NEW YORK (AP) - Haifaa Al Mansour had to go to great lengths to make the groundbreaking Saudi film "Wadjda" - and not only because it is the first feature made entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first directed by a Saudi woman. (Source: Assoc... [Full Article]
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea sent a stern warning to North Korea on Thursday, two days after the North tested a nuclear bomb, saying it could strike the isolated state if it believed an attack was imminent as it deployed a new cruise missile t... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - Free-speech protesters in masks squared off against flag-waving communist loyalists in a southern Chinese city Tuesday as a dispute over censorship at a newspaper spilled into the broader population, with authorities shutting microblog... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - A long-awaited deal to avoid a U.S. fiscal crisis prompted a broad global market rally on Wednesday, with shares and commodities rising sharply while the dollar and safe-haven government bonds fell. After a last minute scramble, U.... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - European shares, oil and gold rose strongly on Wednesday after U.S. politicians struck a long-awaited deal to avoid a fiscal crisis, while safe-haven dollar and German government bonds fell. Lawmakers approved a plan to prevent hug... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and Germany may have missed out on a combined $1 billion in sales tax since online marketplace eBay picked a tiny Luxembourg office as its base for EU sales, a shift that lawmakers say should now be investigated. EBay'... [Full Article]
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A fiery speech against sexism by Australia's first woman prime minister has prompted the textbook of Australian English to broaden the definition of "misogyny" to better fit the heated political debate raging downu... [Full Article]
Pittsburgh police plan to train their officers to be fluent in social media days after a man armed with a hammer and a kitchen knife used a hostage's computer to post Facebook messages lamenting his troubles. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BERLIN (Reuters) - More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, differences over how to represent the Cold War past are hampering plans to build a new museum at the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing. Every day thousands of tourist... [Full Article]
Facebook users were venting anger over a move changing users' default email address to the one operated by the leading social network. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
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