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Wright-Phillips builds links with Guatemala (05 September 09:28) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Carrying bags of cement and water purifiers up a Guatemalan hillside in the name of charity makes soccer training seem easy, says England international Shaun Wright-Philli... |
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In New York, a socialite goes by any other name (05 September 08:53) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - With her trademark cascade of curled blonde hair pinned to the side, Tinsley Mortimer is a charity ball staple, attends countless fashion shows and is one of the most re... |
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Sudan Catholics turn to Darfur saint (05 September 07:36) |
| KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - In a dusty church in Khartoum's Jeberona camp for displaced persons, the congregation claps and sings beneath a portrait of a smiling woman who has become a focus o... |
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Turks question what went wrong in Beijing (05 September 06:40) |
| ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey must improve sports facilities and spend less on soccer if it is to recover from a disappointing Beijing Olympics and achieve its ambition of hosting the 2020 Games... |
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British school scheme thrives on a big scale (05 September 06:38) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - An ambitious scheme to boost self-confidence and discipline among British children by reviving competitive cricket in state schools is thriving after three years and its f... |
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Maasai warrior hairdressers break taboos (05 September 06:10) |
| MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Maasai warrior Lempuris Lalasho went to Kenya's tourist haven Mombasa to find a white woman to marry, but he ended up working as a hairdresser, a profession that i... |
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"Uber-prime" real estate still hot in London (05 September 06:06) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - London's housing market may be cooling, but not when it comes to 10-bedroom mansions with designer interiors, indoor swimming pools and private gardens in the capital's mo... |
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Filipino Americans take stock in old country (05 September 06:02) |
| MANILA (Reuters) - Alan Marasigan looks like any other Filipino as he fiddles with his cell phone inside a shopping mall in Manila. But his American accent and perfect English give him away.... |
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Georgians live in fear in Russian "security zone" (04 September 08:32) |
| TKVIAVI, Georgia (Reuters) - Koba Jashashvili's corpse has been lying for three weeks in his cellar because, his neighbors say, his family are too scared of roaming militias to return and gi... |
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Kashmir's "children of conflict" rise in anger (04 September 06:15) |
| SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - The protesters organize with Facebook, YouTube as well as via messages from local mosques. They eschew violence, but are seething with anger.
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Czech city bids to be global biotech hub (04 September 05:52) |
| BRNO, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Just a few steps from the monastery where Gregor Mendel pioneered the field of genetics some 150 years ago, Czech officials hope to nurture their own biotech... |
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Spanish beaches busy, but tourist spending down (04 September 05:37) |
| BENALMADENA, Spain (Reuters) - Few Spaniards would sacrifice their annual summer vacation. But while Spain's beaches are still busy, shops and restaurants at its resorts are ominously quiet ... |
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Russia conflict hits emerging Georgia tourism trade (03 September 05:59) |
| TBILISI (Reuters) - The Adamanti Hotel near Georgia's Black Sea coast was full of tourists in early August when war broke out between Russian and Georgian forces in South Ossetia to the nort... |
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Returning to Russian valuations: Politicophobia (03 September 05:11) |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Wine goblets and vodka shot glasses are lined up untouched on long, vacant wooden tables at Genatsvale, one of many Georgian restaurants that pepper the Russian capital.
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Georgia crisis raises hopes in Moldovan rebel region (03 September 04:45) |
| TIRASPOL (Reuters) - Soldiers marched in neat formation while crowds sang boastful Soviet-era songs and waved flags under the steady gaze of a Lenin statue in central Tiraspol, capital of Mo... |
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Christians cower from Hindu backlash in India's east (03 September 05:47) |
| TIKABALI, India (Reuters) - On a starry night last week, as Lal Mohan Digal prepared to go to bed, a mob of raging, machete-wielding Hindu zealots appeared above the hills of his mud house a... |
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Destruction of Kenya forest is national emergency (03 September 05:43) |
| NAROK, Kenya (Reuters) - Maasai goatherd Joseph Nkolia points dismissively at two shallow pools, the only water in a parched stream west of the Kenyan town of Narok.
