Queenstown not a holiday - Flower

Queenstown not a holiday - Flower

Queenstown not a holiday - Flower

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 04:25 PM PDT

England coach Andy Flower denies suggestions his side's trip to Queenstown in New Zealand was "a holiday".

United Nations report suggests Hamas may have killed Palestinian infant Omar Mishrawi

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 04:31 PM PDT

On Nov. 14, as the Israeli Defense Forces and Palestinian militant groups exchanged fire across the Gaza-Israel border, an explosive landed on the home of BBC journalist Jihad Mishrawi. Following the incident, he told the BBC that his sister-in-law, his brother and his son, an 11-month-old infant named Omar, had been killed.

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Mining, China central issues in Greenland election

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 04:11 PM PDT

NUUK (Reuters) - Voters in Greenland's capital will stream into the town's one polling station on Tuesday in a national parliamentary election in which mining, Chinese influence and the environment are core issues.

Illinois settles SEC fraud charges

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 04:05 PM PDT

Illinois agrees to settle federal charges alleging the state misled investors about the financial health of its public pension system, regulators say.

Judge strikes down New York sugary drinks ban

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 04:06 PM PDT

Mayor Bloomberg vows to appeal ruling on ban intended to tackle obesity day before it was due to come into force.

Florida Senate Committee Rejects Medicaid Expansion

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 03:18 PM PDT

Rebuffing Gov. Rick Scott, a Florida Senate committee proposed using federal money to enroll low-income residents in private insurance as a compromise.

Ovarian Cancer Study Finds Widespread Flaws in Treatment

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 03:27 PM PDT

Most women with ovarian cancer, which kills 15,000 Americans a year, receive inadequate care and miss out on treatments that could add a year or more to their lives, a study found.

U.S. publicly calls on China to stop commercial cyber-espionage, theft of trade secrets

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:51 PM PDT

In an unusually direct appeal, the Obama administration on Monday called on China to halt its persistent theft of trade secrets from corporate computers and engage in a dialogue to establish norms of behavior in cyberspace.

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The Appraisal: For Good or Bad, Watching Williamsburg’s Transformation

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 11:13 AM PDT

A Princeton University film professor documented, and lamented, the effects of rezoning to the Brooklyn neighborhood and the raw emotions that still exist.

Will a Canadian cardinal be Pope?

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:36 PM PDT

Mark Mardell profiles papal contender Cardinal Ouellet

Pope Choice Is Just One Challenge

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Eight years after cardinals from around the world gathered in the Sistine Chapel and picked a new pope who would continue on his predecessor's traditionalist path, the choice to succeed Pope Benedict XVI doesn't appear as clear-cut.

IMF Says Egypt Could Apply for Emergency Credit

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:52 PM PDT

Egypt may qualify for an International Monetary Fund bridge loan of more than $700 million a year that could help Cairo stave off collapse of its crisis-stricken economy, an IMF official said on Monday.

British hostage's family 'saddened'

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:53 PM PDT

Relatives of a Briton thought to have been murdered by a Nigerian Islamist militant group say they are saddened and pay tribute to a "lovable rogue".

Yoani Sanchez, dissident Cuban blogger behind ‘Generation Y,’ goes on tour

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:30 PM PDT

CARACAS, Venezuela — Yoani Sanchez, the celebrated Cuban dissident blogger, says she still has to steel her nerves when she prepares to write yet another vignette about the boredom, grim despair and hardship that mark life in Communist Cuba.

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Harvard explains dean-email searches

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Harvard University administrators confirm they searched the emails of deans as part of an investigation into a leak of a student cheating scandal.

Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:05 PM PDT

King who inspired US founding father Thomas Jefferson

China's Xi flexes muscle, chooses reformist VP: sources

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 02:44 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - A reformist member of China's decision-making Politburo, Li Yuanchao, is set to become the country's vice president this week instead of a more senior and conservative official best known for keeping the media in check, sources said.

U.N. peacekeepers held in Syria reach Israel: army

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 01:43 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers held by rebels for three days in southern Syria and freed at the weekend crossed into Israel from neighboring Jordan on Monday, a military spokeswoman said.

Shots fired during Iraq-Kuwait border protest: police

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 03:20 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police said they shot in the air to disperse stone-throwing crowds protesting against the demarcation of the border with Kuwait on Monday, leaving some on the Kuwaiti side believing they were being fired at, according to media reports.

Venezuelans gear up for fresh election

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 01:40 PM PDT

Acting president Maduro registers for snap election prompted by Chavez death as opposition leader Capriles is nominated.

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