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The New York Times reported on Friday that Robert Giroux, an
American book editor and...
Robert Giroux, the editorial architect who jazzed up the
works of some of the most important...
Madonna has always had one trustworthy ally in her music career,
which has forever ensured she...
Pioneer of the so-called “new novel” genre, French writer
Alain Robbe-Grillet died Monday at the...
The star of “Peacemaker”, George Clooney, was named a United
Nations Messenger of Peace Friday, a...
The personal archive of Britain’s
most influential living playwright, Harold Pinter remains in...
Oprah Winfrey encouraged readers Wednesday to pick up Ken Follett’s 1989 historical novel...
The Royal Swedish Academy
announced in Stockholm
on Thursday that the Literature Nobel Prize is...
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New Delhi - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, was taken to hospital in the Indian...
US President George W Bush departed Bangkok Thursday for Beijing, where he plans to chide China for...
Thousands of mourners paid tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the former dissident Russian Nobel...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize winner for
literature,died at age 89, the news agency...
United States President George W. Bush signed a bill Tuesday to remove Nelson Mandela as well as...
Is seems that Barack Obama’s beliefs and policy managed to
attract Al Gore’s support, too. The...
As expected, the Dalai Lama accepted China’s offer to hold talks, but he has one request: the...
President Jose Ramos-Horta returned today to East Timor after
a difficult recovery from an...
Two out of three presidential candidates were present in Memphis to pay tribute to Martin Luther...
The 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death was marked by leaders of the White House and...
After accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating the Tibet protests and describing him as “a wolf in...
East Timorese president Jose
Ramos-Horta, who was the target of a rebel attack last month,...
Norway has built a "doomsday" seed vault deep within an Arctic mountain. The vault will...
Over 1,000 police and soldiers were sent on Friday on the
streets of East Timor’s capital, Dili,...
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was severely wounded in a coordinated attack carried out by...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Kenya Friday to
meet Raila Odinga, the opposition...
The former U.S.
vice-president Al Gore won on Monday the Nobel Peace Prize. He said that it...
More than 180 nations will meet on Monday in Bali, Indonesia
to establish a strategy to fight...
The final report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released on Sunday and was...
A diplomat in Burma has told local media that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was driven from...
President Nicolas Sarkozy laid out an extensive program of environmental legislation on Thursday...
The British newspaper “The Guardian”, on Wednesday, published an open letter written by six former...
Following last month’s brutal clashes between the ruling
junta and the supporters of Aung San Suu...
Although many suspected that Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Prize for “An inconvenient truth” was a...
The efforts of the former US Vice President Al Gore to avert
and highlight the threat of climate...
Turkey, as expected, reacted harshly to a resolution approved by congressional panel on Wednesday...
During the visit in Burma of the United
Nations envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, from September 29 to...
United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari met Tuesday with Myanmar’s military leader, Senior...
After two weeks of anti-government protests on the streets of Yangon, military forces tighten...
United Nations envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari met Sunday with detained pro-democracy activist and...
More than 40 civilians have been detained Saturday by government troops in downtown Yangon before...
The United States imposed economic sanctions against 14 top officials in Myanmar's military junta...
Myanmar’s military junta sent troops to the country’s largest city on Tuesday after thousands of...
Myanmar demonstrations are growing stronger as approximately 30,000 Buddhist monks, nuns and laymen...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader in Berlin, defying...
For the sixth consecutive day Buddhist monks marched barefooted through the streets of Myanmar’s...
Thousands of Buddhist monks staged protest marches against the military junta in Myanmar for a...
Buddhist monks defied the harsh weather and Myanmar’s military junta on Friday and staged another...
The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) said next year’s Olympic Games may...
Voters in Guatemala were expected at polling station on Sunday to choose their next president,...
Authorities in Myanmar arrested several activists in the past days and broke up demonstrations...
Leaders of the two neighbouring countries agreed to hold a second summit in late August hoping to...
The former leader of the Soviet Union,
Mikhail Gorbachev lashed out at United States President...
South Africa’s former leader Nelson Mandela celebrated his 89th birthday through activities that...
On Sunday during a ceremony at the Knesset Shimon Peres was
sworn as the ninth president of...
Foreign ministers from Asia and Europe called Tuesday on Myanmar to
release Aung San Suu Kyi, the...
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A Manhattan federal appeals court reversed a ruling which had previously granted John Steinbeck’s...
Societe Generale SA on Sunday accused trader Jerome Kerviel, 31of losing 4.9 billion euros ($7.2...
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz announced his
resignation Thursday, effective June 30, a World...
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Wednesday afternoon, Bloomberg Magazine released an obituary
of Steve Jobs, Apple’s Chief...
Hitachi Ltd. announced that its hard drive division is going to push way past today's storage...
IBM is once again in the avant-garde of technological breakthroughs: its engineers have recently...
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The first recipients of the Kavli Prizes, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters...
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded more than $600 million in research funding...
For the first time in its eight-year history, the Albany Medical Center Prize went to two female...
The world lost a remarkable scientific figure of the 20th
century on the morning of April 13,...
Scientific world has lost Joshua Lederberg, University
Professor and president emeritus of the...
What do we know about global
warming in terms of positive effects? Not much, as the possible...
The Arctic ice is threatening to become open water in an
extremely short time due to global...
A new discovery made by the scientists from The University
of Texas at Austin
revealed that...
About 25 years in the making, Europe's Columbus space laboratory will finally be launched on a...
United Nations experts have agreed on a 20-page draft report which warns of the effects of climate...
In a joint effort a team of international scientists from
nearly 90 research institutions has...
The global warming issue represents
quite an important problem that the humankind should quickly...
American biochemist Arthur Kornberg, who isolated the first DNA polymerizing enzyme, has died....
Molecular biologist James Dewey Watson, credited as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of...
This year’s Nobel for Chemistry was awarded to Gerhard Ertl,
a German scientist, for his studies...
France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg received the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for...
A new study to appear in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics has found that burning and especially...
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Thomas H. Weller, the American virologist who
shared a Nobel Prize for developing techniques to...
The Howard Hughes Medical Institutes announced it will spend
more than a half billion dollars to...
A new study concluded that certain forms of carbon nanotubes
could be as harmful as asbestos if...
A new study by researchers in the UK,
Canada and U.S. shows new
hopes of restoring penicillin’s...
Former Polish President Lech Walesa was discharged from a Houston hospital Tuesday,
four days...
A team of U.S. researchers reported on
Wednesday that according to a new study conducted on worms,...
Researchers from University
of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer center
and Rice University combined two...
This Sunday, on American television, Mrs. Laura Bush highlighted her role as the President’s...
The successful manipulation of embryonic mice cells by a
research team formed by Sir Martin Evans,...
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Speaking at a New York news conference on Thursday, at the United Nations headquarters, Hollywood...
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The 46664 concert in London celebrated both Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday and 20 years from the...
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Brilliant Russian literature Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died at 89 in Moscow....
French architect Jean Nouvel, 62, received architecture’s top honor: the Pritzker Prize. He...
Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States, arrived in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu...
Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn will be awarded the prestigious Russian State Prize for work...
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