Nissan to build new $2 bn plant in Mexico Zeenews Mexico City: Nissan Motor Co. announced plans to invest $2 billion in building a third manufacturing facility in Mexico. | The new plant in the central state of Aguascalientes will generate 3,000 jobs and spur the creation of around 9,000 other positions, Nissan's vice chairman of operations in the ...
The dark truth behind the man who claimed he had Bin Laden in his sights The Independent | Variously described as a conman, a fantasist, a sociopath, and a super-patriot, Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema died alone on Saturday of complications relating to Aids, a police official in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said. The authorities were slow to announce his death as they had t...
52nd Cartagena Film Festival unveils line-up Screen Daily | The festival will pay tribute to actress Isabella Rossellini and director Claire Denis. | The line up for the 52nd Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI), which runs February 23-29 in Colombia, has been announced. | 100 national premieres an...
Blow by Julie Griffin The Examiner | For anyone who has ever hated what their life once was, this movie makes you remember. And then grateful for the nightmare you walked away from forever. Johnny Depp outdoes himself in the true life portrayal of George Jung, a man who due ...
Mexico beating victim Sheila Nabb back in Canada CBC Sheila Nabb was vacationing in the Mazatlan area of Mexico over the weekend when she was attacked. (Facebook) | A 37-year-old Calgary woman who was badly beaten while on vacation at a resort in Mexico has returned to Canada, a relative says. | Sheila...
Tony Blair: 12 months in his diary The Daily Telegraph A huge amount of the former Prime Minister's £8m expenses is said to have gone on foreign travel by him and his team; Josie Ensor charts just how extensive his travels have b...
U.S. Faces New Challenge of Fewer Troops in Europe The New York Times | WASHINGTON — With word that the Pentagon will bring two combat brigades home from Germany, the Obama administration faces a challenge to convince Atlantic allies that the m...
Mexico beating victim Sheila Nabb back in Calgary CBC | A 37-year-old Canadian woman who was badly beaten while on vacation at a resort in Mexico has returned to Calgary, a relative says. | Sheila Nabb was found unconscious over the weekend with extensive facial injuries in an elevator at a five-star re...
Opinion Report: The Federal Lobbying Law The New York Times | From the editorial page | At Gabrielle Giffords’ farewell, congressmen celebrated her survival. Left unstated was their abject failure to repair the porous gun control laws that helped enable her would-be assassin. | The FBI arrested a police ser...
The LWOT: Guilty plea in Maryland terrorism case Foreign Policy | Guilty plea in Maryland terrorism case | U.S. citizen and Muslim convert Antonio Martinez pleaded guilty on January 26 to one charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against a government installation for trying to detonate what he ...
LA tourism rose to 26.9 million visitors in 2011 The Tribune San Luis Obispo | A record number of tourists visited Los Angeles last year | The Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau says 26.9 million people came to town - a 4.2 percent increase over 2010 - and they spent more than $15 billion. | Tourism officials say the increase was prompted in part by an improving U.S. economy and improved and new attractions. | The b...
