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Certificates of honor, the commission's top architectural awards, went to the following properties: 1218-20 Burgundy St.: Jon Kemp and John Reed, owners; Frank Masson and Rick Fifield, architects. A certificate of honor was awarded for ...  

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore. Thankfully! A new level of awareness and responsibility springs forth, a powerful concern for another's well-being. For me, having two young daughters has not only ...  

A sweet couple! A Russian traitor! A defection! John Le Carre is a fairly hot writer right now. After one of his novels was adapted every few years, the rate is growing exponentially since Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. There’s also A Most Wanted Man in the works, and now Our Kind Of Traitor. The script comes from Drive screenwriter Hoss Amini, and according to THR, Justin Kurzel has been hired to direct. Independent filmmakers have keyed into...  

While we'll have to wait see if the team behind "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" ever gets the sequel "Smiley's People" going, it looks like fans of John Le Carré have another adaptation to look forward to. Variety reports that Justin Kurzel, the director behind the unnerving Aussie thriller "Snowtown," is set to direct "Our Kind Of Traitor." And it certainly sounds very promising. Hossein Amini ("Drive," "Snow White And The Huntsman") has...  

Set in 1970s Britain, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," which will be released in cinemas in Japan later this month, is based on the book of the same name by John le Carre centering on George Smiley, a retired spy who is called back by the British intelligence service to uncover a Russian mole. The story begins with a failed mission in Hungary that prompts the search for the mole. The intelligence service — code-named the Circus — becomes engulfed...  

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Once secrets had been sent by coded short-wave radio or hidden in computer pictures, the spies would melt back into their unassuming lives in suburban America. The extraordinary Russian espionage plot detailed by the US Justice Department smacks of a ...  

This is the story of two writers: One famous, one now forgotten.
 The famous one is John le Carré, the preeminent spy novelist of our time, author of, among many other outstanding works of fiction, “The Spy who Came in from the Cold” and “The ...  

Hoss Amini wrote the script for "Our Kind of Traitor" which is scheduled to go into production later this year. LONDON – Aussie director Justin Kurzel is to direct Our Kind of Traitor from a script penned by Hoss Amini (Drive) based on John le Carre’s ...  

Kurzel's resume includes last-year's award-winning coruscating crime drama Snowtown, starring Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall and Louise Harris. UK banners The Ink Factory and Potboiler Productions will produce the movie, which is being developed with cash ...  

Convention Center District, Central Business District and Warehouse District. On Thursday, a group of French Quarter residents were planning to lead a trip to Baton Rouge to urge legislators not to rush into this process. The bill to set up the ...  

This 2 bed apartment is situated in the famous Carré d'Or in Cannes, sandwiched between the rue d'Antibes and the famous Croisette. It is a duplex with open plan living/dining/kitchen on the first level, opening onto a lovely terrace. Upstairs there are 2 double bedrooms, one of which is ensuite ...  

NEW ORLEANS - Concerns have been rising about a proposal to set up a new board to promote tourism and levy taxes for services in the French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny, Convention Center District, Central Business District and Warehouse District.  

Packaged to tie in with the recent film version of this masterful spy thriller, the audio edition benefits from strong narration from Michael Jayston, an actor who appeared in the 1979 BBC television adaptation of le Carré’s complex novel. The twisting ...  

Aussie helmer Justin Kurzel is set to follow up his award-winning feature debut "Snowtown" with an adaptation of John le Carre's contemporary thriller novel "Our Kind of Traitor," to be produced by The Ink Factory and Potboiler Prods. Hossein ...  

Fifty years ago, in his very first novel, John le Carré introduced a quietly complex character, a British spy named George Smiley. He reappeared in the series -"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy" and "Smiley's People". The BBC made him ...  

Linda Alice Achtau (nee Carre), 57 years old, died unexpectedly at her home on Monday, April 2, 2012. Born to Peter and Mary Carre in Paterson, NJ, she was raised and lived in Hawthorne, NJ for many years before moving to York, PA for three years and then ...  

Ride down any French Quarter street and see for yourself ... The management district held a special meeting April 17 regarding the new Hospitality District legislation and hotel tax. Its purpose is to promote tourism. The Hospitality District ...  

The actors take many of their physical cues from the footage shown on these monitors, much of which, I gather, is from the 1970s films of Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol and contemporary video artist Ryan Trecartin. In addition to mimicking the movement ...  

John Le Carré’s cold war espionage trilogy, which also includes The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People, is the finest work on the world of intelligence ever written. Le Carré served in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and knows ...  

