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Reactor fear at Japan plant as toll tops 10 000

Reactor fear at Japan plant as toll tops 10 000

The operator of a Japanese nuclear plant on Friday reported possible damage to a reactor vessel, casting doubts over control of a radiation leak.

Cameron’s ‘terror’ comment sparks row with Pakistan

Cameron’s ‘terror’ comment sparks row with Pakistan

UK PM David Cameron was mired in a diplomatic row with Islamabad on Thursday over comments made about the "export of terror" from Pakistan.

China slams Dalai Lama’s latest speech

China fumes as Dalai Lama heads for Obama meeting

Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, headed for the US on Wednesday for a meeting with President Barack Obama that has infuriated China.

Bono and Blair turn Davos focus to Africa

Davos moves into the development arena on Friday, as the annual gathering of global leaders turns its energies to the issue of poverty alleviation, with a special focus on…

Libeskind seeks harmony in Ground Zero discord

Daniel Libeskind has had his fingers badly burned by the acrimonious project to rebuild the World Trade Center site, but the Ground Zero architect remains convinced his vision…

Webby awards crown their Prince

Billionaire basketball team owner Mark Cuban was a no-show, but the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund made it and pop star Prince rounded off the evening by throwing a…

US debt clock running out of time and space

Tick, 000, tock, another 000. So rapid is the rise of the US national debt, that the last four digits of a giant digital signboard counting the moving total near New York’s Times…

A competition to remember

It’s no easy task to promote a sport that even your national champion admits is about as fascinating as watching paint dry. "I don’t think it could be more boring if it tried.…

‘Pirates’ preys on bored, work-shy office staff

Time, the largest magazine publisher in the world, is looking for desk-bound young men more interested in idly surfing the internet than doing the work they are paid for. Surveys…

New Oprah campaign targets sexual predators

United States talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey, whose influence can turn the New York Times bestseller list on its head, is having a similar impact on the FBI’s most-wanted list…

Watered-down UN reform endorsed

World leaders ended a three-day United Nations summit on Friday by endorsing a watered-down document on UN reform that fell short of their robust calls for increased efforts to…

Harry Potter and the gay fantasy

”Draco’s breath is warm against his neck, his body gradually relaxing as Harry holds him, refusing to let go, and Harry discovers this is the most comfortable he’s ever been in…

Oh dear, Bing, Grandma got run over by a reindeer!

For those not keen on the fa-la-la-la school of Christmas music, a slew of albums this holiday season offers every conceivable take on Yuletide themes, from rap to reggae and…

Record companies to return $50m in unpaid royalties

The world’s top five music companies, in a deal announced on Tuesday, agreed to pay -million in unclaimed royalties to thousands of artists, including stars such as David Bowie…

‘Awwww, truly this man was the Son of God’

Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ is only the latest in a very long line of celluloid portrayals of Jesus that have, in their turn, aroused controversy, delight, outrage and…

Preserving the Holocaust on the internet

Harvard Law School is seeking funding for a stalled project that aims, for the first time, to make more than one million pages of documents from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war…

‘I’m Karyn, I’m really nice, and I need your help’

Karyn is a twenty-something New Yorker. She’s single, she works as a freelancer in TV production and she wants you to help pay off her 000 shopping debt.