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Qatar, UAE urge citizens to stay away from Lebanon
DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar and the United Arab Emirates urged their citizens to stay away from Lebanon, citing security concerns in a country where fighting prompted by sectarian tensions in neighbouring Syria has unsettled areas near a northern port.
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Refloat of Italy's Concordia wreck to be biggest ever
ROME (Reuters) - Salvage crews will employ huge cranes and air tanks to refloat the half-submerged Costa Concordia cruise liner in the largest ever operation of its kind, according to a plan unveiled on Friday.
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Thousands march in Frankfurt against austerity measures
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - At least 20,000 demonstrators marched through Frankfurt on Saturday in a peaceful protest against austerity measures implemented to tackle the intensifying euro zone debt crisis.
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Japanese woman, 73, scales Everest for the second time
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - For the second time, a 73-year-old Japanese woman has become the world's oldest woman to climb Mount Everest, repeating her own record set 10 years ago, the company that organised the climb said on Saturday.
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Obama opens up Camp David for rustic VIP sleepover
CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - Eight of the world's most powerful people spent Friday night in the woods.
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Flame for London Games arrives in Britain
CULDROSE, England (Reuters) - The flame for the London Olympics burned brightly on British soil on Friday after David Beckham stepped off a special flight from the Games birthplace of Greece to light a cauldron with a golden torch.
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Top 10 graduate destinations
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - You're in the final phase of revision before exams and the glorious release from academia.
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NATO summit in Chicago sends some brides fleeing
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Debbie and George Sevilis were supposed to get married on Saturday, May 19. Everything was booked. They had saved the date.
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48 hours in Hatay, Turkey
HATAY, Turkey (Reuters) - With thousands of refugees now taking shelter in Hatay after fleeing violence just across the border in their Syrian homeland, Turkey's panhandle province has been in the news over the past year for all the wrong reasons.
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Business trips abroad could endanger your data
(Reuters) - Sonia Bovio, tired but unable to sleep after her long journey from Phoenix to London last week, settled into her hotel room and was fiddling around on her laptop. One inadvertent click later, a file downloaded and she realized she had made a big mistake.