Experts were stunned after Swiss citizens voted “yes” to amend the constitution in favor of banning minarets, a measure many thought would be rejected. It also sent ripples of anxiety across the country’s Muslim community, which makes up about six percent of Switzerland’s population. Championed by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party, the initiative was backed [...]
Senior administration officials said Sunday that President Barack Obama plans to lay out a time frame for winding down the American involvement in the war in Afghanistan when he announces his decision this week to send more forces. The officials said that although the speech was still in draft form, the president wanted to use [...]
Next spring, the popular American Girl doll shop will open its first Colorado location in the Park Meadows mall in Denver. According to a news release, Mattel Inc. subsidiary American Girl Brands LLC is slated to occupy 8,500 square feet in the new Vistas outdoor retail-and-dining area of the Lone Tree mall. It will be [...]
Annie Lennox was one of a number of high-profile speakers at a briefing on the subject of HIV stigma at the Houses of Parliament on Monday. The event was hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and the community research team. The first results of The People Living [...]
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Golf champion Tiger Woods continues to evade investigators and tabloids but issued an apology to his fans Sunday on his website. Woods wrote, “As you all know, I had a single-car accident earlier this week, and sustained some injuries. I have some cuts, bruising and right now I’m pretty sore. … This is a private [...]
Sister of singer Jessica Simpson and young wife of rock star Pete Wentz, Ashlee will reprise her role in the popular Broadway musical, Chicago, which she launched in the London stage. Ashlee will again play Roxie Hart as she joins the cast of the Tony award-winning Kander and Ebb musical. Simpson-Wentz will only play until [...]
The Global Language Monitor released its yearly list of the most popular words and phrases and and declared Twitter, the 140 character wonder, the most popular English word for the year 2009. Twitter beat the words Obama (#2), H1N1 (#3), Stimulus (#4), and Vampire (#5). Last year’s word was Change, President Obama’s campaign mantra. Obama [...]