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Swiss farmers keep tradition of charcoal-burning (03 September 05:39) |
| ROMOOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - In the remote hills and valleys of central Switzerland, mountain farmers are still making charcoal to a centuries-old method.
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Aid agencies plan CO2 offsets that also help poor (02 September 12:41) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - From fuel-efficient stoves for displaced Congolese families to drought-resistant cashew trees in Brazil, some aid agencies offering carbon offset schemes want to marry emi... |
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Rage in Kashmir meets India's brute force (02 September 11:57) |
| SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - The world's largest democracy locks up protest leaders without charge, shoots dozens of demonstrators dead, beats and intimidates ordinary citizens and raids home... |
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South Korea military objectors say don't jail pacifists (02 September 07:48) |
| SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean Go Gong-ju had a choice of serving in the army or doing a stint in jail. He chose jail and became one of the country's several hundred conscientious objectors ... |
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Mexico's makeshift coal pits try to boost output (02 September 07:42) |
| NUEVA ROSITA, Mexico (Reuters) - A steel bucket holding two men lowers into a pit, suspended on a cable wound by an old truck engine.
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Reality TV show stirs business spirit in Afghanistan (01 September 12:38) |
| KABUL (Reuters) - A reality TV show broadcast in Afghanistan has encouraged Afghans to start their own enterprises, stirring entrepreneurial spirits in a country that has been ravaged by thr... |
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Speculators and water an uneasy mix (01 September 10:54) |
| CANBERRA (Reuters) - On the cracked grey clay of an ancient lake bed on the edge of Australia's outback, Guy Kingwill is at the frontier of a global rush to commercialize water.
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A ray of hope for Algeria's crumbling Casbah? (01 September 05:50) |
| ALGIERS (Reuters) - From cutlass and canon to earthquake and flood, powerful forces have long done damage to the Algiers Casbah, fabled bastion of Barbary pirates who plied the Mediterranean... |
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"Enabling aid" turns peasants into export farmers (31 August 03:09) |
| DJILAKH, Senegal (Reuters) - Less than a year ago, the land around this small Senegalese village was parched bush pasture, studded with thick-trunked, knobbly baobab trees.
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Like oil, speculators and water an uneasy mix (31 August 01:14) |
| CANBERRA (Reuters) - On the cracked grey clay of an ancient lake bed on the edge of Australia's outback, Guy Kingwill is at the frontier of a global rush to commercialize water.
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Iraqi Kurdistan still a tough sell to investors (31 August 01:12) |
| ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan has been primed for a wave of foreign investment for years, but officials say the grand goals of a relatively peaceful northern enclave are frustrated... |
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S.Korea steps up defense of disputed islets (31 August 01:11) |
| ABOARD THE SAMBONG COAST GUARD SHIP (Reuters) - On a South Korean coast guard patrol ship chugging towards desolate islands at the centre of a bitter territorial row with Japan, academics an... |
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Risk matches reward for urban freerunners (31 August 01:10) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Yusuf Yirtici is a proud young father who extols the virtues of discipline, hard work and a responsible attitude to risk.
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Curator hides Stalin mementoes from Russian bombs (31 August 01:09) |
| GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - When Russian bombs began falling on Gori, Robert Maglakelidze took a desperate decision: he loaded his car with a precious consignment and fled along the dangerous ... |
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Remember your loved one - as a diamond (29 August 10:22) |
| CHUR, Switzerland (Reuters) - Diamonds really are forever. Algordanza, a small company based in the mountainous southeast of Switzerland, uses the ashes of dead people to make diamonds as a ... |
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Miami undertaker ships dead exiles back to Cuba (29 August 03:02) |
| That's the last wish that Miami funeral director Rafaiy Alkhalifa says he has heard time and again from many of his "Cuba-bound" clients or their loved ones since 1994.
