BANGKOK, May 28 (Reuters) - A bomb planted on a motorcycle in a busy market in southern Thailand killed four people on Monday, the army said, the latest victims of a Muslim separatist insurgency in which more than 2,100 people have now died. “There are four dead and 23 injured, five of them seriously,” army […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain on Monday made an official request to Russia to extradite the man suspected of killing ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210, deepening a rift between the former Cold War foes.
British prosecutors said last week they wanted to bring Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoy before a British court to try him for […]
Technocrati today launched a new look and feel and under the hood improvements that are designed to help searchers find what they’re looking for across the live web, not just blogs. David Sifry sums up the changes over on their corporate blog. TechCrunch has more.
The improvements are nice, but I have to admit that I […]
LONDON (Reuters) - The creators of the online phenomenon “Lonelygirl15″ have joined forces with social networking site Bebo to create a British spin-off story that will use brands to help define the characters.
The organizers say the project will give advertisers the chance to pitch their products such as clothing or mobile phones at a younger […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web auction leader eBay Inc. said on Monday it has agreed with Sanook, a Thai online portal, to launch a Web site in the country that will enable cross-border trade through eBay’s global Web sites.
The Thai-language local site is expected to launch in about five to seven months and will be […]
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese campaign to clean up online pornography has reached college campuses with the Education Ministry lashing out at some school Web sites for making money from porn.
“We strongly condemn Web site hosts for making ‘unlawful’ money by distributing pornographic information,” Vice-Minister of Education Li Weihong was quoted as saying.
“Students are easily […]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States urged Iran on Monday to stop supporting militias in Iraq in the most high-profile meeting between the two countries in almost 30 years that both sides later described as positive.
The rare talks in Baghdad were narrowly focused on Iraq’s spiralling sectarian violence and did not touch on Iran’s controversial […]
CANNES, France - A harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as
Quentin Tarantino, Ethan and Joel Coen, and Wong Kar-wai to win the
Cannes Film Festival’s top prize Sunday.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s low-budget film, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” depicts the horrors a student goes through […]
CANNES, France (Reuters) - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set towards the end of the communist era won the
Cannes Film Festival’s top honor on Sunday.
“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” directed by Cristian Mungiu, was the critics’ favorite to win the Palme d’Or in the build-up to a glittering red-carpet ceremony that ended the 12-day […]
LOS ANGELES - Box-office treasure is a little harder to come by on the new voyage of “Pirates of the Caribbean.” The third installment in the Walt Disney Co. franchise, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” hauled in $112.5 million from Friday to Sunday, well below last summer’s $135.6 million opening weekend for its […]