Lindy Boggs, Jane Brooks, George Leake, Malcolm Heard Jr., Jean Boebel, Steve Scalia and Milton Melton together, and Nathan Chapman. The commission formerly presented awards every year, but since Hurricane Katrina it has held only one ceremony ...  

BEIJING - A rights lawyer says the brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has returned to his closely guarded village in eastern China. Ding Xikui says he received a message from a friend of Chen Guangfu that said Chen had returned to Dongshigu village. Chen had traveled to Beijing, where ...  

The United Nations said the victims died in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. The bloodied bodies of children, some with their skulls split open, were shown in ...  

WASHINGTON -- Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney and his party raised a sizable $40 million last month from donors who want him to replace President Barack Obama. But even as Romney solidifies his position as the eventual GOP nominee, many supporters who backed his primary election challengers have ...  

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's stock is tumbling well below its $38 IPO price in the social network's second day of trading as a public company on Monday. Shares are down 11 percent in late morning trading. Investors and technology industry watchers are closely tracking the Menlo Park, Calif.-based ...  

(Reuters) - The Nasdaq is planning to revamp its systems for handling stock offerings after acknowledging that technology problems had affected trading in millions of newly issued Facebook shares on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported ...  

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Western leaders gathering this weekend to define their path out of Afghanistan will announce a pivot in the NATO mission next year, formally putting Afghan soldiers in charge of combat operations across the country, U.S. and NATO officials said on Sunday ...  

Is President Obama asking tough questions about Mitt Romney’s record or unfairly attacking the Republican candidate? Mr. Obama’s advisers insist that their full-throated assault on Bain Capital, now in its second full week, is intended as a critique of Mr. Romney’s claims to be a jobs creator ...  

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng soaked up the sun in New York City on Sunday as his children played in a garden, a break in a day of meetings to arrange his studies at New York University. "(Chen) said he hadn't sat in the sun for many, many years," said Jerome Cohen, a ...  

By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a man's children who were conceived through artificial insemination after his death cannot get Social Security survivor benefits. Justices unanimously ruled that twins born to Robert Capato's ...  

FINALE EMILIA, Italy (Reuters) - Thousands of people in northern Italy slept in tents and cars overnight as more than 100 aftershocks rocked the area hit by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that killed seven people and inflicted heavy damage to centuries-old cultural sites ...  

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection she contracted after being injured in a zip-line accident nearly three weeks ago is breathing on her own without the help of a ventilator, her father said. The struggle to save 24-year-old Aimee Copeland ...  

Robin Gibb, a singer and songwriter who joined two of his brothers in forming the Bee Gees pop group that helped define the sound of the disco era with the best-selling 1977 soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever," has died. He was 62. Gibb died Sunday after battling cancer and while recuperating from ...  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Private rocket maker SpaceX aimed for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that caused a launch abort over the weekend, stalling the world's first commercial space station supply flight. Forecasters put the odds of good weather at 80 percent for the test flight ...  

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders sealed a landmark agreement on Monday to hand control of Afghanistan over to its own security forces by the middle of next year, putting the Western alliance on an "irreversible" path out of an unpopular, decade-long war ...  

The St. Louis Cardinals have placed first baseman Lance Berkman on the 15-day disabled list because of an injured right knee. Berkman was hurt while stretching for a throw from shortstop Rafael Furcal on Justin Sellers' groundout in the second inning of Saturday night's 6-0 loss to the Los Angeles ...  

LOS ANGELES — Cancel the coronation, or at least postpone it. The Phoenix Coyotes are still hanging around. Shane Doan scored two goals, Mike Smith made 36 saves in his third playoff shutout, and the Coyotes emphatically avoided playoff elimination with a 2-0 victory over the Los Angeles Kings in ...  

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection she contracted after being injured in a zip-line accident nearly three weeks ago is breathing on her own without the help of a ventilator, her father said ...  

MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Alberto is moving southeastward as it spins off the coast of Florida. Alberto's maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph (65 kph) early Monday with little change in strength expected. The storm is centered about 100 miles (165 kilometers) east-northeast of St. Augustine, Fla ...  

Commuter traffic was lighter than usual Monday morning in Chicago as the NATO Summit entered its second and final day. “I suppose I should thank #NATO because me & my briefcase each have our own seat,” one Chicago commuter tweeted. Stretches of Lake Shore Drive and the Stevenson Expressway ...  

PARIS (AP) Rafael Nadal's white T-shirt carried specks of rust-colored clay and his white socks were smothered with the stuff during a practice session on Court Philippe Chatrier in the steamy early afternoon Thursday. As Nadal slid across his favorite surface, in his favorite stadium, at his ...  

