Reuters International - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 17:29 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin faces a barrage of questions about rising inflation and job losses on Thursday in his first annual question-and-answer session with the Russian people since leaving the Kremlin.
CNN World - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 17:06 A national poll suggests that six in 10 Americans oppose using taxpayer money to help the ailing major U.S. auto companies.
CNN World - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 17:04 Striker Goran Pandev scored early in extra time to give Lazio a 2-1 win at 10-man AC Milan to secure a place in the Italian Cup quarterfinals on Wednesday.
CNN World - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:56 Manchester United stormed into the Carling Cup semifinals in style as Carlos Tevez helped himself to four goals in a thrilling 5-3 victory over Blackburn at Old Trafford.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The cheese of northern Spain is, like the land that produces it, rough, coarse and sharp, and there's no way to taste it without traveling there.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 In a city where the pursuit of well-being is something of a high art, an array of scientists, philosophers, doctors, psychologists, navel-gazing Googlers and Tibetan Buddhists addressed the latest findings on the science of human happiness.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 After being deported from his homeland, a former gang member is teaching Cambodian street children the art he brought with him, break dancing, as well as his hard lessons in life.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 An emerging field called collective intelligence could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 In Britain as elsewhere, organic restaurants are increasingly seeking out local suppliers. After all, what good is an organic carrot or blueberry with a giant carbon footprint?
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Nicole Wong and her colleagues decide what the world can see on YouTube. Are they also determining the limits of free speech?
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The situation in Afghan refugee settlements is dire, as government and aid groups lack the capacity to confront the approaching winter.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The singer, whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 77.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Some of the things that China is accused of doing - preventing transparency, using national security to justify closed-door proceedings, bypassing procedure - are what the Bush administration has been doing at Guantánamo Bay.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Three decades after the United States cut off diplomatic ties with Iran, blogs and e-mail have become crucial conduits for communication between the countries.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Airline reservation offices were swamped with calls, and it was likely to be several days before the estimated 230,000 stranded foreign visitors would be able to leave Thailand.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Skyrocketing health care prices have led a growing number of countries to follow Britain's example when asking the hardest of questions: How much is life worth?
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The mistakes characteristic of American administrations defy change over time. Here are three things not to do when running American foreign policy.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Who in the Muslim world, who in Pakistan, is ready to take to the streets to protest the mass murders in Mumbai?
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 A former U.S. Defense Department official said intelligence agencies had determined that former Pakistani officers helped train the Mumbai attackers, but that no links had been found to the Pakistani government.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The largest German newspaper is selling a basic digital camera in a bid to recruit a legion of citizen journalists to contribute images to its coverage.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The shift will make it easier for coal companies to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The head of the auto industry association has even raised the sensitive issue of potential layoffs.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Barack Obama said Wednesday that Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, his choice to be secretary of commerce, was not a consolation prize for not being appointed secretary of state.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The decision appeared to reflect President Hamid Karzai's growing independence from the Bush administration, which has opposed the treaty and had reportedly urged Karzai not to sign it.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 The proposed new "Eastern Partnership" with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus offers free trade deals, closer energy ties, easier access to visas and financial assistance programs.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Zimbabwean riot police brandishing batons charged into a group of doctors and nurses in Harare, breaking up a demonstration for better pay and working conditions.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Dr. Alan Greene has eaten nothing but organic food for the last three years. And the result, he says, is that he has more energy and is healthier.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 By throwing open the bidding to broadcast the Games of 2014 and 2016, the Olympic committee could allow commercial and pay-TV channels to wrest the rights away from their publicly funded rivals.
International Herald Tribune - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 16:49 Behind the headlines, the numbers are wispy, at best. But analysts say that the goal is often just to reassure the public.
