President Nicolas Sarkozy has sprinkled the parched French economy with dozens of little enticements since his election in May, all paving the way for an assault on the crux of France's woes: the labor laws.
Harlem is the historic capital of black American culture, but like many New York neighborhoods, it is rapidly changing.
China will change its national holiday schedule to ease overcrowding on trains, flights and other transport systems, often swamped when many of the country's 1.3 billion people try to travel at the same time.
Even if baseball and the players union agreed to every recommendation in the Mitchell Report tomorrow, stemming the use of performance-enhancing drugs will be a long-term project with no easy solutions.
Stuck in a crowd of about 200 other tourists, Zhong Jian and her friends waited for an hour to buy tickets for a boat cruise down the scenic Li River before giving up. Their problem: scheduling their trip during the May national holidays.
Gabriel Herrera was drawn to the National Guard by the poster of an infantryman rappelling from a Blackhawk helicopter — and by the fact he was unlikely to see combat.
The basement of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house at the University of Missouri-Columbia is filled with familiar fraternity icons like a well-worn pool table, stacks of violent films like "Kill Bill" on DVD, and of course, the stench of stale beer.
After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come.
Three weeks ago, Dawn Zimmer became a statistic. Laid off from her job assembling trucks at Freightliner's plant in Portland, Ore., she and 800 of her colleagues joined a long line of U.S. manufacturing workers who have lost jobs in recent years. A total of 3.2 million — one in six factory jobs — have disappeared since the start of 2000.
True camembert, the pungent and oozing king of French cheeses, is made from raw milk from Normandy cows, unpasteurized, unsterilized and largely untouched by modern technology. That recipe, dating back to the 18th-century advice of a priest from Brie, is under threat: One of France's elite producers wants to treat milk used for the cheese to respond to growing health concerns and competition and to appeal to globalized palates.
Here comes a new Windows operating system from Microsoft Corp. Long delayed, it's the first in several years, so the company plans an enormous marketing campaign to tout the software as a way to get more out of computers.
For one group of graduate business students at Yale, next month's lessons will take place on pineapple, banana and coffee plantations in Costa Rica.
A week ago President Bush said he wanted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remain in his administration until the end. On Wednesday, he said Rumsfeld was leaving. Here's a look at what Bush said last Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press and others, and what he said a day after the election.
The House became the engine of Democratic intentions to redirect the nation. In ending 12 years of Republican control of the lower chamber of Congress, voters ushered in an era of divided government, confrontation and less predictably conservative lawmaking.
Fourteen shot at a trading company. At least 90 kidnapped at other businesses. Bodies dumped nightly, bound hand and foot, some tortured. A new brand of violence — a deadly mix of organized crime and sectarian murder — is tearing at Iraq.
Beth McGinley has no use for burial plots. She wants her friends to sprinkle her ashes somewhere memorable when she dies.