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Claudia Parsons works from New York. Former International Editor at Newsweek. Gone sailing. Tweets will be few and far between. Claudia Parsons has over 721 followers on Twitter.
Clint Eastwood talks to a chair on Romney’s big day
Dirty Harry himself nearly hijacked Mitt Romney’s presidential nomination with a rambling diatribe against Barack Obama – addressed to an empty chair.
The fight over the future of food
Giuseppe Oglio’s farm near Milan looks like it’s suffering from neglect. Weeds run rampant amid the rice fields and clover grows unchecked.
China makes landmark pledge to curb CO2 emissions
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday promised to put a ”notable” brake on the country’s rapidly rising carbon emissions.
Plane ditches in Hudson River, all aboard are safe
A US Airways jet with 155 people on board ditched in the frigid Hudson River off Manhattan after apparently hitting a flock of geese on Thursday.
More economic pain seen in 2009, but some hope too
Investors said good riddance on Wednesday to one of the worst years and prayed that rescue plans will pull the global economy out of its tailspin.
World faces slowdown in 2009, hopes pinned on bailouts
Another day, another batch of warning signs indicating the world will enter 2009 in the throes of a sharp economic slowdown.
‘Rent’ ends 12-year Broadway run
The hit musical Rent closes on Broadway this weekend after 12 years.
Scrappy Safina survives to reach last 16
Sixth seed Dinara Safina weathered a spirited challenge from Swiss teenager Timea Bacsinszky to win 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the third round of the US Open.
Moshing for Jesus at ‘Christian Woodstock’
A music festival with heavy metal, punk and hip-hop might seem like an unusual place to get baptised, but Creation is a festival with strict rules.
UN-backed Western Sahara talks end with no progress
Morocco and Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement ended a fourth round of talks near New York City on Tuesday without narrowing differences on Africa’s longest-running…
NY Governer Spitzer under pressure to quit over sex case
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer faces pressure to resign on Tuesday as well as questions about whether he will be prosecuted for any crime after a report linked him to a…
Race for White House narrows
Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards abandoned their failing United States presidential bids on Wednesday, narrowing the race to two main candidates on each side…
Aid groups warn Darfur UN force set to fail
Aid groups urged the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to set a 30-day deadline for Sudan to stop obstructing the planned January 1 deployment of UN-African Union…
Mugabe slams ‘Almighty Bush’ over human rights
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe accused United States President George Bush of ”rank hypocrisy” on Wednesday for lecturing him on human rights, and likened the US Guantánamo Bay…
Ahmadinejad spars with academics in NY
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with an United States university president who called him a ”petty and cruel dictator” at a forum on Monday where Ahmadinejad…