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New Australia Leader’s Test: Keeping His Job

New Australia Leader’s Test: Keeping His Job


New Australia Leader’s Test: Keeping His Job

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:53 PM PDT

Kevin Rudd must now heal a fractious Labor Party in order to win parliamentary elections in September, but there were already problematic signs.
    


U.S. Boss Held in China Leaves Plant After Payout

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:55 PM PDT

An American boss detained nearly a week by his company's Chinese workers left the Beijing factory Thursday after he and a union representative said the two sides reached agreement in a pay dispute.
    


Europe Agrees on New Banking Rules

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 08:16 PM PDT

European Union finance ministers reached a plan that laid out the order in which shareholders, creditors and others would cover losses suffered when banks collapse.
    


Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama’s Ties to Africa

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 06:11 PM PDT

President Obama's aspirations for changing Africa have been strained by mounting security threats, spotty human rights records and by his notable absence from the continent where his father was born.
    


Many Slips, but Federer Takes the Biggest Fall

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:51 PM PDT

On one of the strangest days at Wimbledon, Roger Federer lost to a 116th-ranked player, Maria Sharapova was defeated by a qualifier, and several players dropped out because of injuries.
    


Cairo Journal: Anger at Egypt’s Leaders Intensifies in Gas Lines

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:20 PM PDT

Long gas lines are among a confluence of crises feeding discontent among Egyptians as plans for protests this weekend stir fears of violence and instability.
    

Diner's Journal: Recipe Lab: Video Chat With Mario Batali and Sons

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:55 PM PDT

Mario Batali, his teenage sons, Julia Moskin and four home cooks discussed cooking with children and the art of making pizza.
    


Counterfeit Food More Widespread Than Suspected

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:54 PM PDT

Investigators have uncovered thousands of schemes involving counterfeit or adulterated food, some on an industrial scale and in developed countries.
    

As World Awaits News on Mandela, Tensions Rise Over Media Swarm

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:19 PM PDT

A central dilemma for the government is how to reconcile the voracious, concern-driven appetite for news of Nelson Mandela's health with the deep sensitivities of South Africans for whom he is much more than a simple leader.
    

ArtsBeat: Francis Bacon’s Works Steal the Sale at Sotheby’s in London

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:16 PM PDT

Two paintings by Francis Bacon were the stars of Sotheby's sale of contemporary art in London on Wednesday night, when 68 works, including ones by David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky and John Currin, were also for sale.
    

Showing Off the Accordion’s Hip Side

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 02:57 PM PDT

The Accordions Around the World festival this summer offers accordionists a chance to shed a stodgy image.
    

Obama Puts Legacy at Stake With Clean-Air Act

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 02:52 PM PDT

"At last, Obama takes a step in the right direction. If he can pull this one off, he will restore a great deal of lost credibility in my eyes," writes M Crozier in South Africa.
    

Marc Rich, Pardoned Financier, Dies at 78

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 01:37 PM PDT

Mr. Rich, who made billions in commodities as founder of Glencore International, was a fugitive on charges of tax evasion and trading with Iran until he was pardoned by President Bill Clinton.
    


Austerity Remains Key to Britain’s Economic Plan

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 01:25 PM PDT

George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer, outlined a continuing policy of austerity for Britain with welfare and public-spending restraint the key to his party's policies.
    

An Early Wimbledon Exit for Federer

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:50 PM PDT

Roger Federer's remarkable streak of reaching 36 consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinals was ended by Sergiy Stakhovsky.
    


Under Snowden Screen Name, 2009 Post Berated Leaks

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:28 PM PDT

The Web site Ars Technica published logs of online chats in which Edward J. Snowden was believed to have participated, telling a friend that leakers "should be shot."
    


ArtsBeat: Janis Joplin Musical Coming to Broadway This Fall

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:25 PM PDT

"A Night With Janis Joplin," starring Mary Bridget Davies, will come to the Lyceum Theater in September after two years of touring the country.
    


DealBook: UBS’s French Unit Fined $13 Million in Tax-Evasion Inquiry

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:22 PM PDT

French authorities said they fined the French unit of UBS 10 million euros, the most possible under French law, over lax internal controls that enabled the bank's sales representatives to help French clients evade taxes.
    


Fad-Loving Japan May Derail a Sony Smartphone

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:58 AM PDT

Sony, hoping to use smartphones to turn around its business, is facing the demands of Japan's cellphone carriers for constant model updates.
    

Ecuador Hints at Slow Process on Snowden Asylum

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:12 AM PDT

The tiny South American nation signaled it may take its time with Edward J. Snowden's application, raising the possibility that he could spend weeks in legal limbo.
    


DNA Buried 7,000 Centuries Is Retrieved

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:51 AM PDT

The genome is 10 times as old as any retrieved so far, and scientists now say that DNA should be recoverable from animals that lived a million years ago.
    

International Effort Seeks to Counter Jihadists in Africa

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:48 AM PDT

Plans by the United States and other countries to thwart the spread of terrorism are focusing on Algeria and its neighbors, considered increasingly vulnerable to jihadist groups.
    


Theater Review: Cultural Conundrums in ‘a cautionary tail’ at Flea Theater

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:47 AM PDT

Chinese-American siblings struggle with pressures from their mother and their snarky online milieu in "a cautionary tail," at the Flea Theater.
    

Scholar Asserts That Hollywood Avidly Aided Nazis

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:55 AM PDT

A scholar says he has unearthed material showing that American film studios enthusiastically cooperated with the Nazi propaganda effort.
    


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