This summer time, the photographer Ashley Gilbertson and I went to KFC eating places throughout Accra, Ghana, over the course of every week, speaking to enthusiastic clients. (We additionally sampled the fare — out of dedication to the story.) Quick meals arrived in Ghana in recent times, and a few individuals I talked with inside…

“You might be what you eat,” mentioned Charles Agyemang, a Ghanaian who’s now an affiliate professor on the College of Amsterdam, the place he research weight problems and continual illness. KFC alone, he mentioned, is just one issue within the nation’s weight problems epidemic, however it represents the embrace of western meals. In Ghana, he…

The Scottish authorities won’t help the event of fracking after a public session discovered overwhelming opposition to the follow, the power minister stated on Tuesday in a victory for environmentalists. Scotland imposed a moratorium on fracking, the method of fracturing underground shale rock to launch fuel and oil, in 2015 and that can now stay…

The chief of Al-Nusra has been critically injured in an airstrike carried out by the Russian Air Power, the Russian Protection Ministry stated in a press release, including that not less than 12 Al-Nusra area commanders had been killed in the identical assault. Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the Commander-in-chief of Tahrir al-Sham, a terrorist group shaped…

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However that, in response to AMC, is precisely the issue. MoviePass is actually an organization that resells film entry: It pays the total ticket value for a movie after which makes these tickets obtainable to subscribers, who pay quite a bit lower than they’d in any other case. AMC mentioned the common nationwide value for…

Mr. Rosenthal at an editorial board assembly in an undated picture. Jack Rosenthal, who died Wednesday night at his residence in Manhattan, occupied many essential roles in a profession at The New York Instances that started in 1969 — city affairs correspondent in Washington, editor of The New York Instances Journal and president of The…

“I’m sorry, however the outdated Taylor can’t come to the cellphone proper now. Why? Oh … ’Trigger she’s lifeless.”  That’s proper. The candy, squad-loving (albeit occasional cake-stabbing) Taylor of yesterday is gone and the brand new Taylor who’s risen from the lifeless, honey, is edgy. And harmful. And about as darkish as a kitten sporting…

In December, for instance, the Obama administration imposed sanctions for election meddling in opposition to two Russian hackers who had been already needed by the F.B.I. for on-line fraud. The pair detained in December had been high-ranking staff of the Federal Safety Service, the primary successor company to the Ok.G.B.: Sergei Mikhailov, a deputy director…

Federal prosecutors beneficial a three-year sentence and a $20,000 wonderful, however Choose Sean F. Cox of america District Courtroom for the Japanese District of Michigan gave Mr. Liang an extended sentence, in addition to two years of supervised launch and a $200,000 wonderful. In September 2015, Volkswagen was accused of evading emissions requirements within the…