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The family of Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul kidnapped by the Taliban in a tribal region three months ago expressed concern over the government’s failure to recover him and urged authorities to expedite their efforts.
Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin went missing in the Khyber tribal region on the Afghan border along with his driver and guard while traveling [...]

Nancy Sampson peered nervously into the camera and described the terror of having a 15-year-old addicted to street drugs.%26quot;I spent a year while waiting to find treatment for my daughter, waiting for a call that she was dead in a dumpster,%26quot; she told a news conference yesterday.Dona Eull-Schultz clutched a framed baby picture of her [...]

Afghan families like his are traveling from distant provinces and turning up by the hundreds for a similar chance to get a glimpse of loved ones who have been held at the American base for months, sometimes years, without charges or legal redress. It is a measure of their desperation for any word [...]

The earliest %26#8220;typical%26#8221; Stravinsky interviews %26#151; charming, crafty, hyperarticulate, unerringly self-serving %26#151; appeared in St. Petersburg newspapers in 1912, and the stream, or torrent, continued unabated for nearly six decades, in dozens of languages and on every continent but Antarctica. By the end of his life he said he was living in a perpetual [...]

Her label, Spanx, is one of those brand names that seems to have incrementally seeped into the English language, aided partly by some impressive endorsements. Quite a number of Hollywood bums, and post-baby tummies, and cellulite thighs, have been Spanxed. The weird thing is that the celebrities don’t appear to mind talking about these control-top [...]

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By Philipp Gollner
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 (Reuters) - Brocade Communications
Systems Inc’s (BRCD.O: Quote, Profile, Research) former personnel director was sentenced
to four months in prison on Wednesday for backdating
stock-options awards for employees.
Stephanie Jensen, 50, was also sentenced to one year of
supervised release [...]

In parts of Brooklyn, buyers are still paying top dollar for coveted brownstones, and in some neighborhoods in Queens, the market is buoyed by immigrant buyers who won%26#8217;t let a housing slowdown blindside their dreams of homeownership. And yet in the Bronx, foreclosures are rising in poorer neighborhoods. In Staten Island, prices [...]

History will record June 2, 2006 as the day when police arrested members of what they claimed was Canada’s first homegrown Islamic terrorist conspiracy. But in a modest middle-class section of Oakville, Rukhsana Gaya – then a department store cosmetics manager – remembers that day as the moment her family’s life was shattered.%26quot;The phone rang [...]

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ZURICH, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Swiss Life (SLHN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) said it
directly or indirectly holds 74.7 percent of German financial
services provider AWD, and that a legally required acceptance
period for its offer would run from February 29 until March 13.
The family of Carsten Maschmeyer, founder and [...]

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Krittivas Mukherjee PANDHARKAWDA, India, March 20 (Reuters) - Almost every farmer across India’s arid cotton-bearing central plateau is a hostage, in one way or another, to a profitable mega-business of illegal moneylending. Families have lost land, farmers have been asked [...]