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Also, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said that seven more children had been sickened by the toys.

Clint Dempsy scored in the 40th minute to lift the United States national team to a 1-0 win over Cuba. It was the national team’s first visit to Cuba since 1947.

It’s a good time to be a sheep shearer. Demand is high, and a good shearer can earn upward of $70 to $80 an hour.

Many South Korean children are attending school abroad, accompanied by their mothers but not their fathers.

Kiwi numbers have declined rapidly over the past century, as populations struggled with the twin threats of shrinking habitat and expanding legions of new predators.

Times Magazine's favorite ideas of 2007 include use of software that packs and sorts packages on UPS trucks and maps out their routes so as to reduce number of left turns drivers will have to make, failed effort to see if energy in lightning can be harnessed in lightning farms, creation of dresses that glow with lasers and light-emitting diodes, discovery that large, upscale house in outlying suburbs is great for growing marijuana indoors, study conducted with hotel maids that found that simply...

When the mayor of Rouen, in Normandy, arranged recently to return the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior to New Zealand, France’s Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him.

The dollar fell to an all-time low against the euro and oil prices hit a record, suggesting higher prices for imports.

Driven by a roaring world economy, among other things, global milk prices have doubled over the last two years.

Asian stocks pushed higher early Thursday, as a strong showing on United States markets inspired investors to unwind some of the recent damage.

Anthony O’Reilly, former C.E.O. of H.J. Heinz and founder and chairman of Independent Media of Britain, discusses the newspaper business, editorial interference and expansion into Asia.

Despite dire forecasts when the New Zealand government ended agricultural subsidies in the 1980s, the farming business there is now thriving.

The argument that the cure to the nation’s health care problems is a single-payer system is worth consideration, but filmmaker Michael Moore left out the trade-offs.

Former New Zealander Brad Butterworth has been increasingly making his presence felt in a positive manner as the skipper for Alinghi.

Team New Zealand held the early lead, but ended up with a tough loss to the soundtrack of its shredding spinnaker.