Like millions of Zimbabweans living abroad, Leslie Maruziva follows the tortuous power-sharing talks going on at home. He wonders about leaving London and going back. But for now, he is unconvinced.
Back in their sport's heyday, professional bowlers like Dick Weber and Ray Bluth ruled America's lanes and living rooms. Calling St. Louis home was natural for their team -- the Buds, which was named for the city's iconic Budweiser beer.
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Ask the man assigned to combat corruption and bureaucracy in New Orleans how the fight is going and he will tell you about his telephone problems.
A US man has been charged with rape and child abuse after allegedly keeping his wife and four children inside a filthy, roach-infested caravan for three years.
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. military was so eager to get the sluggish Guantanamo war crimes trials moving that the legal adviser to the Pentagon overseer adopted a "spray and pray" approach to pursuing charges, a U.S. general testified on Wednesday.
Gas prices are continuing to fall in Massachusetts. The latest weekly survey by AAA Southern New England finds an average price of $3.78 per gallon for self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline. That's an 11 cent drop from a week ago and marks the fifth straight week that the average price has fallen.
Living near a conflict zone has taught 70-year-old Vakhtang Chkhekvadze to sense danger. But it came stealthily this time, in a bombing that caught the Georgian villager by surprise.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. average retail gasoline prices fell over the past two weeks and could ease further in coming weeks if the price of crude oil keeps dropping, according to the latest nationwide Lundberg survey.
Returning to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst after a year teaching in China, Vincent Capone, a junior from Winthrop, was counting on a dorm room to save him the hassle, and considerable expense, of living off-campus. Unfortunately, a startling number of his fellow students had the same idea.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alaska Airlines canceled 41 flights by early on Monday because of a towering plume of ash created by the eruption of a volcano last week, the airline said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The family of a U.S. tourist who was killed and his wife seriously injured in a stabbing attack that cast a shadow over the first full day of the Olympics has thanked the people of Beijing for their support.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Energy and commodities markets on Monday were watching a couple of low-pressure systems in the Atlantic Ocean that could develop into tropical depressions or storms over the next couple of days.
