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Fashion trends may come and go, in jewelry as in clothing and hairstyles, but just as in those arenas, there are some elements that never seem to go out of style. In fact, they get …

AFP – Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck, a two-time Tour de France runner-up, and his Saxo Bank team-mate Stuart O’Grady have pulled out of the Tour of Spain, their team said Tuesday.
The two riders did not take …

REUTERS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso issued veiled criticism of France for its expulsion of Roma migrants on Tuesday, saying the rights of citizens must be respected everywhere in the EU.
Barroso did not mention …

REUTERS – Switzerland is cooperating with a French investigation into whether financial assets of Europe’s wealthiest woman, l’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, have been misused, a magistrate said on Tuesday.
What began as a family feud between …

AFP – France got their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign back on track and quickly turned the page on their shock defeat by Belarus with a superb 2-0 win over Bosnia-Hercegovina here on Tuesday.
Karim Benzema, returning …

AFP – US President Barack Obama unveils plans Monday to spend at least 50 billion dollars to expand and renew US roads, railways and airports, in a fresh bid to fire up sluggish economic growth.
Obama, …

AFP – Art critics dismissed Bob Dylan as an amateur painter and said his work had no place in Denmark’s largest museum, after the American music icon’s new painting collection opened in Copenhagen.
“When we talk …

AFP – Exposure to chemicals used to make non-stick cookware and which are found in microwave popcorn may raise blood cholesterol levels in children, a study says.
Researchers led by Stephanie Frisbee of West …

AFP – A senior culture ministry official and the head of a Cairo museum from which a Van Gogh painting was stolen will stand trial on charges of negligence, a judicial source said on Monday.
The …

AFP – Noi Jaitang’s voice is laced with bitter helplessness as he faces the reality that his rural Thai village could once again be engulfed with fumes he blames for a litany of family illnesses.
“I …

AFP – Whale meat is on the menu at around a sixth of Japan’s state-run elementary and junior high schools, a survey released Sunday showed.
Of 29,600 public elementary and junior high schools nationwide providing lunches …

AFP – Three hot air balloonists will set off from Nancy in eastern France on Sunday in a bid to reach England, and retrace a route only ever travelled by a French woman adventurer a …

The treatment of incontinence in women is an issue that is not always easy for women to discuss. However, the problem is widespread. An estimated 51 million women worldwide (17 million of them in the …

AFP – Anti-terror police were on high alert in Pakistan on Saturday ahead of mass burials for the victims of a suicide bomber who killed at least 57 people at a Shiite Muslim rally.
The bomber …

AFP – Philippine President Benigno Aquino’s taking responsibility for a hostage crisis which left eight Hong Kong tourists dead will not absolve other officials if they are found culpable, a spokesman said Saturday.
Aquino said Friday …

It may not have the prestige of Venice or the glamour of Cannes but the small town of Deauville is the “it” place to be for many of America’s biggest movie stars.  Oscar legend Annette …