MALMO, Sweden – Marcus Eilenberg is a Swedish Jew whose family roots in Malmo go back to the 19th century.His paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found shelter in this southern Swedish city in 1945.His wife's parents fled to Sweden from communist Poland in the 1960s.Now the 32-year-old law firm associate feels the welcome for Jews is running out, and he is moving to Israel wi
SEOUL – GM Daewoo Auto and Technology, the South Korean unit of General Motors, is recalling more than 58,000 vehicles due to manufacturing defects, government officials said Sunday.The recall affects vehicles sold in South Korea but will be expanded to include those sold abroad, according to GM Daewoo, the country's third largest carmaker.It gave no immediate idea of the size of the forei
A boat made of 12,000 plastic bottles has set sail on a voyage from San Francisco to Sydney to spread awareness about pollution in the world's oceans.Eco-warrior and banking heir David De Rothschild and his crew set out on the appropriately named Plastiki catamaran.Their 11,000 nautical mile journey will go past the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a sea of waste about five times the size of the UK
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan – Afghans have travelled from across their war-ravaged country to the northern city of Mazar-I-Sharif united behind one wish: that the advent of the new year will bring them peace.Up to half a million people are in the city, police said, to mark the spring equinox and the first day of the traditional Persian new year, called Nowruz and celebrated across Central
LONDON – Whether wrapped in newspaper and eaten with greasy fingers or served on white china with silver cutlery, fish and chips has come a long way since it began 150 years ago.But the traditional British dish, celebrating a landmark anniversary this year, still boasts pride of place in British culture.The dish has survived the arrival of McDonalds and the trend for healthy and organic fo
REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beneath a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency said Sunday.The eruption occurred around 11:30 p.m.Saturday beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, the fifth largest glacier in Iceland.The volcano is covered by an ice cap.Fearing flooding from the glacier melt, authorities evacuated
LONDON That idea came only a few days after the Greeks, furious over earlier German criticism of their spending habits, suggested the Germans could solve the problem by making reparations for gold stolen during the Nazi invasion. They took away the Greek money and they never gave it back, Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos said. This is an issue that has to be faced sometime in the future.
It might not seem that remarkable for a ragtag group of friends to come up with a computer game in a dusty back office.But the Iranian engineering students, programmers and fantasy animators who created have not only impressed foreign companies with their product.They have also proved that young Iranians can carve out opportunities for themselves against a backdrop of international sanctions, do
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