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'Unique' Design Delays Norman Foster Toronto Debut
TORONTO (Reuters) - A futuristic Toronto building designed by superstar British architect Norman Foster will open three months late because of its "complicated and unique" structure and ...
Irish Road to Progress Jams at Ancient Hill
HILL OF TARA, Ireland (Reuters) - Ancient peoples crowned more than 100 kings here. Ireland's patron saint Patrick is believed to have faced down his druid foes on its windswept slopes.
S.Africa's Black Showjumper Turns Horse Whisperer
SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's first black showjumper, Enos Mafokate, has never read the best-selling book about an American man who whispers to traumatized horses until ...
Little Old Ladies Just Want to Have Fun, Group Says
SILVER SPRING, Md. (Reuters) - The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays and knitting themselves slowly into senility are gone.
Seaweed, Goose Feathers Hold Hope for Peru Farmers
HUMAY, Peru (Reuters) - Walter Cuba wades into his field of cotton plants near Pisco in southern Peru, inspecting the number of buds per branch that will yield their white fiber.
Religions, Cults Get Sacred Space in Brazil Park
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Aderbal Ashogun, a priest in the Afro-Brazilian religion called candomble, claps his hands three times and says a prayer before putting out a candle ...
Bruised and Bandaged, Maid's Tale of Saudi Abuse
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Nur Miyati lies on a Saudi hospital bed, her hands bandaged, her toes black from gangrene and her body still marked with bruises.
Paintings Idolize Romanian Dictator Ceausescu
BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuters) - Nicolae Ceausescu poses amid dead bears, waves to adoring crowds and clinks glasses with a medieval saint in paintings on show for the first time since ...
Militants Play Cat and Mouse to Post Killings on Net
DUBAI (Reuters) - Islamic militants who want the world to witness their attacks and beheadings in Iraq have engineered new ways to ensure their videos appear on the Internet, defying ...
Thirty Years On, Saigon's Cholon Thrives Again
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters) - Cholon, Saigon's Chinatown, is back in business, its traffic-clogged streets lined with bustling stores, small businesses, restaurants and markets.
Orphans Bear Brunt of Nepal's Brutal War
NEPALGUNJ, Nepal (Reuters) - Seven-year-old Sinam sits cross-legged on her bed, studying for her math exam. When a stranger enters, the other orphanage girls jump up, press their hands ...
U.S. Rabbi Rescues Sacred Scrolls Lost in Holocaust
By Alan Elsner WHEATON, Md. (Reuters) - From a crowded bookstore in an bland strip mall in suburban Washington, D.C., Rabbi Menachem Youlus runs a worldwide effort to rescue sacred ...
Forgotten Sudanese Forced Out to Desert Camp
AL-FATHA, Sudan (Reuters) - Amna Kody holds up her infected leg and pleads for some pills to stop the pain. But there are no doctors in al-Fatha where Sudanese authorities have forcibly ...
India's Grieving Tsunami Mothers Turn to Surgery
AKKARAPETTAI, India (Reuters) - Like hundreds of mothers on India's southeastern coast, Vasantha lost all her children -- a son and two daughters -- to the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Central American Women Face Horrors on Trek Northward
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (Reuters) - Rosa left Honduras for the United States last year to look for work and escape beatings by her parents. Now she works in a dingy railroad brothel.
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