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Childhood Kim Jong Un Photos Revealed At State Concert
North Korea surprised friend and foe by releasing previously unseen childhood photos of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Since the image of the country's leaders has long been a carefully controlled and...
View ArticleJapan's Second Opening
From Project Syndicate U.S. President Barack Obama is visiting Tokyo at a unique moment in my country's history, with Japan's economy moving onto a stable new growth path that will take full advantage...
View ArticlePolitician Found Dead In Ukraine's East, Turchinov Calls For New Operation
KIEV, April 22 (Reuters) - Ukraine's acting president called for the relaunch of an anti-terrorist operation in the east of the country on Tuesday after the body of a local politician from his own...
View ArticleFilmmaker Vanessa Black Gives Ukraine's Crisis A Human Face
During Ukraine's recent political crisis, young American filmmaker Vanessa Black went to Kiev to document the people at the center of the protest movement. Her project, #UkraineRising, aims to show the...
View ArticleCan Washington Ever Please Moscow? (VIDEO)
On this week's episode of Conversations with Nicholas Kralev, two experts discuss the successes and failures of U.S. diplomacy with President Vladimir Putin's Russia, and the need for Washington to be...
View ArticleVice Reporter Simon Ostrovsky Being Held In Eastern Ukraine
NEW YORK -- Vice News reporter Simon Ostrovsky, who has been aggressively covering the conflict in Crimea and Ukraine over the past month, is currently being held by a militia in Eastern Ukraine,...
View ArticleManaging the Economic Transition in Hungary
For most countries in East-Central Europe, capitalism didn't arrive overnight in 1989 or 1990. Even in the more controlled environments like Romania, people could get a taste of capitalism by buying or...
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Do You Know Why The U.S. Is Actually The Worst?
Loving the United States unconditionally is so passé. Nowadays, people are all about using French words like "passé" and digging up facts and studies to point out that the U.S. has a lot of improving...
View ArticleNASA Astronauts Spacewalk To Fix ISS Computer Problem (LIVESTREAM VIDEO)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts easily replaced a dead computer outside the International Space Station on Wednesday and got their orbiting home back up to full strength. The two...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Apologizes After China Slams Japan War Shrine Visit
TOKYO (AP) — Justin Bieber apologized Wednesday to those he offended by visiting a Japanese war shrine, saying he thought it was a beautiful site and only a place of prayer. The Yasukuni Shrine in...
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Google Street View Now Lets You Travel Through Time
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Trips down memory lane are now available on Google's digital maps. The new twist on time travel is debuting Wednesday as part of the "Street View" feature in Google's maps,...
View ArticleWhat Syrian Child Refugees 'Working The Streets' In Lebanon Really Means
Khaled, an 11-year-old Syrian boy living in Beirut, often works until 4 am begging partygoers for money. He's one of countless refugee children in the Lebanese capital whose parents rely on them to...
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The One Chart That Explains Our Grim Economic Future
If you're looking for somebody to blame for rising inequality, blame babies. Or, rather, the fact that there soon won't be enough of them. A drop-off in population growth is a big reason why global...
View ArticleChelsea Manning Granted Name Change Request
BY JOHN MILBURN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge granted a request Wednesday to formally change the name of the soldier convicted of leaking classified documents to...
View ArticleNew Clues About Cause Of South Korean Ferry Disaster
MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — A maritime professor who spoke with the third mate who was steering the South Korean ferry before it sank said Wednesday that he suspects there was a problem with the steering...
View ArticleRussia Vows Response If Citizens Attacked In Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday promised a firm response if its citizens or interests come under attack in Ukraine — a vow that came after Ukraine announced a renewal of...
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Launching a New Newspaper in Cuba: How-To?
In these times, when the great media of the press barely seem to survive the crisis, many are wondering, how can we make a good newspaper? The question includes not only choosing content, but also how...
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Something Strange Just Happened To SodaStream
(Reuters) - Shares in SodaStream International Ltd rose as much as 17 percent on Wednesday after the Israeli business newspaper Globes said Starbucks Corp was in advanced talks to buy 10 percent of the...
View ArticleMaskirovka: Russia's Masterful Use of Deception in Ukraine
President Putin's game plan in Ukraine becomes clearer day by day despite Russia's excellent, even brilliant, use of its traditional maskirovka. Russia applied maskirovka successfully against Nazi...
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The Harrowing Journey Syrians Make To Escape War (PHOTOS)
MOUNT HERMON, Lebanon (AP) — As the late-day sun slipped behind the mountains in front of them, a ragtag group of around a dozen Syrians desperate to flee their country's bloody civil war set off on...
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