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The vast panoply of human sporting experience gets put under the very distorted microscope of the Reduced Shakespeare Company in “The Complete World of Sports (abridged).’’ How vast? “From the neanderthals who first hit a rock with a stick . . . to the neanderthals who participate in ultimate fighting.’’ Reduced Shakespeare Company - Arts - United States - Recreation - Google

Iran's envoy to the United Nations has confirmed that a female American held for more than a year will be released.

The La Nina climate phenomenon is strengthening, increasing the likelihood an active hurricane season could get even busier.

There were no plans yet to make up for schooling time lost during the near-month long public sector strike, the basic education minister says.

The non-availability of the Boks may have upset a few SA domestic unions, but teams like Ulster and Bath are probably furious.

The central bank’s decision to cut interest rates to the lowest levels since 1974 has been roundly welcomed and sparked a strong rally in the rand.

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says that the decline in the country's murder rate for the past year - the largest decline since 1995 - is a "significant achievement".

US fundamentalist Christian pastor Terry Jones has called off his plan to burn copies of the Qu'ran.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel carried out air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip Thursday, the Islamist group and Palestinian witnesses said.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel carried out air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip Thursday, the Islamist group and Palestinian witnesses said.

GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - A Christian pastor said on Thursday he was canceling a plan to burn the Koran, which had drawn international condemnation and a warning from President Barack Obama that it could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings.

ZUGDIDI, Georgia (Reuters) - The European Union secured the release Thursday of a Georgian army veteran from jail in the Russian-backed rebel Abkhazia region in a rare gesture of goodwill between foes.

In a country proud of its ancient history, Indian cities are strikingly indifferent to the past. Still, the example of Pondicherry suggests that the urban eyesores that dominate India are not inevitable.

President Barack Obama said that he hoped the pastor behind a planned Koran burning listens to his "better angels" and "understands that this is a destructive act that he's engaging in."

It was an easy shot, but the grenade missed, exploding in a tree nearby. A figure in a white robe fell out of the tree and the policemen ran, yelling they had seen a ghost.

What does it mean that the most popular cultural depictions of America's current wars happen to be video games?

At their first meeting Sherlock Holmes says to Dr. Watson: “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.”

Pakistan will soon bring terrorism charges against three men alleged to have helped the failed Times Square bomber meet with militant leaders and to have sent him money to carry out the attack.

A drone fired a missile at a house linked to a member of the Haqqani network, a militant group based in North Waziristan that often carries out attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Women in corporate India are squeezing into business suits. But what may connote tradition to a Westerner could telegraph a higher status to an Asian or African woman.