'Hunger Games' dethrone Potter at Amazon.com Amazon.com on Friday announced that "The Hunger Games" trilogy has replaced the "Harry Potter" saga as the online retail giant's best-selling series of books.
18 August 2012
Manchester United shares fall below IPO price Shares in legendary football club Manchester United closed below their IPO price for the first time Thursday, as apparent price support efforts gave out after five days of trade.
British media did not apologize to VinokourovBritish media still has not apologized to Aleksandre Vinokourov for calling him a “Nowhere Man” after his victory in the race at the London Olympics.
Ecuador grants Assange asylum in confrontation with Britain Ecuador granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, setting up a diplomatic confrontation with Britain, which angrily insisted it would extradite him to Sweden.
17 August 2012
Eurozone fears shadow Merkel's arrival in Canada German leader Angela Merkel held talks Wednesday with her Canadian counterpart on a first-ever bilateral visit shadowed by eurozone fears and Ottawa's refusal to wade into relief efforts.
16 August 2012
Asia eyes Brazil's growing consumer market With Europe and the US in the economic doldrums, Asian manufacturers are setting their sights on Brazil's lucrative consumer market ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
16 August 2012
Accused Nazi war criminal free to stay in Australia A 90-year-old man accused of being a Nazi war criminal on Wednesday won his fight to stay in Australia, after the High Court blocked his extradition to Hungary.
16 August 2012
No decision yet on Assange asylum, Ecuador says Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on Tuesday denied a British media report that his country had granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Quadruple amputee prepares for Bering Strait swim Two silhouettes cut through the water a few hundred yards (metres) from a rainy, windswept beach bordering the flat grasslands near the small Inuit community of Wales, in the far west of Alaska.
15 August 2012
Olympic flag arrives in Rio, host of 2016 Games The Olympic flag arrived Monday in Rio de Janeiro, which will host the 2016 Summer Games -- a challenge which authorities in Brazil say the city is prepared to conquer.
14 August 2012
Russian Patriarch visits Poland as Pussy Riot verdict looms The first-ever visit by a Russian Orthodox Church head to deeply Catholic Poland begins Thursday, but the landmark trip risks being overshadowed by a verdict expected in Moscow in the Pussy Riot trial.
British military will take 2 years to get over Games: planner Britain's military will take two years to return to normal after it was called upon to provide 18,000 troops for the London Olympics, the chief planner warned in an interview published Tuesday.
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