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By Mark Lamport-Stokes NEWPORT, Wales | Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:38pm BST NEWPORT, Wales (Reuters) - If early points were being handed out to t...

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora (L) perform during the ''Rock in Rio'' music festival in Arganda del Rey near Madrid June 4...

Yoko Ono gestures as she unveils the ''John Lennon: The New York City Years'' exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of F...

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will be hanged instead of facing death by stoning / AP Source: AP

Carter taken to Ohio hospital with upset stomach (AP) Mexican authorities: 8...

Ed Miliband waves after making his first speech as Labour Party leader at the party's annual conference in Manchester, September 28, 201...

By Tony Jimenez NEWPORT, Wales | Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:43pm BST NEWPORT, Wales (Reuters) - European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie was ...

Musician Pete Doherty performs during the Positivus music festival in ...

A man speaks on a mobile phone next to columns outside the Bank of England, in the City of London, August 17, 2010. Credit: Reuters/A...

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow arrives to attend the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) fashion awards in New York June 7, 2010. Cre...

Gloria Stuart - the longtime Hollywood veteran popularly recognized for her role as the elder Rose in James Cameron's "Titanic...

Hollywood loses a legend. Actress Gloria Stuart died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 100 years old. Stuart was a glamorous sta...

By Michael Fitzpatrick Mahmoud Abbas in Paris, belt-tightening at the European Central Bank and France's attitude to immigrants are som...

Lindsay Lohan at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. - Russ Einhorn / Splash News By Mathe...

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov during their meeting in M...

NKorea's Kim makes son 4-star general (AP) Census finds record gap betwee...

By Sudipto Ganguly and Paul de Bendern NEW DELHI | Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:41am BST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hundreds of athletes arrived in New...

(Reuters) - North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il gave his youngest son his first public title on Tuesday, naming him a general in a m...

By Borys Kit Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:01am BST LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rising actress Ophelia Lovibond has joined the cast of ...

A worker takes down scaffolding on a construction site in London August 27, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Luke MacGregor By Matt Falloon and Davi...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sacked Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow, on Tuesday after weeks of putting pressure on him to step down v...

If it's able to control inflation and cut its debt, India could well become the world's most appealing investment opportunity. Eu...

Reuters) - Gold hit a record high of $1,300 per ounce and U.S. Treasury prices surged on Monday on renewed worries about euro-zone debt and ...

By Dean Goodman LOS ANGELES | Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:23pm BST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones never have to worry about fading awa...

NATO strikes in Pakistan prompt rebuke (AP) Allen: Third party needed in oil...

The London Stock Exchange building is seen in central London September 24, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Stephen Hird By Tricia Wright LONDON | M...

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling reads at the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington April 5, 2010. Cred...

By Jeffrey Heller and John Irish JERUSALEM/PARIS | Mon Sep 27, 2010 4:24pm BST JERUSALEM/PARIS (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud A...

By Jeremy Laurence and Brett Cole SEOUL | Mon Sep 27, 2010 4:03pm BST SEOUL (Reuters) - Isolated North Korea has summoned its political el...

By Mitch Phillips NEWPORT | Mon Sep 27, 2010 1:30pm BST NEWPORT (Reuters) - The United States Ryder Cup team arrived at Cardiff airport on...

By David Jones LONDON | Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:41pm BST LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer goods group Unilever Plc/NV will buy U.S. hair and skin c...

Members of MUD (United Movement for Democracy) Ismael Garcia (L) and Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma (R) celebrate after listening to electora...

By Mark Lamport-Stokes ATLANTA | Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:00pm BST ATLANTA (Reuters) - American Jim Furyk held his nerve over a shaky closing ...

By Michael D. Ayers NEW YORK | Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:02pm BST NEW YORK (Reuters) - It may seem an unlikely pairing to fans of singer/songwrit...

By Paul Eckert WASHINGTON | Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:17pm BST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faces a lonely ca...

By Marianna Parraga CARACAS | Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:07pm BST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has granted BP (BP.L)(BP.N) permission to ne...

An Israeli settler waves a flag across the street from a left-wing protest in Jerusalem calling for the continuation of a building freeze Se...

Evolutionary biologists and historians of science comment on Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.”

THE FACTS Exercise balls are becoming a popular alternative to plain old office chairs, a way — some say — to burn more calories and impro...

Sven Tränkner The wandering albatross has the largest known wingspan of any living bird, at times reaching nearly 12 feet. But millions of...

In April 1986, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine exploded and sent radioactive particles flying through the air, inf...

Noah Snyder-Mackler The view from the scientists’ back porch. From left: Clay, Noah, David and Eila. Sunday, Sept. 19 We arrived in the Si...

HONG KONG — Developing nations in Asia, it seems, are finally seeing the light. In May, the Asian Development Bank started a major drive to...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Scientists said Wednesday they've discovered fossils in the southern Utah desert of two new dinosaur species clos...

Lou Beach By CARL ZIMMER One day in 2007, Dr. Giulio Tononi lay on a hospital stretcher as an anesthesiologist prepared him for surgery. ...

William P. O'Donnell/The New York Times By JAMES GORMAN Late summer is chili harvest time, when the entire state of New Mexico savors ...

Duncan Chard for The New York Times The terra-cotta-like exterior of a residential building in Masdar, a visionary city being built 20 mil...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — NATO helicopters based in Afghanistan carried out at least two airstrikes in Pakistan that killed more than 50 militants a...

TOKYO — Chinese-Japanese tensions over the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain re-escalated on Monday when Japan said it would ask China to ...

Greg Marinovich for The New York Times Emily Mbongwa, 52, a factory worker who lost her job in Newcastle, South Africa, now takes care of ...

A few years before Apple introduced the iPhone , research engineers at Nokia prepared a prototype of an Internet-ready, touch-screen hands...

BAGHDAD — More than six months ago, millions of Iraqis cast aside fears about bombs and bullets to vote. In households without a reliable su...

Family Photo Carl P. Paladino with his wife, Cathy, and their children in 1988. When his troubled son spent a night in the Erie County lo...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez 's opponents blocked him from capturing an overwhelming majority in Venezuela's cong...

WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguin...

By Adrian Croft MANCHESTER, England | Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:22pm BST MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - The Labour Party's new leader Ed Mil...

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney (L), Nani (C) and Bolton Wanderers' Paul Robinson watch Nani's shot go into the net for a goal ...

LONDON | Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:38pm BST LONDON (Reuters) - The new Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said on Sunday he supported "cau...

By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM | Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:58pm BST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Israeli settlers t...

By Amlan Chakraborty and Sudipto Ganguly NEW DELHI | Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:32am BST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Workers removed rain water, scrape...

Models present creations from the Rosa Cha Spring 2011 collection show during New York Fashion Week September 14, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Pho...

Models present creations at the Milly by Michelle Smith Spring 2011 collection during New York Fashion Week September 15, 2010. (Xinhua/Reu...

A model displays a creation from Spanish brand BOHENTO Spring/Summer 2011 collection during a show of Madrid Fashion Week, Sept. 17, 2010. ...

A poster of film "Detective Dee-The Mystery of Phantom Flame." (Photo: agencies)