Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:00:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Josefina Vazquez Mota, presidential hopeful from Mexico's ruling conservative National Action Party (PAN), stands with children during a meeting with supporters in Queretaro January 21, 2012. Vazquez Mota is vying to be PAN's official candidate for the country's presidential elections in July 2012. REUTERS/Demian Chavez (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS)
Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:20:14 +0100 WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's "In Darkness" recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous Among the Nations. "The story started to haunt me, I started to dream about it," Holland told Reuters in an interview. ... (Source: Reuters)
Bosnian Muslim women walk with placards during a peaceful protest ...
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:10:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Bosnian Muslim women walk with placards during a peaceful protest to support people of Palestine in central Bosnian town of Zenica, December 24, 2011. Placard reads "From heart of Bosnia for Palestine and Gaza". REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
New Democratic Party leadership hopefuls Nathan Cullen (L), ...
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:40:01 +0100 (Reuters) - New Democratic Party leadership hopefuls Nathan Cullen (L), Romeo Saganash, Robert Chisholm, Niki Ashton, Peggy Nash, Martin Singh, Paul Dewar, Brian Topp and Thomas Mulcair take part in a debate in Ottawa December 4, 2011. REUTERS/Blair Gable (CANADA - Tags: POLITICS)
Author JK Rowling says "spiteful" UK press hounded her
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:30:15 +0100 LONDON (Reuters) - "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling told a public inquiry into British media standards on Thursday she was forced to move house because of tabloid harassment and had been made to feel like a hostage in her home after she gave birth. During two hours of evidence, Rowling revealed a note had been slipped into her young daughter's schoolbag by a journalist and that she had chased a paparazzo photographer down the street when he tried to take a picture of her with her children. ... (Source: Reuters)
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