions. Just the latest example? Audi’s claim that at the end of the first-generation
Givenchy menswear spring/summer 2016 French fashion house Givenchy may be reviving its couture collection after its creative director alluded to the restart in an interview. While speaking to John Koblin, style reporter for the New York Times, Riccardo Tisci said that Givenchy “would do couture again.” In 2012, Mr. Tisci discontinued Givenchy’s couture collection, a move that many in the industry assumed was temporary, as he worked to further develop
The Wimbledon Championships of Tennis kick off today, June 29, in Wimbledon (obviously), London. In years past, this would mean strawberries, Pimm’s, immaculate greensward prowled by finely-honed, playboy athletes, watched over by blazered men on very tall chairs with tables on, like they’re absolutely enormous babies with a tennis fixation. This year, it means all those things, plus being able to track the excitement of the occasion on cryptic, wobbly
By Ahmed Hassan and Omar Fahmy CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s top public prosecutor died of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his home on Monday, the most senior state official killed in militant violence since the toppling of an Islamist president two years ago. Judges and other senior officials have increasingly been targeted by radical Islamists opposed to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Laila Bassam AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s foreign minister said in Moscow on Monday Russia had promised to send political, economic and military aid to his country, where the army is coming under some of the heaviest pressure since the start of the civil war. Insurgent groups have made gains against government forces in northwest, central and southern Syria in the past two months but Damascus has
By Hamid Shalizi SURKH DEWAL, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Fighters loyal to Islamic State have seized substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, witnesses and officials said, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability. Witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province told Reuters that hundreds of insurgents pledging allegiance to Islamic State pushed out the Taliban, scorching opium poppy fields that help
A senior U.S. official on Monday dismissed suggestions from critics that the United States would cave in to Iran to reach an agreement on curbing Iran’s nuclear program. The official said that if the United States had wanted to make huge concessions to reach a deal it could have done so long ago and that such criticism was “absurd”.
