Cameron touches raw nerve

Cameron touches raw nerve

Cameron touches raw nerve

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:35 AM PST

British budget stance unsettles EU partners, says Mark Urban

Millions prepare for Lunar New Year

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 08:51 AM PST

Tens of millions of people are preparing to celebrate Lunar - or Chinese - New Year, the most important annual holiday in large parts of Asia.

France plays down report of ransom paid for Niger hostages

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 12:27 PM PST

PARIS (Reuters) - France brushed off an allegation by a former U.S. diplomat that it paid a $17 million ransom, in vain, for the release of four hostages abducted in 2010 from Niger, a charge that contradicts the government's stated no-negotiation policy.

Big powers ready to respond if Iran addresses nuclear concerns: Kerry

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 12:31 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major powers are ready to respond if Iran comes to February 26 nuclear talks ready to address questions about its nuclear program, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday.

Protests force Georgia president to change speech venue

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 01:01 PM PST

TBILISI (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters who accuse Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of flouting human rights and stifling dissent forced him to change the venue of his annual address to the nation on Friday.

VIDEO: Culinary tribute to 'Dear Leader'

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:52 AM PST

North Korea has often been associated with famine and food shortages, but country's state news agency has released pictures of a national food competition held in the capital Pyongyang.

Slovenia protest adds pressure to crumbling government

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 12:02 PM PST

LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Some 20,000 Slovenians took to the streets on Friday, adding pressure on a crumbling conservative government that is struggling to stay in power and avoid a bailout.

VIDEO: 'Ugly masks' chase winter away

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:50 AM PST

The annual ugly masks carnival in the Swiss city of Lucerne is staged to scare the winter away and welcome spring.

VIDEO: Culinary tribute to 'Dear Leader'

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:52 AM PST

North Korea has often been associated with famine and food shortages, but country's state news agency has released pictures of a national food competition held in the capital Pyongyang.

Canadian senator faces sexual assault charges

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:37 AM PST

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian senator faced charges of assault and sexual assault on Friday after spending the night in jail, a new stain on the reputation of the upper house of Parliament, which the government wants to reform.

The cost of Obama's secret drone war

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:06 AM PST

The cost of Obama's secret drone war

The cost of Obama's secret drone war

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:06 AM PST

The cost of Obama's secret drone war

Why Switzerland has so many guns

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 10:56 AM PST

The U.S. conversation about whether or not to introduce new guns laws, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that killed 28 people, has often drawn upon international comparisons. American gun culture is largely unique, but advocates on both sides have often pointed to the gun-control success stories (we looked at Japanese and British gun laws) as well as the countries with relatively wide gun ownership, such as Israel. But what about Switzerland?

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Why uranium would make a North Korean nuclear test especially scary

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 10:48 AM PST

North Korea's recent threat to conduct an underground nuclear weapons test, its third, is provocative enough on its own. The North Korean nuclear weapons program is illegal, dangerous and destabilizing, has been widely condemned by the rest of the world and is even causing some tension (alas, probably relatively minor and temporary tension) in Pyongyang's all-important relationship with China.

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Arab Spring-style protests take hold in Iraq

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 10:47 AM PST

FALLUJAH, Iraq — This restive Sunni town, the first to rebel against U.S. troops a decade ago, is rising up once again, this time against the government the Americans left behind.

In an echo of the Arab Spring protests that have overturned regimes elsewhere in the region, angry residents have been staging weekly demonstrations against the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, calling, among a host of other demands, for him to step down and for Iraq's U.S.-brokered constitution to be replaced.

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Map: The world's most and least 'forward-looking' countries, based on Google searches

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 10:02 AM PST

Germany is the world's most forward-thinking country, and Pakistan is its least, according to a new report by researchers in the United Kingdom, which bases its assessment on Google searches.

Tobias Preis and Helen Susannah Moat of the Warwick Business School and University College London compiled their Future-Orientation Index by comparing how often Internet users in 45 countries Googled the years "2011" and "2013" in 2012. This year, Germany won the top spot, pushing out the U.K.; the United States ranked 11th, up from 15th last year.

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U.N. Calls on Papua New Guinea to Curb Violence After Burning Death of Woman

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:22 AM PST

The killing of a woman accused of sorcery is part of a pattern of vigilante attacks in the country, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.

UK's Cameron savors EU budget win as battles loom

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:13 AM PST

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron won praise from his party's anti-EU camp with a successful fight to cut the European Union budget, but tougher battles lie ahead when he seeks to win back powers from Brussels before a vote on Britain's EU membership.

Amish Sect Leader Gets 15 Years in Beard-Cutting Attacks

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 11:12 AM PST

Samuel Mullet Sr. was sentenced along with 15 followers for a series of beard- and hair-cutting attacks on other Ohio Amish that drew national attention.

Azerbaijan Is Rich. Now It Wants to Be Famous.

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 02:01 AM PST

Oil-rich, velvet-rope-poor Azerbaijan, a country about the size of South Carolina on the Caspian Sea, would very much like to be the world's next party capital.

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