Here are some hot takes on Mark Zuckerberg’s Mandarin skills

Facebook's CEO pulled off an undeniably impressive feat Wednesday in Beijing. Four years after Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would take up Mandarin in all the spare time he has while running a $200 billion-plus company, the executive sat down for a 30-minute question-and-answer session with Chinese students, with whom he spoke entirely in Mandarin. […]

















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Why you shouldn’t ignore the Middle East’s other epic crisis

In September, when President Obama unveiled his plans to step up air attacks against the Islamic State, he cited the supposed success of U.S. operations in Yemen as an example of American air power subduing terror threats. That "success," as WorldViews wrote earlier, is questionable. What's less in doubt is that Yemen is in serious […]

















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Relax, North Korea has given us something new to speculate about

Conspiracy theorists disappointed with the re-appearance of Kim Jong Un earlier this month can breathe a sigh of relief. North Korea has provided new fodder for unchecked speculation, wild rumors and frenzied tea leaf-reading. Citing fears about the spread of Ebola, the world’s most closed state abruptly told western travel agencies on Thursday that it […]

















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Pakistan has lots of problems. Now add cannibalism.

As fright-seekers in the United States prepare for Halloween, lawmakers in Pakistan are working to try to prevent their country from producing the world’s next real horror story. Until now, there has been no law in Pakistan against cannibalism, a fact that has fueled persistent rumors of crazed residents roaming cemeteries and streets searching for […]

















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‘Spice’: The new drug craze that is killing people in Russia

It is cheap and looks like marijuana, but it can have a lethal impact: the drug "spice" is making headlines in Russia. As of Oct. 7, there had been at least two dozen deaths and 700 people hospitalized, according to Viktor Ivanov, the director of Russia's Federal Narcotics Service. The drug is made up of […]

















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