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  1. A handout photograph released in London November 24, 2009, shows the damage sustained by Bridgewater House in London during World War Two German air raids in 1941. Paul Delaroche's "Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers", was hanging in the dining room at the time and sustained extensive shrapnel damage. REUTERS/The Times/Handout
    Delaroche work "ruined" in war rescued for show Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 10:58 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A major work by French painter Paul Delaroche thought to have been virtually destroyed during a World War Two German air raid on London in 1941 has been unrolled and found to be in good condition.

  2. A backhoe lifts the wreckage of a local television network's vehicle that was unearthed from a shallow grave at the site of a massacre of a political clan that included several journalists in the outskirts of Ampatuan, Maguindanao in southern Philippines, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Erik de Castro
    Eleven more bodies found at Philippine massacre site Reuters - Wed Nov 25, 5:06 AM ET

    AMPATUAN, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine security forces found 11 more bodies Wednesday at the site of an election-related massacre in the south of the country, taking the toll to 57 dead, officials said.

  3. Thai transsexual Punlop Tongchai smiles as she lies on a bed, recovering from a sex change operation performed at the Pratunam Polyclinic in Bangkok. From Wednesday, anyone wanting to swap gender in Thailand must live as a woman for at least a year, take a course of female hormones, and obtain the approval of two psychiatrists.(AFP/File/Christophe Archambault)
    Thailand tightens sex change laws AFP - Wed Nov 25, 12:26 AM ET

    BANGKOK (AFP) - Punlop Tongchai is awake for the entire two hours it takes to be turned into a woman on the operating table of a Bangkok sex change clinic, realising a childhood dream.

  4. No longer Top Secret: RAF wartime aerial photos Reuters - Mon Nov 23, 9:55 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Aerial photographs of prisoners in high security Colditz and POWs who worked on the infamous bridge over the River Kwai are among images now available to view online for the first time.

  5. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran, April 9, 2007. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
    Iran says needs guarantees to send uranium abroad Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 2:54 PM ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran could consider sending its low-enriched uranium abroad, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, apparently softening its opposition to a U.N. plan aimed at keeping a check on its nuclear ambitions.

  6. Hold your nose: garlic is best investment in China Reuters - Wed Nov 25, 3:59 AM ET

    BEIJING (Reuters) - The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.

  7. Liverpool's Jamie Carragher (R) fights for the ball with Hungarian Zsolt Laczko (L) of VSC Debrecen in the Puskas stadium of Budapest during their UEFA Champions League football match. Liverpool's miserable season continued as they were knocked out of the Champions League at the group stage despite a 1-0 victory over Debrecen.(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)
    Liverpool out of Champions League despite victory AFP - Wed Nov 25, 4:12 AM ET

    BUDAPEST (AFP) - Liverpool's miserable season continued as they were knocked out of the Champions League at the group stage despite a 1-0 victory over Debrecen at the Ferenc Puskas Stadium.

  8. Workers load into a truck dead bodies, victims of massacre after gunmen shot at least 52 people at Saniag, Maguindanao province, on November 24. Philippine police have named a political ally of President Gloria Arroyo as the prime suspect in the election-linked massacre.(AFP/Mark Navales)
    Arroyo vows justice as massacre toll hits 52 AFP - Wed Nov 25, 2:47 AM ET

    COTABATO, Philippines (AFP) - Philippine President Gloria Arroyo vowed Wednesday justice would be served after 52 people were killed in a political massacre, but refused to say if an ally blamed for the murders would be arrested.

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  1. Big powers draft resolution to press Iran at IAEA Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 1:48 PM ET

    VIENNA (Reuters) - Six world powers have drafted a resolution at the UN nuclear watchdog urging Iran to clarify the purpose of its previously secret uranium enrichment site and confirm it has no more hidden atomic work, diplomats said.

  2. Scientists look at a computer screen at the control centre of the CERN in Geneva, September 10, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrice Coffrini/Pool
    Big Bang machine achieves first particle collisions Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 11:52 AM ET

    ZURICH (Reuters) -- Scientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe came into existence, they said on Monday.

  3. Philippines massacre: State of emergency declared, but will Arroyo pursue justice? The Christian Science Monitor - Tue Nov 24, 4:00 AM ET

    Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency for parts of the southern island of Mindanao on Tuesday, after a political massacre there left at least 46 people dead.

  4. This picture taken on May 25, 2008, shows 75-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura conquering the summit of Mt. Everest. Miura, who just lost his title as the oldest man to climb Mount Everest to a Nepalese fellow septuagenarian, vowed Tuesday to do one better and scale the peak aged 80.(AFP/HO/File)
    Report on India mosque destruction threatens Hindu-Muslim ties The Christian Science Monitor - Tue Nov 24, 4:00 AM ET

    New Delhi - A new report on the 1992 destruction of a centuries-old mosque has sparked fights in the country's Parliament and threatens to inflame relations between Hindus and Muslims.

  5. Arroyo vows justice as massacre toll hits 52 AFP - Wed Nov 25, 2:47 AM ET

    COTABATO, Philippines (AFP) - Philippine President Gloria Arroyo vowed Wednesday justice would be served after 52 people were killed in a political massacre, but refused to say if an ally blamed for the murders would be arrested.

  6. Journalists and journalism students light candles in honor of at least 18 massacred journalists during a rally Wednesday Nov.25, 2009 at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines. Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
    Eleven more bodies found at Philippine massacre site Reuters - Wed Nov 25, 5:06 AM ET

    AMPATUAN, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine security forces found 11 more bodies Wednesday at the site of an election-related massacre in the south of the country, taking the toll to 57 dead, officials said.

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