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Istanbul Explosions: 39 Killed, 155 Wounded in Twin Blasts

Istanbul rocked by dual blasts

A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for two bombings in Istanbul Saturday that killed at least 39 people, mostly police officers. The Kurdish Freedom Hawks (TAK), a breakaway group of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), said in a statement on its website that the Turkish people were not the target of the attack. Thirty-eight people, mostly police officers, were killed and 155 wounded in Saturday's twin bombings in Istanbul, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said in a press conference Sunday.

December 11, 2016
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Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent Is Stepping Down

Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola, will step down as CEO of the company as of May 1, 2017 according to a release from the company. Kent will be replaced by current COO James Quincey, who has been at Coca-Cola for 20 years, according to the firm. Kent has served as CEO since 2008 and will say at Coca-Cola as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

December 10, 2016
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2016's Best & Worst Cities for Singles

Finding love is part willingness and part geography: You can only be so determined to have a happily ever after; your zip code has to meet you halfway. As of 2015, about 109 million, or 45 percent, of the U.S. adult population are single, including the individual components of the now-defunct Brangelina. (Yes, they are Hollywood A-listers who may never even know your name, let alone that you exist. But dreams can come true, right?)

December 5, 2016
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A 24-Hour United Nations for the Pantry

Carnival Fresh Market opened three years ago in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn. Credit Ryan C. Jones for The New York Times

From the outside, Carnival Fresh Market looks like any other corner produce store. Crates filled with onions, peaches and four-for-$5 mangoes sit stacked, end to end, under a red-and-yellow striped awning. Just inside this three-year-old shop in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, however, a United Nations of foodstuffs awaits. Here in the bulk bins are blue-black Uzbeki raisins and nuggets of chocolate-dipped halvah. There in the dairy case, cheese selections range from a briny nabulsi, popular in the Middle East, to rounds of Bulgarian kashkaval and sliced kosher provolone.