Worried

To pitch a prospective client for her ad agency, Amanda Zolten knew she a had to take a risk. But the client’s product — kitty litter — posed a unique challenge. Lucy Belle, Ms. Zolten’s cat, furnished the answer. Before she and her team met with six of the company’s executives, Ms. Zolten buried Lucy [...]

Boris Johnson has suggested that social media sites should be kept open to provide intelligence for police during periods of public disorder, despite calls by the government to block websites or ban known criminals following the riots that spread across the country earlier this month. The London mayor’s comments come ahead of a summit held [...]

At David Thompson’s Nahm restaurant in Bangkok, the traditional Thai offering geng dtay plaa (‘fish stomach stew’) is described on the menu as ‘smoke fish, prawns and cockles stew.’ So as not to scare off diners less familiar with Thai cuisine, the main ingredient — mackerel innards — is omitted in English from the description. [...]

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he and President Dmitry Medvedev may both run in the 2012 presidential election. “Neither Dmitry Anatolyevich (Medvedev), nor I can rule out that each of us may run in the race,” Putin was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying. Putin said that a final decision would [...]

Concern is mounting about the long-term fate of people who remain close to the country’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant. Kyohei Takahashi, the 72-year-old head doctor at a hospital in Minamisoma, a mostly abandoned city some 25 kilometers north of the plant is still at his post though fewer than 10 of his 25 staff [...]

Qatar became the first Arab nation to join international action against Col. Moammar Gadhafi, saying on Sunday that it was sending fighter jets to Libya to help enforce a United Nations resolution aimed at preventing the Libyan strongman from using force against his own people. In a statement issued by Qatar’s state news agency, the [...]