It was impressive enough that Phillip Phillips skated to the season 11 crown
 on "American Idol" without ever landing in the bottom three, or enduring much negative criticism from the judges. But following his coronation on Wednesday it was revealed that the 21-year-old Georgia pawn shop worker ...  

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May 25 (UPI) -- Two officers of a container ship that ran aground causing New Zealand's worst maritime disaster will spend seven months in jail, prosecutors said. Captain Mauro Malomaga and navigator Leonil Relon, both of the Philippines, pleaded guilty to mishandling the ...  

WOODLAND, Mich. — Ex-major league outfielder Chad Curtis has been charged with criminal sexual conduct on accusations he inappropriately touched two students at a Michigan high school. Barry County Prosecutor Tom Evans says the charges are based on complaints from two teenage girls. Curtis was ...  

VIENNA (Reuters) - United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment centrifuges, a U.N. watchdog report said on Friday ...  

PHILADELPHIA — Making a rare inner-city campaign stop, Mitt Romney preached the merits of traditional two-parent families and touted his platform of educational choice at a West Philadelphia charter school Thursday. The Republican presidential candidate had little political reason during the ...  

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A California activist faces up to three years and eight months behind bars for spraying an irritant at a pop singer from Vietnam to protest communism. A Santa Clara County jury found Ly Tong, of San Jose, guilty Thursday of misdemeanor assault and felony use of tear gas in ...  

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, embroiled for months in the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal involving the leak of secret papers, said on Friday its police had detained a person in possession of confidential documents. A Vatican statement said the person was being questioned by Vatican ...  

NEW YORK—Mitt Romney is wading into a new policy arena -- the nation's education system -- as he broadens his focus to appeal to general election voters still getting to know President Barack Obama's likely opponent. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has been reluctant to stray ...  

DUBUQUE, Iowa – An Iowa man stopped outside a Dubuque bar with a small zebra and a parrot in his truck has been charged with drunken driving. KCRG-TV reports (http://bit.ly/KkBp1j ) officers arrested 56-year-old Jerald Reiter of Cascade on Sunday in the parking lot of the Dog House bar, where ...  

"We believe the lawsuit is without merit and will defend ourselves vigorously," he said. A spokesman for Morgan Stanley, which has taken the most heat for the IPO's problems, declined to comment on the suit. But the firm addressed the suit's main issue in a statement Tuesday, saying its procedures ...  

Orsa Ventures Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:ORN) today announced the appointment of Mr. Micheal Attaway to the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Attaway, BS Mining Engineering, MBA, is a registered mining engineer in Arizona and Nevada and a Qualified Person for NI 43-101 reporting. He has ...  

The brother of a Chinese legal activist who triggered a diplomatic standoff between Washington and Beijing has fled his closely guarded village in the country's east. Attorney Ding Xikui says he met Chen Guangcheng's brother in Beijing on Thursday to discuss the case of his son, who is accused of ...  

By DOUG ESSER Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) - A Washington state man fed up with a group of noisy moviegoers behind him stepped over the seat and punched a 10-year-old boy in the face. The man, who told police he thought the person he hit was a grown man, was watching "Titanic" in 3-D with his ...  

Europe's leaders gather in Brussels under mounting pressure to soften their tough-love approach to the weaker economies among them. With Greece locked in political chaos, much bigger Spain warns it can't keep afloat without help, as stock markets around the world tank over fears the leaders won't ...  

NEW YORK - The euro plunged to its lowest level in nearly two years Wednesday as investors fretted that European leaders won't be able to prevent Greece from making a messy exit from the region's shared currency. The euro fell to $1.2573 late Wednesday from $1.2720 late Tuesday. It fell as low as $1 ...  

A Graham man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of his own son. Gary Michael Lee, 57, was arrested after Graham police were called to a home at 118 Amy Drive around 3 a.m. Gary Lee's son, Michael David Lee, 30, was found dead inside the home. Police said Michael ...  

As regulators scrutinize Facebook's problem-plagued stock market debut, they may have to confront areas of securities law that do not always clearly spell out what industry analysts are allowed to tell clients about companies on the verge of going public. Morgan Stanley said late Tuesday that its ...  

Mitt Romney has won the Kentucky Republican presidential primary, inching closer to the GOP nomination for president. With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts governor easily won Tuesday's primary in Kentucky. Voters also went polls in the Arkansas. Virtually assured of the party ...  

This post originally appeared on Slate. Cory Booker is a famous man of action. The mayor of Newark shovels walkways in heavy snowstorms. Recently, he rushed into a burning building to save a woman. Sunday night he was at it again, this time working fast to remove his foot from his mouth. On Sunday ...  

