Influential fashion photographer Irving Penn, known for his elegant, minimalist portraits, died on October 7. He was 92.
Retief Goosen’s momentary mental lapse nearly cost his International team a Presidents Cup point on Thursday.
America’s dominance of the Presidents Cup has robbed the matchplay showdown of Ryder Cup-like drama.
Swiss authorities denied a request to release film director Roman Polanski on bail after he was arrested in September, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
North Korea on Tuesday signalled it could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead six months ago.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates blamed the Taliban’s revival on a failure to deploy enough troops to Afghanistan and said US forces would not withdraw.
The world must address climate change with or without the US, writes David Adam
An anarchist has been arrested by the FBI and charged with hindering prosecution after he allegedly used Twitter to help protesters at the G20 summit.
US women have attacked the film world’s backing for director who again faces threat of trial for unlawful sex with 13-year-old girl in 1977.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Thursday that movie director Roman Polanski should be treated like anyone else in facing sentencing.
Engineers who invented a brassiere that converts quickly into a gas mask won spoof ”IgNobel” prizes on Thursday.
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/ 29 September 2009
Lawyers for director Roman Polanski lodged an appeal with a Swiss court on Tuesday against his arrest on a United States extradition warrant.
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/ 28 September 2009
Director Roman Polanski, arrested in Zurich over a US charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, will fight extradition, his lawyer said.
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/ 27 September 2009
The Obama administration is close to selecting a location on US soil to house some detainees from the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay.
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/ 27 September 2009
Sir Allen Stanford, a sports impresario who bankrolled cricket’s Twenty20 tournaments, is in hospital following a fight with another prison inmate.
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/ 27 September 2009
US president tells the Pentagon to map out radical cuts as he prepares to chair UN talks. Julian Borger reports.
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/ 27 September 2009
Bill Gates may have beaten Steve Jobs to combining computer power and paper notebook convenience in a single lightweight device.
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/ 26 September 2009
Police and anti-capitalist protesters clashed at the University of Pittsburgh campus on Friday evening, hours after the G20 summit ended.
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/ 25 September 2009
United States government facilities in South Africa reopened on Friday after they had been closed due to a security threat earlier in the week.
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/ 25 September 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi will support US plans to engage with the isolated nation but only if opposition groups are involved in any dialogue, her party said.
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/ 25 September 2009
Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as police used pepper gas and batons to disperse marches against capitalism.
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/ 25 September 2009
Dotcom darling Twitter is close to securing a cash injection of $100m, with executives due to complete a surprise funding round.
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/ 24 September 2009
Leaders of the world’s biggest rich and developing countries meet on Thursday to seek ways to nurture the economic recovery.
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/ 23 September 2009
Barack Obama on Wednesday promised a new era of US engagement with the world, saying that by acting together mankind can overcome global challenges.
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/ 23 September 2009
US President Barack Obama makes his UN debut on Wednesday calling on world leaders to shoulder more responsibility in confronting global challenges.
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/ 23 September 2009
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the Group of 20, which meets from Thursday, to make a stand against protectionism.
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/ 23 September 2009
Moammar Gadaffi pitched his tent on an estate belonging to Donald Trump in suburban New York on Tuesday, according to reports.
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/ 22 September 2009
Leaders of about 100 nations met on Tuesday to breathe new life into deadlocked climate change negotiations.
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/ 22 September 2009
China and the US will seek to revive stalled negotiations on a new pact to combat global warming at a UN summit on Tuesday.
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/ 22 September 2009
All United States government facilities in South Africa were closed on Tuesday over an undisclosed security threat, a US embassy spokesperson said.
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/ 22 September 2009
For the next four weeks, the fear that any bank anywhere, no matter how big, could be at risk would stalk the markets.
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/ 22 September 2009
An American science student has captured images of the curvature of the Earth after sending a balloon into space on a shoestring budget.