A manhunt is underway in Spain as police search for the driver of a van that plowed into pedestrians on Barcelona’s busiest boulevard Thursday, leaving at least 13 people dead and more than 100 injured. The perpetrator was seen escaping on foot after deliberately driving into crowds of people on Las Ramblas, at around 5:30 […]
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Catalan police say they have killed perpetrators of 'terrorist attack' in town south of Barcelona
Police in Catalonia, Spain said early Friday that they have killed perpetrators of a “terrorist attack” in the town of Cambrils. The police statement did not make clear whether officers believed they had killed perpetrators of some new attack, or if they believed they had killed those responsible for the attack that took place late […]
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Van crashes into pedestrians in Barcelona's city center, injuring multiple people
Barcelona police said a van drove into pedestrians in Barcelona’s city center, injuring multiple people on Thursday. Law enforcement has not specified whether the incident was intentional or accidental in nature. Authorities are urging people to avoid the area around Placa Catalunya. A man on a bus tweeted out a video at the location of […]
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FIREWORKS detonated, smoke wafted over the stage and confetti began to fall. Seventeen thousand fans cheered the European players of Team Liquid, with monikers like “MinD_ContRoL” and “MATUMBAMAN”, who had just triumphed over a Chinese side to win The International, a tournament held in Seattle’s KeyArena on August 7th-12th. In the stands Max Martinez, a […]
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LAST year California Solar Systems (CSS), a small installer of residential solar panels, decided to “Buy American”. It turned to Suniva, a Chinese-owned firm that makes photovoltaic panels in Georgia and Michigan, rather than use cheap imports. But according to CSS’s boss, Bastel Wardak, Suniva was unable to deliver what it promised, leading to unacceptable […]
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“YOU cannot serve both God and money,” admonishes the Bible. But the church has always tried. In the Middle Ages monasteries were what would now be termed social enterprises. They would produce bread, books or other goods. A Franciscan monk is credited with codifying double-entry book-keeping. These days the Catholic church and related institutions control […]
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QIN SHIHUANG was the emperor who first unified China, through bloody conquest more than two millennia ago. Known for starting the Great Wall and burying scholars alive, he has a new claim to fame: the central bank has drawn on his construction of a national road system to help explain its new monetary system. In […]
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BEING tough on China was a constant theme of President Donald Trump’s election campaign. On August 14th he had another chance to wield his presidential pen to show that he is making good on his promises—in this case of a “zero-tolerance policy on intellectual-property theft and forced technology transfer”. With the cameras rolling, he formally […]
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THE Innovation, a 147-metre ship docked in Rotterdam, looks like a cross between an oil rig and a robot from a “Transformers” film. Her crane has been loading on giant pipes throughout the night. Soon the ship will travel to sea, where an automated hammer will drive the pipes into the ocean floor to support […]
Read moreThe number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a six-month low last week, pointing to a further tightening in the labor market that could encourage the Federal Reserve to lay out a plan to start unwinding its massive bond portfolio. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted […]
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