Topic: United States
TOKYO (Reuters) - On Benjamin Buchholz's second day in Iraq as a U.S. army officer, a young Iraqi girl was struck and killed by a military convoy while trying to catch a bottle of water thrown to children by the roadside as ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of 62.Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of 62.Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Times may be tough for neighborhood bookstores, but people are reading more than ever and e-books are nurturing bookworms who hunger for everything from blockbuster biographies to literary fiction."It's really been all good news this year. Reading is ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is looking into allegations that the electronic book industry has violated antitrust law, a top Justice Department official said on Wednesday.In an oversight hearing, the Justice Department's top antitrust official Sharis Pozen, in an roundup of ...
European antitrust officials launched a probe on Tuesday to determine whether iPad maker Apple and five international publishers struck illegal deals to fix the price of e-books in Europe.The European Commission will look at deals between the US gadget giant and US ...
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it has agreed to acquire more than 450 children's book titles in the United States from publisher Marshall Cavendish.The titles include "The Night Before Christmas", illustrated by Gennady Spirin; "Chalk" by Bill Thomson; and "My ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Into a traditional northern New England town under pressure from chain stores and cell phone towers, its old family farms struggling, comes Hattie Kong, half-Chinese and newly widowed.Soon she is joined by the teenaged daughter of a Cambodian immigrant ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco hopes embattled Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be gone from office within a week in a welcome end to a long nightmare."In a week, Berlusconi will probably be obliged to resign. ...
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regrets having gone shoe-shopping and out for a night at the theater while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the US Gulf coast, she wrote in excerpts of her memoir released Sunday.In "No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My ...
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