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DALLAS - Suffering from the nation's deadliest outbreak of West Nile virus this year, Dallas County authorized aerial spraying of insecticide on Friday for the first time in nearly five decades to help fight the mosquito-born illness. Texas' second most populous county announced the decision after its leaders met with the state's top health official and experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 90 cases of the most severe form of West Nile have been confirmed in the county so far, nine residents have died, and the virus'...

Paper Edition | Page: 11 The South Caucasus, a small geopolitical region located between Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia, has been showing a lot of interest in Indonesia, the biggest economy in Southeast Asia, in recent years. It all began in 2006, when oil-rich Azerbaijan, the biggest country in the South Caucasus, opened its embassy in Jakarta, the first in Southeast Asian region. "Indonesia, as the largest Muslim nation, a leading ASEAN member and responsible player in global and regional...

The United States accused the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Friday of deep involvement in the Syria government’s violent campaign to crush the uprising there, asserting that Hezbollah has trained and advised government forces inside Syria and has helped to expel opposition fighters from areas within the country. Multimedia Video Feature Watching Syria's War Related Iran, Excluded From Other Meetings on Syria, Hosts Its Own (August 10, 2012) Crime Wave Engulfs Syria as Its Cities Reel From War (August 10, 2012) Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Enlarge This Image Anwar Amro/Agence...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A university professor who wrote emails outlining a plan to attack the California high school that his...

Earlier this year, we saw Robert Pattinson similarly ride around New York in a limo in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. Juliette Binoche grabs a lift in one particularly memorable scene. Scenes in cars, as opposed to the usually elongated car chases, have made up some of the most memorable moments of movie history. Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is a master of the art: his film Ten was made up entirely of characters chatting in cars, and it's a theme he carries on with his new film, the Tokyo-set drama Like Someone in Love. Kiarostami says that conversations in cars are great because, "I think that it's a very private and intimate place for dialogue… and you can just keep quiet...

And if you share that retreat and the remote Scottish isolation with your best and most annoying friend, also a writer and also suffering from writer's block, writing is probably the last thing either of you will do. No. You are more likely to want to, say, empty a pan of hot baked beans over the head of the other writer, who is cornered and cowering and alive to the fact that they most probably deserve the threatened bean shower for whatever annoying thing it is they have been doing to the pan-holder all afternoon. This is the sort of thing that two such people on this sort of retreat might end up doing. And what kind of ending could such a story have? We had come to this tiny island to...

Monday 9pm, BBC2 This is the compelling documentary that was pulled a few weeks ago on the order of a judge in a murder trial related to the riots in Birmingham last summer. The men in that case have now been acquitted, and we finally get to see an illuminating account of the whys and wherefores of the widespread unrest of August 2011 – riots that some believe will be repeated this year. Actors play anonymous rioters who were interviewed shortly after the disturbances, giving voice to...

The affair with Rodin both made her and destroyed her. Rodin, already in a committed relationship and 25 years her senior, was not prepared to leave his long-term partner, Rose Beuret, though he promised her that he would. The destructive aftermath of the affair consumed her to such a degree that she threw away much of her work and was admitted to an asylum, where she lived for 30 years. Since her death, this fiercely independent figure in Rodin's life has led to much revisionism, and an Oscar-nominated film capturing her tragic life story and starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu, was made in 1988. Now, the Brazilian-French actress and writer, Gaël Le Cornec is directing a play,...