Unknown Lt. John Pike makes an unexpected appearance in Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” By Athima Chansanchai It’s not enough that the police are pepper spraying Occupy protesters,?now they’re taking aim at famous works of art?? as an Internet meme, of course. It was only a matter of time before the viral image… (more…)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan ? A burqa-clad female suicide bomber attacked police at the scene of an earlier explosion in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, twin strikes that killed five people and broke a relative lull in militant violence in the country. Islamist extremists with links to al-Qaida have waged a bloody campaign against Pakistan’s pro-Western rulers since 2007, targeting police, government and… (more…)