The 964 generation 911 was something of an oddball among Porsche's hardcore fanbase. The car was made ostensibly better, more compliant, more comfortable, more like a traditional sports car and less like the traditional Porsche. If you were a Porsche 911 Turbo buyer, however, the new 964 Turbo was just as wild as you'd always remembered.
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Syrian President Bashar al Assad told Russia on Sunday he was saddened by the crash of a Russian military plane on its way to Syria but the countries' fight against Islamist militants would not be affected. In a condolence message sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Assad said the two countries were partners in the "fight to lay the foundations of stability, security and peace" in Syria. "Our prayers are with you ... our sorrows and joys are one," Assad told Putin.
Two people lost their lives in a shooting in a packed nightclub in Mount Vernon, New York, on Christmas Day. O'Neil Bandoo, the co-owner of the nightclub, was pronounced dead at the scene, Mayor Richard Thomas confirmed during a press conference. The 36-year-old father-of-two was shot and killed in the lobby leading to the club as he was rejecting a group of rowdy customers from a late-night Christmas party, according to New York Daily News.
A mother and her son along with their significant others were shot and killed in Wilson County Saturday afternoon.
Two suspects are on the run after North Carolina investigators say they shot seven people during a private Christmas Party attended by hundreds of people. Rockingham County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Kevin Suthard said the two men were still at large Sunday. Deputies say none of the victims appeared to suffer life-threatening injuries after being gunned down early Saturday at a Moose Lodge in Madison, about 25 miles north of Greensboro.
A century and a half ago, shocked at the assassination of the sitting president who oversaw the reunification of a divided nation, Walt Whitman turned to poetry. In his preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855), Whitman claimed of the United States, “Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall,” echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famous dictum in 1840’s Defence of Poetry: “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Shelley was referring to the role that art and culture play in shaping the desires and will of people, which eventually come to be reflected in the law. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” Whitman’s claim stemmed from a belief that both poetry and democracy derive their power from their ability to create a unified whole out of disparate parts—a notion that is especially relevant at a time when America feels bitterly divided.
China has passed a law that levies taxes on pollution, but ignores carbon dioxide, one of the major contributors to global warming, according to the web site of the country's highest legislative body. The National People's Congress (NPC) standing committee passed the law, the first to tax polluters, on Sunday, less than a fortnight after a red alert for smog left more than 20 cities in the country's northeast choking under a heavy haze. Polluters will be charged for contributing to air, water and noise pollution, according to a copy of the legislation on the NPC's official web site.
Children dressed in Santa costumes participate in Christmas celebrations at a school in Chandigarh, India; a displaced woman and a child are seen through a window on a bus as they flee the Islamic State stronghold in the town of Bartella, east of Mosul
August 7, 2012: Dodge announces that it is leaving the NASCAR Sprint Cup series (no, we’re not ready to call it the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup series yet). Then Dodge, driver Brad Keselowski and team owner Roger Penske go on to win the 2012 championship. This leaves Chevrolet, Toyota and Ford to compete in 2013 and beyond.
A 5-month-old baby girl in Pennsylvania died of starvation days after her parents died in the house of heroin overdoses. The infant’s parents, Jason Chambers, 27, and Chelsea Cardaro, 19, were all found dead in the home on Thursday, according to police. Chambers had to be revived with Narcan last month to treat another overdose, according to police.
By Stephen Kalin EAST OF MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city. The battle for Mosul, involving 100,000 Iraqi troops, members of the Kurdish security forces and Shi'ite militiamen, is the biggest ground operation in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
Russian officials are considering all possible reasons to explain a military plane crash in the Black Sea Sunday. The Tu-154 plane, carrying 92 people, all presumed dead, was headed to Russia’s air base in Syria when it disappeared from radar following takeoff from Sochi, reports said. Around 9:45 a.m., local time, the Russian ministry said rescue teams discovered fragments of the plane less than a mile from the Sochi’s coast along the Black Sea.