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Merkel's likely challenger faces rural image test (29 August 02:58) |
| BELZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister strolls through an organic farm, buys an apple from smiling children -- and then turns from the idyllic scene to call his counterpart i... |
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Angola elections bring change to farm sector (29 August 10:55) |
| VALE DO CAVACO, Angola (Reuters) - For the past 30 years, Jose Vilomba, 47, has walked barefoot on one of Africa's most fertile valleys using his hands and a shovel to plant vegetables to fe... |
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Rural America feels extra pain as gas prices rise (28 August 12:42) |
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Traci and Brian Bruckner between them commute 800 miles a week to and from their respective jobs -- his 30 miles away from their home in one direction, hers 50 miles away... |
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As Angola reaps oil wealth, many remain poor (28 August 05:42) |
| LOBITO, Angola (Reuters) - On a recent Friday night, men in SUVs and others on mopeds line up outside one of the few gas stations in Angola's port city of Lobito to fill up for the weekend.
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Mini-skirts reign as Italy bares showgirl obsession (27 August 08:13) |
| ROME (Reuters) - When it comes to political satire, Italians like theirs hot -- with buxom women in mini-skirts and low-cut tops dancing as cameras zoom in on their breasts and long legs.
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Frustration grows as Americans fill trains (27 August 05:45) |
| BOSTON (Reuters) - Looking up at a list of delayed trains at Boston's crowded South Station on a summer afternoon, Peter Pesis asks why passenger trains in the United States are so slow, so ... |
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Threat to Obama stirs painful memories (27 August 10:54) |
| DENVER (Reuters) - The "racist ramblings" of a man in Colorado posed no threat to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama but reminded many Americans of past attempts on the lives of ... |
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Sleepy valley is unlikely focus of Mideast tension (27 August 07:06) |
| SHEBAA, Lebanon (Reuters) - For a Middle Eastern flashpoint, the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms appear placid.
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High road accident toll a drain on Indian economy (27 August 06:39) |
| MUMBAI (Reuters) - The twisted metal of smashed up cars lining highways is a grim testament to India's road toll, one of the worst in the world with around 100,000 people killed in traffic a... |
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Kurdish journalists under assault in Iraq (27 August 06:36) |
| ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's northern Kurdish enclave may be a haven of relative peace and serenity but independent journalists there say challenges to the political establishment are bein... |
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Camps for U.S. military kids aim to ease anxieties (27 August 02:41) |
| CHESTERTOWN, Maryland (Reuters) - Wide-eyed and interrupting occasionally with comments like "My dad's a Marine," a dozen or so boys listened avidly as Sgt. Roy Meredith described being inju... |
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Ants bite, phones fly in Finnish summer bonanza (26 August 08:25) |
| HELSINKI (Reuters) - They carry their wives, sit on ants, throw milking stools, boots and mobile phones -- here in the home of weird world championships, participants will do just about anyt... |
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Ghana elephants show U.N. deforestation headache (26 August 06:52) |
| AFIASO, Ghana (Reuters) - Rising elephant numbers in a protected forest park in Ghana are angering farmers whose crops are being raided in an unwanted side-effect of a plan to slow deforesta... |
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Could $100 oil turn dumps into plastic mines? (26 August 12:23) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Sparked by surging oil, a dramatic rise in the value of old plastic is encouraging waste companies across the world to dig for buried riches in rotting rubbish dumps.
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U.N. troops calm Lebanon, but tensions remain (25 August 07:16) |
| SHAQRA, Lebanon (Reuters) - French soldiers take off their body armor but keep their FAMAS rifles slung over their backs before moving off on a leisurely foot patrol through this pro-Hezboll... |
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Legal squatters brush up Leipzig's old treasures (25 August 05:55) |
| LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - When Ilka Weingart first entered the abandoned east German butcher's store where she wanted to open a soap shop, she gaped at holes in the floor, decades-old lay... |
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"Malling" consumes shoppers in the Philippines (25 August 05:46) |
| MANILA (Reuters) - In the Philippines, "malling" has become a verb, the act of going to a shopping mall and whiling away the hours.
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