by Noah Smith | Jul 31, 2017 | Opinion
A little more than one week ago, Stanford University mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani died at the age of 40 after a battle with breast cancer. In that short lifetime, she accomplished more than most of us ever will. Mirzakhani was one of the world’s greatest...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 22, 2017 | World
An Israeli-American teenager, in custody in the Jewish State after being arrested there in March, was hit with US charges on Friday for making dozens of hoax telephone threats to Jewish community centers. FBI Director James Comey said in a Justice Department statement...
by ADAM GOLDMAN | Jan 7, 2017 | World
WASHINGTON — The wife of a 74-year-old Massachusetts man revealed for the first time that her husband had been abducted in Afghanistan more than two years ago while trying to interview the head of the Haqqani militant network, a Taliban faction. In an article...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 16, 2016 | World
A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in the South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic protest from the United States and a demand for its return, a U.S. defense official told...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Nov 18, 2016 | Opinion
The majority of Americans voted for Hillary Clinton and she won the popular vote by at least one million votes. However, the presidency went to her rival Donald Trump because he won the electoral college. This contradiction previously occurred in the 2000 elections,...