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PAJU, South Korea,  (Reuters) – North Korea suspended its sole remaining major project with the South on Monday, after weeks of threats against the United States and South Korea, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said any nuclear conflict could make Chernobyl look like a fairy tale.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Loved or loathed in death as in life, Margaret Thatcher left no one indifferent, finding some of her most ardent admirers among her political opponents.

PAJU, South Korea,  (Reuters) – North Korea suspended its sole remaining major project with the South today after weeks of threats against the United States and South Korea, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said any nuclear conflict may make Chernobyl look like a fairy tale.

BEIJING/SEOUL, (Reuters) – China’s leaders issued thinly veiled rebukes to North Korea for raising regional tensions, with the president saying no country should throw the world into chaos and the foreign minister warning that Beijing would not allow mischief on its doorstep.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – To crack the code of the human brain, Cori Bargmann figures it’s best to keep an open mind.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – This is a golden era for political consultants – well, except for those Republicans still smarting from the November elections.

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – World powers and Iran failed again to end the deadlock in a decade-old dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme in talks that ended in Kazakhstan yesterday, prolonging a standoff that could yet spiral into a new Middle East war.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Scientists in the Dutch city of Rotterdam know precisely what it takes for a bird flu to mutate into a potential human pandemic strain – because they’ve created just such mutant viruses in the laboratory.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – When U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought two corruption cases against New York state politicians last week, accusing some of selling their votes and another of trying to bribe his way onto the ballot, he challenged the political class to clean up the system.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan,  (Reuters) – A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth was awarded one of Britain’s most prestigious entertainment honours on Thursday for her support for the film and television industry.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Bollywood is branching out from its traditional song-and-dance dramas and slapstick comedies with its first zombie films which filmmakers hope will entice younger crowds back to Indian films from Hollywood’s living dead.

KANSAS CITY, Kan.,  (Reuters) – Kansas is set to enact one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation which defines life as beginning “at fertilization” and imposes a host of new regulations.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Roger Ebert, who was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and became an unlikely TV star while hosting a movie review show with fellow critic Gene Siskel, died in Chicago on Thursday, two days after he disclosed his cancer had returned.

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – World powers and Iran failed again to end the deadlock in a decade-old dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme in talks that ended in Kazakhstan today, prolonging a standoff that could yet spiral into a new Middle East war.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Africa is rising not only on the growth charts of economists.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalan President Otto Perez on Friday labeled as “a lie” testimony given during the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt that implicated Perez in atrocities carried out by the military during the country’s 1960-1996 civil war.

LONDON/SEOUL – North Korea warned on Friday it could not guarantee the safety of diplomats after next Wednesday and asked embassies to consider moving staff out of the country, European diplomats said, amid high tension on the Korean peninsula.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain’s embattled royal family has agreed to open its affairs to more public scrutiny under a new transparency law intended to restore confidence in a political establishment sapped by corruption and economic crisis.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – At least 39 people were killed and dozens injured after an illegal, half-constructed building collapsed in seconds “like a pack of cards” on the outskirts of India’s financial centre Mumbai, officials and witnesses said.