LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The much-mocked hat worn by Princess Beatrice to Britain's royal wedding last month -- widely described as looking like a toilet seat -- sold for 81,100 pounds ($131,000) on eBay, charities which will benefit from the sale said.
The backlash is complete, almost, for failed doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping. Even as the world is waiting to hear from the false prophet, a member of his inner circle has fired the first salvo, saying Camping owes an apology to the public. For Harold Camping, the moment of truth is even more embarrassing and potentially destabilizing. Followers will desert, his movement could break up into smithereens and he will be called upon to answer possible financial irregularities surrounding what is ...
President Barack Obama will use a European tour this week to urge U.S. allies to help press forward the movement for democratic change presented by the Arab spring uprisings in the Middle East, reports said
United States administration is “deeply disappointed” by the refusal of Yemen’s president to sign an agreement to step down in 30 days, says U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
European Union foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton pledged support for rebels in east Libya, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights on Sunday as the country's most active Grimsvotn volcano's eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam high into the sky.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's standing for the top IMF official gained impetus in Europe on Sunday with Mexico forwarding its own candidate for the post, giving competition for the top job.
Lord Hurd's daughter-in-law, Catherine, was discovered dead, apparently from a suicide plunge from her four-story apartment in New York City.
An eruption at Grimsvotn has hit Iceland at 19:25UTC on May 21, sending a huge bubbling mass of ash and smoke, which seeped above the clouds for 12 miles, and was accompanied by multiple earthquakes.
Britain's finance minister endorsed his French counterpart Christine Lagarde on Sunday to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the International Monetary Fund, as the process for selecting a new head begins.
Christine Lagarde, the French Finance Minister and a former synchronized swimming champion, was endorsed as the new head of the International Monetary Fund.
Indian business executive Ratan Tata has blasted the work ethic of British employees and managers.
The finance ministers of France and Singapore are among the names being floated to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as early as June 30 as the head of the International Monetary Fund, a bank of last resort for the world's nations.
The United States is still lagging behind other industrialized countries in terms of broadband adoption and download speed, according to a report released by the Federal Communications Commission on Friday.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere that is said to be so powerful that it stretches around the entire planet.
The United States continues to lag behind other countries in broadband adoption and download speeds, according to a report released by the Federal Communications Commission on Friday.
The gently sloping beaches of Normandy lend themselves well to invasions. From here, William the Conqueror set out to invade England in 1066 and in World War II they were the landing site for the allied assault on Nazi-occupied France.
The service determines a social networker's worth by tracking social media activity and measuring how much interest it generates amongs friends and colleagues.
If you give any credence to Harold Camping’s prediction – that the end of the world will be May 21, 2011 – tune in at 6 p.m. New Zealand local time just to make sure. Camping himself plans to do just that by watching it unfold on TV.
Christine Lagarde, French Finance Minister emerged as the next IMF head on Thursday after Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned and vowed to fight charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.
The French Open draws are out and world number one Rafael Nadal has a tricky first round encounter against John Isner, while the irrepressible Novak Djokovic opens against Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker.
MOEX, a unit of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co , and partner in BP Plc's doomed Macondo well has agreed to pay the UK oil major $1.1 billion toward the cost of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
