By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/21/2025 10:58 AM
With Donald Trump having officially declared that a 25% reciprocal tariff on all South Korean exports will take effect Aug. 1, swift diplomatic engagement is urgent. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/21/2025 9:52 AM
A Russian airborne assault on the Ukrainian capital killed at least one person and injured 9 while Ukraine hit back, sending drones deep into Russian territory. ... Read full Story
The KM Barcelona V-A caught fire around midday Sunday while making its regular half-day journey between two ports in the North Sulawesi province. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/21/2025 7:11 AM
Israel launched a ground offensive in central Gaza for the first time, ordering out many thousands of Gazans who had sought the relative safety of the area. ... Read full Story
Several Canadian civil society organizations are calling on Ottawa to invest $1.37 billion over three years for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/21/2025 6:01 AM
A South Korean special counsel team said Monday that it has summoned former President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over election meddling charges. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/21/2025 5:25 AM
Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and his Liberal Democratic Party were projected to lose their majority coalition government in Japan's Upper House of Parliament on Monday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/21/2025 3:52 AM
Ecuadorian gang leader Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar has been extradited to the United States, where he is expected to make his first court appearance on Monday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/21/2025 12:48 AM
At least three people are dead after a passenger ship carrying nearly 300 people caught fire in Indonesian waters on Sunday, authorities said. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/20/2025 4:53 PM
China is preventing a Chinese American banker for Wells Fargo and, separately, an employee of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from leaving the country. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/20/2025 2:20 PM
Typhoon Wipha slammed ashore along the southern Chinese coast Sunday evening, after drenching Hong Kong and Macau with heavy rain and whipping wind, the Guangdong meteorological service said. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/20/2025 1:55 PM
Russia faced a penetrating barrage of drones from Ukraine over the weekend that caused all four of Moscow's major airports to close amid the intensifying war. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/20/2025 12:56 PM
Japan's leader Shigeru Ishiba faces mounting political pressure as his ruling coalition is set to lose its majority in the House of Councilors on Sunday. ... Read full Story
The Kremlin has insisted that any peace deal should see Ukraine withdraw from the four regions that Russia illegally annexed in September 2022, but never fully captured. ... Read full Story
The KM Barcelona 5 was headed to Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province, from Talaud, an island district in the province when it caught fire in waters near Talise. ... Read full Story
Seven Palestinians were also killed while sheltering in tents in Khan Younis, including a five-year-old boy, according to the Kuwait Specialized Field Hospital ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 7/19/2025 7:38 PM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants cease-fire negotiations next week and would be willing to meet directly and Russian President Vladimir Putin. ... Read full Story
"Shell art isn't a new genre; it's been with us for centuries. The Victorians often framed their family photos with shells. ... The medium also came to the fore in the 1970s when everything was embellished with shells, from photo frames and mirrors to trinket boxes and even furniture." — Stephen Crafti, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2025
Did you know?
Embellish came to English, by way of Anglo-French, from the Latin word bellus, meaning "beautiful." It's in good company: modern language is adorned with bellus descendants. Examples include such classics as beauty, belle, and beau. And the beauty of bellus reaches beyond English: its influence is seen in the French bel, a word meaning "beautiful" that is directly related to the English embellish. And in Spanish, bellus is evidenced in the word bello, also meaning "beautiful."