VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Scottish cardinal who resigned as archbishop after admitting to sexual misconduct will leave Scotland for months of prayer and atonement, the Vatican said Wednesday in a rare sanction. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
MIAMI (Reuters) - Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station took a hurriedly arranged spacewalk on Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system on one of the station's solar arrays that provide electricity to the orbita... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel has conducted an airstrike in Syria, apparently targeting a building, a U.S. official said on Friday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, declined to elaborate. CNN quoted two unnamed U.S. officials as sayi... [Full Article]
By Chris Vellacott LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's tax authority has hardened its response to complaints about its conduct from disgruntled taxpayers, rejecting more and upholding fewer, records seen by Reuters show. Records obtained by accountants... [Full Article]
ATLANTA (AP) - Police in Georgia say that actress Reese Witherspoon has been arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after a traffic stop involving her husband in Atlanta. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - British musician Colin Davis, who led orchestras all over the world but was most closely associated with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) where he was the longest-serving principal conductor, has died aged 8... [Full Article]
LONDON (AP) - Colin Davis, the former principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and one of Britain's elder statesmen of classical music, has died at 85. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CAIRO (AP) - A union of Egypt's train drivers and conductors announced they have gone on strike, the latest in a seemingly endless series of work stoppages to hit the country in the past two years. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen dislikes musical anniversaries but he is celebrating so many this year he failed to notice one - the 20th anniversary of the death of the anarchic American rock inno... [Full Article]
By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's leading opera conductors, Antonio Pappano, on Wednesday criticized singers for pulling out of productions too easily, saying at times this was due to illness but at others simply due to... [Full Article]