One of the art world's most recognizable images - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - has fetched a record $119.9 million at the Sotheby's auction in New York city. The 1895 pastel of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky has become a modern symbol for human anxiety,...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of 17 HIV-positive women who allegedly worked illegally as prostitutes, accusing them of intentionally causing serious bodily harm. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and...
TweetNEW DELHI: The US and the EU have questioned India's special import levies to 'safeguard' domestic industry from import, saying they may have been calculated in a non-transparent manner. India has said the safeguard duties were within the bounds of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. "Our...
ARTHUR BEESLEY in Brussels EU FINANCE ministers are struggling to overcome divisions over new capital requirements for more than 8,000European banks, raising questions over their ability to strike a deal before a crucial deadline this summer. At day-long talks in Brussels yesterday, ministers were...
Claims that British companies will benefit to the tune of £20 million a year from an EU-wide single patent have been challenged by MPs. A report by the House of CommonsEuropean Scrutiny Committee said a draft deal made a year ago to provide a cheaper, more efficient one-stop shop for patent...
The state-controlled news television still gives staid accounts of the President chairing cabinet meetings and meeting the people. But, online, a sphere that the iPad-toting Mr Medvedev himself has been keen to champion, it is a different story: Mr Medvedev is met by many Russians with indifference...
