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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - FIFA has launched 2,500 legal actions around the globe to protect its World Cup brand, a senior official of soccer's governing body said on Thursday.

The ten most expensive art works ever sold at auction, following the new record set in New York by a 1932 Pablo Picasso painting, "Nude, green leaves and bust".

China's two top producers of molybdenum have not been granted rights to trade over-seas futures, more than two months after the London Metal Exchange launched a molybde-num contract allowing them to hedge against price swings in global commodity markets. Jinduicheng Molybdenum Group was preparing to apply to trade on the LME contract, a trade executive said. &$&$Source: Global Times &$&$ ...

John Peel's son is to follow in his father's footsteps after securing his own BBC radio show.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama met with Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima in Naha City, Okinawa on Tuesday to explain the difficulties of moving a U.S. Marine base fully out of Japan's southernmost prefecture and seek the governor's support to keep the base on the island. According to local media sources, Hatoyama said that whilst visiting Japan's southernmost prefecture he intended to ask the prefectural government to continue bearing the burden of the U.S. Marine Corps' Fute ...

China will strengthen the financial support for the recycling economy development of various regions in order to address issues such as insufficient investment and difficult financing in the development of recycling economy, according to the "Circular on Policy Measures and Opinions of Supporting the Development of Recycling Economy" recently issued by the National Development and Reform Committee, the People's Bank of China, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Securities Regul ...

BARCELONA pride themselves on being "more than a club'' and tonight they host more than a game.

It took more than a year, but American diners are coming out of hiding, starting to splurge on everything from tea to tacos and tacking on some dessert.

PUBLICLY-listed PNOC-EXploration Corp. suffered a 41-percent drop in its net income to P1.8 billion last year from the previous year’s P3.05 billion, due to the decline in the revenue of its major business units.

Thailand's leading television station Sunday experienced a bomb threat, the website by The Nation newspaper reported. An unidentified man made a phone call to the Political Desk of the Nation TV, saying the 13th floor of the Nation Tower in capital Bangkok where the Nation TV head office is located, would be hit by a bomb attack. The call was received at 1:55 p.m., the Nation's website reported. The Nation TV is owned by Thailand-based company -- the Nation Multimedia Group Public Compa ...

Meshell Ndegeocello remains an enigmatic talent – a skilled bassist whose abilities have served artists as diverse as Alanis Morissette and The Rolling Stones.

Of the artists and photographers working today, they don't come more in your face, more unapologetically trashy, more instantly recognisable than David LaChapelle. The self-anointed "Fellini of photography" is known as a bold recorder of our times, an artist who fuses the perceived glamour of contemporary celebrity with the physicality and complex compositions of the Italian Renaissance artists. Full of sly humour, his photographs both celebrate and subvert the notion of fame. With their staged artificiality and surrealist flourishes, some teeter in the brink of tastelessness while others deliberately turn your stomach.

Soccer club America, based in Mexico City, has signed Brazilian winger Rosinei Adolfo for a three year contract, the club said in a statement on its website on Thursday. Prior to the new contract, the player had been on a one-year loan from soccer club Internacional based in Brazilian city Porto Alegre. Rosinei began his career in 2004 at Corinthians, one of Brazil' s top clubs, scoring four goals in 29 appearances during that season, and 10 goals in 33 appearances the next season. Howe ...

A poll by a men's Web site called Askmen.com shows that New York has overtaken Chicago as the number one most livable city for men, and Shanghai was also rated as one of the most livable cities for the first time. Reporters learned that Askmen.com ranked 29 cities across the globe based on how good they are for men to live, work and play. The ranking system took into account factors such as the amount of annual vacation days, the ratio of men to women, the climate, the unemployment rate and ...

The housing regulator Tuesday issued new measures aimed at preventing property developers from artificially driving up prices so as to better protect consumer's rights, following the government's efforts to curb soaring housing prices. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced Tuesday it will tighten the supervision of presales activities by property developers, including shoring up requirements on housing price transparency. "The property developers should publish hous ...

KC CONCEPCION, THE LATEST and youngest “The Buzz” cohost, turned down the offer to replace Ruffa Gutierrez twice.

Chinese government on Tuesday called on the parties involved in the Six-Party talks to maintain dialogue, show flexibility and work together more closely to create conditions for the resumption of the talks, aimed at achieved a nuclear-free Korea Peninsula. China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters in Beijing that the parties involved had intensified contacts lately to discuss how to restart the stalled talks. Beijing has supported reconciliation and cooperation between ...

This official multiplayer map is the first of three that will be released within the coming weeks.

Eating a diet high in white bread and pasta can more than double the chances of developing heart disease, a new study shows.