| Latest worldwide news | Harlem Stage Prepares to Export Its Own Opera | | | Harlem Stage is banking on Makandal its first opera commission and an ambitious, contemporary work revolving around the leader of an 18th-century slave revolt in Haiti to raise its international profile. |
| Record eighth for Nadal | | | Rafael Nadal races to a record eighth French Open title Sunday with a straight sets 6-3 6-2 6-3 dismissal of fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in a final briefly interrupted by a protestor brandishing a lighted flare. |
| Activision to spread its wings after Vivendi sale -CEO | | | SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc's CEO, who is shelling out $50 million of his own money in an $8.2 billion deal to buy back most of Vivendi's stake, said the world's largest video game publisher will be freer to pursue acquisitions and grow after emerging from its French parent's wing. |
| Photos Tiger's highs and lows | | | Tiger Woods has completed a remarkable return to the top of the golfing world after dropping out of the top 50 following a sex scandal and then injuries which hindered his playing comeback. |
| Pioneer of sex research, Virginia Johnson, dies at 88 | | | KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Sex researcher Virginia Johnson, part of the famed Masters and Johnson team who conducted groundbreaking work on human sexuality, has died in St. Louis at the age of 88, her son said on Thursday. |
| Headmistress arrested over toxic meals | | | The headmistress of the Indian school that authorities say served toxic lunches, killing 23 students, has been arrested, police said. She had been at large since the July 16 incident. |
| Well Anxiety Lingers Long After Cancer | | | A new analysis finds that within two years of a cancer diagnosis, the pervasiveness of depression in patients and their spouses tends to drop back, but only to be replaced with anxiety. |
| Mentoring African women | | | CNN's Robyn Curnow meets Managing Director and CEO of Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria, Bola Adesola. |
| Shark attack claims teen's life | | | As lifeguards approached to pull a drowning Brazilian teenager from the water, she suffered a second, fatal misfortune -- a shark attack. |
| Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro | | | Inside Africa explores the logistics of climbing Africa's tallest mountain and meets tourists about to do so. |
| As Europe struggles, companies focus on cost cuts | | | DAGENHAM, England, July 28 (Reuters) - Glistening chains on the turnstyles at Ford Motor Co.'s plant in east London illustrate how, even when companies unveil positive news about their European operations, it may not mean things are picking up in the economy. |
| Dog eats dog as Britain's tabloids bare all | | | LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Fleet Street's finest jostled furiously at the start on Thursday of a government inquiry, trying to grab public attention with tales of shock and horror. |
| Taking on the Taliban | | | It's time to "start holding rackets and bats rather than holding guns and grenade," says Maria Toorpakai Wazir, who can finally indulge her life's greatest love without fear of persecution. |
| Massive landslide in Sichuan | | | July 24 - Hundreds of people are relocated to safety after a massive landslide in China's Sichuan Province. Julie Noce reports. |
| Island nations at risk | | | Kieren Keke remembers growing up on the Pacific island of Nauru, the world's smallest independent republic. |
| Arctic thaw could cost $60 trillion | | | A long-trapped store of methane could rapidly speed up global warming if it escapes from the thawing Siberian tundra, adding as much as $60 trillion to the expected costs of climate change, scientists reported Wednesday. |
| U.S. mum on Dubai rape story | | | Nina Burleigh says the Norwegian woman put in a Dubai jail after she reported a rape can go home now, but how many Arab women are languishing in prison for going to the police? |
| Wood Pitches, Hits Cubs to 2-1 Victory Over Giants | | | Travis Wood pitched a four-hitter over seven innings and had a home run among his two hits in helping the Chicago Cubs complete a three-game sweep in San Francisco for the first time in 20 years, beating the Giants 2-1 Sunday. |
| 2nd woman accuses mayor | | | A former campaign staffer for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner became the second woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment, saying Tuesday that the then-congressman patted her "posterior" while at a fundraising event. |
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