Three years after tsunami, through the lenses of children
As part of the recovery from the tsunami that hit the Indonesian coast, taking 260,000 lives in 2004, the American Red Cross distributed disposable cameras to about 80 children in Aceh and in Sri Lanka.
Realizing the non-stick chewing gum dream
The number of commercial spinoffs at British universities is starting to grow and venture capital at last is pouring in. A start-up producing non-stick gum may be an early beneficiary.
As Cuba's economy withers, its ecology thrives
Many scientists are worried about what will become of Cuba's ecology if the U.S. government relaxes or ends its trade embargo.
- Fidel Castro recovering well, his brother says
Cruising Gal??pagos, marveling at the mysteries of life on Earth
The islands are no longer a lonesome outpost of life untouched by humans, but a laboratory of conservation where humans' fraught relationship with the natural world can be studied.
Germany's postwar labor peace in jeopardy as train engineers strike
A broader trend of small, specialized unions acting on their own is threatening the highly centralized labor movement that has been powerful throughout the postwar period.
Thaksin ready to return to Thailand
The deposed prime minister of Thailand said Tuesday that he was prepared to return to Thailand, but not to politics.
- Thai party says it can form coalition
Truck bomb hits crowd in Iraq
At least 25 people were killed and dozens were wounded in an attack near an oil refinery in Iraq. Later nine people were killed and 14 injured by a suicide bomber in Mualmeen, west of Baquba.
- At Christmas, Iraqi Christians ask for forgiveness, and for peace
U.S. aid plan for tribal areas in Pakistan is threatened
The ambitious $750 million five-year plan is imperiled by questions about whether the money could fall into the wrong hands in the restive region.
Italy considers the once-unthinkable: letting foreigners buy Alitalia
Even as a growing number of travelers migrate to competitors, national attachments to flag carriers die hard.
- Airlines grapple with Internet etiquette and restrictions
- Trans-Atlantic business-class carrier MAXjet ends flights
Academia crosses disciplinary lines to address global warming
Universities are setting up stand-alone centers that offer neutral ground for students and professors from various disciplines to collaborate on various issues affecting the environment.
U.S. medical centers turn nuclear particles into weapons against cancer
The push to use nuclear particle accelerators to fight cancer reflects the best and worst of America's health system, experts say.
A new sensation in Iraq: Motor scooters
Motor scooters have taken Baghdad by storm, providing a nearly ideal way of getting about in a war-weary town riddled with checkpoints and bedeviled by car bombs.
IHT global sports forum with Christopher Clarey: Part I
The annual year-end, year-ahead sports forum with Christopher Clarey.
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