VIDEO: Rice: 'Societies need women to prosper'

VIDEO: Rice: 'Societies need women to prosper'

VIDEO: Rice: 'Societies need women to prosper'

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 04:08 PM PST

To mark International Women's Day, former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers asks former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about her rise to the top.

VIDEO: New Pope's robes made in S, M and L

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 04:23 AM PST

It has yet to be decided who the new Pope will be, but the robes that the next leader of the Catholic Church will wear have already been designed and made in Italy.

VIDEO: Catholic church in LA awaits Rome discussion

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:23 PM PST

As cardinals in Rome discuss the future of the church, high on their list of priorities is tackling the ongoing fall out from the clergy sexual abuse crisis.

Race tightens in Kenya general elections

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:25 PM PST

Ballot counting continues as accusations of vote-rigging are ruled against by independent election commission.

Analysis: German reform angst sets in a decade after "Agenda 2010"

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:36 PM PST

German Chancellor Merkel holds a BlackBerry Z10 smartphone featuring high security Secusite software at the booth of Secusmart during her opening tour at the CeBit computer fair in HanoverBERLIN (Reuters) - With its record low unemployment, thriving "Mittelstand" companies and consensus-seeking unions, Germany has been held up as a model of economic management at a time when many of its European partners are mired in crisis. But as the 10th anniversary of the reforms credited with fuelling Germany's success approaches, a small but vocal group of politicians, businessmen and economists is sounding alarm bells over what they see as a dangerous policy complacency in Berlin that is putting the gains of past years at risk. ...

Hugo Chavez's body to be put on permanent display

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:11 PM PST

In this photo provided by Miraflores Presidential Press Office, a man helps a girl to look into the glass-topped casket containing the remains of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez lying in state at the military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 7, 2013. While Venezuela remains deeply divided over the country's future, the multitudes who reached the president's coffin were united in grief and admiration for a man many considered a father figure. Chavez died on March 5 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.(AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and now Hugo Chavez. The late leader's supporters have put him on a pedestal long provided for the world's great leftist revolutionaries by saying they will embalm his body for perpetual display.

VIDEO: Duetting with Gorbachev

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:54 PM PST

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg's interview with Mikhail Gorbachev ended with an impromptu sing song

VIDEO: Is football corruption over in China?

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:43 PM PST

Can China put football corruption behind it as the new season gets underway

Analysis: German reform angst sets in a decade after "Agenda 2010"

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:36 PM PST

BERLIN (Reuters) - With its record low unemployment, thriving "Mittelstand" companies and consensus-seeking unions, Germany has been held up as a model of economic management at a time when many of its European partners are mired in crisis.

Analysis: After Grillo, Florence mayor was a big winner in Italy's vote

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:11 PM PST

Italian PD (Democratic Party) leader Bersani waves next to mayor of Florence Renzi during a political rally in FlorenceROME (Reuters) - The big winner in Italy's election was populist leader Beppe Grillo, but young Florence mayor Matteo Renzi is emerging as a less obvious beneficiary of a huge protest vote that threatens to destroy the old political system. Renzi, a telegenic, 38-year-old American-style politician who toured Italy in a camper van before Grillo did the same in his campaign, is the opposite of colorless centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani, the election's biggest loser. ...

Israel prepares for next war with Hezbollah

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:22 PM PST

Israeli soldiers run as they participate in a drill near Revivim southern Israel, Thursday, March 7, 2013. On a dusty field in Israel's southern desert, the military is gearing up for the next battle against a familiar foe: Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. As the Syrian civil war intensifies on Israel's northern doorstep, military planners are growing increasingly jittery that the fighting could spill over into Israel, potentially dragging Hezbollah into the fray. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)REVIVIM JUNCTION, Israel (AP) — On a dusty field in Israel's southern desert, the military is gearing up for the next battle against a familiar foe: Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

VIDEO: Is football corruption over in China?

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:43 PM PST

Can China put football corruption behind it as the new season gets underway

Analysis: After Grillo, Florence mayor was a big winner in Italy's vote

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:11 PM PST

ROME (Reuters) - The big winner in Italy's election was populist leader Beppe Grillo, but young Florence mayor Matteo Renzi is emerging as a less obvious beneficiary of a huge protest vote that threatens to destroy the old political system.

Leading candidate in Kenya vote hovers at 50 pct

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:08 PM PST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The leading candidate in the race for Kenya's president is hovering around the 50 percent mark as ballots are counted on what officials say is the last day of the count.

Myanmar opposition holds first party congress

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:18 PM PST

Pedestrians walk under the National League for Democracy (NLD) flags flying outside the venue of the party's congress Thursday, March 7, 2013 in Yangon, Myanmar. In another sign of political reform and reconciliation in Myanmar, the country's biggest party led by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hold its first-ever congress in the country's former capital from Friday. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Nearly 900 representatives from Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party gathered Friday in Myanmar's main city to elect their leadership for the first time in the group's 25-year history.

Getting Into An SXSW State Of Mind

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 09:20 PM PST

I've arrived in Austin once more for the two weeks that are known as SXSW, but what has surprised me were two moments in the trip over from Edinburgh to the Texan state capital. Two moments that typified why I travel to SXSW for the Interactive strand, and why it's an important date in the calendar for the tech community.

CIA Head Faces Squeeze Play

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 09:44 PM PST

The CIA is disputing a highly critical congressional report on its now-closed detention and interrogation program, putting its new director, John Brennan, on a collision course with Congress.

Vietnam Bus Crash Kills 11

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 08:55 PM PST

Two buses collided in central Vietnam, killing 11 people and leaving nine others seriously injured.

In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 04:49 PM PST

New research suggests that average global temperatures were higher in the last decade than over most of the previous 11,300 years, a finding that offers a long-term context for assessing modern-day climate change.

China Exports Beat Expectations

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:18 PM PST

China posted a surprise trade surplus in February thanks to stronger-than-expected exports as the global economy recovered, and a drop in imports.

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