TOKYO | Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:29am EST TOKYO (Reuters) - A Vancouver neighborhood of men who drink fig-infused martinis and eat fiddleheads on skewers faces a crisis when a beer-swilling, barbecue-loving truck driver moves in. An Olympic mascot marmot kidnaps

TALLAHASSEE | Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:40pm EST TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) - Florida's Republican governor on Thursday proposed a hefty $4 billion hike in state spending in a budget plan that includes a $1.2 billion increase in school aid, cuts in business taxes,

LONDON | Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:54pm EST LONDON (Reuters) - American poet Sharon Olds won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry on Monday for "Stag's Leap", a critically acclaimed collection that traces the end of her marriage 15 years ago.The annual award, celebrating

U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA) meets with officials at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry during his visit to Baghdad July 26, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Hadi Mizban/PoolBOSTON | Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:19pm EST BOSTON (Reuters) - Representative Stephen Lynch,

1 of 3. Christie's auction house CEO Steven Murphy is interviewed at his office in central London January 16, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Olivia HarrisLONDON | Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:02pm EST LONDON (Reuters) - When the public sits up and notices the art market,

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks next to Vice President Joe Biden (L) after the House of Representatives acted on legislation intended to avoid the ''fiscal cliff,'' at the White House in Washington January 1, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Jonathan

NEW YORK | Thu Jan 31, 2013 5:26pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch was moved to a hospital intensive care unit on Thursday, his spokesman said, in a sign that his health could be deteriorating.Koch spokesman George Arzt said

1 of 5. A portait of late PKK activist Sakine Cansiz is seen at the Kurdish cultural centre in Paris, after three Kurdish women were found shot dead, January 10, 2013. Three female Kurdish activists including a founding member of the PKK rebel group

SARAJEVO | Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:06am EST SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes court jailed a former Serb police officer for 20 years on Friday for his role in the 1995 mass killing of Muslims in Srebrenica, the worst atrocity on European soil since

U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing to be secretary of state, on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 24, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Jonathan ErnstWASHINGTON | Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:47pm

1 of 11. Pakistani journalists chant slogans during a protest against bomb blasts in Quetta and condemn killings of members of the media, outside the press club in Karachi January 11, 2013. The banner reads in Urdu ''we wholeheartedly salute our martyr

SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:14pm EST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Audience Inc seems to be doing pretty well, even with less of Apple: the audio technology company forecast quarterly revenue well above Wall Street's expectations, helped by more