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Founding member of The Doors dies at 74

Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:33 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of...

Learning about growth from austerity

Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 08:27 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of high levels of public (and private) debt relative to GDP has an...

Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51

Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 07:23 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

    A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile (800 meters) wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary...

Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago

Monday, 20 May 2013, 16:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park...

South Korea: North Korea fires 5th projectile into waters

Monday, 20 May 2013, 11:36 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

South Korea says North Korea has fired a short-range projectile into its own eastern waters — for the fifth time in three days.   Pyongyang regularly conducts short-range missile...

Nationalism, madness, and terrorism

Monday, 20 May 2013, 08:26 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer almost certainly does not lie in Dagestan, where the brothers lived...

Plane crashes at Turkish airshow; pilot killed

Sunday, 19 May 2013, 16:42 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

    Turkey's state-run news agency says a jet has crashed during an airshow in southern Turkey, killing its pilot.   The Anadolu Agency says there were no other casualties...

Up to 60 injured after car drives into US parade

Sunday, 19 May 2013, 09:18 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

    An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical...

Merkel and Pope talk about a 'strong' Europe

Saturday, 18 May 2013, 18:42 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the importance of Christian voters in September elections, met with Pope Francis on Saturday during a quick trip to Rome that focused on...

South Korea says North Korea fires 3 short-range missiles

Saturday, 18 May 2013, 17:31 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

    North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came...

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