The American government conducted a major intelligence offensive against China, with targets including the Chinese government and networking company Huawei, according to documents from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that have been […]
The American government conducted a major intelligence offensive against China, with targets including the Chinese government and networking company Huawei, according to documents from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that have been […]
The US is preparing to hand over five Guantanamo Bay detainees to Uruguay. José Mujica, the president of the South American nation has agreed to accept the detainees as refugees on the […]
In February 2014, Spain’s brand new studio album, Sargent Place was released. Produced by Gus Seyffert (The Black Keys, Beck, Norah Jones), mixed by Darrell Thorp (Beck, Radiohead, Atoms For Peace, Paul […]
An Afghan designer and former refugee has developed a low-cost, wind-powered mine detonating device inspired by the toys he played with as a child. Massoud Hassani’s Mine Kafon is composed almost entirely […]
Yoshiaki Nagasawa is a Japanese bicycle frame builder who builds primarily Keirin track racing bicycles. He has a one-man shop near Osaka, Japan. He studied building under Ugo De Rosa of De […]
The deadly epidemic, which has killed at least 59 people, in Guinea, West Africa, and could have spread to neighboring Sierra Leone, has been confirmed to be Ebola, according to government officials. […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed that the country’s air force shot down a Syrian aircraft for violating Turkish airspace, an action that Syria denounced as “unprecedented and unjustifiable”. The […]
World Cup songs – and almost all official football songs, if we’re honest – are rarely anything to celebrate. But this year’s, unveiled on Friday night’s Sport Relief, is something of a […]
“Heart Shaped Box” is a killer song by Nirvana. It captures a certain kind of lethargic, mid-’90s teenage angst so well that unfortunately it forever bears the distinction of sounding exactly like […]
Frank Pleyer (July 28, 1929 – January 3, 2006) was a Czech composer and arranger. He also used his pseudonym for certain works: Joe Fender. Pleyer received music lessons at the music […]