All Headlines

Trickster Travels: The search for Leo Africanus, By Natalie Zemon Davis

Dear Virginia,I've had four tries at IVF. I became pregnant with one, but soon miscarried. The other attempts didn't work. Each time, I stopped working, relaxed – and each time it failed. Now I am having my last try, but I'm starting a stressful job, one that I know I'd enjoy and be good at. Should I ask them if I can start a month later, giving myself a chance to relax (at the risk of getting off to a bad start), or should I just go ahead and hope for the best? Yours sincerely, Miriam

South Korea restricts the use of government cars and air conditioning in a bid to tackle rising fuel costs.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into a U.S.-led coalition airstrike that local officials say killed 15 civilians, but the U.S. military says killed only armed Taliban militants.

The UN's envoy to Afghanistan is to set out a new plan on aid spending amid fears that millions have been wasted.

CHITOSE, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Japan on Sunday for the Group of Eight rich nations' meetings where North Korea's nuclear weapons program, soaring oil and food prices, and climate change top the agenda.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel was reopening some border crossings with Gaza on Sunday, an official said, after it closed them on Thursday following the launch of a rocket into the Jewish state by Palestinian militants.

Archaeologists unearth an ancient tomb in northern Peru that could throw light on the pre-Columbian Moche Indian culture.

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Prospects that the G8 would reach a meaningful agreement to how best to fight global warming at their annual summit dimmed on Sunday as leaders began arriving in northern Japan with a raft of global problems on their minds.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Democrats in Hong Kong urged Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to allow swifter implementation of direct elections on Sunday, during Xi's first visit to the city since taking charge of its affairs as a state leader.

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans....

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Kyle Busch fell a lap down at Talladega and came back to win. So when a steering problem dropped him to the back of the field at Daytona, he didn't panic. He simply settled in for the long drive back to the front. And back to Victory Lane....

TOYAKO, Japan (AP) -- Global challenges like soaring oil prices and the Earth's rising temperature await President Bush at a summit of top industrialized nations, but first he set out to soothe emotions on a sensitive Japanese issue that's entangled in the nuclear standoff with North Korea....

Rising food and oil prices, global warming and Zimbabwe are on the agenda as G8 leaders gather for a summit in Japan.

Janet Guttsman is bureau chief for Reuters in Canada, and has worked for the company in Germany, Russia and the United States. When she's not running the Canadian news file, she enjoys long bicycling trips in Canada and beyond. In the following story, she writes of the support she received online after a diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer.

Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.

A man posing as a priest is caught trying to hear confessions in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, a judge says.

Businesses are proposing alternatives to laws with harsh punishments for hiring illegal immigrants, reopening a rift in the Republican Party.

Owners of large vehicles have hit an uncomfortable price milestone and are cutting back on recreational driving.

The United States Olympic track and field trials turned disastrous for Tyson Gay, as he sustained a severe cramp in his left hamstring.