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Inside the Rings: Hockey more than just game here
Feb 25, 2010 02:25 EST
Best cars? Who cares. In Canada, it's having the best hockey players that counts. Phew! Thank heavens for that.
2 popular Web sites blocked in Vietnam
Feb 11, 2010 11:54 EST
2 popular Web sites that challenged government policies blocked in Vietnam. Two pioneering Web sites that stretched the limits of free expression in Vietnam say they have been hacked and shut down, just months after the communist government blocked the social networking site Facebook.
Sarkozy and Merkel brush off Obama snub
Feb 04, 2010 18:22 EST
Sarkozy and Merkel brush off Obama snub of next EU-US summit. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama's decision not to attend an annual summit with European leaders while stressing Thursday the importance of Russia as a European partner.
CAPITAL CULTURE: Critics assess Obama's speeches
Jan 26, 2010 00:02 EST
CAPITAL CULTURE: If Obama's a brilliant speaker, why can't anybody remember his words?. As a supporter of Barack Obama for president, former JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen welcomed the young Democrat as a winning, Kennedy-esque orator who didn't bore the public with "five-point programs" and lectures more fit for campuses than for campaigns.
German rockers The Scorpions to call it quits: report
Jan 24, 2010 15:47 EST
The German rock band The Scorpions is breaking up after more than 40 years together courting controversy and selling more than 100 million recordings, its founder said in an interview published Sunday.
Auschwitz blueprints go on display in Israel
Jan 24, 2010 13:03 EST
Auschwitz blueprints go on display in Israel, illustrating architecture behind Nazi murder. The neat lines and red rectangular sketches look like any typical architectural design. But the handwritten initials H.H. ? belonging to the infamous Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler ? indicate what the drawings represent: wooden barracks, gas chambers and crematoria.
Media in China dismiss U.S. Internet push
Jan 22, 2010 08:32 EST
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese media on Friday dismissed Washington's call to lift Internet censorship, after a top Chinese diplomat warned the Obama administration to heed alarm bells over trade, Taiwan and Tibet.
Media in China dismiss U.S. Internet push
Jan 22, 2010 08:32 EST
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese media on Friday dismissed Washington's call to lift Internet censorship, after a top Chinese diplomat warned the Obama administration to heed alarm bells over trade, Taiwan and Tibet.
China lashes back at U.S. over Internet criticism
Jan 22, 2010 03:10 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China hit back hard against U.S. criticism of Beijing's controls over the Internet, saying on Friday that Washington's push against online censorship could harm relations between the two big powers.
China lashes back at U.S. over Internet criticism
Jan 22, 2010 03:10 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China hit back hard against U.S. criticism of Beijing's controls over the Internet, saying on Friday that Washington's push against online censorship could harm relations between the two big powers.
Media in China dismiss U.S. Internet push
Jan 21, 2010 21:04 EST
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese media on Friday dismissed Washington's call to lift Internet censorship, after a top Chinese diplomat warned the Obama administration to heed alarm bells over trade, Taiwan and Tibet.
Clinton urges Internet freedom, condemns cyber attacks
Jan 21, 2010 14:15 EST
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for an unfettered worldwide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with the United States over the hacking and censorship of Google.
David Hasselhoff to star in reality TV show
Jan 20, 2010 20:27 EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff, whose struggles with alcohol abuse were put on vivid display in a 2007 home video, will star in a reality television series this year.
Italy divided on Craxi legacy 10 years after death
Jan 19, 2010 08:32 EST
ROME (Reuters) - A decade after his death, Italians are split over whether to commemorate Prime Minister Bettino Craxi as a great statesman or a Machiavellian master of corruption who died in exile as a fugitive.
German MPs lose sauna, get toilet instead
Jan 07, 2010 13:36 EST
Stressed-out German MPs fancying a steamy session with their fellow legislators will soon be out of luck as the parliament's sauna is being closed and turned into a toilet, a spokesman said Thursday.
North Korea New Year wish: tear down imaginary wall
Dec 30, 2009 11:53 EST
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's New Year's wish of seeing the destruction of a massive concrete wall dividing the Korean peninsula never seems to come true -- mostly because there is no such barrier.
Obama moves to curb federal secrets
Dec 30, 2009 03:06 EST
Obama issues order to limit number of classified records held from public. More than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents could be declassified as the federal government responds to President Barack Obama's order to rethink the way it protects the nation's secrets.
McDonald's coming soon to Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie
Dec 29, 2009 12:26 EST
McDonald's said Tuesday it planned to open a new outlet at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie, completing the landmark's 20-year transformation from Cold War front line to money-making tourist hotspot.
Guenter Grass's Stasi files to be published
Dec 29, 2009 06:50 EST
A new book showing the huge lengths the East German secret police, the Stasi, went to in order to spy on Nobel Prize-winning author Guenter Grass will go on sale in March, its publisher said Tuesday.
Guenter Grass's Stasi files to be published
Dec 29, 2009 06:34 EST
A new book showing the huge lengths the East German secret police, the Stasi, went to in order to spy on Nobel Prize-winning author Guenter Grass will go on sale in March, its publisher said Tuesday.
