Thursday is "Chinese night" at the Hotel Silk Road in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province. (CNN) — Thursday is “Chinese night” at the Hotel Silk Road in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province. Hungry guests sip cans of Coke and nonalcoholic beer and pick at a buffet that includes General Tsao’s chicken, egg drop soup and slices of sweet green melon grown in nearby fields.
Tag Archives: inspiration
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy dead at 77
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died Wednesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77.
Australia complete innings win over England
Australia completed a comprehensive victory over England in the fourth Ashes Test at Headingley, Leeds, winning by an innings and 80 runs inside three days to level the series at 1-1 with just the deciding Test match at The Oval still to play. Resuming the third morning in a seemingly impossible position, trailing by 261 runs on 82 for five after Australia’s first innings 445, England’s daunting task became all the more difficult when they lost two wickets inside the first hour.
Many French Don’t Like Law Allowing More Sunday Shopping
Never on a Sunday? Not anymore in France, where the upper house of Parliament ended a bruising, two-year political battle by giving final approval to a law that will allow some stores to trade on the seventh day. Conservative supporters hail the law as a reformist boost for France’s recession-stalled economy
David Bowie’s son releases space oddity ‘Moon’
"This is ground control to Major Tom," sang David Bowie about a fictional astronaut lost in orbit in 1969. Now, 40 years later Bowie’s son Duncan Jones has released his own space oddity.
Latinos rejoice in Sotomayor nomination
Cecilia Lopez, a student who is the first person from her family to go to college, sees something of herself in the first Hispanic woman to be nominated to the U.S.
Holy Union: Polish Monk Pens Divine-Sex Guide
Sex in marriage does not need to be practiced with lights off; it can be “saucy, surprising and fantasy-packed” and at the same time without sin, says a monk in a book that has become a best seller in predominantly Catholic and conservative Poland. In Sex As You Don’t Know It: For Married Couples Who Love God, published in April, Franciscan Father Ksawery Knotz offers theological and practical advice for married couples who want to spice up their sex lives, all the while assuring them they are doing nothing wrong.
Football First XI: Best former Eastern Bloc players
The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago and in that time the world game has opened its arms to a tidal wave of talent from behind the former Iron Curtain. Here, Football Fanzone picks the 11 finest footballers to emerge from the old Eastern Bloc since 1989
Israel’s New Coalition Won’t Make Obama’s Job Easier
“Unsustainable.” That was President Barack Obama’s blunt assessment on Tuesday night of the current state of affairs between Israel and the Palestinians.
Family of 5 weathers economy with 7 housemates
Chris and Georgia Frankel have no idea what it must be like to live alone as a married couple. They started out their life together staying with relatives and later friends