China to US: Be 'cool-headed' on North Korea
Updated 0051 GMT (0851 HKT) March 19, 2017
China urged the United States to take a "cool-headed" approach to escalating tensions with North Korea, calling for a diplomatic solution to North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in the Chinese capital Saturday after issuing the administration's bluntest warning yet to North Korea, saying that no option -- including military action -- is off the table.
For two hours, Tillerson met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, who said the United States should "come back to the right track of a negotiated settlement."
How Erdoğan’s ruthless drive for more power is shaking a divided Europe
The Turkish president’s bid to widen his powers by campaigning during the Dutch elections has sparked an all-out crisis
The ruthless drive by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s pugnacious president, to expand his already considerable executive powers knows no bounds. Even cows are not safe. At the height of last week’s furious row with the Netherlands, Turkey’s red-meat producers’ association said it was expelling 40 Holstein Friesian cattle. Dutch cows, like Dutch diplomats, were no longer welcome in Turkey.
If the political backdrop were not so deadly serious, the bovine ban might be funny. But Erdoğan’s rude push to take partisan campaigning in Turkey’s fraught 16 April referendum on expanded presidential powers to the doorsteps of western Europe’s four-million-strong Turkish diaspora is no laughing matter. It has sparked an all-out crisis in Turkey-Europe relations that had been threatening to erupt for years.
It's time for Mississippi to follow in the footsteps of New Orleans – and ditch the Confederate banner
The Saddam Hussein moment is coming to New Orleans – you remember the roping and toppling of his statue in Baghdad – at a time when we are on full alert to gathering evidence that the election of Donald Trump has emboldened America’s bigots and racists
Sauntering the flagstones atop the seawall in Charleston last summer I couldn’t miss a man in antique military garb brandishing the banner of the Confederacy. Given the events in the city not long before – the slaughter of nine worshipers by Dylann Roof at an African Methodist Church across from where I was staying – I had to stop and talk. Who knew he’d turn out to be British?
The man – he declined to give his name on account of his pursuing a Green Card – bristled at the notion that his Sunday afternoon ritual (apparently he is a regular on the wall) might be, at best, wrong-headed. He offered that old argument about not ignoring or burying history, freighting it with a short lecture about all the British who perished fighting the Union Army.
PEDs on the PitchThe Lie of Drug-Free Football
It is often said that taking performance enhancing drugs makes no sense for soccer players. Then why do so many do so? An internal list from the World Anti-Doping Agency reveals the substances players have been caught using. And shows that football officials seek to play down the issue.
How often have we heard people make the asinine claim that doping in soccer wouldn't help? Legendary German player Franz Beckenbauer has said as much, as have myriad lesser football luminaries such as Guido Buchwald, Theo Zwanziger, Ewald Lienen, Robin Dutt and current Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp.Mehmet Scholl, a former Bayern Munich star and current TV commentator, even once explained why it wouldn't work. Football, he said, is too complex. "Let's assume that you take something to build up your muscles, your coordination would suffer. If you take something for conditioning, you'll get slower." According to Mehmet.
Rising temperatures mean shrinking villages in coastal Greenland
Each summer, more and more people move away from Kulusuk, leaving behind rows of abandoned homes in the streets of this small town in Greenland. During her yearly visits to this coastal village, our Observer has witnessed this migration trend firsthand as increasing temperatures impact the ability of the residents to earn their livelihood and practise local traditions.
Johanna Björk Sveinbjörndóttir is an Icelandic anthropologist. Most of the year, she lives and works in Berlin, Germany. However, every summer since 2013, she has traveled to Greenland where she has a seasonal job working in a hotel in the small village of Kulusuk. She also studies life in this small village, especially widespread emigration of its residents. Since 2015, she has been developing a photo project documenting this trend. She shares her photos on Facebook and Instagram under the hashtag #abandonedkulusuk. Many of her images capture the empty homes in the town.
Greenland experienced unprecedented temperature spikes in 2016, causing the country's huge ice sheet to melt. Scientists warn that if it melted entirely, global sea level would rise by at least seven metres.
Murder in the Lucky
Holiday Hotel
Five years ago, China's most charismatic politician was toppled from power. His disgrace allowed his great rival to dominate the political stage in a way unseen in China since the days of Chairman Mao.
All this was made possible by a murder.
And the story of that murder begins not in China but in a British seaside town.
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