JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, cancelled a trip to South Africa planned for this week that had put Pretoria in a bind between its biggest trading partner China and one of its modern heroes, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.
CUPERTINO, Calif., (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s newest iPhone left Wall Street and fans wishing for more than a souped-up version of last year’s device, igniting a rare storm of criticism and disappointment on the Internet.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The world’s wealthiest families have embarked on damage limitation rather than seeking to boost their fortunes as financial turmoil erodes their riches, with some so worried they are putting their money in ‘catastrophe’ portfolios.
LJUBLJANA, (Reuters) – The Slovenian Constitutional Court said yesterday it had banned the city of Ljubljana from naming a road after Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito because his name was a symbol of the communist regime that violated human rights.
MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked rebels struck at the heart of the capital yesterday, killing more than 70 people with a truck bomb in the group’s most deadly attack in the country since launching an insurgency in 2007.
SEATTLE/PERUGIA, (Reuters) – Amanda Knox returned home to Seattle yesterday, one day after an Italian court cleared the 24-year-old college student of murder and freed her from prison.
PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) – Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend left prison after four years yesterday when an Italian appeals court cleared them of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Campaigners for a loosely regulated Internet are alarmed at the risk to Web freedom from fast-growing BRIC and other emerging economies seeking more say in how the online realm is policed.
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces have captured a district in Sirte after fierce battles that further raised concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Muammar Gaddafi’s besieged hometown.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman whose murder trial in the death of her retired police officer husband is considered a test of the battered woman defence said yesterday that “the truth has now been told” as her case wound to a close.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Doctors who tried to revive Michael Jackson at a Los Angles hospital testified yesterday that the singer’s personal physician never told them he gave him the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel accepted yesterday a call by international mediators to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, who quickly reaffirmed their refusal to negotiate until settlement-building stops on land they seek for state.
MANCHESTER, N.H., (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said on Saturday he would get the U.S.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Syria’s main opposition groups joined together yesterday to call on the international community to take action to protect Syrian people facing a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – In his final regular appearance on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” Andy Rooney expressed gratitude for a “lucky” life and thanked his fans, but not without adding a touch of the curmudgeonly grumbling that has become a signature element of his TV essays.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian troops regained control of the central town of Rastan, the official news agency said yesterday, after the most prolonged fighting between the army and insurgents in a six-month uprising.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader rejected the Palestinians’ UN statehood bid yesterday, saying any deal that accepted the existence of Israel would leave a “cancerous tumour” forever threatening the security of the Middle East.
KABUL (Reuters) – NATO-led forces said yesterday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week.
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