UK colonial papers to be made public

UK colonial papers to be made public


UK colonial papers to be made public

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:48 PM PDT

Sensitive files from Britain's colonial past are to be released after a court case by Kenyan Mau Mau veterans.


Second Air France body recovered

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT

Recovery teams raise a second body from the underwater wreckage of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all those on board.


UK colonial papers to be made public

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:48 PM PDT

Sensitive files from Britain's colonial past are to be released after a court case by Kenyan Mau Mau veterans.


EU to Sanction 13 Syrian Officials

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:30 PM PDT

European Union ambassadors agreed that the bloc should extend sanctions against 13 Syrian officials, not including President Bashar al-Assad. Sactions could be in place by the end of the week.


Ivory Coast's Ouattara sworn in at tense ceremony

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:36 PM PDT

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara took his presidential oath on Friday, cementing his rule over the West African state in a tense ceremony conducted by an ally of ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo.


Japan PM calls for nuclear plant shutdown

Posted: 06 May 2011 11:07 AM PDT

Naoto Kan calls for closure of Hamaoka plant, considered at high risk from a powerful earthquake in coming decades.


Ouattara sworn in as Ivory Coast president

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:07 PM PDT

Alassane Ouattara was sworn in Friday as president of Ivory Coast, ending a months-long political standoff.


Four ran global paedophile ring

Posted: 06 May 2011 11:38 AM PDT

Four men admit running a paedophile ring that sent millions of indecent images and films of children around the world.


Japan PM calls for nuclear plant shutdown

Posted: 06 May 2011 11:07 AM PDT

Naoto Kan calls for closure of Hamaoka plant, considered at high risk from a powerful earthquake in coming decades.


'New evidence' in Hairi killing probe

Posted: 06 May 2011 11:28 AM PDT

Prosecutor at UN-backed tribunal investigating former Lebanese prime minister's killing files amended indictment.


Cairo Protesters Decry Bin Laden Killing

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:21 PM PDT

About 200 demonstrators gathered outside the United States Embassy Friday to protest manifestations of what they called American hostility to Muslims.


Tunisian police battle anti-government protesters

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:12 PM PDT

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police battled hundreds of protesters demanding the government's resignation Friday in the most violent confrontations for weeks with pro-democracy demonstrators.


Britons reject voting reform in referendum

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Britons have overwhelmingly rejected proposals for voting reform in a setback to the coalition government's Liberal Democrats who had championed the change, the BBC said Friday.


Euro falls on Greece exit rumours

Posted: 06 May 2011 11:45 AM PDT

The single currency falls on a report that Greece has raised the possibility of leaving the euro.


Lost in the School Choice Maze

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:59 PM PDT

New York City uses a complex system to match students and high schools, and 10 percent of eighth graders recently learned the hard way how dizzying and disappointing the process can be.


Sir Paul McCartney to marry again

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has got engaged to his girlfriend of four years, New York businesswoman Nancy Shevell, his publicist says.


Uefa throws weight behind Blatter

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Uefa gives its "unanimous support" to Sepp Blatter in the upcoming Fifa presidential elections.


Magazine Preview: Tina Brown Is Still Hungry for Buzz

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Can she get it for her "NewsBeast" operation?


Whyte completes Rangers takeover

Posted: 06 May 2011 11:26 AM PDT

Craig Whyte is the new owner of Rangers after the London-based venture capitalist acquires Sir David Murray's majority shareholding for £1.


Families desperate to recover bodies at Mexico mine

Posted: 06 May 2011 10:52 AM PDT

SABINAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled a seventh body from a collapsed coal mine in northern Mexico on Friday as families gave up hope of finding seven other trapped workers alive after an explosion earlier this week.


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