NEW YORK - Facebook was supposed to soar. Instead, it plunged. After the social network's stock fizzled on Friday in its long-awaited debut, its stock fell 11 percent on Monday, even as the rest of the stock market rallied. The downward spiral has left some people sitting on big losses, and others ...  

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Wednesday that any efforts by Western powers to put pressure on Iran at talks in Baghdad over its nuclear programme would be futile. His comments come just hours before world powers and Iran sit down for talks in the Iraqi capital ...  

A memorial service for Donna Summer was held yesterday at the Christ Presbyterian in Nashville, where the disco icon had resided since 1995. The service was attended by her family and close friends, including Tony Orlando, Jamal Anderson and Giorgio Moroder, her collaborator on her wildly ...  

President Barack Obama has a narrow lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in three important swing states, a group of new polls found. In Florida and Virginia, Obama is leading by a four-point margin, 48% to 44%, according to new polls from NBC News/Marist College. In Ohio, the president’s ...  

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which analyst John Reeves and advisor David Meier discuss topics across the investing world. Warren Buffett once quipped, "In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of denouncing Myanmar's human rights record, the State Department is holding it up as an example of reform in a world convulsed by citizen uprisings. The department's annual report on human rights notes change afoot in the Asian nation as it moves toward "greater ...  

NEW YORK—Joe Girardi was frustrated. Six losses in seven games left the New York Yankees last in the AL East. "I'm hoping this is rock-bottom," the manager said. No, that's not this week. That was on May 20, 2008, 45 games into Girardi's first season as the Yankees manager—and the only season ...  

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Family and some of her closest friends helped celebrate the life of Donna Summer at the singer's funeral. A private memorial service was held Wednesday for Summer at Christ Presbyterian in Nashville, Tenn., where she had been a resident since 1995. Summer, deemed the "Queen of ...  

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Much of Joplin has fallen silent to mark the precise moment the city was hit by a tornado one year ago. A moment of silence at 5:41 p.m. coincided with the minute the monstrous tornado first hit the city last May 22. The storm killed 161 people, wiped out neighborhoods, destroyed ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan—The U.S. Embassy in Kabul says Ambassador Ryan Crocker will be leaving his post this summer. Crocker, 62, came out of retirement last July to take over as the top U.S. diplomat in Afghanistan. Crocker was widely known for his role as U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009. It ...  

U.S. antitrust regulators told EBay Inc. (EBAY) and Yelp Inc. (YELP) to provide information on whether Google Inc. (GOOG) is competing unfairly, speeding up a probe that began a year ago, people familiar with the matter said. The shopping and review websites were among about a dozen companies that ...  

(CNN)-- Several hundred of Donna Summer's closest friends and family will crowd into a Nashville, Tennessee, church Wednesday afternoon to say goodbye to the queen of disco, who died of lung cancer last week. The family has kept the funeral plans secret, including the location, and cameras have been ...  

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc and lead underwriter Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders who claimed they hid the social networking company's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering. The lawsuit came as Facebook and the banks that took it public face questions about ...  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will require "significant firepower" in Afghanistan in 2013-14, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces there said, but decisions about further U.S. troop reductions will only be made after this fall at the earliest ...  

The first commercial spacecraft ever launched toward the International Space Station is playing a game of catch-up Wednesday as it heads toward an unprecedented rendezvous with the orbiting lab. Dragon, built by commercial rocket firm Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), launched atop a ...  

Ohio soybean growers today defended the use of biodiesel fuel in state vehicles, arguing that the economic, energy and environmental benefits outweigh the higher cost. The director of the Ohio Innocence Project vented his frustration over obtaining police case files in a recent blog post, writing ...  

NEW YORK -- It's no surprise to anyone that big investors get preferential treatment on Wall Street. Investors expressed disappointment, skepticism and even shock on Tuesday after learning that an analyst at lead underwriter Morgan Stanley cut his Facebook revenue forecasts in the days before the ...  

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will set out its economic strategy for the euro zone on Wednesday, spelling out measures to balance growth with unpopular fiscal consolidation that will be particularly pointed for Spain and Italy. The Commission will issue specific recommendations for ...  

After a more than a week in orbit, the private space capsule Dragon is preparing to return to Earth from the International Space Station and cap off its historic mission with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Dragon is due to be released from the station early Thursday (May 31) and splash down a ...  

France's new Socialist government says it opposes a (EURO)400,000 ($500,920) payout for Air France-KLM's former CEO, part of its push to rein executive salaries at state-owned companies. In a statement issued late Tuesday, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said the state's representative would ...  

