The operator of a Japanese nuclear plant on Friday reported possible damage to a reactor vessel, casting doubts over control of a radiation leak.
UK PM David Cameron was mired in a diplomatic row with Islamabad on Thursday over comments made about the "export of terror" from Pakistan.
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.
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 guitar over his head. The occasion was the 10th annual Webby awards — the self-proclaimed Oscars of the internet — which drew a large and varied group of winners from across the cyberspace world.
A high-level United Nations meeting on Aids agreed on Friday on a global strategy to fight the epidemic — but civil groups slammed the strategy for a lack of specific commitments and for coy references to high-risk groups like prostitutes. The declaration is the first of its kind since a landmark UN Aids summit in 2001.
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. Think of a roomful of students sitting their exams and you’re getting close," Josh Foer said on Saturday, shortly before being crowned Memory Champion of the United States.
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/ 27 February 2006
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 suggest there are millions of them and Time’s new online magazine, <i>Office Pirates</i>, has been custom-designed to grab their attention.
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/ 12 January 2006
The gossip mill in United States literary circles has gone into overdrive over alleged hoaxes by two best-selling cult authors, reports Giles Hewitt.