CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian riot police fired barrages of tear gas at hardcore protesters demanding Egypt’s army relinquish power in a sixth night of violence which has led the interior minister, according to one report, to propose postponing elections due on Nov.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Florida scam artists told elderly victims the government had changed the laws regulating toilet paper and that their septic tanks would be ruined unless they bought specially formulated rolls, court documents said.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Several years after soft porn films nearly died out in India, mainstream Bollywood has now shed its inhibitions to make a movie about a former sex symbol.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Kirsten Dunst steps out of her comfort zone and deep into a paralyzing depression in her latest film “Melancholia.”
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s parliament passed a bill on protecting state secrets yesterday despite criticism at home and abroad that it harks back to apartheid legislation and makes it easier for corrupt officials to conceal graft.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada could be admitting people who are security threats or carrying serious diseases because its visa system is badly flawed, a parliamentary watchdog warned yesterday.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – With one of the world’s most expensive yachts and a cricket and Formula One team, Kingfisher Airlines’ billionaire Chairman Vijay Mallya is known as “King of the Good Times” for a jet set lifestyle that shadowed India’s own rise as an economic power.
WARSAW, (Reuters) – The wife of Nobel prize-winning Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa describes the loneliness and domestic grind she faced as her husband rose to power in a frank biography that is causing a stir in the country even before its official release.
CAIRO – Under fierce pressure from street protests, Egypt’s army chief promised yesterday to hand over to a civilian president by July and made a conditional offer for an immediate end to army rule.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian activists called for a huge turnout in protests today to put an end to rule by the military which also saw its authority challenged by the resignation of the civilian cabinet, casting uncertainty on elections due next week.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and Canada yesterday announced new sanctions on Iran’s energy and financial sectors, steps analysts said may raise pressure on Tehran but were unlikely to halt its nuclear programme.
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia, the world’s No 3 cocaine producer, said yesterday it would not let US anti-drug agents return even as government officials work with Washington on a plan to fight the narcotics trade.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US lawmakers abandoned their high-profile effort to rein in the country’s ballooning debt yesterday in a sign that Washington likely will not be able to resolve a dispute over taxes and spending until 2013.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s centre-right opposition stormed to a crushing election victory yesterday as voters punished the outgoing Socialist government for the worst economic crisis in generations.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – U.S. oil company Chevron promised to fully clean-up a spill off Brazil’s coast, the CEO of the local subsidiary, George Buck, said on Sunday, taking responsibility for an accident that has become a major test for one of the world’s fastest-growing oil frontiers.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York police arrested a follower of late Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki on suspicion of building a pipe bomb he planned to use against U.S.
YANGON, (Reuters) – Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will run in an upcoming by-election, a senior official in her party said yesterday, three days after her National League for Democracy ended its boycott of the country’s political system.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – At least 10 people died as police backed by the army used batons and teargas yesterday to charge protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding Egypt’s ruling generals hand over power, in some of the worst violence since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – An international team of scientists in Italy studying the same neutrino particles colleagues say appear to have travelled faster than light rejected the startling finding this weekend, saying their tests had shown it must be wrong.
ZINTAN, Libya (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been captured in Libya’s southern desert, scared and with only a handful of supporters, by fighters who vow to hold him in the mountain town of Zintan until there is a government to hand him over to.
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