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Lauryn Hill sentenced to three months in prison over unpaid taxes KUNAL DUTTA MONDAY 06 MAY 2013 The Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on earnings of around $1m. The 37-year-old singer was also sentenced in Newark, New...

Dozens dead as Assad's forces storm coastal village By Erika Solomon BEIRUT | Thu May 2, 2013 7:51pm EDT (Reuters) - State forces and militias loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stormed the coastal village of Baida on Thursday, killing at least 50 people including women and children...

Anger builds as Bangladesh gives up hope of more survivors By Ruma Paul and Serajul Quadir DHAKA | Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:40am EDT (Reuters) - Rescue officials in Bangladesh said on Tuesday they had given up hope of finding more survivors from a garment factory complex that collapsed killing...

Netflix’s New Pricing Plan: Are They Going After ‘Freeloaders’? Should They? By Nicole Goodkind | Daily Ticker <script...

UK says "no clear reason" to let independent Scotland use sterling By David Milliken LONDON | Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:05pm EDT (Reuters) - The euro zone's experience of countries sharing a currency but not a government shows there is no clear case for an independent Scotland to use sterling...

South Korean minister cancels Japan visit over war shrine: Yonhap By Ju-min Park SEOUL | Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:03pm EDT (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister has canceled a trip to Japan after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an offering to a shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's...

Man arrested after bomb scare at Los Angeles Hooters restaurant News Limited Network April 19, 20131:22PM Police cordon off Hollywood Boulevard after repiorts a man left a bomb in the Hooters restaurant. Picture: Twitter, via SidizenKane Source: Supplied A MAN has been arrested after he...

Chickens are seen at a poultry farm on the outskirts of Shanghai April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Aly Song

Dead chickens are seen at a poultry farm on the outskirts of Shanghai April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Aly Song

China's bird flu death toll rises to 16, government warns of spread BEIJING | Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:03am EDT (Reuters) - Two more people in China have died from a new strain of avian influenza, bringing to 16 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus, and the government has warned that the...

Albania sacks poll official despite international warnings By Benet Koleka TIRANA | Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:05pm EDT (Reuters) - Albania's parliament sacked an election official on Monday despite warnings from the country's international partners that the move could damage domestic and overseas...

Portugal's fed-up youth pack and go as their nation slides into reverse Job prospects are grim, health and education are in crisis and with more austerity to come, emigration is increasingly the only solution Martin Roberts in Lisbon The Observer, Saturday 13 April 2013 17.19 BST...

Europe's center left defends welfare amid austerity By Balazs Koranyi COPENHAGEN | Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:09pm EDT (Reuters) - Europe's political center left, bruised by election defeats and self-flagellation, needs to accept austerity and the end of the "good times" but stand up for the...

At least 12 killed in Mexican bus crash MEXICO CITY | Sun Mar 31, 2013 3:28am EDT (Reuters) - At least 12 people died when a bus and a car collided in a mountainous part of the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Saturday evening, local emergency services said. The accident near the town...

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Bangladesh amends war crimes law, mulls banning Islamists By Anis Ahmed DHAKA | Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:01pm EST (Reuters) - Bangladesh's parliament, meeting demands of protesters thronging the capital, amended a law on Sunday allowing the state to appeal any verdict in war crimes trials it deems...

Exclusive: North Korea tells China of preparations for fresh nuclear test By Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING | Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:31am EST (Reuters) - North Korea has told its key ally, China, that it is prepared to stage one or even two more nuclear tests this year in an effort to force the...

Maldives ex-president in Indian embassy to avoid arrest By J. J. Robinson MALE | Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:55am EST (Reuters) - Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed took refuge in the Indian High Commission in the capital Male on Wednesday as police attempted to arrest him, raising the...

Tunisian party decides to stay in government for now TUNIS | Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:18am EST (Reuters) - A party led by interim President Moncef Marzouki said on Monday it had "frozen" its withdrawal from Tunisia's coalition government while talks continue on a political crisis sharpened by the...