by David Brooks | Oct 20, 2017 | Opinion
Richard Thaler has just won an extremely well deserved Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler took an obvious point, that people don’t always behave rationally, and showed the ways we are systematically irrational. Thanks to his work and others’, we know a lot more about...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday. Almost all the deaths, 92 percent, happened in low- and middle-income countries, researchers said,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | World
Japan’s Emperor Akihito will step down on March 31, 2019 and the Crown Prince is expected to ascend the throne in April, a report said Friday, the first imperial retirement in more than two centuries. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet top officials and members...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | World
A 32-year-old Syrian man was arrested Thursday in the northeastern Greek city of Alexandroupolis over suspected links with terrorist group ISIS, police said Friday. The arrest came following a complaint that was his wife filed against him over domestic abuse,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | World
Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are seeing a “hell on earth” by living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. Up to 12,000 more...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 20, 2017 | Middle East
Tel Aviv – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s bureau chief Yoav Horowitz have requested that the Jewish National Fund (JNF) help raise 4 billion Israeli Shekel ($1.14 billion) for defense and military budget. An audio recording of a secret session held...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | Middle East
Iraqi forces took control of Altun Kupri on Friday, the last district in Kirkuk still in the hands of Kurds, following a three-hour battle, security sources said. The town is 50 km far from the city of Erbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region. Kurdish forces...
by Priya Ramesh | Oct 20, 2017 | Sports
London — In Graham Swift’s novel Waterland his narrator, a history teacher going through a mid-life crisis, says: “And where history does not undermine and set traps for itself in such an openly perverse way, it creates this insidious longing to revert. It begets this...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | Middle East
A suspected US drone strike targeting a car killed three alleged Al-Qaeda members, including a leader in the southern Yemen province of Abyan, local officials said Friday. They said the strike was carried out late Thursday in the Sumaa area of the province, engulfing...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | Middle East
The defeat of ISIS in its Syrian bastion of Raqqa was a “historic” achievement, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces that led the months-long battle said Friday, adding the city would be part of decentralized Syria. “We dedicate this historic...
