Widow Shah Jan sits in an icy room with mud walls in a snowfield on the edge of Kabul. She wipes her tears with the edge of her grimy sweater as she recalls the day in August 1999 when the Taliban set fire to her home in the vineyards of the Shomali Plain and kidnapped her best friend, Nafiza
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Hey Ireland, Please Drop the World Cup Do-Over
I’m Irish. OK, I don’t sport any shamrock tattoos, and you have to go back to my great, great grandmother to find a relative who was born on the Emerald Isle
Cranberries not done yet, says singer O’Riordan
Dolores O’Riordan is singing “Linger” while playing a gleaming white guitar that’s almost half her size.