A fire roars up in the center of a wall of silver scales. The massive carp, skewered on metal spears, slowly smokes. Nearby a weathered chef turns a fresh fish over in his hands, cleans it with salt and then rubs tomato into its flesh. "Five minutes and you're done," Abu Seif says, "It's simple." The fire crackles in the background, while the Tigris flows calmly behind him.

American prosperity has been built to a large extent by reliable access to cheap energy, both domestic and foreign. So it came as a great shock to the economic system in October 1973 when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries cut off shipments of crude oil to the U.S. and other countries that supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War.

The fact thatFatumaZarika, 33,got to fight for theWBCbantamweight belt is not nearly as amazing as how she won it. The way I grew up, it was rough. It was in Satellite, part of Kawangware, a Nairobi slum. My mom was a single mom, and it was me, her and my brother. I went to school but dropped out at 16 to help my mom pay my brother’s school fees. Work was hard to find and I had no skills, so my life was not good.

Anne Schwantes is taking a break from Broadway. For the past year, the actress, mother and wife has focused on pushing a hobby into what's now a full-time job. The work? Restoring, decorating and selling pointe shoes.Schwantes' Diamond Pointes sees her taking worn pointe shoes, shoes she's tucked inside a vintage chest at the foot of her bed, and turning them into small works of art. Small works of art that she then flips and sells for $250 per shoe.

The rumbling began just before sunrise and lasted all of 17 seconds. But within that quarter-minute, the fate of Skopje, a centuries-old city at the crossroads of southern Europe, was altered forever. Hit by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake, more than 1,000 people were killed and several thousand more wounded. Around 75 percent of the city was either leveled or seriously damaged, and Yugoslavia's socialist government was overwhelmed by the destruction.

Sir Salman Rushdie is back in the headlines with the news that his most celebrated novel, Midnight's Children, will become a Netflix series. While Rushdie says he'd be happy for the book to be adapted into any format - including a Broadway musical - we checked in with him at OZY Fest in New York's Central Park about his most recent work, The Golden House, and the state of American literature.Donald Trump doesn't appear in your newest novel, The Golden House .

Everyone knows the Amish abide by a strict social and moral code, but only northern Indiana locals know their guilty pleasure. The Amish developed something so irresistible that non-Amish have given it a slightly offensive term of endearment: crack."Amish crack" isn't something you'll find being peddled out of a barn or hidden in a horse-drawn buggy, and it's not actually an illicit substance.

Medical researchers are leapfrogging the much-awaited medical implants revolution, instead developing bots that can traverse the body, fixing it on the way. David Zarrouk carefully places the tiny robot into a cleaned-up pig intestine on his table, and flips on the switch. About the size of a thumb, the miniature robot comes to life and starts worming through the intestine, all the way through the other end.

A kindergarten teacher tells her students to form a circle on the floor while she takes attendance. A stampede of 5-year-olds scrambles over, and after several minutes spent squirming and rearranging limbs, they finally manage to settle down into some semblance of a round shape. The teacher begins roll call - "Dionysus?" "Here!" says a tiny blond girl. "Basil?" "Here!" shrieks a small boy. "J-Jone ... or John?" the teacher hesitantly says. "Am I saying that right?" "Yes," John says quietly.

Because you need to know all about this key airborne move while catching the skateboarding action at the Summer X Games. Part of SportsSpeak Explained, an occasional series on unusual sports terms we need to know for the games we play — and watch. First, you’ll want to start in fakie ollie stance on your skateboard. Then, leading with your shoulders, you’re going to spin 360 degrees backside, land it and ride off in switch stance.