My Blog My WordPress Blog

ROME – Venice’s gondoliers, famed for their striped, boat-neck shirts and rowing prowess, are getting an updated look. A new logo, featuring Venetian symbols like the Lion of St. Mark, will now adorn the striped shirts thanks to a deal announced Thursday between the gondoliers’ association and Venetian clothier Emilio …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A University of Michigan computer science junior has moved into a 170-square-foot home he built himself. Christopher Cerk, 21, loaded the tiny house on a trailer and hauled it with him for the start of fall classes, The Ann Arbor News reported (http://bit.ly/1NUz3s0 ) Saturday. Cerk …

GENEVA – The U.N. human rights office says at least 105 civilians were killed in violence-marred Ukraine between mid-May and mid-August, more than double the number of the previous three months in part because of shelling of residential areas. The office of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad …