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  • Google exec gets look at NKoreans using Internet

    Students at North Korea's premier university showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: They Google it.


  • ** FILE ** In this Sept. 28, 2012, file photo, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt arrives for a seminar at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Schmidt is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

    Google exec gets look at North Koreans using Internet

    Students at North Korea's premier university showed Google's executive chairman Tuesday how they look for information online: they Google it.


  • Cover story: Designers use talents for sick, needy

    Every spring since 2008, interior designers and landscape designers from the Washington area help raise money for Children's National Medical Center by participating in the DC Design House project founded by Skip and Debbie Singleton, owners of DC Living Real Estate.


  • Luxembourg royals tie knot in religious ceremony

    Under a canopy of soldiers' drawn swords as church bells tolled, Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg and Belgian Countess Stephanie de Lannoy emerged smiling Saturday from the tiny duchy's Notre Dame Cathedral after wrapping up a two-day wedding gala with a religious ceremony.


  • Luxembourg royals tie knot at the altar

    Luxembourg Prince Guillaume and Belgian Countess Stephanie de Lannoy have put the finishing touches on their two-day wedding extravaganza with a religious ceremony at the tiny duchy's Notre Dame Cathedral.


  • Royal wedding gives Luxembourg turn in spotlight

    The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg doesn't get a lot of turns in the spotlight.


  • Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg, heir to the grand dukedom, and Countess Stephanie de Lannoy of Belgium arrive for the christening ceremony of Princess Estelle of Sweden in the Royal Chapel in Stockholm on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Scanpix/Claudio Bresciani/Pool)

    Royal wedding gives Luxembourg a turn in spotlight

    The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg doesn't get a lot of turns in the spotlight. It's an independent country tinier than Rhode Island and it would fit inside Germany, its neighbor to the east, 138 times with room to spare.


  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gold’

    Chris Cleave has done a curious thing. He has taken two very different topics -- bicycle racing and childhood leukemia -- and merged them in an exciting tale. Readers of Mr. Cleave's earlier novel, "Little Bee," the story of a Nigerian girl in London, know he enjoys taking on difficult subjects and artfully turning them into fascinating fiction. His new novel, "Gold," does exactly that.


  • Tuning in to TV: New series in the works for Michael J. Fox

    Michael J. Fox is planning a return to series TV, more than a decade after he left to concentrate on fighting Parkinson's disease.


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