Enlarge image Better than expected: Economic growth was higher in the third quarter than first thought. Here, a worker at a Ford plant in Michigan plugs a batter into a Ford C-MAX plug-in hybrid vehicle. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Better than expected: Economic growth was higher in the third quarter than first thought. Here, a worker
Enlarge image Spinach has lots of opportunities to pick up E. coli and other bugs during harvest and growing. Here, a Mexican migrant worker cuts organic spinach during the fall harvest at Grant Family Farms in Wellington, Co. John Moore/Getty Images Spinach has lots of opportunities to pick up E. coli and other bugs during
Enlarge image Britain’s tabloids ruined many lives, a judge concludes. Now, he’s recommending more oversight. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Britain’s tabloids ruined many lives, a judge concludes. Now, he’s recommending more oversight. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Saying that the British news media have “caused real hardship and, on occasion, wreaked havoc with the lives of innocent people
Twin car bombs ripped through a Damascus suburb on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people and leaving dozens critically wounded, according to state media and hospital officials. The state news agency, SANA, said two cars packed with explosives detonated early in the morning in the eastern Jaramana suburb, a district that is mostly loyal to
Enlarge image This protester in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last night had a message for Egypt’s president. Khalil Hamra/AP This protester in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last night had a message for Egypt’s president. Khalil Hamra/AP Police have fired tear gas again in Cairo’s Tahrir Square as authorities try to disperse several hundred protesters who are angry
NPR Shanghai correspondent Frank Langfitt sends in an update on one of this week’s more amusing stories: China’s Web surfers have had a lot to say about how People’s Daily Online — the Communist Party’s mouthpiece — got fooled into republishing a “story” by The Onion that declared North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is
Enlarge Frank Langfitt/NPR Authorities in Hunan province sentenced Tang Hui to 18 months in a re-education through labor camp after she repeatedly complained about the way police investigated the case of her daughter’s kidnapping and forced prostitution. An uproar on Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, pushed authorities to free Tang a week and a half
A grand bargain, a compromise to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, could all come down to one word: revenue. It’s now widely agreed that steering away from the cliff — the combination of spending cuts and tax increases set to hit at the start of the year — will require some combination of revenue increases
Enlarge image The National Restaurant Association says getting restaurants to focus on the food waste problem is a big challenge. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The National Restaurant Association says getting restaurants to focus on the food waste problem is a big challenge. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A row of restaurants in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington,
Lindsay Lazarski/Newsworks.org A letter from 1947 written by Dorothy Fallon to Lynn Farnham washed up on the shore in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY) Enlarge Lindsay Lazarski for NPR Katheleen Chaney reads one of the love letters she found on the beach near her home in New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy. Lindsay
This is the time of year when people all over the country are coming together and getting food to needy families, but for one community in Manchester, N.H., private acts of charity aren’t just a holiday tradition — they are a display of anarchist and libertarian principles. On a recent day, about 50 people gathered
Enlarge John Minchillo/AP A member of the Red Cross distributes food to residents of Coney Island affected by Superstorm Sandy in the Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 9. John Minchillo/AP A member of the Red Cross distributes food to residents of Coney Island affected by Superstorm Sandy in the Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 9. More than