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Saudi Arabia takes first steps on path to reform
RIYADH (Reuters) - Slowly but surely, ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia appears to be loosening the bonds of its strictly controlled society, in spite of the absence of big government ...
Space artist paints worlds no one has ever seen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What if ET isn't cute? What if extraterrestrial life doesn't even touch the surface of a faraway planet, but instead floats above its hostile surface like a ...
Can Couric become new generation's Cronkite?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It has been one of broadcasting's open secrets: CBS Corp has been wooing "Today Show" co-host Katie Couric to bring her considerable star power and ...
Rubbish-pickers see red as Mexico goes green
NEZAHUALCOYOTL, Mexico (Reuters) - When Mexico City housewives began separating kitchen leftovers from non-organic trash to protect the environment, Juan Santos was devastated.
Bollywood banks on Bachchan, new ideas for 2006
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indians watched anxiously two months ago as their best-known film icon went in to the hospital on a stretcher -- doubled up in pain, his face gaunt and his head ...
Pregnancy test may lie behind deadly frog fungus
POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa (Reuters) - What do an old pregnancy test for women and a mysterious fungus that is killing frogs have in common?
Actor John Corbett goes country with Nashville album
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - "Don't quit your day job" is the popular advice for would-be singers trying to break into the music business in Nashville.
Tiny ice hotel opens in remote Romanian mountains
BALEA LAC, Romania (Reuters) - Tucked away in a remote valley in Romania's Carpathian mountains, a tiny ice hotel has opened to try and attract tourists and their cash to the ...
Evangelical missionaries move into Amazon villages
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - It takes days of travel by boat and foot to reach indigenous tribes deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, but that hasn't stopped evangelical Christian ...
"Maid in Japan" cafes treat geeks like lords
TOKYO (Reuters) - "Welcome home, Master," says the maid as she bows deeply, hands clasped in front of a starched pinafore worn over a short pink dress.
Tiny Malta feels pressure of immigrant traffic
VALLETTA, Malta (Reuters) - More densely populated than Bangladesh, Malta has little room to house illegal immigrants. Even the newcomers, fleeing to Europe from war and poverty in ...
Madagascar hopes Bush fund will boost rural economy
AMPEFY, Madagascar (Reuters) - Jean-de-Dieu Randriamihaja has heard a lot about U.S. President George W. Bush's flagship development fund for poor nations like his.
Mexican Indians preserve epic endurance race
CEROCAHUI, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's Tarahumara Indians are struggling to preserve one of the world's toughest endurance contests: a race of up to 100 miles over flinty mountain ...
Burkina cotton growers not reaping what they sow
HOUNDE, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - Bent double beneath the harsh midday sun, seven women with babies tightly bound to their backs pluck at clusters of "white gold."
Whirling dervishes reel in tourists in Turkey
KONYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Irina and her friends have no regrets about traveling thousands of miles from their native Latvia to this gray Anatolian town in mid-December. But then they ...
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