Tuesday June 24th, US consumer confidence expected to rise (to 83.5 from 83) Although confidence is expected to pick up, it should come as no surprise that US consumers are still less chirpy than they were before the crash of
Number 10 is claiming that British Prime Minister David Cameron has “won agreement” on a vote on the future president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch. The claim follows a meeting in London today between Cameron and Herman
ESPN’s telecast of the United States men’s soccer team’s thrilling and heartbreaking 2-2 draw with Portugal on Sunday evening was the most-watched soccer match in U.S. history. When combined with the number of viewers on Spanish-language Univision, the match’s audience
Mira Slovak, 84, who made world headlines in 1953 when he hijacked his DC-3 and flew it from Czechoslovakia to West Germany, has died at the age of 83 in Fallbrook, California. Slovak, the youngest captain in the state-run Czechoslovakian
July 28, 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of World War I, the first truly modern war that nearly destroyed European civilization. This terrible conflict, one that the intellectual elite of the time said could not happen, opened the door
The U.S. men’s soccer team’s heartbreaking 2-2 draw against Portugal in the Amazon jungle on Sunday night was the highest-rated World Cup broadcast ever on ESPN. The match averaged a 9.1 overnight rating, which, according to Nielsen, beat the previous
Some call them renegade academics, others call them euro contrarians, Chancellor Angela Merkel calls them a headache. The new Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD) is upsetting German political dogma, and EU politics. The party is led by a small band
Prime Minister David Cameron will attempt to force fellow EU leaders to vote on who should head the bloc’s executive body if they try to impose Jean-Claude Juncker, Downing Street sources said Sunday. Cameron, who views the former long-serving Luxembourg
Britain’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which is usually pro-wind power, has criticised plans to build 47 wind turbines in Flow Country in the Scottish Highlands, home to the rare Wood Sandpiper (Tringa Glareola), which has only
Nearly half of all refugees offered asylum last year in the 28 member states of the European Union were from the Muslim countries of Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia, with Syrians accounting for 25 percent of all successful asylum applications. Figures
(Reuters) – Battle-hardened jihadists returning from Syria’s civil war are no longer an ‘abstract threat’ but a ‘deadly danger’ to Europe, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday. An estimated 2,000 Europeans, including some 320 German citizens, have travelled
The U.S. soccer team drew the Group of Death in Brazil. But they may have life after the first round. The squad’s defeat of Ghana raised their hopes of advancing. Stats guru Nate Silver puts the Americans’ chances of moving
An 89-year-old man has been arrested and denied bail in the United States for alleged war crimes as a teenage Nazi guard at Auschwitz. Johann Breyer, a retired machinist born in Czechoslovakia to a US mother, admits joining the Waffen
A Parisian court has given Andre Bamberski a one-year suspended prison sentence for his involvement in the kidnapping of the man who murdered his daughter. Bamberski’s daughter Kalinka was killed in 1982 in Germany by her stepfather. Bamberski waged a
Berlin has banned the logo of the California-based Hells Angels from its city, viewing aspects of it “as symbols of a criminal organization.” The first Hells Angels charter was outlawed in Hamburg in 1983, but the move to ban the
The Italian parliament will debate civil unions for gays — “unioni gay”– in September, with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promising that homosexual couples will have the same rights as married heterosexual couples, including pensions and inheritance guarantees. The only differences
The United States men’s soccer team’s thrilling World Cup victory over Ghana in their World Cup opener on Monday evening drew the highest-ever rating for a World Cup game on ESPN. The match “averaged a 7.0 overnight rating” and, according to
Los Angeles celebrated the Kings’ second Stanley Cup victory on Monday with a parade and rally that saw tens of thousands of people lining the streets in a raucous on downtown LA. Later that day, the streets filled with World
Finally, the United States men’s soccer team beat their nemesis Ghana in the World Cup. It took 33 seconds for Clint Dempsey to open the scoring to establish control of the U.S. squad after Landon Donovan was left off and
If California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari wants any chance at winning the general election against incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown later this year, he will have to persuade a sizable chunk of the state’s Independent and Democratic voters to vote
A Chinese football fan has reportedly died after spending days awake watching the opening games of the World Cup in a marathon TV session. The 25-year-old man from Suzhou, a city of eastern China, stayed up “for days” to watch
NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Jurgen Klinsmann speaks with pragmatism. He books his airline tickets with hope. The U.S. coach caused a stir in the lead-up to soccer’s championship when he said that “I think for us now, talking about winning
German President Joachim Gauck said the German army should be more involved abroad. After WWII, Germany has been reluctant to be involved in any mission that requires troops. Germany is America’s most important ally on the European continent and the
Lionel Messi will be attempting to cement his legacy as an all-time great when Argentina tackle Bosnia-Hercegovina in their World Cup Group F opener in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. Trophies, plaudits and individual honours have rained down upon the
BERLIN (Reuters) – The Alternative for Germany (AfD) failed to make as big a splash in European elections last month as its eurosceptic counterparts in France and Britain. But that may be about to change. Less than a month after the vote,