By Adama Diarra BAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - A French-Swiss aid worker has been kidnapped in the city of Gao in northern Mali, and French and Malian authorities are working together to rescue her, the French foreign ministry said on Sunday. Sophie Petronin, who runs a non-governmental organisation that helps children suffering from malnutrition, was kidnapped on Saturday afternoon, but, so far, no one has made a claim of responsibility, Malian Commandant Baba Cissé said. Mali has been beset by attacks from resurgent Islamist groups, including Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) this year, especially in the north.
Investigators on Saturday worked to determine if the Berlin Christmas market attacker got any logistical support to cross at least two European borders and evade capture for days before being killed in a police shootout in a Milan suburb. Tunisian fugitive Anis Amri's fingerprints and wallet were found in a truck that plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night, killing 12 people and injuring 56 others. Despite an intense, Europe-wide manhunt, Amri fled across Germany, into France and then into Italy, traveling at least part of the way by train, before being shot early Friday in a routine police stop outside a deserted train station.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday laid the foundation stone for what is set to be the world's tallest statue, as its projected multi-million-dollar cost sparked criticism and an online petition against the project. The statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji, a 17th-century Hindu ruler who fought the Muslim Mughal dynasty and carved out his own kingdom, will be more than twice the size of the Statue of Liberty and five times higher than Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. The structure, a pet project of Hindu nationalist Modi, will rise 192 metres (630 feet) from an island off the western coast of Mumbai in the Arabian Sea.
China's first aircraft carrier and five other warships passed by Taiwan and sailed into the contested South China Sea on Monday, Taiwan's Defense Ministry said. The ships, led by the Liaoning, sailed past the Pratas Islands, also known as the Dongsha Islands, a Taiwan-controlled atoll in the northern part of the South China Sea, according to the ministry. China's Defense Ministry said Saturday that the Liaoning had set off for a routine open-sea exercise in the Western Pacific as part of its annual training.
Elizabeth Julius worked sunrise to sunset to make ends meet as a seamstress. Supporting her husband and two kids in a village in Tanzania, Julius was forced to put down her needle and thread each day once darkness fell. With guidance from Energy 4 Impact, Julius took out a $500 bank loan and purchased a lamplight.
Yes, Willy T. Ribbs is his real name, and yes, he is a black guy. Trans Am is now under the direction of Tony Parella, who has helped take vintage racing to a new level in the U.S., and is now hoping to raise the profile of Trans Am and make it what it used to be. The series has attracted the attention of one of the best Trans-Am racers ever, Ribbs, an absolutely wild, out of control driver who woud typically either crash or win by two laps.
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One family received a surprise under the Christmas tree when the stray cat they saved gave birth. The cat’s owner, Danielle Lopez, 17, said her family rescued the stray cat, Tink, off the street last fall ago then began to notice that she was gaining weight. In honor of the Christmas spirit they gave the babies five babies, one of which was stillborn, holiday names.
Concern about the effects of fake news racheted up a notch Sunday with a tweet from Pakistan’s defense minister threatening nuclear war with Israel on the mistaken belief Israel’s defense minister had threatened Pakistan if it sent troops to Syria. Fake news has been credited with contributing to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Now a typo-riddled fictitious story on AWD News was posted last Tuesday quoting former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Israel’s current defense minister is Avigdor Lieberman) as saying he would “destroy” Pakistan prompted a response Saturday from Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, threatening nuclear retaliation.
By Felix Onuah and Alexis Akwagyiram ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's army has captured a key Boko Haram camp, the Islamist militant group's last enclave in the vast Sambisa forest that was its stronghold, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday. Boko Haram has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than two million during a seven-year insurgency to create an Islamic state governed by a strict interpretation of sharia law in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation. The group controlled an area about the size of Belgium in early 2015 but has been pushed out of most of that territory over the last year by Nigeria's army and troops from neighbouring countries, shifting to a base in the Sambisa, a former colonial game reserve.
Police on Saturday identified the veteran Cleveland officer whose 2-year-old son died after apparently shooting himself with his father's service weapon. A Cleveland police statement said the investigation was in its early stages and that there had been no arrests made. The officer was identified as Jose Pedro, 54, hired in 1993.
As Christmas celebrations get underway around the world, thousands welcome the acting Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in Bethlehem, Chinese Catholics hold Christmas mass and an Indian sand artist creates thousands of Santas on the beach in a bid for a world record. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).