The Vatican spokesman says Pope Benedict XVI isn't concerned about what might emerge in the widening investigation into leaked documents and is encouraging prosecutors and a fact-finding commission to get to the truth over one of the greatest Holy See scandals in recent history. Spokesman the Rev ...  

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Supreme Court has endorsed the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, bringing the secret-spilling Internet activist a big step closer to prosecution in a Scandinavian court. Assange, 40, has spent the better part of two years fighting attempts to send him ...  

Oil prices fell to below $90 a barrel Wednesday in Asia amid expectations Europe's sputtering economy will drag on global crude demand. Benchmark oil for July delivery was down 84 cents to $89.92 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The ...  

Facebook's stock is getting some relief, inching higher following a steep decline in the wake of its initial public offering. Shares of Facebook Inc. are up 43 cents to $29.27 in morning trading on Wednesday. That's still down about 23 percent from its IPO price of $38. Facebook began trading on the ...  

Apple chief Tim Cook on Tuesday vowed that creativity would remain in the company's "DNA" and hinted that products on the horizon could come in the area of television. Cook was the star opening guest at a prestigious All Things Digital conference hosted by the Rupert Murdoch-owned technology news ...  

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island's governor says his comments about the financial health of Curt Schilling's video gaming company didn't hurt the firm and disputes that the state reneged on a deal for tax credits. The former Red Sox pitcher told The Providence Journal the state promised and did ...  

MIAMI -- Authorities in Miami are looking for more witnesses after a police officer fatally shot a naked man who refused to stop chewing on the face of another naked man - even after being shot once by the officer - on a busy downtown highway ramp. Detective William Moreno said police are looking ...  

A Philadelphia judge is denying a Roman Catholic priest's bid to have one of two child-endangerment counts dismissed in his clergy-abuse trial. Meanwhile, Monsignor William Lynn is back on the witness stand for a third day. Lynn's lawyers argue the endangerment charge involving the Rev. James ...  

Fears that Europe's debt crisis is morphing from Greece to engulf bigger economies such as Spain and Italy sent Asian stock markets lower Thursday. Spain's banking system is under strain a week after Bankia, its fourth-largest bank, required $23.8 billion in government aid to cover souring real ...  

• A daily summary of global reports on security issues. The massacre is being described as a "turning point" in the Syrian conflict, now in its 14th month, because of the international condemnation it prompted, particularly from Russia, which has been broadly supportive of President Assad until ...  

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Chicago White Sox will try to extend their winning streak to seven games Tuesday night against Tampa Bay and Hideki Matsui. "He’s a professional hitter and does everything well," Ventura said of Matsui, who will start in left field. "He’s just older, that’s all. You ...  

Ana Ivanovic, whose career went into freefall following her 2008 Roland Garros triumph, is now enjoying a tennis resurgence and is hungry for more success at this year's French Open. The Serbian 13th seed romped to a 6-2 6-2 second-round win over Israel's Shahar Peer and is now hopeful of making it ...  

JERUSALEM — A Russian-based internet security firm says a powerful spyware virus has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. Comments by Israel’s vice premier have fueled speculation the Flame spyware might come from Israel, which sees Iran’s nuclear program as a mortal ...  

Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals was either the Celtics’ way of stage-managing the perfect setup for their eventual dramatic, age-defying, status quo-rattling victory over the Heat, or it was a sign we should all curl up with a good book in the nights between the potentially fascinating ...  

LAS VEGAS - On the very day that Donald Trump's birther comments have dominated coverage of the presidential race, Mitt Romney managed to slip in a reference during a speech to the U.S. birth requirement for anyone who wants to be president. "I was speaking with one of these business owners who owns ...  

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The United States expelled Tuesday Syria's top envoy in Washington in response to a particularly gruesome massacre in which the United Nations says families, including children, were shot at close range in their homes, CBS Radio News correspondent Cami McCormick reports. Zuheir ...  

BEDFORD, MA, May 29, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Acme Packet(R) (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session delivery networks, today announced that China Telecom Corporation Limited, the largest fixed-line network provider in China with approximately 170 million fixed-line subscribers, has deployed ...  

MIAMI — LeBron James scored 34 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Dwyane Wade scored 23 and the Miami Heat pulled off the biggest playoff comeback in franchise history to beat the Boston Celtics 115-111 in overtime on Wednesday night. Mario Chalmers scored 22 for the Heat, who took a 2-0 lead in the ...  

DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA), a leading provider of kidney care services that is committed to improving the quality of life for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), announced the top 10 U.S. travel destinations for dialysis patients. The summer travel season can be intimidating for dialysis ...  

