SAUL LOEB / AFP / Getty Images U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold a joint press conference during a rain shower at the White House on May 16, 2013 Email Print Share Facebook Tumblr LinkedIn StumbleUpon Reddit Digg Mixx Delicious Google+ As domestic scandals clouded Washington, Turkish Prime Minister
May 05, 2013|By K.C. Johnson, Tribune reporter MIAMI — Luol Deng is expected to be back with his teammates by tipoff Monday night in Miami, but won’t play in Game 1 of the Bulls-Heat Eastern Conference semifinals. “He’s day-to-day,” coach Tom Thibodeau said late Saturday in New York. Deng was released from Rush University Medical Center on
BARNES & Noble’s Nook Media may need more than a Google Map to find profitability. The bookseller’s announcement on Friday that Nook tablet users would get access to app store Google Play is essential to attracting consumers. Previously, Nook users had been able to access only the tablet’s own app store. But for Barnes &
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 5, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed By Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:11am EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) – President Barack Obama visits Israel next week at the onset of spring – the “red
BEIJING — China’s foreign minister said Saturday that Beijing would not abandon North Korea, reiterating China’s longstanding position that dialogue, not sanctions, was the best way to persuade the North to abandon its nuclear weapons. At a news conference during the National People’s Congress, the foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, suggested that China’s support for tougher
Travis Barker won’t be joining his Blink 182 bandmates on their Australian tour. The 37-year-old drummer admits he’s too afraid to fly since he survived the horrific Sept. 2008 plane crash that claimed the lives of four passengers, including his friend and assistant Chris Baker and security guard Che Still. In a Facebook post, Barker
The world’s major industrial nations sought to soothe mounting fears of a currency war with a pledge to avoid devaluing their exchange rates in the pursuit of stronger economic growth. “We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that
