An Australian schoolgirl bidding to become the youngest solo round-the-world sailor crossed the equator on Thursday, in what her supporters dubbed a "significant ...
PENNY-PINCHING AMERICANS DOWNSIZE THE TRADE DEFICIT The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in August to $31 billion, or about half the size of a ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's Royal Opera House will sway to the sounds of South America with a new work based on a short story by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende. "Letters of a Love Betrayed," composed by Jamaican-born, British-based musician Eleanor Alberga, ...
Soccer legend Pele told AFP here on Wednesday that if the IOC votes to give the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro it would be like winning a fourth World Cup for him. Pele arrived in Copenhagen on Tuesday in his ...
Leaders representing more than 60 African and South American countries signed agreements at a summit here aimed at creating a new regional financial system for the two continents to gain more clout and boost development. The second South America-Africa summit, hosted by ...
PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) - Anti-imperialist rhetoric and ambitious ideas flowed on Sunday at a summit dominated by South America's leftist leaders and some of Africa's best-known former anti-colonial fighters. Flanked by the likes of Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe and Luiz Inacio Lula ...
Leaders representing over 60 African and South American countries backed a new regional financial system Sunday for the two continents to gain more clout and boost development. The second South America-Africa summit reaffirmed its resolve to establish a South-South union that would ...
Leaders of Africa and South America attend the Africa and South America, ASA, Summit in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Copyright 2009 AP News
With key energy accords on the table at the second South America-Africa (ASA) summit here, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi upped the ante Saturday with calls for the creation of a "NATO of the South" by 2011. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has ...
The second South America-Africa summit opened here Saturday, with heads of state from both regions seeking to sign key accords on a range of issues, including energy cooperation. The summit, which follows a first meeting in 2006 in Nigeria, is being on ...
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hopes to widen anti-U.S. alliances when he hosts African leaders on a Caribbean island this weekend, but his radicalism and Brazil's greater economic clout put limits on his appeal. The anti-empire message of the socialist ...
There's a new, big meta-study published recently that attempted to evaluate the benefits of organic food. Over 160 studies were initially looked at, but the researchers narrowed those down to 55 for the final evaluation, attempting to include only the best-designed work. ...