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hiroshi Kosaka has an unorthodox pitch for his realty business: instead of pictures of swanky condominiums his website features Japanese debt statistics and budget meltdown scenarios usually left to credit rating agencies. His firm is part of a cottage industry that has sprung up ...  

MIAMI (AP) — The Boston Celtics started their video session Tuesday by watching all 19 layups and dunks the Miami Heat made in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. It was not a feel-good moment for the Celtics. These days, those are few and far between. James and Wade combined for 54 points in ...  

NEW YORK — MSNBC host Chris Hayes says he’s sorry for his comments about his discomfort with the use of the word “heroes” to describe fallen soldiers. Hayes made the comments during his show on Sunday, the day before Memorial Day. He was met with a strong backlash, including from a veterans ...  

The linkup last week of a privately built capsule with the international space station boosted the prospects of commercial spacecraft shuttling U.S. astronauts into orbit, though Capitol Hill disputes continued to threaten the possibility. Enlarge Image An engineer last weekend worked at the ...  

CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak's two sons were charged Wednesday with insider trading and referred to trial before a criminal court. A statement by the prosecutor-general's office carried on the state news agency official said the two, along with seven others, made illicit gains from the sale of a bank. It ...  

LOW POINT: Facebook's stock has fallen below $30 for the first time since its much-awaited public debut this month. It closed at $28.84 on Tuesday, down 24 percent since its public stock debut. TROUBLES: The debut was marred by technical glitches at the Nasdaq Stock Market that delayed trading. And ...  

CRAIG, Colo.—Mitt Romney is poised to clinch the Republican presidential nomination after Tuesday's Texas GOP primary, a largely uncontested election that will formalize the former Massachusetts governor's status as President Barack Obama's general election challenger. While Romney's nomination ...  

All eyes will be on Olympic champion Nastia Liukin at the U.S. Classic. Martha Karolyi, however, will be keeping close watch on everybody. Make no mistake. The national championships may be two weeks away and there's still a month until the Olympic trials, but Saturday's meet is the first step in ...  

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons if refined much further, a U.S. security institute said. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS ...  

CAIRO -- Egyptians who stood in Tahrir Square 15 months ago demanding a revolution spent Friday stunned and shattered as the first democratic election here rejected their calls, instead producing a runoff between one candidate who wants an Islamic-based state and another who promises a return to the ...  

Danny Granger, towards the end of Thursday's Game 6 (Getty Images) What you've got here, Pacer fans, is an odd setup. The Pacers are a young team, replete with veterans. The Pacers are an incredibly well-coached team, run by someone who made a lot of glaring and worrying mistakes in first full year ...  

To say that Facebook's debut as a public company was bungled is something like saying Facebook is a website you might have heard of. Either way, a colossal understatement. The response from small-time investors has been equal parts frustration, confusion and bitterness. Fed up, some are dumping ...  

By BRIDGET MURPHY Associated Press MONSON, Mass. (AP) - A year after tornadoes flattened hundreds of homes and left three dead in Massachusetts, one of the worst-hit neighborhoods is still undergoing a facelift. Nine houses were decimated on Bethany Road in the town of Monson. Neighbors say the June ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) – In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe. For all the small daily dramas of the 2012 campaign, there's a risk-averse dynamic playing out: Neither candidate has been making bold new policy proposals or displaying a ...  

SAN ANTONIO – Maybe they'll finally get a challenge this time. The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder have simply rolled through this postseason. There's the 18-game winning streak that has the Spurs flirting with history. Seventeen combined playoff games and just one loss. The Thunder ...  

A former bodega stock clerk arrested for allegedly luring 6-year-old Etan Patz off a SoHo street and strangling him in a basement has been placed on suicide watch at a hospital as a precaution, NBC 4 New York has learned. Pedro Hernandez, 51, was arraigned from Bellevue Hospital via video feed on a ...  

AUSTIN, Texas—Britney Spears has been on the job just two days and she's already proving to be a popular judge on "The X Factor." The pop queen is also growing into her role as critic on the Fox singing contest show. "The X Factor" staged its first auditions for the upcoming season Thursday and ...  

VALPARAISO, Indiana (Reuters) - An armed man took several hostages in an Indiana real estate office on Friday, then released them after an eight-hour standoff and shot himself in the head, authorities said. The gunman, who had complained he was owed money, was in critical condition, Valparaiso ...  

(Reuters) - Central banks and companies risk making a grave error if they do not brace for a possible Greek exit from the euro zone, Belgium's foreign minister said on Friday, rattling markets already alarmed by Spain's deteriorating finances. Greek elections are scheduled for June 17 and could ...  

