| Thu, 29 Jul 2010 Spare Times: For Children
| ‘THE MAGIC POT: THREE TALES FROM CHINA’ Blog | ArtsBeat | The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. More Arts News | This musical may remind you of a fortune cookie: swee... | No. of Indian students going to US falls, rises for UK
| MUMBAI: Europe, after ages, has upstaged the US as the preferred campus destination for Indians. More than twice the number of desi students who applied to fly abroad for entry into colleges this year chose the UK over America. | Data on the fresh visas for entry into... | China wants US to accept it as a big player to avoid friction
BEIJING: The United States should alter policy to take account of China’s role as a major player on the world stage if it wants to avoid friction and instability, a major state newspaper said on Thursday. | The commentary in ruling Communist Party mouthpiece the Peopl... | US faces Japan-style deflation: Fed's Bullard
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve should revive a crisis-era program to buy government debt if the US seems headed toward a bout with deflation, a Fed official said Thursday. | James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, worries that the United Stat... | US diplomats to pressure China on Iran sanctions
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Friday, July 30, 2010 | - Powered by | Olivier Knox | Agence France Presse | WASHINGTON: Top US officials announced Thursday they were heading to China in late August to press Beijing to “step up” and fully implement sanctio... | Pentagon asks FBI to probe leak
| The US defence department has asked the FBI to help investigate the leak of more than 90,000 classified military documents, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, said. | Speaking at a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday, Gates called the leaks "p... | Edna St. Vincent Millay's Home; the Apollo; Irons Galore
| EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY’S HOME OPENS TO THE PUBLIC Jane Feldman | Edna St. Vincent Millay's eerily preserved bedroom in her restored 1890s farmhouse in Austerlitz, N.Y., now open for tours. Blog | ArtsBeat | The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, criti... | Asia, Africa power Colgate's Q2 show
NEW YORK: Colgate-Palmolive, the world’s largest toothpaste maker, said second-quarter profit rose 7.3%, helped by growth in Asia and Africa. The stock fell in early trading as sales trailed analysts’ estimates. | Net income climbed to $603 million, or $1.17 a share... | US is no stranger to double-dealing
| Following the revelation by WikiLeaks that there have been fresh allegations that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is secretly aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan, sections of the US media rushed to accuse Islamabad of supporting both sides of the decade-old... | |
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