| Tue, 7 Feb 2012 Auction houses outfox Chinese antiquity fakers
| Nicolas Chow places a magnifying glass against a Ming Dynasty vase to inspect the potter's 600-year old workmanship. | Chow, the international head of Chinese ceramics and works of art at auction giant Sotheby's, points out layers of uneven bubbles invisible to the na... | Iraq's Sunni-backed ministers to return to Cabinet
| BAGHDAD (AP) — An official from Iraq's Sunni-backed bloc says its ministers have ended their boycott of the Cabinet, a move that could restore some stability to the war-ravaged nation. | Iraqiya spokeswoman Maysoun al-Damlouji says the overwhelmingly Sunni bloc's mi... | Military: Maldives president resigns amid protests
| MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge. | Brig. Ahmed Shiyam told reporters Tuesday that Nasheed has agreed to step down and hand over the preside... | Maldives military says President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned amid public protests
| MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives military says President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned amid public protests. on Twitter, become a fan on Editors' Picks | Explore Related Content | 1 - 4 of 10 | The Maldives' vice president has joined calls for the release of a deta... | Pakistan hunts for survivors as factory toll hits 16
| Rescuers on Tuesday scrambled through the rubble of a factory that collapsed in Pakistan's city of Lahore, in a desperate search for survivors as the death toll climbed to 16. | The three-storey building used to manufacture veterinary medicines came crashing down, pro... | Toyota Q3 jumps, raises FY outlook on cost cuts, incentives
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly operating profit, shrugging off a firm yen and the damaging impact of flooding in Thailand, and raised its annual forecast, helped by cost cuts and Japanese government subsidies. | Widespr... | Fidel Castro warns of bleak future, touts memoir
Havana: Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its worst situation ever as Cuban television aired on Monday part of a six-hour event last week touting his newest memoir. | The 85-year-old Castro, whose last... | Virginia Rabung, 94, pioneering pilot flew to Batista’s Cuba
| In 1943, Virginia Rabung, a secretary from Chicago, trekked by bus to a small airport in McCook, marched into the office in her high heels and told the men that she wanted to fly. | “They looked at her like she was from another planet,” said Shelley Ventura, gover... | Teen tennis star Tomic disappointed at car controversy
| Teenage Australian tennis star Bernard Tomic said Tuesday he was disappointed to have been caught up in another controversy involving his high-powered, bright orange sports car, and he plans to sell it. | The 19-year-old is due to face court next week after being char... | KRouge jailer's life term 'bad example': observers
| A life term handed to a feared Khmer Rouge jailer has elated Cambodians, but observers say the historic verdict violates the torture chief's human rights and serves public opinion rather than justice. | Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 pe... | |
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