Latest worldwide news Meet the ocean's 'great ladies' | | It might be better known for its extravagant superyachts, but this week Cannes will be a haven for some of the world's most iconic vintage yachts. Jump aboard for Regates Royales de Cannes. |
Confronting Indonesia's dark past | | How do you live next door to people who murdered your family? A filmmaker takes on the death squads that claimed up to a million victims in the 1960s. |
Costa pips favorites to win world title | | FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Portuguese Rui Costa kept his composure in a tense finale to upset the favorites and win the cycling world championships road race following a series of crashes and persistent rain on Sunday. |
Italy political chaos knocks stocks | | Italian government bonds and shares dive after Silvio Berlusconi pulls the rug from under Enrico Letta's coalition government by ordering five centre-right ministers to quit. Joanna Partridge asks whether the latest crisis is becoming critical |
Billionaire Republican donor Adelson loses libel lawsuit | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate and prominent Republican donor, has lost a $60 million libel lawsuit in which he claimed a Democratic group spread a false accusation that he had condoned prostitution in his casinos in Macau. |
Iraq bombs | | A dozen car bombs exploded across Baghdad during rush hour Monday morning, killing 33 people, police in Baghdad said. |
All the queen's horses | | His uncle Harry has promised the newest addition to the royal family that he will have "fun" -- and if a centuries old tradition is to be followed, it is an odds on certainty that horse racing will play a prominent role in young Prince George's future social life. |
Bessemer goes on defense, on pace for best year | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Portfolio managers at Bessemer Trust, financial adviser to ultra-wealthy U.S. families, took an extremely defensive posture a few weeks ago amid some of the most volatile... |
Well Cooking With Miso | | Many people know and love miso soup. But this week Martha Rose Shulman goes beyond soup and explains how miso can be used for glazes, dips and dressings. |
Turkey presents reforms aimed at pressing Kurdish peace process | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Monday announced reforms seen as designed to salvage a peace process with Kurdish insurgents, including changes to the electoral system, broadening of language rights and permission for villages to use their original Kurdish names. |
Israeli researchers walk the walk with gait analysis device | | July 14 - An Israeli company is developing an inexpensive gait analysis device it believes will help doctors diagnose previously undetected medical conditions. The study of a person's walking style can reveal much about their health, and the company says it can now done at a price that most people can afford. Jim Drury has more. |
Classes canceled to deal with race issues | | Oberlin College in Ohio suspended classes Monday after a student reported seeing a person resembling a Ku Klux Klan member near the college's Afrikan Heritage House. |
China shows off 14 baby pandas | | Sept. 24 - Fourteen baby pandas born in a southwest China breeding centre are shown to the public for the first time. Elly Park reports. |
Win a Trip 2013 | | As Erin Luhmann travels with Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, she reports on malnutrition in Mali, treatments for clubfoot in Niger and the refugee crisis from the conflict in Darfur. |
Hollywood couple get stopped by police | | Hollywood couple Cherie Johnson and Dennis White say they were improperly stopped by police, put in handcuffs, and harshly questioned during a recent weekend getaway in South Carolina. They claim the incident took place because of their race. |
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