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(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Simon Denyer HONGTSHO, Bhutan, April 1 (Reuters) - In a remote corner of the [...]

(Adds details, background) By Marc Frank HAVANA, April 8 (Reuters) - President Raul Castro’s government will close more than half of Cuba’s family doctor offices and boost staffing at the rest in a major reform of its vaunted free health care system, medical sources said. The overhaul of one [...]

By Ed Stoddard
DALLAS (Reuters) - Authorities have now removed 401 children from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Texas authorities said on Monday.
Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said 401 children [...]

These four people, none of whom had a criminal record, operated the Emperor%26#8217;s Club V.I.P., an escort service that functioned as a prostitution ring charging as much as $5,500 an hour, prosecutors say.Though new to the industry, the ring took in more than $1 million in barely three years, dispatching more than 50 [...]

By Simon Denyer
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In honor of the crouching, naked
blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the
“Hot as Hell.”
But it was a freezing and stormy day as the American B-24
Liberator made its way across the Himalayas on Jan 25, 1944,
flying what was [...]

By Simon Denyer
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In honour of the crouching, naked blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the “Hot as Hell”.
But it was a freezing and stormy day as the American B-24 Liberator made its way across the Himalayas on Jan 25, 1944, flying what [...]

By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Authorities on Thursday were investigating the apparent suicide of a construction worker found hanged inside a house being built on a piece of property owned by Oscar-winner Mel Gibson.
The victim was found Wednesday morning by the foreman of the job site, located in the Agoura [...]

%26quot;It was horrible,%26quot; Vancouver native Scott Morrison told Canwest News Service Thursday. %26quot;You know you can’t fall asleep at any time. The police were pulling guys in and out of the jail. You don’t know who’s in there for what. It was the most scary thing.%26quot; Morrison, 22, was arrested early Sunday, along with his [...]

It is not that of Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. Yet in Mr. Biggs%26#8217;s new book, %26#8220;Wealth, War and Wisdom,%26#8221; he says people should %26#8220;assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.%26#8221;%26#8220;Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kosovo will never be part of Serbia again, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, but said Washington would keep working on the issue with Belgrade and its ally Russia, which both oppose independence.
State Department spokesman Tom Casey spoke after Russia’s likely next president, Dmitry Medvedev, visited Belgrade [...]