• US veteran recalls poetry night with pedicab men

    US veteran recalls poetry night with pedicab men

    19/12/2010 05:00

    One evening, Bruce Weigl, the US war veteran cum poet, was wandering along Hue city Street in Ha Noi when a group of pedicab riders offered to wheel him around the city. Preferring to stroll, he refused and gave them some money....

  • South Korea holds live-fire drill despite war threat 

    19/12/2010 05:00

    South Korean marines patrol on Yeonpyeong Island December 19, 2010. South Korea held live firing drills in a disputed area on Monday despite threats of war from Pyongyang after an emergency UN Security Council meeting failed...

  • Iraq to reveal new government, end 9-month political gap 

    19/12/2010 05:00

    Iyad Allawi, former prime minister and head of the secular Iraqiya coalition, speaks during a joint news conference with Speaker of Parliament Ayad al-Samarai. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is expected to reveal his...

  • Russia to judge tycoon amid global scrutiny 

    14/12/2010 05:00

    Former Yukos oil company chief executive officer Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a Moscow courtroom in November 2010. A court will Wednesday begin announcing the verdict in the second trial of Russia’s ex-richest man Mikhail...

  • Korean fishing boat sunken, with 11 Vietnamese sailors

    Korean fishing boat sunken, with 11 Vietnamese sailors

    13/12/2010 05:00

    A South Korea fishing boat carrying 42 sailors was sunken at 4:30 am, December 13 in the Antarctic Ocrean. There were 11 Vietnamese sailors on the ship. The 614-ton ship was sunken around 2,250km from New Zealand, according to South Korean...

  • Thousands of British students protest against tuition fee rise

    Thousands of British students protest against tuition fee rise

    11/12/2010 05:00

    Thousands of university students demonstrated Thursday in central London, the fourth since last month, as MPs in the House of Commons prepared to vote on a plan to raise tuition fees. Policemen try to push a protester back in...

  • Colombian rescuers find 53 bodies after landslide

    11/12/2010 05:00

    Colombian rescuers have found 53 bodies after a landslide in the northwest of Colombia, official sources said on Thursday. Regional Director of the Administrative Department for the Prevention and Attention to Disasters John Freddy Rendon told...

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