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Nobel prize winner calls for Mubarak to step down
Egyptian-American scholar and Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail added his weight Sunday to calls for President Hosni Mubarak to step down to help ...
EU slams governments for not enacting growth laws
BRUSSELS -- The 27 member countries of the European Union have been slammed for not implementing laws designed to boost growth on the crisis...
US corpse abuse pics fuel anger‚ NATO exit
Taliban seize on scandal‚ vow revenge Added At: 2012-04-19 10:32 PM Last Updated At: 2012-04-19 10:32 PM The Himalayan Times - Saved Art...
Annan says up to 300 observers needed in Syria
UNITED NATIONS - UN-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan's deputy told the Security Council yesterday that the swift deployment of more observers...
VIDEO: Searching streets for perfect fashion
Armed with just a camera, could you find the perfect fashion look on the street?
Arsenal v Chelsea
Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's game between Arsenal and Chelsea in the Premier League.
Spain to bring back border checks
Spain will temporarily reimpose border checks for a European Central Bank meeting in Barcelona next month, fearing an influx of protesters.
Analysis: Assad foes doubt Syria truce but have few options
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Barely had the first U.N. ceasefire monitors set foot on Syrian soil this week than Bashar al-Assad's enemies were discus...
Mexico volcano spews burning rock
People living on the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City are watching with concern as the volcano spews ash and burning rock...
Disney film boss quits after flop
The head of the Disney film studio, Rich Ross, resigns as chairman just a month after the film John Carter became one of the company's bigge...
VIDEO: Rubber chicken sent to edge of space
A group of high school students in California have launched a rubber chicken to the edge of space, all in the name of science.
Britain's Cameron offered air tanker as VIP jet
(Reuters) - Senior British politicians and royals might consider making foreign visits in converted air force refueling jets after a row ove...
Mexico's conservatives bet on woman presidential hopeful
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling conservatives took a bold step by becoming the first major party to nominate a woman presidential ca...
Crisis heightens regional tensions in Spain
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's deepest economic crisis in decades has disrupted the delicate power balance between the central government and hi...
Argentina seeks Petrobras collaboration in YPF
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Argentine Planning Minister Julio De Vido approached Brazil and its state-run oil company Petrobras on Friday to invite...
Peru's army prepares for all-out assault on rebels
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's army is preparing one of its largest offensives in two decades against Shining Path rebels, officials said on Friday...
Norwegian gunman describes hunting down teenagers
Norwegians who lost loved ones on Utoya island relived the horror Friday as far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik described in harrowing ...
Pakistani plane carrying 127 crashes amid storm
Emergency workers with flashlights searched the smoldering wreckage of a passenger jet carrying 127 people that crashed into a muddy wheat f...
Europe, Russia propose rival resolutions on Syria
European nations and Russia proposed rival U.N. resolutions Friday, both calling for expanding the number of U.N. cease-fire monitors in Syr...
Tens of thousands protest military rule in Egypt
Egypt's Islamist and secular forces sought to relaunch the street uprising against Egypt's ruling military Friday, packing Cairo's Tahrir Sq...
EU delays vote on labeling oil sands oil dirty
The European Commission will delay asking members to approve a measure that would label oil from oil sands as worse for climate change than ...
Syrian forces fire on anti-regime protesters
Syrian troops fired tear gas and bullets on thousands of protesters who spilled out of mosques after noon prayers Friday, activists said. St...
IMF announces $430 billion to boost resources
The International Monetary Fund says it has raised more than $430 billion in an effort to assure finance markets that it has sufficient fire...
Bahrain protesters swell ahead of F1 weekend
Anti-government protesters flooded a main highway in a march stretching for miles and security forces fired tear gas in breakaway clashes Fr...
Badger cull plans to be reviewed
Government plans to cull badgers in England are to to be reviewed in the High Court following a legal challenge by the Badger Trust.
Newcastle 3-9 Saracens
Newcastle close the gap on Premiership relegation rivals Wasps with a losing bonus point as Saracens clinch a semi-final spot.
Euro MPs attack oil firm seizure
The European Parliament says it "deplores" Argentina's expropriation of the Spanish-controlled oil firm YPF.
Pakistan mourns air crash victims
Pakistan begins mourning the victims of a plane crash in a residential area near Islamabad airport - all 127 on board are believed to have d...
Colombia scandal claims more jobs
The US Secret Service says three more employees are resigning over the prostitution scandal at an international summit in Colombia last week...
Semenya qualifies for London 2012
South Africa's former 800m world champion Caster Semenya qualifies for the London Olympics.
