Lawyers for U.S., Iranian captives celebrate prisoner swap
By Nell Gluckman, From The Am Law Daily After a tense night filled with stops and starts, lawyers helping to win reporter Jason Rezaian’s release from an Iranian prison learned Sunday that their year-and-a-half- long effort had finally come to an…
Obama’s message of hope over hate is an example to us all
By Anne Perkins From The Guardian UK With migrants being blamed for attacks on women in Germany on New Year’s Eve, the US presidents message of moderation in his State of the Union address could not have been more timely…
Zika virus may be transmitted through sex
By lisaparavisini From Repeating Islands A virologist at the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, has suggested that Zika virus infection is the only vector-borne disease that may be transmitted by sexual intercourse, St Lucia Online reports. The first…
DEUTSCHE BANK: Stay calm, the grownups are coming back
By Greg McKenna, From Business Insider Australia Last week was not a fun one. Markets, investors, and traders were gripped with an acute bout of risk aversion as fear swept through. Stocks around the globe tanked. In the US, the…
prints and t-shirts by Yeah
Typographic prints and t-shirts by Yeah Awesome Wow Nice From Designer Daily The least you could say is that the designer duo behind YAWN chose a quite enthusiastic name for releasing their illustrations and prints. The acronym YAWN means Yeah…
Sweden tightens border with Denmark to keep out migrants
BY MEGAN SPECIA From Mashable Sweden has tightened border controls for those arriving by train, bus and ferry in an attempt to halt the flow of migrants and refugees into the country from mainland Europe. The new rules went into…
Man dies after condom machine explosion
From The Local de A young man from western Germany died in tragic circumstances on Christmas Eve after blowing up a condom machine with a homemade bomb. The 29-year-old from Münster was hit by a steel shard from the condom…
Virgin Islanders seek reparations from Denmark
By Vinette K. Pryce From Caribbean Life Britain and the United States are not alone with indebtedness to African s transported against their will from the continent to be sold into slavery. Although Portugal and Spain have also been maligned…
Lamborghini’s Huracán Spyder
Lamborghini’s Huracán Spyder is the cure for arachnophobia By Nick Jaynes From Mashable It’s a nippy 56 degrees Fahrenheit at the Frankfurt Auto Show — hardly convertible weather. Despite that, though, Italian supercar-maker Lamborghini is putting its hot-blooded bona fides…
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Community Events NGCI tIDal shift Mark your Calendar! You’re invited to a special Young Patrons’ Circle late night event in conjunction with NGCI’s newest exhibition… Friday, 16 October 2015, 5pm – 10pm Join us at the National Gallery of the…