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With his blue blazer, neatly folded pocket square and clipped diction, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry seems every bit the "old-fashioned English gentleman" he considers himself. So it's a little surprising to learn that he's just been released after spending...

Standing trial in Hong Kong is a disorienting experience for 48-year- old Cheng Sui-wa. He cannot understand English, so he leans forward awkwardly to catch the whispers of his Mandarin interpreter. Both his defense attorney and the public prosecutor...

In 1998, bitterly divorced and estranged from her children, Jerri Nielsen, 46, an Ohio doctor, went to the South Pole on a year's contract to care for 40 U.S. scientists and construction workers. There, she developed aggressive breast cancer. Using...

As the Cannes Film Festival organizers see it, "Moulin Rouge" was made for them. What could be more perfect for opening night than a big, splashy period musical based on France's famed Pigalle cabaret? Even better, screening the film would mean getting...

Harumi Kurihara insists she is just an ordinary housewife. Seated in the tastefully decorated living room of her central Tokyo house, she grants an interview as several assistants quietly prepare lunch. At precisely noon, Kurihara stands up, walks...

"We must seek security based on more than the grim premise that we can destroy those who seek to destroy us."U.S. President George W. Bush, on the need for a high-tech--and high-cost--missile-defense shield "I wrote a paper a long time ago and gave...

HIGH TECH The E-Learning Boom These days any business with an "E" in front of its name seems passe, but in Europe there's still at least one that has the spark of life. This is "e-learning," the use of technology to teach skills outside the classroom....

Each spring, residents of Catania walk the Sicilian's town's narrow streets chanting prayers and touting relics of Saint Agatha, their patron saint and protectress against an eruption of Mount Etna. All the while, the mountain looms overhead, belching...

You may soon be named heir apparent in one of the world's most reclusive, repressive and downright odd kingdoms--so what do you do for fun? When immigration officials at Tokyo's Narita airport took a look at the Dominican passport of a man named Pang...

After months of suspense, Mohammed Khatami ended all speculation last week. In a drab Tehran office, he filled out a standardized five-page form that included his "revolutionary credentials," like any other candidate for the June 8 vote. Then, as he...