
In Myanmar, hopes for an art renaissance, Jason SzepYANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar artist Nyein Chan Su's paintings have a breezy simplicity. Broad, colourful strokes and exaggerated figures, often in silhouette, capture an isolate...
Israel top court scraps pious Jews' draft exemption, Dan WilliamsJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's top court struck down on Tuesday a law designed to encourage ultra-Orthodox Jews to join the military and the workforce, saying it had backfired...
Fukushima: Japan leaders feared "devil's chain reaction", Shinichi SaoshiroTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister ordered workers to remain at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant last March as fears mounted of a "devil's chain reaction" th...