LONDON: A new Lonely Planet guide to Great Britain features an entire chapter on the country’s little-known Islamic heritage, which stretches back more than 1,200 years. Published this month, “Experience Great Britain” is part of the publisher’s range of “anti-guidebooks,” so-called because of the unique local perspectives they offer travelers. The guide to Britain has...
A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on September 28, 2022. Jung Yeon-je | AFP | Getty Images North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Saturday, hours before South...
There are certain weekends during the college football season fans of the game live for. Rivalry week, conference championship Saturday and the College Football Playoff weekend all come to mind. Bryce Young of the Alabama Crimson Tide throws a pass against the Vanderbilt Commodores during the first half of a game at Bryant-Denny Stadium Sept....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles, its neighbors said, the fourth round this week of weapons launches that prompted quick, strong condemnation from its rivals. In an unusually strong rebuke of North Korea’s weapons programs, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said North Korea’s “obsession” with nuclear...
A 7-2 week moves us to 19-11. I’ve given out three straight winners in the NFL as well in our Wednesday Head-to-Head segment, but adding that on to the official record, would be tacky. I’m many things — tacky ain’t one of them. So, we are officially 19-11. You want nine more? That’s convenient —...
It only took three weeks of the season to jar our memory about how unpredictable the NFL can be, and how a few cluster injuries can drastically shift a team’s fortunes. For six days straight, we absorb as much data as possible, set our notifications for injury updates, track weather patterns, and even dissect coaches’...
Some thoughts on running backs in Week 4: Dalvin Cook, Minnesota VikingsThe injury to Cook doesn’t look as bad as it appeared on Sunday. The Vikings listed him as questionable for Sunday’s game with a shoulder issue. I will give him 55% of their running attempts until I have a better update on his status....
1 The Colts got the best of him in Week 3, but let’s face it: No. 15 remains the most reliable contemporary play-maker at the position. He’s allowed an imperfect outing every once in a while, and his chemistry with new wideouts should only improve. 2 He couldn’t quite close it out against the Dolphins,...
“Many young people hate fashion,” said the Dior designer Maria Grazia Chiuri, backstage before her grand show in the Tuileries garden that has opened Paris fashion week. “They hate fashion because to them, brands are part of an establishment system which represents power,” she added, in an eye-catchingly frank insider assessment of fashion’s problematic status....
Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em is the ultimate look at the best and worst matchups based on a PPR scoring system in fantasy football. This column will not cover the elite players in the NFL like Josh Allen, Jonathan Taylor or Cooper Kupp. Instead, I’ll look at the players you have questions about who could exceed...