LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has put his name to a campaign for a 10-percent cut in Britain's carbon emissions, his office said Friday, as the list of signatories to the pledge reached almost...
OTTAWA - Some 50 intellectuals and filmmakers, including Briton Ken Loach, have accused the Toronto film festival of "complicity with the Israeli propaganda machine" over its spotlight this year of...
NEW YORK- Want to beat the swine flu rap? Then rap with New York's Doctor John Clarke.
The musical doctor's homespun rap song is one of 10 finalists in a US Department of Health competition for...
PARIS, Patrick Filleux - The schooner Tara is to set sail on a three-year scientific voyage on the trail of naturalist Charles Darwin to map the effects of climate change on the marine organisms from...
BESLAN - Hundreds of mourners stood in silence in Beslan Thursday as schoolchildren released white balloons in memory of the 333 people who died in Russia's most wrenching hostage tragedy five years...
MONTREAL - The publisher of La Presse, Canada's second largest French-language newspaper, threatened on Thursday to permanently stop the presses unless its 700 employees agree to deep salary cuts...
PARIS - Women and men with thighs under 60 centimetres (23.5 inches) in circumference face a far higher risk of premature death and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.
The...
LONDON- A killer murdered a friend and cooked and ate part of his brain after tricking mental health staff into releasing him into the community in Britain, official reports said Thursday.
Peter...
MIAMI - A man who sought to cash his wife's check at her bank ran into an unusual problem: the teller wanted his thumbprint. Problem was, the man had no arms.
Steve Valdez, a resident of Tampa,...
JOHANNESBURG, Tabelo Timse - South African science fiction movie "District 9", already a surprise hit overseas, opened last weekend on local screens to a burst of enthusiasm at the home-grown film...
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