Wall Street was flat in choppy trade on Tuesday after relinquishing early gains, as euro zone concerns offset reassuring comments from US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on the state of the

No one was killed. Most of the injuries were minor. Yet a stampede at a supposedly low-key warm-up match set off alarms for World Cup organizers as they reassessed their plans for keeping fervent

In the coffee shop at this farming village on the northern Cyprus coast, the conversation jumps from one hardship to the next: a bad rainy season, a religion weakened by assimilation, and a