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire from a rooftop in a Finnish town centre in the early hours of Saturday, killing an 18-year-old woman and wounding eight other people, police said. An 18-year-old man has been detained after the shooting outside bars and restaurants in Hyvinkaa just before 2 ...  

A landslide in Indonesia killed eight people, according to an official, after days of heavy rain hit a mountainous part of the country's main island. "The landslide occurred on Thursday night and killed eight people. We were able to retrieve all eight bodies by late Friday night," Bogor Disaster ...  

Retail investors with dreams of instant wealth who bought Facebook shares on opening day may have been disappointed, but they could still wind up with a windfall if lawyers seeking class-action status for lawsuits against the company and its IPO underwriters get their way. A pair of lawsuits filed ...  

By JEANNIE NUSS Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas man assumed the boy wrapped in a blanket on the futon in his home was his sleeping cousin. But hours later he realized it was a 14-year-old boy he'd never seen before who, police determined Thursday, had been shot while playing ...  

BOSTON—Late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien visited Boston to talk about the art of comedy and how he got started in it. O'Brien was at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library on Thursday, where he was interviewed by Boston Globe film critic, Wesley Morris. O'Brien, a Brookline native ...  

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan's latest New Yorker magazine story is being serialized on Twitter. Egan's spy thriller, "Black Box," is being tweeted through The New Yorker Fiction Department's Twitter handle (at)NyerFiction. The tweets began Thursday night. Each of 10 140-character ...  

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Rookie catcher Devin Mesoraco capped a series full of homers with his first career grand slam on Thursday night, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves . The Reds completed their first four-game sweep of the Braves in Cincinnati since 1980 at ...  

LOS ANGELES—Broadcasters Fox, NBC and CBS sued Dish Network Corp. on Thursday over a service that offers commercial-free TV. Dish, the nation's second-largest satellite TV provider, filed a suit of its own seeking a judicial all-clear for its "AutoHop" ad-skipping technology. Dish said the unique ...  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior State Department official will travel to Tel Aviv on Friday to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to Israel's security following just-concluded talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program. Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, will ...  

Women who choose birth control pills, the patch or vaginal ring are 20 times more likely to have an unplanned pregnancy than those using long-term methods such as IUDs and implants, a study released Wednesday found. Among young women under 21 who chose the pill, the patch or vaginal ring, the risk ...  

Asian stock markets were muted Monday amid continuing uncertainty about Greece's future in the euro currency union and ahead of a holiday in the U.S. The likelihood of Greece leaving the euro has been growing steadily since early May, when political parties opposed to the austere terms of the ...  

Crowds are forming along San Francisco's waterfront, while San Francisco Bay is crowded with pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels as the city celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge. Officials say tens of thousands of people are expected to flock to the area Sunday to enjoy ...  

BEIRUT — Syria on Sunday strongly denied U.N. allegations that its forces killed more than 90 people in one of the deadliest events of the country's uprising, and diplomats said the Security Council met in an emergency session to discuss the massacre. The killings in the west-central area of Houla ...  

WASHINGTON — The escalating “atrocities” in Syria could end up triggering a military intervention, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said yesterday, following a massacre that left more than 100 dead. The international community has scrambled to respond to the violence ...  

(CNN)-- A week into Facebook's debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange, its initial offering price of $38 per share dropped to $31.91. Retail investors' fears deepened as they realize they are losing a lot of money. The Facebook IPO did not follow the usual script. Instead of launching the largest social ...  

CHICAGO — At least Ubaldo Jimenez leads the major leagues in something, although his employers aren’t likely to brag about it. No pitcher in the major leagues has issued more walks than Jimenez, whose performance pointed the way to another embarrassing loss to the White Sox, 12-6 winners Sunday ...  

In November, the tide of daily cable traffic to the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan brought a chilling message for Ambassador Matthew Bryza, then the top U.S. diplomat to the small Central Asian country. A plot to kill Americans had been uncovered, the message read, and embassy officials were on the ...  

LONDON - U.K. insurer Prudential PLC has named Paul Manduca as chairman, succeeding Harvey McGrath who is retiring. Manduca has been an independent non-executive director of Prudential since October 2010, and became senior independent director in January 2011. Prudential said Monday that Manduca ...  

VIENNA — United Nations experts are investigating why tiny particles of uranium found in an underground Iranian nuclear facility had been enriched beyond levels previously acknowledged, a discovery that raised questions about whether Iran is getting closer to creating weapons-grade material for a ...  

There’s been a ton of coverage about the Facebook IPO disaster, but very little of it looks at the crucial point two weeks ago where things went terribly wrong. It’s becoming increasingly clear that Facebook itself messed up at that juncture. The screw-up resulted in a major disappointment in ...  

