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By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – After more than 30-years, murder mystery writer Agatha Christie’s fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot will return to the United States …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
ATHENS, (Reuters) – A man died after jumping off Greece’s Acropolis, a major tourist attraction visited by millions every year, police said yesterday.
Tourists witnessed the …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri formed a new unity government yesterday that includes two ministers from Syrian and Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Lebanon has been …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The UN General Assembly declared yesterday that Afghanistan’s presidential election was both credible and sound, despite allegations of widespread fraud that …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards, who helped quell protests after the June election, warned the opposition yesterday not to use anti-US rallies this week …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has executed nine people convicted of violent crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region in July, the first …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqis will vote in a general election on January 21 now that parliament has passed a law needed for a vote to …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has charged three detained US citizens with espionage, the official IRNA news agency quoted a prosecutor as saying yesterday, but Secretary …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A nearly 500-year-old Hebrew Bible stolen by the Nazis shortly before World War Two was returned to the Jewish community of …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
CANCUN, Mexico, (Reuters) – Hurricane Ida roared into the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, where important oil fields are located, after killing 91 people and leaving …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 9, 2009 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Represen-tatives approved a sweeping healthcare reform bill on Saturday, backing the biggest health policy changes in four decades …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Global trade has staged a remarkable recovery from the depths of last year’s panic, even though U.S. consumers — the world’s most …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an attack near Pakistan’s volatile city of Peshawar …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 9, 2009 | 0 Comments
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has regained control of territory seized by Yemeni rebels in an incursion last week, a senior official was quoted as …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Rich countries and developing nations fought over climate change yesterday, failing to make progress on financing ahead of a major …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The lower house of Haiti’s parliament confirmed Jean-Max Bellerive as prime minister yesterday, clearing the way for the economist and veteran politician …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Britain pressed the G20 yesterday to come up with a plan to make banks pay for any future bailouts but …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US House of Representatives headed to a final vote on a sweeping healthcare overhaul yesterday, with Democratic leaders confident they can …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 7, 2009 | 0 Comments
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed yesterday after two rival leaders failed to form a government of …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 7, 2009 | 0 Comments
KILLEEN, Texas, (Reuters) – Investigators searched for the motive yesterday behind a mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which an …
