Reuters: In Depth

Kenya's nomads feel pain of food price rises

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:36:06 -0400

EL RAM, Kenya (Reuters) - It is tempting to romanticize the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-colored soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky.

Resenting austerity, Turks want no new IMF deal

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:38:29 -0400

ANKARA (Reuters) - Consensus is rare in Turkey, but no one seems to like the IMF.

New health woes as China moves from famine to feast

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:41:35 -0400

BEIJING (Reuters) - Evening exercise classes at the Nirvana fitness centre in Beijing are in high demand these days as young professionals whose mothers once counted ration cards seek to stay svelte despite lavish lunches.

IOC eyes healthy profits from Beijing Games

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:04:36 -0400

ATHENS (Reuters) - From its dangerously empty coffers in the late 1970s to the multi-billion-dollar revenues from the Beijing 2008 Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has managed a remarkable commercial transformation of its prime product, the Olympic Games.

Marathon loser Pietri remembered as a giant

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:22:13 -0400

MILAN (Reuters) - A new statue of Dorando Pietri bears scant resemblance to the little Italian in his most famous moment.

Arabs say racism on rise as Israel turns 60

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:07:51 -0400

SAKHNIN, Israel (Reuters) - Salwa Abu Jaber believes her story shows Israel discriminating against its Arab citizens, 60 years after the state was established as a haven for Jews.

Global markets are challenge for Israel economy

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:07:51 -0400

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A tiny country of 7 million people, with few natural resources and surrounded by enemies, Israel has against the odds built an economy that has achieved global status and growth of 5 percent a year since 2003.

Iraq, U.S. move to avert Baghdad water shortage

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:56:50 -0400

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Baghdad's crumbling roads, burst sewage pipes and chronic water shortages are casualties of war that get little attention amid the daily litany of gunfights, bombs and bloodletting in Iraq.

Cuba embraces golf to boost tourism

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:45:53 -0400

HAVANA (Reuters) - The only time Cuba's Fidel Castro is known to have played golf was in 1961, in a stunt thumbing his nose at the United States.

U.S. and NATO battle on uneven Afghan patchwork

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:01:34 -0400

MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Last week U.S. Captain Roger Hill led a patrol into the Jaldez valley, just southwest of Kabul, and was immediately ambushed from three sides by 50 Taliban fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades.