Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 14:16
Oviedo, Spain, May 23 (EFE).- U.S. photographer Annie Leibovitz was named here Thursday as this year's recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.
Leibovitz, 63, who...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 14:16
It’s true: travelers love New York. According to readers of luxury travel magazine Ultratravel, distributed in The Daily Telegraph, the sleepless, urban jungle that is the Big Apple is the best city...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 14:14
Online retail titan Amazon announced Thursday it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to "over 170 countries and territories around the world," and its Appstore in nearly 200 countries...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 14:11
Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 14:09
Dennis Lehane, a best-selling American novelist, will be scripting "Travis McGee," a big movie project Leonardo DiCaprio has been dying to mount since 2010, announces Variety.
Lehane, author of the...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:54
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped off the diplomatic track on Thursday and onto a West Bank street where he sampled a shawarma sandwich and a pistachio-...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:52
By Dominique Vidalon
PARIS (Reuters) - Carrefour <CARR.PA> shares dropped over 5 percent on Thursday, reversing gains from the day before, amid concerns the world's No. 2 retailer is pulling...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:50
By Poornima Gupta and Padraic Halpin
SAN FRANCISCO/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple has operated almost tax-free in Ireland since 1980, welcomed by a government keen to bring jobs to what was then one of...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:45
Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:45
Dennis Lehane, a best-selling American novelist, will be scripting "Travis McGee," a big movie project Leonardo DiCaprio has been dying to mount since 2010, announces Variety.
Lehane, author of the...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:31
Brazil will auction concessions to operate an offshore oil field believed to hold up to 12 billion barrels of crude, the government said Thursday.
The tender process will open in late October, said...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:31
Results from the fourth day of the WTA Brussels Open on Thursday (x denotes seed):
2nd rd
Jamie Hampton (USA) bt Kirsten Flipkens (BEL x5) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
Roberta Vinci (ITA x2) bt Yulia Putintseva (...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:30
Saudi Arabia lamented Thursday that foreign drug companies had patented the new SARS-like virus that has killed 22 people worldwide in less than a year, slowing down the diagnosis process...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:30
India's Tata Steel, one of the world's biggest steelmakers, on Thursday swung to a quarterly net loss from a profit a year ago due to falling demand in its key European market.
Tata Steel reported a...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:30
Results from the fourth day of the WTA Strasbourg Open on Thursday (x denotes seeding):
Quarter-finals
Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) bt Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 6-3, 6-2
Alize Cornet (FRA x3) bt Chanelle...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:30
Greek deputies who have been carrying pistols and daggers into parliament must now hand them over at the door, parliamentary speaker Evangelos Meimarakis announced Thursday.
The measure targets in...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:30
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Thursday denied any role in a scandal over a lavish Indian wedding party that has placed an uncomfortable spotlight on his ties to wealthy backers.
A government...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:30
Below is a timeline of the main attacks linked to Islamist militants in Niger over the past five years, after twin car bomb attacks on Thursday in the north of the west African country killed more...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:18
MONTREAL - Three people have been arrested and charged in an ongoing RCMP investigation into corruption at the Canada Revenue Agency.
The charges are being laid against a chartered accountant and two...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:18
OTTAWA - Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes, accusing the government of misleading them by offering...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:18
TORONTO - The parent company of small wireless company Mobilicity says its debtholders have approved a plan to sell the company to Telus Corp. for $380 million.
The company says it will seek court...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:17
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar headed higher Thursday despite weaker-than-expected manufacturing data from China.
The loonie was ahead 0.39 of a cent to 96.80 cents US, recovering from an 11-month low...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:17
Here's a look at the CEOs that received the biggest raises and the biggest pay cuts in 2012 compared with 2011, as calculated by the executive pay research firm Equilar and The Associated Press....
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:17
OTTAWA - A Japanese-based forestry company has won a long-running tax battle with Ottawa over how reforestation obligations should be handled when harvest rights are sold.
The Supreme Court of Canada...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:17
Paris, May 23 (EFE).- Singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki died Thursday in the French Mediterranean city of Nice, his family said. He was 79.
A Greek native, Moustaki grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:16
By Toni Vorobyova
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top shares slid from 13-year peaks on Thursday, battered by weak Chinese economic data and signs the U.S. Federal Reserve could soon taper its stimulus...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:16
By Fayen Wong
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China may impose higher quality standards for imported and locally traded coal to cut air pollution, two sources said, in a move that could slash imports while...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 13:16
By Edward Taylor
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank's <DBKGn.DE> bosses tried to convince skeptical shareholders at a lively annual meeting on Thursday that the bank was on the right track...
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