THE fire chief of a Russian city where a nightclub blaze killed 118 revelers was fired yesterday and authorities said fire records for the club appear to have been falsified. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, meanwhile,...
PRESIDENT Barack Obama says staggering job losses mean the United States must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" with a round of new incentives for hiring. In a speech in Washington, Obama proposed...
THE fire chief of a Russian city where a nightclub blaze killed 118 revelers was fired yesterday and authorities said fire records for the club appear to have been falsified. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, meanwhile,...
PRESIDENT Barack Obama says staggering job losses mean the United States must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" with a round of new incentives for hiring. In a speech in Washington, Obama proposed...
THIS decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the United Nations weather agency reported yesterday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation...
THIS decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the United Nations weather agency reported yesterday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation...
THE sounds of Mozart might slow premature infants' metabolism, potentially helping them to put on needed weight, according to an Israeli study. Most research into the so-called "Mozart effect" has focused on...
THE sounds of Mozart might slow premature infants' metabolism, potentially helping them to put on needed weight, according to an Israeli study. Most research into the so-called "Mozart effect" has focused on...
A SERIES of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad yesterday, including two suicide car bombers and another vehicle that blew up near government sites, causing carnage. At least 118 were killed and hundreds wounded...
UNITED States President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea arrived in Pyongyang yesterday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives....
A TEAM of militants launched a gun, rocket and suicide attack on an intelligence office in central Pakistan yesterday, killing 12 people in a strike that showed the insurgents can hit deep in the heart of the country. ...
MEASURING body mass index or waist size in overweight people can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, Dutch scientists said. A large 10-year study found that half of all fatal heart disease cases and a...
A SCOTLAND-BASED painter known for destroying his large-scale wall murals after they have been exhibited won Britain's best-known art award, the Turner Prize, on Monday. Richard Wright said he was surprised he...
MEASURING body mass index or waist size in overweight people can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, Dutch scientists said. A large 10-year study found that half of all fatal heart disease cases and a...
A SCOTLAND-BASED painter known for destroying his large-scale wall murals after they have been exhibited won Britain's best-known art award, the Turner Prize, on Monday. Richard Wright said he was surprised he...
THE sounds of Mozart might help slow premature infants' metabolism, potentially helping them to put on needed weight, according to an Israeli study. Most research into the so-called "Mozart effect" has focused...
A series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad today, including three car bombs that blew up near government sites. At least 103 were killed and 197 wounded in the worst wave of violence in the capital in more than...
A bomb exploded near an intelligence office in central Pakistan today, authorities said, damaging the building and killing at least 12 people amid a surge of extremist violence that has prompted the US to offer additional...
STEPHEN Bosworth, US Special Envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea left for Pyongyang from the Osan Air Force Base at local time 02:02 pm. (0502 GMT).
STEPHEN Bosworth, US Special Envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea left for Pyongyang from the Osan Air Force Base at local time 02:02 pm. (0502 GMT).
THE US Environmental Protection Agency yesterday cleared the way for regulation of greenhouse gases without new laws passed by Congress, reflecting President Barack Obama's commitment to act on climate change as a...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency yesterday cleared the way for regulation of greenhouse gases without new laws passed by Congress, reflecting President Barack Obama's commitment to act on climate change as a...
THE United States delivered a welcome boost yesterday to a pivotal climate conference by saying greenhouse gases blamed for global warming should be regulated as a health hazard under existing US clean air law. The...
THE United States delivered a welcome boost yesterday to a pivotal climate conference by saying greenhouse gases blamed for global warming should be regulated as a health hazard under existing US clean air law. The...
THREE nurses unions merged yesterday to form the largest-ever labor organization for US medical professionals, which is expected to wield greater clout in collective bargaining and the national healthcare debate. ...
OFFICIALS said yesterday they successfully cut loose hundreds of yards (meters) of plastic rope that had been caught in the mouth of a young humpback whale off Hawaii. Ed Lyman, the marine mammal response manager...
SOUTH Korea plans to send 350 troops to Afghanistan next year to support a group of civilian engineers helping with reconstruction, officials in Seoul said today. The deployment needs to be approved by parliament,...
ROMANIA'S main opposition party claimed yesterday that President Traian Basescu narrowly won re-election through a fraudulent vote. The Social Democrats said left-leaning former Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana...
CONDEMNED killer Kenneth Biros could become the first person in America put to death with a single dose of an intravenous anesthetic instead of the usual - and faster-acting - three-drug process if his execution proceeds...
AMERICAN football film "The Blind Side" tackled the top spot at box offices in the United States with US$20.4 million in ticket sales for a rare climb up the charts in its third week, according to studio estimates. ...
THE biggest climate talks so far opened yesterday with a stark United Nations warning of the risk of desertification and rising seas and an assurance by host Denmark that a deal to combat climate change was "within...
RUSSIA may build up to 20 reactors at three sites in India, news agencies yesterday quoted the country's nuclear energy chief Sergei Kiriyenko as saying. And at a joint news conference with visiting Indian Prime...
MASKED youths smashed store windows and hurled rocks and firebombs at riot police in Athens in a second day of violence during commemorations of last year's fatal police shooting of a teenager. The death last...
A SCULPTOR who filled an abandoned apartment with shimmering blue crystals is the favorite to win Britain's best-known art award, the Turner Prize. The winner of the 25,000 pound (US$40,000) prize was being chosen...
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