A Moderate Cleric Open To the World
President Hassan Rouhani has spent three decades at the heart of Iran's revolutionary establishment but is strongly opposed by hardliners for trying to rebuild ties with the West. The 68-year-old...
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Cannes Spotlights New York As Indie Cinema Powerhouse
New York directors Noah Baumbach and the Safdie brothers, who have films in the running for this year's Palme d'Or in Cannes, spotlight the vitality of independent cinema in America's cultural...
If Gov’t Spoonfeeds A Community, People Will Be Lazy
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has emphasised the need for government policies to encourage the private sector to develop and translate into the economy to enable the citizenry to live in...
Roseanne Sitcom To Be Revived In 2018 On ABC
The US sitcom Roseanne is set for a revival, ABC network bosses have confirmed after competing with Netflix to restart the show two decades after it ended. Most of its original cast will return for...
Clinton Launches Political Action Group
Hillary Clinton returned to the political stage on Monday with a new organization to "resist" Donald Trump, who defeated her in last year's presidential election. "The last few months, I've been...
US Accuses Syria of Mass Executions and Burning the Bodies
The Syrian government has been accused of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners by the US government - which released satellite images to prove it. The Trump administration claims the...
EU, US To Discuss Potentially Chaotic Airline Laptop Ban Wednesday
Top US and EU officials will meet on Wednesday to discuss a controversial plan to outlaw carry-on laptops and other large electronics in planes flying from Europe to America. The scheme, proposed by...
Ghana Gets Africa’s First Functioning Radio Telescope
Ghana just made a big progress in astronomy as the country gets the first functioning radio telescope on the continent outside South Africa, according to a report by the publication, Scientific...
President Trump, Please Don’t Fire Sean Spicer
Trump might be canceling the Spicer show. There's been one silver lining to the Trump administration so far: It has given us some great comedy. And of all the people in the administration who have...
Microsoft Says Cyberattack Should Be Wake Up Call For Governments
Microsoft warned governments Sunday against storing computer vulnerabilities like the leaked one at the heart of the cyberattack that has crippled computers in more than 150 countries. "The...
US Treasury To Play Key Role Protecting Finance IT Infrastructure
The US Treasury Department said Saturday it will play a "leading role" in protecting the global financial system's IT infrastructure. The statement came as a massive wave of weekend ransomware...
A Trump Triumph Or Rehashed News?
The new trade agreement unveiled Friday between China and the United States is yet another olive branch from the Trump White House to Beijing, but some skeptics wonder how long the cooperative tone...
Trump Weighs Further US Troops For Afghanistan
Hanging in a corridor outside the Pentagon press office, a blow-up of a Time magazine cover shows a weary US soldier drawing deeply on his cigarette. Barbed wire and snowy foothills loom behind him....
China Hosts Summit On New Silk Road
China opens on Sunday a summit to promote its massive global trade infrastructure project, highlighting Beijing's ambitions to spearhead a new era of globalisation as Washington shifts toward...
China Tells the World Bedtime Stories In Propaganda Drive
A video of an American father telling his daughter bedtime stories about the Chinese president's signature project. A music clip with children singing about sharing "the goodness." A cartoon of a...
No US Involvement In Deal With IS Fighters
The Pentagon said Friday it played no part in an unusual deal in which Islamic State jihadists were allowed to leave a key town in Syria -- only for some of them to be killed anyway. The US-backed...
Koons Unveils Giant Inflatable Ballerina In New York
Artist Jeff Koons on Friday unveiled an enormous inflatable blonde, silver-limbed ballerina in one of the busiest plazas in New York. Seated on a stool and attending to a blue pointe shoe, the nylon...
Be Brave; You Will Succeed; Duncan-Williams Tells Ghanaians
The Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International Ministry, Nicholas Duncan-Williams says he had to brave many odds to become successful because it was his way of...
Duncan-Williams Tells Ghanaians
The Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International Ministry, Nicholas Duncan-Williams says he had to brave many odds to become successful because it was his way of...
Hepatitis C Nearly Triples In US In 5 Years
The number of hepatitis C infections have nearly tripled in the United States in the last five years, particularly among people in their 20s, researchers said Thursday. The bloodborne virus is...