Starbucks, the world’s biggest coffee chain, said Friday it will open its first outlet in India next month as it seeks to tap the beverage’s growing popularity in a country famed for its love of tea. Seattle-based Starbucks, which has
The trial of Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler and a Vatican computer technician for leaking secret papers starting on Saturday has no precedent since the Holy See became a sovereign state in 1929. The 19th-century courtroom where the trial takes
(AP) US Postal Service to default on second $5B paymentBy HOPE YENAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe U.S. Postal Service, on the brink of default on a second multibillion-dollar payment it can’t afford to pay, is sounding a new cautionary note that having squeezed
(AP) BERLINGermany’s Finance Ministry says Berlin and Paris have jointly appealed to the European Union’s executive to prepare the introduction of a tax on financial transactions. The proposal has failed to secure a majority within the 27-nation EU. Germany and France
By BRADLEY BROOKS and JULIANA BARBASSAAssociated PressRIO DE JANEIROThe arrest of a top Google executive is reviving a debate about Brazilian laws that hold services such as YouTube responsible for the videos posted on them, making the country a hotbed
ROME (Reuters) – Two of Italy’s biggest unions have called a strike by public sector workers on Friday to protest against spending cuts enacted by Prime Minister Mario Monti in his attempts to pull the country out of crisis. The
The United States is withdrawing more staff from its embassy in Tripoli, some two weeks after cutting personnel to emergency levels following an attack on its consulate, officials said Thursday. Most American diplomatic staff had already been withdrawn from the
Female Republican politicians look more feminine than their Democratic counterparts, according to a study published Thursday based on facial features of US women lawmakers. Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann is a good example of the correlation, said the study by
By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans lashed out at President Barack Obama and senior administration officials over their evolving description of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, a late campaign-season broadside challenging the veracity and leadership of
UPDATE — From Deadline Hollywood: U.S. District Court Judge Suzanne Segal hasruled that the anti-Islam Innocence Of Muslims film producer known as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula will be held in the Metropolitan Detention Center after his arrest earlier today on probation violations. He will remain
Ann Coulter visited “The View” today … Do you need to hear any more to expect verbal fireworks? The show’s far-left contingent did as expected, tag-teaming Coulter with a mixture of outrage, emotion and very few facts. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says nothing could imperil the world more than a nuclear armed Iran. Speaking Thursday before the United nations, Netanyahu warned of the danger posed by Iran going nuclear. Netanyahu has repeatedly
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and JILL LAWLESSAssociated PressLONDONHerbert Lom, the Czech-born actor best known as Inspector Clouseau’s long-suffering boss in the “Pink Panther” movies, died Thursday, his son said. He was 95. Alec Lom said his father died peacefully in his
(AP) Student debt stretches to record 1 in 5 householdsBy HOPE YENAssociated PressWASHINGTONWith college enrollment growing, student debt has stretched to a record number of U.S. households _ nearly 1 in 5 _ with the biggest burdens falling on the
(AP) US durable orders fall, but business investment upBy MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONDemand for long-lasting manufactured goods plunged in August because of a huge drop in volatile commercial aircraft orders. But in a hopeful sign, orders that reflect business investment
(AP) US economy grew 1.3 percent in second quarterBy MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONThe U.S. economy grew at an even more sluggish pace in the April-June quarter than previously believed as farm production in the Midwest was reduced by a severe
(Reuters) – Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on its cover, soon after violent protests rocked the Muslim world over a U.S. film and French caricatures deemed insulting to Islam. El Jueves’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A survey of U.S. chief executives shows a sharp drop in the number of large companies that plan to add jobs or hire more workers. The Business Roundtable said Wednesday that only 29 percent of its member
(AP) In 2-minute ad, Obama touts ‘economic patriotism’By MATTHEW DALY and KEN THOMASAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is pitching a broad economic argument to voters ahead of next week’s debate with Republican opponent Mitt Romney, buying TV time in seven battleground
(AP) Israeli report says sanctions hitting Iran hardBy DANIEL ESTRINAssociated PressJERUSALEMA new Israeli government report finds that recent international sanctions are hitting Iran hard, undercutting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s key claim as he heads to the United Nations to argue
Comedian Sarah Silverman, like the rest of her liberal peers, can’t say much about President Obama’s first four years to help him earn a second term. So she’s reduced to playing the female shock jock, Tweeting crude comments about Mitt
Singer Jimmy Buffett is putting his happy go lucky beach bum persona to the test. The fabulously wealthy singer behind hits like “Cheeseburger in Paradise” will be crooning for cash on behalf of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign next month. [Democratic
Turns out Alanis Morissette isn’t the only pop singer who traffics in irony. The Material Girl herself is backpedaling on her comments about President Barack Obama being a “black Muslim,” part of a profanity-laced show of support for the beleaguered leader.
By ASIF SHAHZADAssociated PressISLAMABADThe Pakistani Cabinet minister who put a $100,000 bounty on an anti-Islam filmmaker’s head has impressed the country’s Taliban militants so much that they announced Wednesday they are taking him off their hit list. Separately, a breakaway
The United States on Wednesday slammed “repulsive slurs” against Israel by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said it would boycott his speech at the UN General Assembly. Ahmadinejad, whose country faces growing pressure over its nuclear program, is one of
