LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Orange Prize for fiction, is back in the U.K. one month after scooping up the prestigious prize awarded to the best novel of the year written in English by a woman.

Nepal's Maoists will push for a return to power on Wednesday as the parliament meets to name a new prime minister to fill a three-week political void in the formerly war-struck Himalayan country.

Nepal's Maoists will push for a return to power on Wednesday when the parliament votes for a new prime minister to fill a three-week political void in the formerly war-ravaged Himalayan country.

Nepal's Maoists will push for a return to power on Wednesday when the parliament votes for a new prime minister to fill a three-week political void in the formerly war-ravaged Himalayan country.

The firebrand head of Nepal's Maoist party will seek the country's premiership on Wednesday when parliament votes to elect a new leader, a parliamentary spokesman said.

SAINTHIA, India (Reuters) - A speeding passenger train crashed into another waiting at a station in eastern India early on Monday, killing at least 60 people in India's second major accident in as many months, officials said.

Jobs for all? A pillar of communism wobbles as Cuba confronts a costly, bloated work force. At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in a sliver of shade nearby and two more smoke and chat on the curb.

Jobs for all? A pillar of communism wobbles as Cuba confronts a costly, bloated work force. At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in a sliver of shade nearby and two more smoke and chat on the curb.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Tucked into forested hills in southwest Caracas, a red-brick housing complex for the poor is a testing ground for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's latest step to build socialism in the Latin American oil producer.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Tucked into forested hills in southwest Caracas, a red-brick housing complex for the poor is a testing ground for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's latest step to build socialism in the Latin American oil producer.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India announced a unified command structure on Wednesday to help coordinate a security offensive against Maoist rebels, but analysts said the move may not be enough to turn around the battle against the insurgency.

Nepal's parliament will attempt to elect a new prime minister on July 21 to end a stalemate that has threatened to undermine the country's peace process begun after civil war ended in 2006.

Henryk Jankowski, Polish priest who supported Solidarity freedom movement, dies at 73. Henryk Jankowski, a Polish priest who gained prominence in the 1980s by supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement but who later saw his reputation marred by anti-Semitism and suspicions of pedophilia, died Monday evening in Gdansk, the city's mayor said. He was 73.

Nepal's parliament on Monday failed to meet a deadline to form a national unity government after weeks of deadlock, forcing the president to order parties to try to form a majority administration.

Nepal's political leaders were working Saturday to create a new unity government by early next week, after missing a previous deadline to create a multiparty administration.

MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) - They have been called India's biggest enemy, but Maoist rebels are also the unlikely subjects of a recent rash of movies and books that some say are romanticizing the rebels and their cause.

Bollywood is taking another step away from its song and dance traditions to tackle more topical subjects, with the release this week of a film about the country's Maoist rebels.

Nepal's political leaders said Wednesday they would seek to extend a deadline to form a new unity government set by the Himalayan country's president.

India rejected Tuesday the idea of using the military in direct operations against Maoist rebels, despite increasing pressure on the government to beef up its counter-insurgency strategy.

Indian police said Saturday they had killed a top Maoist leader during a gunfight with the rebels in a densely forested region of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.