By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/14/2024 1:24 PM
The Council of the European Union revealed new sanctions on Monday on seven high-ranking Iranian officials and seven other entities for allegedly providing missile and missile parts to Russia. ... Read full Story
New Delhi rejected the "preposterous imputations" of the Canadian claim, saying it was part of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "political agenda." ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/14/2024 9:43 AM
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer kicked off an international business investment summit aimed at pulling in billions of dollars of foreign money to kickstart Britain's stagnant economy by pledging to slash bureaucracy ... Read full Story
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said 90 of the 125 aircraft, including warplanes, helicopters and drones, were spotted within Taiwan’s air defense identification zone. ... Read full Story
Destroying the roads would be in line with leader Kim Jong Un’s push to cut off ties with South Korea and formally cement it as his country's principal enemy. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/14/2024 8:46 AM
Three U.S.-based economists have won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences for their work examining how institutions are formed and their effect on prosperity. ... Read full Story
Simon Johnson and James Robinson, both British-American, and Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu were commended for their work on "how institutions are formed and affect prosperity." ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/14/2024 6:45 AM
An independent public inquiry got underway in Britain in to the fatal Novichok poisoning of a British woman, four months after a failed assassination attempt with the nerve agent on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/14/2024 5:28 AM
North Korea is preparing to set off explosions on roads connected to South Korea, Seoul's military said Monday, days after Pyongyang announced it would cut off all inter-Korean links. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/14/2024 2:07 AM
Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson of Iceland has dissolved the country's coalition government and has proposed for snap parliamentary elections to be held next month. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/14/2024 12:21 AM
The Chinese military on Monday conducted a large-scale military exercise around Taiwan, prompting stern condemnation from the United States. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/13/2024 11:28 PM
Four Israeli soldiers were killed and more than 60 people were injured Sunday in a Hezbollah drone attack on an Israeli army base, authorities said. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/13/2024 5:21 PM
The Lebanon Ministry of Public Health said Sunday that 51 people were killed and 174 people were wounded from the attacks by Israeli fighters. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/13/2024 1:15 PM
The United Nations' peacekeeping force in Lebanon has warned Israel for the fourth time in as many days against "further flagrant violation of international law." ... Read full Story
By Global News | Sean Boynton | 10/13/2024 11:16 AM
Galia Sopher was camping with her two daughters outside her kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border when Hamas began its deadly attack in the early morning hours of Oct. 7, 2023. ... Read full Story
By Global News | Sean Boynton | 10/13/2024 11:01 AM
Former U.S. national security advisor John Bolton says an attack on Iran's nuclear capabilities will have "maximum impact" after its Oct. 1 missille attack on Israel. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/12/2024 4:38 PM
Scottish political giant and former First Minister Alex Salmond, hailed as the founder of the modern Scottish independence movement, has died at age 69, authorities announced Saturday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/12/2024 11:25 AM
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced "mutually beneficial" trade and defense agreements with representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ... Read full Story
Nicaragua's government, in a statement, said the break in relations was due to Israel's attacks on Palestinian territories and called the Israeli government "fascist". ... Read full Story
English mountaineer Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine vanished on a trek to Mount Everest's summit with his climbing partner George Mallory in 1924. ... Read full Story
“The Handel & Hendrix [House], on 23 and 25 Brook Street in central London, reopens 18 May.... The 18th century German composer George Frideric Handel called number 25 home for some 36 years, up until his death in 1759. Here, he manufactured hits like coronation/Champions League belter Zadok the Priest, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks with such voraciousness, his manuscripts were often bespattered with food and beer stains. Perhaps you'd equate such sloppiness with Jimi Hendrix; his tenancy in a flat at 23 Brook Street was altogether fugacious; he was only here from 1968-9—though in that time, used it for countless interviews, jam sessions—and referred to it as the only place he ever lived that felt like home.” — Will Noble, The Londonist, 18 May 2023
Did you know?
The word fugacious is too rare and unusual to qualify as vanilla, but the vanilla plant itself can be useful for recalling its meaning. Fugacious (which comes from Latin fugax, meaning “swift, fleeting,” and ultimately from fugere, “to run away”) describes the ephemeral—that is, those things in life that last only a brief time before fleeing or fading away. The word is often used to describe immaterial things, such as emotions, but botanists like to apply the word to plant parts (such as seeds, fruits, petals, and leaflets) that are quickly shed or dropped. Vanilla plants, for example, are said to have fugacious blossoms, as their flowers last only a single day during the blooming season. You may remember this the next time you’re baking with vanilla, and perhaps wishing that its rich, fugacious aroma would linger just a little bit longer.