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Defections tighten noose around Gaddafi

Defections tighten noose around Gaddafi

The noose is tightening around Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his family after his foreign minister and another top diplomat defected.

Hotels a hard sell in tourist magnet Croatia

Offering crystal-clear waters uncommon in many parts of rival destinations, Croatia has enjoyed a tourist boom since the end of the Yugoslav wars.

New diplomatic push on Bosnia as tensions worsen

EU and US diplomats bring together Bosnian politicians on Thursday to seek a solution to deepening ethnic divisions.

Voters weigh renaming sewage plant after Bush

San Francisco voters, never thrilled with George Bush, may give the US president a parting shot in November by naming a sewage plant after him.

Straight or gay? US court says website can’t ask

A roommate-finding site cannot require users to disclose their sexual orientation, a United States appeals court ruled on Thursday, in the latest skirmish over whether…

Baseball’s Bonds accused of lying about steroid use

United States baseball home-run king Barry Bonds used steroids to fuel his success and then lied about it, US prosecutors said on Thursday in charging him with perjury and…

At Google, Obama talks of shared experience

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Google employees on Wednesday his meteoric rise in politics mirrored the company’s emergence as the lifeblood of the internet…

With ashes for a home, Californian vows to rebuild

When Ray Necochea was building his dream house four years ago, on a whim he wrote the story of his life on a wooden beam below the rooftop, hoping a future relative might…

Google seeks world of instant translations

In Google’s vision of the future, people will be able to translate documents instantly into the world’s main languages, with machine logic, not expert linguists, leading the way.…