The Subtleties Of Marketing Beer To Latinos

Any industry looking for major growth in the U.S. market can’t ignore Latinos, who make up 16 percent of the U.S. population. As the Latino population grows, beer marketers are trying more nuanced ways of influencing this key segment. “They love beer,” says Jim Sabia, chief marketing officer for Crown Imports, which distributes Mexican beers [...]

Recession Nips At The Heels Of A Slow-Poke Recovery

The Labor Department announced last week that the U.S. economy grew by just 103,000 jobs in September. A number like that isn’t even enough to keep up with population growth. The fact that the report was widely greeted as positive news suggests just how low expectations have sunk this year. Since January, the U.S. economy [...]

To Save Wildlife, Namibia’s Farmers Take Control

It’s dawn and 40 degrees out. The air tastes of dust. Elias Neftali is behind the wheel of a truck, driving us through a long valley encircled by red-rock mountains. As a farmhand in the northwest desert of Namibia, Neftali used to shoot wild animals trying to eat his livestock. Now he protects wild animals. [...]

Clashes Spark Outrage Among Egypt’s Christians

Several hundred Christians pelted police with rocks outside a Cairo hospital Monday, in fresh clashes one day after more than two dozen people died in riots that grew out of a Christian protest against a church attack. Sunday’s sectarian violence was the worst in Egypt since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February. Security [...]

In Peru, A Hunt For Chocolate Like You’ve Never Tasted It

Christopher Columbus first encountered the cacao bean on his final voyage to the New World some 500 years ago. It took a while for Europeans to embrace the taste — one 16th-century Spanish missionary called the chocolate that indigenous people drank “loathsome.” But by the 17th century, chocolate met sugar, and it became a hit [...]

U.S. Firm Finds Shipwreck Thought To Hold Tons Of Silver

More than 94 years after being sunk by a torpedo, a ship carrying tens of thousands of pounds of silver has been located by a marine salvage company. Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. says it has found the SS Mantola, which came under attack by a German ship in 1917, as it sailed from London to [...]

In Egypt, Grief Among Christians Turns To Rage

Ormany Makary’s coffin teetered precariously as throngs of mourners carried the 25-year-old truck driver’s body to the front of Abbasiya Cathedral, chanting “Raise up your head, you are Copts!” But his fiancee, Saafa Gaber, couldn’t. Makary was among the 25 people killed in a night of clashes between mostly Coptic Christian protesters and Egyptian soldiers. [...]

Something’s Fishy About Chinese Hairy Crabs

Fake products permeate nearly every corner of China’s economy. Earlier this year, the trend seemed to reach a new low when phony Apple stores were exposed in southwestern China. Each fall, the fakery even extends to the world of seafood and East China’s Yangcheng Lake, which is just a short train ride from Shanghai. Yangcheng [...]

Peace Prize Winner Seeks Re-Election In Liberia

Liberians go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new president and lawmakers in the second key elections since the end of the civil war in 2003. The incumbent leader, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — Africa’s first democratically elected female president — was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, but her opponents say she [...]

Egyptian Blogger To Face Retrial; His Hunger Strike Approaches 50 Days

An Egyptian military appeals court ruled today that blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad, who was sentenced to prison this spring for insulting government authorities, would receive a new military trial. The decision is regarded as a setback by his supporters, who were hoping for a reduced sentence or a retrial in a civilian court. During the [...]