NAIROBI, Kenya - An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said. He could not immediately say what caused the blast. The force of the explosion ripped apart the one-story building's aluminum roof ...  

BEIRUT—Special envoy on Syria Kofi Annan arrived in Damascus, putting pressure on his last-ditch diplomacy efforts as Western nations pressed to further censure Syria—after the United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned the Syrian government for a brutal weekend artillery attack and ...  

KABUL -- A NATO air strike killed a family of eight, including six children, when it plowed into their home in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said Sunday. Saturday night's incident in Paktia Province threatens to further sour already shaky ties between President Hamid Karzai and his Western ...  

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday the killing of more than 100 people, many of them children, in the Syrian town of Houla had been carried out in order to spread chaos and instability in Syria and block peace efforts. "We are certain that foreign interference, terrorist and suspicious measures ...  

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) -- India agreed Monday to provide Myanmar with a $500 million credit as one of 12 deals signed during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the Southeast Asian country. Singh is on a three-day visit that underscores India's quest for energy supplies and concerns ...  

AMMAN/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Sunday unanimously condemned the killing of at least 108 people, including many children, in the Syrian town of Houla, a sign of mounting outrage at the massacre that the government and rebels blamed on each other ...  

Anze Kopitar scored a spectacular goal on a breakaway with 11:47 left in overtime Wednesday night and the Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils 2-1 in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Kopitar faked a backhand shot, put the puck on his forehand and beat a prone Martin Brodeur. Los Angeles has ...  

/EINPresswire.com/ With the "bushfire season" now behind, it's tempting to think of winter as downtime on the fire front. While cooler weather and added rainfall diminishes the risk of bushfires, according to GIO, winter is actually the season for fires and fire claims. Running a business enables ...  

LANDOVER, Md. — The list of Brazilian soccer legends began with the incomparable Pele, who as a 17-year led his country to the first of five World Cups in 1958. It has continued, nearly unabated, for half a century. Now, it's Neymar's star turn. The 20-year-old striker, who in his short career has ...  

From the dawn of the republic, the federal government has played a vital role in American economic life. Government promoted industrial development in the 18th century, transportation in the 19th, communications in the 20th and biotechnology today. But the federal role has historically been sharply ...  

End 3d quarter, Heat 72-61: Bad quarter for the Celtics. The Heat are back in control. The points for Miami were 26-15 in the third, the Celtics shooting 23 percent from the field. Rondo had more technicals (one) than assists (zero) in the third. 2:55 3d quarter, Heat 66-58: Pietrus tries to body ...  

For the quarter ended March 31 (Q1), Interval Leisure Group beat expectations on revenue and met expectations on earnings per share. Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue increased and GAAP earnings per share grew significantly. Gross margins shrank, operating margins grew, net margins ...  

Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the military to reconsider its ban on Gaza residents studying in the West Bank. The court posted its decision Thursday, implying it would order a change. The Israeli military has 45 days to respond. Sari Bashi, head of the Israeli human rights group Gisha who was ...  

New York • Facebook’s initial public offering is the subject of two congressional inquiries and mounting lawsuits as the social network enters its fifth day of public trading. The shares regained some ground Wednesday, rising $1, or 3.2 percent, to close at $32. They were up another 6 cents to $ ...  

New York (CNN)-- Police say a man in custody has implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance exactly 33 years ago Friday helped raise awareness of missing children after authorities tried a then-novel approach of putting the boy's face on milk cartons ...  

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Whether the New York Rangers truly believed they could overcome a 3-2 playoff series deficit earlier this year doesn't matter now. The Rangers did it against the pesky eighth-seeded Ottawa Senators in the first round, giving them confidence they can pull it off again against the ...  

John Le Carre’s Cold War espionage trilogy, which also includes, “The Honourable Schoolboy” and “Smiley’s People,” is the finest work on the world of intelligence ever written. Le Carre served in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service ...  

with Rhodri Thomas, for The Ink Factory, and Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood for Potboiler Productions. Tessa Ross of Film4, which is supporting development, will executive produce along with John le Carré.  

With this ambitious re-staging of a Tennessee Williams play that flopped when it first appeared, the New York theatre troupe plays tricks with our memory  

An experimental New York theatre group brings an innovative production of a Tennessee Williams play to Toronto’s Harbourfront  

The script penned by Hoss Amini (Drive) made it onto the Brit list of hot unproduced projects last year.  

The "Snowtown Murders" director will helm the film adaptation of Le Carre's "Our Kind of Traitor."  

An all-star BBC cast brings le Carrés classic spy story to the screen, now on Blu-ray.