Mercedes off the pace, says Brawn

Mercedes off the pace, says Brawn


Mercedes off the pace, says Brawn

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:27 PM PST

Ross Brawn admits his Mercedes team are struggling for pace with the start of the new season fast approaching.


Tunisia interim president calls July 24 election

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:39 PM PST

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia will hold an election on July 24 to choose a "constituent council" that will rewrite the constitution and chart the country's transition after the ousting of its veteran leader, the interim president said.


In Price of Farmland, an Echo of Last Boom

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:45 PM PST

Regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming as farmland prices surge across the Midwest.


Motherlode: Not About Charlie Sheen

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:08 PM PST

How to save the child of an unstable parent?


The New Old Age: Elder Abuse on the Rise

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:10 PM PST

A rising number of elder abuse cases threatens to overwhelm inadequately staffed adult protective service agencies in many states, according to a report released on Wednesday by the federal Government Accountability Office


Movie Review | 'The Adjustment Bureau': Creepy People With a Plan, and a Couple on the Run

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:15 PM PST

Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, in a metaphysical mess, in George Nolfi's "Adjustment Bureau."


U.K. Economic Data Turn Negative as More Cuts Loom

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:59 PM PST

U.K. economic data turned negative Thursday after a brief positive spell, offering more glum news for a country whose closely watched exercise in aggressive deficit-cutting still has the vast majority of its belt-tightening measures to come.


Egypt's Prime Minister Resigns

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:21 PM PST

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned and was succeeded by a U.S.-educated engineer, a bid by the country's military rulers to placate a protest movement that continues to demand deeper change after the ouster of the former president, Hosni Mubarak.


T Magazine: Photos of the Moment | Balmain

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:28 PM PST

Scenes from the Paris Fashion Week photo diary of Kava Gorna.


Wall Street Focuses on Upbeat Jobs Data

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:09 PM PST

A day ahead of the government's report on the February jobs market, the Labor Department said that first-time claims for unemployment benefits dropped to 368,000.


Judge Stays Own Ruling Against Health Care Law

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:59 PM PST

A federal judge who struck down the Obama health care law issued a stay while it is being appealed, eventually to the Supreme Court.


U.S. Tried to Help Protect Slain Pakistani Minister

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:10 PM PST

The Obama administration, concerned for the safety of Shahbaz Bhatti, tried to beef up protection for him recently, an American official said.


LSE chief quits over Libya links

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:24 PM PST

The director of the London School of Economics resigns over the university's links to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.


Shi'ites stage protests in Saudi oil province

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:07 PM PST

QATIF, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Shi'ites staged protests in two towns in Saudi Arabia's oil-producing Eastern Province on Thursday, demanding the release of prisoners they say are being held without trial.


Green: A Big Surprise Beneath the Ice

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:54 AM PST

A new study shows that ice melts far more extensively at the base of the Antarctic ice sheet, miles below the surface, than scientists had thought. The findings raise the possibility that melt water may even help govern the behavior of glaciers.


Motherlode: Depression After Miscarriage

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:31 AM PST

Aftereffects that can last for years.


U.S. sending aircraft to help Libya refugees

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:19 PM PST

Nearly 180,000 people, mainly foreign workers, have fled the violence in Libya into the neighboring nations of Tunisia and Egypt, the United Nations refugee agency said Thursday.


Tunisia president calls election

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:05 PM PST

Tunisia's interim president Fouad Mebazaa says elections for an assembly to rewrite the constitution will take place by 24 July.


Assange makes extradition appeal

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:55 AM PST

Lawyers for Wikileaks's Julian Assange appeal against a UK ruling that he should be extradited to Sweden to face sex offence charges.


Final budget agreed by Executive

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:58 AM PST

The Stormont Executive agrees a final budget package which will be presented to a special session of the Assembly on Friday.


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