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"Zombieland" top destination at U.S. box office LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Woody Harrelson scored the biggest opening of his career at the North American box office, as "Zombieland" stormed theaters with weekend ticket sales of $25 million, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
Oct 5, 2009 at 22:08
NYC's Met museum to get reputed Michelangelo work NEW YORK (AP) -- A marble statue widely attributed to Michelangelo is being loaned to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art by the French government.
Oct 5, 2009 at 22:03
U.S. trio wins medicine Nobel Prize for aging research STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme which helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that underlies aging and cancer.
Oct 5, 2009 at 21:56 | Reuters
Survey: U.S. most admired country globally NEW YORK - The United States is the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll.
Oct 5, 2009 at 21:49 | Reuters
Swine flu vaccine arriving, but don't line up yet WASHINGTON – And we're off: Swine flu vaccinations begin Monday with squirts in the noses scheduled for some doctors, nurses and other health workers in Indiana and Tennessee, a first step in a hugely ambitious campaign to try to inoculate over half the population in a few months. But don't start bugging your doctor about an appointment just yet.
Oct 5, 2009 at 21:42
Yushchenko instructs Cabinet to ensure protection of Ukraine's continental shelf near Zmiinyi Island President Victor Yushchenko has instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to take measures to ensure protection of Ukraine's sovereign rights within its exclusive (maritime) economic zone and continental shelf near Zmiinyi Island (Kilia district of the Odesa region).
Oct 5, 2009 at 21:21 | Ukrainian News
Tymoshenko to include more education sector's representatives into voting lists during parliamentary election Leader of the BYT (the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko), Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko is intending to include more representatives from the education sector, including school directors, into voting lists.
Oct 5, 2009 at 21:07 | Interfax-Ukraine
Nemyria: Ukraine's government doing its utmost to honor agreement with IMF The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine continues work to fulfill agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to receive the next tranche under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with Ukraine, according to a statement on the Ukrainian government's official Web site.
Oct 5, 2009 at 21:03 | Interfax-Ukraine
Presidential Secretariat: Additional deficit of budget's general fund in 2009 may hit up to Hr 40 billion The additional deficit of the general fund of the national budget for 2009 may be Hr 35-40 billion because of a shortfall in budget revenues, says the Ukrainian presidential secretariat
Oct 5, 2009 at 20:55 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine's government to earmark additional Hr 1.2 billion from stabilization fund to support agriculture Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers is to allocate an additional Hr 1.218 billion from the national budget's stabilization fund to support agriculture.
Oct 5, 2009 at 20:51 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yushchenko, Ecumenical Patriarchate delegates point out progress in relationship between Orthodox believers in Ukraine Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has met with Ecumenical Patriarchate's delegation consisting of His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, Chief Secretary of the Holy and Sacred Synod Archmandrite Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, and priest Vasilius Papathanasius, the presidential press service reported on Monday.
Oct 5, 2009 at 20:44 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lavrov urges EU, NATO to react on Albania statement MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed extreme concern about the Albanian prime minister's recent statement to the effect that the time has come for the unification of all territories, where Albanians live, and about his call on the European Union and NATO to react appropriately to it.
Oct 5, 2009 at 20:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that the right to entrap potentially corrupt officials should be given to the law enforcement agencies, moreover, officials and members of their families should declare their expenses.
Oct 5, 2009 at 19:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian envoy criticizes Rogozin remarks on Ukraine’s NATO prospects NATO did not ask the Russian envoy to make any statements on its behalf, or to make forecasts on prospects of Ukraine's membership in the Alliance, Ukrainian ambassador to NATO Ihor Sahach said.
Oct 5, 2009 at 18:19 | Interfax-Ukraine
Prosperity Russia Domestic Fund Limited Fund buys 1.2 percent stake in Furshet's owner Prosperity Russia Domestic Fund Limited (PRDF), listed on the AIM of the LSE, has bought a 1.2% stake in British-based Anthousa Limited, which runs the Ukrainian-based chain of Furshet supermarkets and operates a joint venture jointly with France's Auchan.
Oct 5, 2009 at 18:10