Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Pierre Magnan, who has died aged 89, was a bestselling French author of detective novels steeped in the sights and sounds of his beloved Provence; to readers, his sleuth, Commissaire Laviolette, was as indelibly linked ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
SANAA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove into a school in northern Yemen's al-Jawf province where members of a Shi'ite Muslim rebel group had gathered for Friday prayers and killed 12 people, the defense ministry said. A ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Scenic, quirky and often remote, Britain's islands are a world apart from daily life. Nick Crane, who presents the television series 'Coast', introduces our guide to 10 of the best. Several summers ago we loaded the ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES _ The bizarre and complicated world of thoroughbred blood testing and sanctions reached the mainstream Thursday, when the California Horse Racing Board penalized the trainer who has won the first two legs of ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Forbes
For a character obsessed with details, Sherlock Holmes would be pleased with the ones that were preserved in the BBC modern adaptation whose second series concluded airing in America this past Sunday. My favorite is ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen in Afghanistan are demanding money for the release of five aid workers, including two Western women doctors, held in remote mountains and authorities have opened negotiations in the hope of ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Winds bringing a blast of damp Pacific Ocean air cut firefighters a break on Thursday as they battled to stamp out several dangerous forest and brush fires burning in five Southwestern U.S. states ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Reuters
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Fire crews hampered by wind gusts and dry conditions on Wednesday made slow gains battling dangerous forest and brush fires in the U.S. Southwest, including a wildfire in Nevada that doubled in size ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Sun Sentinel
MIAMI _ The worst of the physical play in this series appears to be in the rearview. After the suspensions of Udonis Haslem and Dexter Pittman, both the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers feel the referees will take better ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Stuart Vevers and Lisa Montague, the British duo who set Mulberry on the road to global superstardom, have taken their recipe to Loewe, the luxury heritage brand based in Madrid. Will it taste as sweet? At the apex of a ...