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Leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization agreed Friday to create an information security center in Moscow. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, whose country is hosting a two-day CSTO summit in Cholpon-Ata on Saturday and Sunday, said the center will help member states exchange information on Internet security and their experiences with combating cyber crime. A center for youth education will also be established in Cholpon-Ata, Bakiyev said. The CSTO, a secu ...

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The phone call came late on a Friday night, five summers ago, during the final innings of a Red Sox game. It was Boston artist manager Michael Creamer’s cousin on the line, calling to quiz him about the music business.

The flame-lighting ceremony of China's 11th National Games started at 10:10 a.m. local time atop Mt. Taishan. &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...

A man drove his taxi and broke into Thai Government House on Friday, demanding Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to solve his problems. The incident occurred when the Prime Minister is scheduled to hold a press conference at the Government House on core leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), Sondhi Limthongkul's attempted assassination case. Sondhi has said that he will not attend the press conference as claimed earlier. The driver parked his pink taxi in fr ...

Replace the Sunday-night blues with hot Latin-jazz music and dancing at Salsa Sundays at the Beehive . The local music and dance group Cincoson will cure what ails ya, at least for a few hours - and then you’ll be able to make it through the week and look forward to every Sunday night. Aug. 2 and every Sunday from ...

Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday that its board has approved a plan to spin off as a separate company its Madison Square Garden business.

LONDON: BMW's exit from Formula One could have been avoided had some team bosses been less resistant to cost-cutting regulations, Formula One's governing body said on Wednesday. In a statement, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) expressed regret but no surprise at the Munich-based carmaker's decision to leave at the end of the year. "It has been clear for some time that motorsport cannot ignore the world economic crisis," the FIA said after BMW announced they would pull out at ...

AP - A look-the-other-way attitude at some U.S. hospitals may be fostering a black-market trade in kidneys, transplant experts say. Some hospitals do not inquire very deeply into the source of the organs they transplant because such operations can be highly lucrative, according to some insiders. A single operation can bring in tens of thousands of dollars for a hospital and its doctors.

A parliamentary delegation of Bangladesh left for New Delhi of India on Wednesday to hold talks with Indian officials and collect data about the controversial Tipaimukh dam aimed at generating hydro-electricity by using waters from the common river Barak. Bangladesh's Former Water Resources Minister and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources Ministry Abdur Razzak are leading the 10-member team. They will go to the dam site on July 31 in Indian northea ...

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A new 24-hour channel will air in 22 Arabic-speaking countries and reach nearly 300 million people, China Central Television said.

Salley Vickers has a gift for making the most unlikely settings for fiction absolutely compelling. Much of her last novel, The Other Side of You, took place in a bland consulting room, yet she brought to this essentially static and, in clumsier hands, too obvious a setting, a drama that swept me away. Dancing Backwards, her new work, is located on a Transatlantic cruise-liner. My one bad experience of making such a voyage had put me off ever repeating it again – in life or in fiction – but within 10 pages, Vickers had won me over.

The Gooch and Tomas O Se have been in the eye of a storm all week. Kerry is a magic place in summer. Visitors come from all over the world and there's a constant buzz. It's a lot easier on counties where the only visitors are relatives coming home to fight over the dead uncle's farm.

The People's Bank of China(PBOC), the central bank, reiterated on July 24 the adherence to a moderately easy monetary policy and continued implementation of the economic stimulus package. The bank said the propelling of a stable and relatively fast economic development should continue to form the top priority of the financial macro control in the latter half of this year, and the policy would be "consistent" and "stable". There had been positive changes in the economic situation, but the ...

Outdoor artwork, which once strove to inspire, is now content to amuse.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Braves left-hander Mike Gonzalez sustained a bruised forearm when he was hit by a line drive off the bat of the San Francisco Giants' Nate Schierholtz on Thursday.

Beijing said Tuesday that its ethnic autonomy policies are effective despite the July-5 Urumqi violent riot, but there exists room for policy improvement. "The current policies include guiding principles set by the central government and regulations of local governments, but a deeper understanding is needed when it comes to making policies at the local level," Wu Shimin, vice-minister of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, said at a press conference at the State Council Information Office i ...

&$ &$Thais wearing disposable masks pose during a campaign promoting the use of face masks to prevent infection by the H1N1 flu virus, at a hospital in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, July 13, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuter Photo)&$&$ The A/H1N1 flu death toll has exceeded 700 worldwide since the outbreak of the disease in April, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. The WHO, which de ...

A national victims advocacy group says nearly every state has a law against video voyeurism, such as a video that an attorney says was secretly taken of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews while she was naked and alone in a hotel room.