Torture claims in Bo Xilai scandal
Dark allegations in China's Bo Xilai scandal
French candidates recall glorious past
Why presidential hopefuls recall France's glorious past
Norway: No escape from Breivik trial
Norwegians find it hard to avoid blanket coverage of Breivik trial
'Enforced disappearances' haunt Bangladesh
Spate of disappearances causes alarm in Bangladesh
Cherie Blair, England soccer star among new phone-hacking claimants
LONDON (Reuters) - England soccer star Wayne Rooney and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie are among a new group of 46 p...
43 killed in Mexico after truck, bus collide
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 43 people were killed when a cargo truck crashed into a bus on a highway in eastern Mexico, in one of the w...
Egyptians mass to demand army retreat from power
CAIRO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Egyptians demanded on Friday that their military rulers stick to a pledge to hand over power by mid-y...
Sudan and S. Sudan claim control of oil town
Sudan and South Sudan both claimed to be in control of a contested oil town near the countries' ill-defined border on Friday after the south...
Mexico preps shelters as volcano roars, spews ash
The white-capped volcano that looms over Mexico City emitted a terrifying low-pitched roar Friday and spewed roiling towers of ash and steam...
Teen twins in '$1.2m stock fraud'
Two British twins who were 16 when they allegedly defrauded investors out of $1.2m via a bogus stock-picking robot face charges in the US.
UN weighs up Syria monitor plan
The UN Security Council draws up a draft resolution to send 300 monitors to Syria, after divisions remain among member states over the detai...
US nuns dismiss Vatican criticism
The leader of a group of US nuns the Vatican accuses of flouting Church teaching and espousing radical feminist views flatly rejects the cha...
Cuban ballet school turns 50
Cuba's world-renowned National Ballet School turns 50
Strong quake hits eastern Indonesia
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck eastern Indonesia on Saturday off Irian Jaya, the United States Geologica...
Iraq calls Turkey hostile state as relations dim
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday branded Turkey a "hostile state" with a sectarian agenda, the latest in a ...
Powerful quake strikes off eastern Indonesia
A powerful earthquake hit waters off eastern Indonesia on Saturday, sending panicked residents running from their homes, offices and schools...
UN council reaches tentative agreement on Syria
The U.N. Security Council reached a tentative agreement Friday night on a resolution that would expand the number of U.N. cease-fire observe...
Nobody but Me Pays My Commuting Costs
Why should any citizen have to pay the bill for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to commute between where he chooses to live and his place of....
Anders Breivik: 'All the voices in my head told me not to do it'
Lawyers had warned in advance that day five of Breivik's trial on charges of carrying out Norway's worst acts of violence since the Second W...
Thousands protest military rule in Egypt
CAIRO -- Egypt's Islamist and secular forces sought to relaunch the street uprising against the nation's ruling military Friday, packing 's ...
Osborne faces IMF loan criticism
The chancellor is criticised by some Conservative backbenchers and Labour after announcing Britain is to commit another £10bn to the IMF.
VIDEO: UAE's only crematorium
Simon Atkinson meets Don Fox, the funeral director who runs the first crematorium for non-Muslims in the United Arab Emirates.
Analysis: Did U.S. fumble chance to peer inside China's secretive leadership?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Information about a Chinese policeman who implicated the wife of a top Chinese official in a British businessman's mu...
Vietnam seeks foreign help after skin disease kills 19
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's health authorities will seek foreign assistance to deal with a resurgence of a mystery skin infection that has a...
China top military paper warns of armed confrontation over seas
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top military newspaper warned the United States on Saturday that U.S.-Philippine military exercises have fanned ...
Retired Mexican general shot dead in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Retired Mexican General Mario Arturo Acosta, who was once convicted of having ties to drug cartels, died after being...
Japan to give Y600 billion in aid to Mekong nations over 3 years
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will provide 600 billion yen ($7.35 billion) in official development aid to Mekong region countries in three years f...
Pakistan moves against airline after crash
Pakistan blocked the head of an airline whose jet crashed near the capital from leaving the country as it began an investigation Saturday in...
SKorea asks China about NKorean missile carrier
South Korea has asked China whether it is the source of a sophisticated missile carrier displayed by North Korea during a military parade la...
Berlusconi denies wrongdoing in sex case
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has defended his wild parties, which included strippers, as "elegant dinners" characterised ...
Global News
Taliban: NATO nations should leave Afghanistan now
Sunday, 20 May 2012
The Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
The Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. Read more...
Haiti gov't charges 2 Americans in jail with conspiracy
Sunday, 20 May 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A Haitian official says two jailed Americans have been charged with conspiracy. Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A Haitian official says two jailed Americans have been charged with conspiracy. Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If or when policymakers finally decide Greece should leave the euro, the exit could happen so quickly that "new drachma" currency notes might not be printed in time. In principle, some of the long-term consequences of Athens leaving the currency bloc are not unappealing. The euro zone would no longer have to worry about what Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
After 50 years of searching, physicists have spotted the fingerprint of radioactive plutonium, revealing the secrets of this complex molecule behind nuclear weapons. Read more...
Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials. Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials. Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers.57d9744a62806a3cc11efc90697459ed Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Tropical Storm Alberto emerged off South Carolina's coastline Sunday, the first storm of its kind to form in a hurricane season that doesn't officially begin until June 1.df1e6e505b67cf6a1b79001ead5cd924 Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, blowing off the front of a parked vehicle but causing no casualties.5b4fdb5664fde63c5885e64f4597ac0f Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate ...b313af4c39b8388f10b114286d898413 Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, stood by his call insisting that any increase in the debt limit should be offset by greater cuts in spending and tax reform before the end of the year, saying that working toward an agreement now would improve the economy.3b8246457ac9d300b4cd87853f25e0c6 Read more...
A centenary tribute to Glanville-Hicks
Sunday, 20 May 2012
AUSTRALIA ENSEMBLE Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of NSW, May 19 BUT for the efforts of a few, Peggy... Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
AUSTRALIA ENSEMBLE Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of NSW, May 19 BUT for the efforts of a few, Peggy... Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
It's 43 years since Jean-Louis Trintignant was named the Cannes Film Festival's best actor for "Z," and 14 years since the French performer all but gave up filmmaking to focus on the stage.486e1776d0cf45e75811f5341029001f Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Journalist and cinema industry insider Carlos Gomez provides exclusive insights to Relaxnews on what makes Cannes Cannes -- on a daily basis for the duration of the Festival.145d123749534bfbf8540232606a67c7 Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Thomas Vinterberg is aware his new movie, "The Hunt," may touch a raw nerve. Several, in fact.00076a179ce0fe443172a7894ece3f15 Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Relatives of a slain Hamas operative seek to block the release of a movie being made in Israel about his 2010 assassination in a Dubai luxury hotel, a family member said Sunday.051abb6dbb9f2e9d71906d221a6504fe Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
The movie market at Cannes is such a dramatic sideshow that this year it's getting its own film.52f4fec40b542e652c974cfea1e44124 Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Danish director Thomas Vinterberg burst on to the scene in Cannes in 1998 with the acclaimed "Festen", and critics say he is close to his best again this year with "The Hunt", a shocking take on child abuse and its impact on a small community. Unlike some movies on the same theme, The Hunt leaves no doubt as to the main Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
CANNES, France (Reuters) - It is a subject rarely tackled in cinema, but Austria's Michael Haneke forces us to confront the reality that will befall us all - the end of life - in "Love", his beautiful and devastating film at Cannes. The French-language feature "Amour" follows an elderly married couple, former music teachers, who are enjoying a Read more...
Rich Copley: Chamber music festival at Shakertown has thrived amid change
Sunday, 20 May 2012
SHAKERTOWN — To the audience, some of the faces change each year, but the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill has remained a fairly consistent event since its debut in May 2007. In its second year, it moved to Memorial Day weekend and added a late-morning pair of concerts in the village's acoustically Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
SHAKERTOWN — To the audience, some of the faces change each year, but the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill has remained a fairly consistent event since its debut in May 2007. In its second year, it moved to Memorial Day weekend and added a late-morning pair of concerts in the village's acoustically Read more...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Saturday evening beauties and golden boys were on the red carpet for the official presentation of John Hillcoat's Lawless. Jessica Chastain, Tom Hardy, Nick Cave, Shia Labeouf, Mia Wasikowska and Guy Pearce found themselves surrounded by the men in black, the photographers.fd71b9ad02455103d956056c83e865b9 Read more...
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| VIDEO: Sri Lanka general to be released |
| Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse orders the release of the jailed former army chief, Sarath Fonseka. |
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| VIDEO: Chen Guangcheng arrives in the US |
| Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York with his wife and children to begin a new life in the United States. |
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| Nato to discuss Afghan withdrawal |
| Nato leaders are set to hold a summit dominated by Afghanistan, as the alliance prepares to hand over security duties to Afghans by the end of 2014. |
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| Crowded House drummer Jones dies |
| Crowded House drummer Peter Jones dies at the age of 45. |
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| UK force 'to stay in Afghanistan' |
| A small number of British soldiers could remain in Afghanistan after forces withdraw in 2014, a senior UK government official says. |
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| VIDEO: Floating island of waste in Maldives |
| Although the Maldives are known as an unspoilt tourist paradise, the islands struggle with managing their waste, as the BBC discovered on a visit to an 'apocalyptic' floating island waste dump. |
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| China activist Chen lands in US |
| Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng lands at Newark airport near New York, after his escape to the US embassy in Beijing sparked a diplomatic crisis. |
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