"It's a disaster" was 47-year-old auto worker Ronny Dupon's reaction on Friday after General Motors announced the closure of its Opel plant in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Playboy Enterprises Inc on Tuesday named an 11-year veteran of the adult entertainment company as president, while its chief ...
Playboy elects Scott Flanders, head of Freedom Communications, as chief executive Playboy Enterprises Inc. says it has hired Freedom Communications Inc. Chief Executive Scott N. Flanders to lead the company. Flanders' election as CEO ends a five-month search for a new leader ...
The Last Witness. The War Landscape of the Ypres Salient Cloth Hall, Ypres, until 19 November Visitors to the once devastated but now completely reconstructed and rather charming little town of Ypres will find themselves bowing the head to 54,896 dead soldiers ...
The Guardian, June 12 1954 Senator Joseph McCarthy was all over the front pages again this morning, but the instinct that put him there was for once not his. It looked as if, finally, an impulse of moral revulsion had galvanised the ...
Belgian Tom Boonen has been given ample warning not to expect an easy six hours in the saddle when he puts his title, and his pride, on the line at the prestigious Paris-Roubaix classic on Sunday. Boonen's Quick Step team appear to ...
A man went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbing two young children and a female worker to death and slashing 12 others all over their bodies, officials said. Sobbing parents rushed to the scene and to the ...
Beth Flanders was on her way to China to adopt her 17-month-old daughter in September when she received a warning from her adoption agency: An industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones had been found in Chinese baby formula, and parents should ...
The Great War, ninety years on. Quiet and Brave The Great War, ninety years on. By Alex Massie, November 10, 2008 And then there were three. Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110 and William Stone, a mere stripling at 108, are the ...
I'm a fan of Remembrance Day celebrations. As you get older the horrors of war, especially the peculiar horror of static trench warfare during 1914-18, become more vivid, along with the scale of the slaughter. But I have begun to worry about ...
Belgian political leaders were today holding urgent talks to resolve a new dispute between the Dutch-speaking Flemish majority and the French-speaking minority. The crisis, which threatens to break up the country, broke out on Monday when the Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme, ...
Belgium is in political meltdown, its premier having offered to resign over apparently irreconcilable differences between the Dutch-speaking Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons and, specifically, over more devolution of economic powers to the prosperous (Flemish) north. For a country that's rarely in ...
