Soggy Converse sneakers are pretty much a given if it starts to drizzle. But with the sneaker company’s new Urban Utility line, a little rain won’t dampen anyone’s day. Converse, owned by Nike, teamed up with Gore — the company known for its GORE-TEX fabric invented in 1969 — to create water-resistant sneakers and clothes.…

North Korea launched an ICBM that experts…

The Broadway revival of M. Butterfly, starring Clive Owen, will shutter more than a month earlier than previously planned, with closing night now set for Jan. 14. The decision was made only a month after its official opening, and despite the fact that the show had already been scheduled as a strictly limited engagement. M. Butterfly, written…

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea abruptly ended a 10-week pause in its weapons testing Tuesday by launching what the Pentagon said was an intercontinental ballistic missile — apparently its longest-range test yet — a move that will escalate already high tensions with Washington. Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the missile was launched from Sain…

As they search for ways to join the Republican tax cut push, self-styled « deficit hawk » senators have raised questions that appear to make no sense. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, for example, vows to oppose any bill that increases the deficit by even a penny. Yet the budget framework for tax cuts that he helped…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption North Korea tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile in July North Korea has fired another ballistic missile, the latest in a series of launches that have raised tensions with its neighbours and the US. The Pentagon said it believed it was an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew for about 1,000km…

A woman who was held captive in a ‘sex dungeon’ for 10 years by a man known as ‘The Italian Fritzl’ was repeatedly raped and tortured – and gave birth to two of his children – it’s been claimed. Shocking details of the alleged abuse by Aloisio Francesco Rosario Giordano, 52, have emerged since his…

Arsenal have announced the appointment of Raul Sanllehi as the club’s new head of football relations, the executive moving to the Premier League from Barcelona. Sanllehi, director of football at Barca and credited with bringing Neymar to the club, will relocate to the Emirates Stadium in February to take up his new role. In a…

(Picture: Reuters)North Korea has fired a new ballistic missile, according to South Korean media. Yonhap, a South Korean news agency, quoted military officials saying that the missile flew towards the east from Pyongsong in Pyongan province. Pentagon confirms North Korea fired an intercontinental missile The claims were then confirmed by a US government source. The…

Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath has been ruled out of the third Test against India. Sri Lanka are likely to name legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay, who is uncapped in Tests, as the replacement for the Test that starts in Delhi on December 2. Herath went wicketless in the first Test on a seamer-friendly pitch in Kolkata…