Queenstown not a holiday - Flower |
- Queenstown not a holiday - Flower
- United Nations report suggests Hamas may have killed Palestinian infant Omar Mishrawi
- Mining, China central issues in Greenland election
- Illinois settles SEC fraud charges
- Judge strikes down New York sugary drinks ban
- Florida Senate Committee Rejects Medicaid Expansion
- Ovarian Cancer Study Finds Widespread Flaws in Treatment
- U.S. publicly calls on China to stop commercial cyber-espionage, theft of trade secrets
- The Appraisal: For Good or Bad, Watching Williamsburg’s Transformation
- Will a Canadian cardinal be Pope?
- Pope Choice Is Just One Challenge
- IMF Says Egypt Could Apply for Emergency Credit
- British hostage's family 'saddened'
- Yoani Sanchez, dissident Cuban blogger behind ‘Generation Y,’ goes on tour
- Harvard explains dean-email searches
- Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson
- China's Xi flexes muscle, chooses reformist VP: sources
- U.N. peacekeepers held in Syria reach Israel: army
- Shots fired during Iraq-Kuwait border protest: police
- Venezuelans gear up for fresh election
| 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. Read full article >> |
| 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. Read full article >> |
| 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. Read full article >> |
| 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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