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Egypt's shark week: Mossad to blame?

Five tourists have been attacked by sharks (with one killed) over the past week in the waters off Egypt's Red Sea coast, a vacation area especially popular with snorkelers and scuba divers. And nobody knows what to do. Despite the frequent depiction...

Published Mon, Dec 06 2010 2:31 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Middle East, Egypt

Morning Brief: Malaysian reformer acquitted of sodomy charges

Malaysian reformer acquitted of sodomy charges Top news: Citing unreliable DNA evidence, a Malaysian judge has acquitted opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy -- a crime in the Muslim-majority country -- after a closely watched trial. Anwar was accused...

Published Mon, Jan 09 2012 5:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Five minutes to midnight

At a press conference in Washington today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it is moving its famous "Doomsday Clock," which measures how close the world is to global catastrophe, one minute closer to midnight. The clock now...

Published Tue, Jan 10 2012 11:40 AM by FP Passport

Around the world economy in 80 minutes

Last week, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel titled "The World Economy in the Next Ten Years," sponsored by the Chazen Institute at Columbia Business School. The discussion, a whirlwind tour of the world economic system, was great fun...

Published Fri, Dec 17 2010 1:39 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: China, Middle East, Economics, India

Novelist Arundhati Roy could be charged with sedition

The Indian Home Ministry has given Delhi police the go-ahead to arrest bestselling novelist andactivist Arundhati Roy on charges of sedition. The charges relate to a recent event at which Roy appeared with Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelan...

Published Tue, Oct 26 2010 8:59 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: India

Ethnic cleansing in the kingdom of happiness

Often overlooked in all the attention received by the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan's much-touted "Gross National Happiness" program is that the government's version of happiness includes being free of any unwelcome ethnic minorities...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 7:59 AM by FP Passport

Say it ain't so, sumo!

Apparently, gambling and organized crime have become as entrenched in sumo wrestling culture as topknots and obesity. Taking a page from the Gambino crime family , dozens of sumo wrestlers and their managers have admitted to betting on baseball games...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 7:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Corruption, East Asia

Report: Healthcare horror stories from North Korea

Given how stubbornly Kim Jong-Il appears to be weathering his reportedly grave illness, you might think North Korean healthcare is more or less intact -- even the Great Leader must get a boost from modern medicine. But a chilling report released today...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 8:25 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North Korea, Human Rights, Health

U.S. military brings scientists closer to Ebola cure

If you know anything about the Ebola virus, you're terrified by it. The disease, euphemistically dubbed a haemorrhagic fever, essentially causes one's innards to turn to mush, and blood begins to leak out of a patients eyes, nose, ears -- everywhere...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 8:43 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Africa, Health

Is Obama in any hurry to fix immigration? - By Joshua Keating

In President Barack Obama's speech on immigration at American University today he described a "sense of urgency" surrounding the country's broken immigration system, but what really stood out from the speech was the degree to which Obama...

Published Thu, Jul 01 2010 1:55 PM by FP Passport

Elian Gonzalez gets star treatment on 10th anniversary of return home

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 On the tenth anniversary of Elian Gonzalez' famous return to Cuba, there's no telling how his Miami relatives are feeling: still ruing the day they let the five-year-old...

Published Thu, Jul 01 2010 3:10 PM by FP Passport

The *** truck driver who speaks for Sweden (this week)

Sweden's tourism board has launched a unique program where each week they turn the official @Sweden twitter feed over to a different citizen. Users have so far included a female priest, and advertising executive and an organic sheep farmer. The feed...

Published Wed, Jan 18 2012 12:43 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Rescuers suspend Costa Concordia search

Rescuers suspend Costa Concordia search Top story: The Italian coast guard has suspended rescue efforts for the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship, which crashed into rocks on Friday off the Italian island of Giglio in the Mediterranean. The death toll...

Published Wed, Jan 18 2012 5:07 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Xi's the one?

Before he became Obama's running mate, Joe Biden famously said, "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Nowhere is this more true than in China, where would-be leaders spend years toiling in the Communist...

Published Mon, Oct 18 2010 3:41 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China

Morning Brief: Navy SEALs free two hostages in Somalia

Navy SEALs free two hostages in Somalia Top news: U.S. officials are confirming this morning that American commandos rescued an American and a Dane in Somalia on Wednesday after a gun battle with pirates holding them hostage. The Navy SEAL teams, who...

Published Wed, Jan 25 2012 5:11 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

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Egypt's shark week: Mossad to blame?

Morning Brief: Malaysian reformer acquitted of sodomy charges

Five minutes to midnight

Around the world economy in 80 minutes

Novelist Arundhati Roy could be charged with sedition

Ethnic cleansing in the kingdom of happiness

Say it ain't so, sumo!

Report: Healthcare horror stories from North Korea

U.S. military brings scientists closer to Ebola cure

Is Obama in any hurry to fix immigration? - By Joshua Keating

Elian Gonzalez gets star treatment on 10th anniversary of return home

The *** truck driver who speaks for Sweden (this week)

Morning Brief: Rescuers suspend Costa Concordia search

Xi's the one?

Morning Brief: Navy SEALs free two hostages in Somalia