Nation Apr 22 Public complaints urge Census to consider a change in questions Does your residence have a flush toilet? The Census wants to know.
Arts Apr 21 Nintendo’s Game Boy turns 25 It was more or less muscle memory: put in a fresh pair of double-A batteries, slide in the square, gray cartridge of your favorite game into the open slot, then flip on the little power switch on the top.
Nation Apr 21 Teen stowaway survives five hour flight to Hawaii in plane’s wheel well “How he survived, I don’t know,” said FBI spokesman Tom Simon. “It’s a miracle.”…
Nation Apr 18 Writers remember Gabriel Garcia Marquez #GabrielMarquezGarcia and #LatinAmerica in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/EN3VuRlSU3— Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) April 18, 2014 Many took to the Internet Thursday and Friday to post tributes Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate,…
World Apr 17 Hungary practices the ‘watering of the girls’ for Easter Hungarians are getting ready for a regional tradition known as the “watering of the girls" in participants dress in traditional garb and take to the streets, where boys will throw buckets of water at them as they run past.
World Apr 17 UPDATE: Death toll rises to 25 in South Korea ferry disaster Rescuers continued search attempts Thursday for hundreds of missing passengers from a capsized ferry that sank 12 miles off the coast of South Korea.
Arts Apr 14 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners announced The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, with 13 awards given to different categories under journalism and seven awarded under books, drama and music.
World Apr 10 Photos: Hagel visits Mongolia to sign agreement, receives horse U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel signed a joint vision statement with Mongolian Defense Minister Dashdemberal Bat-Erdene Thursday at Mongolia's Ministry of Defense in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. The agreement calls for more U.S. military exercises with Mongolia as the country…
World Apr 09 SEC charges Hewlett-Packard for international bribes Hewlett-Packard will pay more than $108 million in a settlement agreement after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company Tuesday with bribing government officials to obtain public contracts.
World Apr 07 Giant art installation in Pakistan recasts drone attack targets as more than ‘bug splats’ An oversized poster of a child covers a field in Pakistan’s Kyhber Pukhtoonkhwa province -- a frequent target of U.S. drone strikes. The art is the first piece in a collective project from artists from the United States, Pakistan…