Emirates making peace with army of restive migrant workers
Their numbers help them make up 85 percent of the population, and many are bonded to employers like indentured servants, but the Emirates' million foreign construction workers have gotten the country's attention.

A closely guarded Holocaust archive opens its doors
About 10 million documents, covering 51 Nazi concentration camps and prisons, will be released, giving new access to scholars and the general public.

The downside of diversity
It has become increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite.

U.K. braces as livestock disease resurfaces
Health inspectors combed two veterinary laboratories Sunday after a strain of the livestock disease was found on a nearby farm.

Locks of love clutter Rome's oldest bridge
Expressions of love have created a mess of padlocks on the Ponte Milvio.

Tense showdown vote in Lebanon
Tens of thousands of Lebanese voted Sunday to replace two assassinated anti-Syrian lawmakers, and the result could determine the country's political future.

Ochoa claims title at Women's British Open
Lorena Ochoa opened with a 6-under-par 67 and never looked back, leading wire-to-wire to record her first Grand Slam victory on her 24th try.

House approves changes to surveillance program
Under pressure from President George W. Bush, the House of Representatives has given final approval to changes in a terrorist surveillance program.
- Broader wiretapping authority advances in U.S. Congress

Fortis shareholders to vote on ABN bid
The Dutch-Belgian banking group, the smallest member of the consortium vying with Barclays in the battle for ABN AMRO, is seen as likely to support going forward with the €72.2 billion offer.

Iraq asks Sunnis to come back to cabinet
President Jalal Talabani of Iraq shuttled between Shiite and Sunni leaders in Baghdad over the weekend, trying to find a way of bringing Sunnis back into the fold after they walked out of the government last week.

First salvos on foreign policy shed light on an American problem
Albert R. Hunt: 'My way or the highway' no longer works for the United States.

Jaime Haylon's whimsical world of playful creations
The Spaniard, who seems to have been sent by central casting to play the part of the wacky designer with bright blue specs and mad professor hair, is among the most visible of a new generation of designers who have rejected the modernist role of the designer as a problem-solver in favor of self-expression.

Hamilton wins Budapest Grand Prix, but race is a sideshow
While McLaren Mercedes and Ferrari snarl at each other in a spy dispute, the rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.