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Experts to hash out global data privacy rules in Spain

AFP Global Edition 19 hours ago

Experts from around the world gather from Wednesday in Madrid for a three-day conference that aims to hash out international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data. US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well as national privacy commissioners are ...

Treasure on show in London as another trove found

Reuters Life! Online Report 23 hours ago

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The most important treasure trove found in Britain for decades went on display in London on Tuesday, the same day that another discovery valued at a million pounds ($1.6 million) was reported found in Scotland. The Staffordshire Hoard, ...

United, Chelsea eye next phase of Champions League

AFP European Edition yesterday

Compared to the domestic and European woes of five-times European kings Liverpool, life is bliss for Manchester United and Chelsea as Premier League glory and the knockout phase of the Champions League beckon. Liverpool, six defeats in seven games, have run into ...

France wades into bog of North Korean diplomacy

AP News yesterday

Into North Korean nuclear tangle steps France, with diplomatic mission that puzzles US Nicolas Sarkozy is once again wading into international diplomacy. After trying a hand at Mideast peace, raising France's profile on Iran and reaching out to Cuba, he's homing in ...

United, Chelsea eye next phase but Real must improve

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Compared to the domestic and European woes of five-times European kings Liverpool, life is bliss for Manchester United and Chelsea as Premier League glory and the knockout phase of the Champions League beckon. Liverpool, six defeats in seven games, have run into ...

Deans insists Wallabies united in Grand Slam quest

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Robbie Deans has rejected talk of divisions in the Australia squad, insisting the Wallabies are united as they look to emulate the 1984 squad that completed a Grand Slam of victories over England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Deans is under pressure to ...

French-Senegalese woman scoops top French book prize

AFP Global Edition yesterday

French-Senegalese writer Marie NDiaye on Monday won France's top literary prize for a haunting novel on family, betrayal and the hellish ordeal of illegal migration from Africa. NDiaye, 42, becomes the first woman in a decade and the first black woman in ...

Marie NDiaye wins France's top literary prize

Reuters Life! Online Report yesterday

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - Marie Ndiaye won France's top literary award, the Prix Goncourt, on Monday, the first woman to do so since 1998. The 42-year-old won for her novel "Trois Femmes Puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women"), a story about the interweaving lives ...

Novelist NDiaye wins France's top literary prize

AP News yesterday

Novelist Marie NDiaye wins France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for "Three Strong Women" French-born writer Marie NDiaye won France's top literary prize Monday for "Three Strong Women," her moving tale of the struggles of woman in Europe and Africa. NDiaye has ...

Eurozone manufacturing expands in 17-month first

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

Manufacturing activity across the eurozone expanded in October for the first time since May 2008, in the latest sign that the worst of the recession is behind Europe's leading economies. The 16-nation euro currency bloc's purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the manufacturing ...

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