2012-2-15 10:36David Cameron has praised Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as a "figure of brilliance" who should guide the West’s response to ......
2012-2-14 10:22A civilian was killed and 27 other people were injured, including seven police officers, in an explosion that apparently targeted a police car in southeastern ......
2012-2-13 10:15Hermann Broch's trilogy, *The Sleepwalkers* (1932), is immense, beginning with the old man von Pasenow, an excellent brief sketch of the character both physica......
2012-2-13 10:9The year 1989 marked a milestone in the history of artificial intelligence. A computer program, Deep Thought, defeated several chess grandmasters. It is true t......
2012-2-13 10:8"A Kate Vaiden" is Reynolds Price's sixth novel, and it has already drawn interest from a writer whose career had a strong start (with works like "A Long and H......
2012-2-11 10:47By Alex Dobuzinskis, Los Angeles | Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 6:06 AM CEST Los Angeles (Reuters) - A U.S. federal agency has accused a company of bringing over......
2012-2-11 10:45By Lucia Mutikani, Washington | Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 7:08 AM CEST Washington (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales reported their smallest gain in nine months in......
2012-2-7 14:46Azadie Adominique Nabokov Smith, New York, 2009
"Changing My Mind" is a very good title for a collection of essays, a genre in which one should be trying out ......
2012-2-6 10:14In January, most people believed that President Boris Yeltsin could not win a free election. Their attitude was reflected in a story that circulated in Moscow ......
2012-2-6 10:13James Bryant Conant was appointed president of Harvard in 1933 at the age of forty. Previously, he had been a professor of chemistry and was relatively inexper......
2012-2-6 10:13Li Xueren/Xinhua/Corbis
Vice President Xi Jinping (right), who is expected to become China’s next president in 2012, at the plenum of the 11th National Commit......
2012-2-4 10:29OTTAWA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday he expects the global economy to continue to grow slowly.
Harper made the remar......
2012-2-4 10:24* China calls for safe return of abducted, missing worker
* Beijing faces expectations it can wield influence to protect citizens
* China has major interests......
2012-2-4 10:21ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and its private creditors said on Saturday they were piecing together the final elements of a debt swap and expected to have a deal r......