Carcosa Seri Negara in KL to Reopen 1 February 2010.

Follow live as Serena Williams takes on Justine Henin in the
Australian Open final.

Retirement is a chance to de-stress. It gives one the time to rethink and reorganize priorities. A shift in attention from professional image and ability to family and relationships is a good way start this new phase.

The star resident of the National Zoo is leaving Washington next week. Four-year-old Tai Shan will board the “FedEx Panda Express” to Chengdu, China. Where will they find a mailer large enough for him?

Toyota says it is recalling up to 1.8 million cars in Europe, including 220,000 in the UK, due to an accelerator problem.

Facing down the skeptics, Mexico’s president urged governments and companies on Friday to cough up the cash to fight climate change and avoid a repeat of the failure at Copenhagen to set binding targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

It was a meteorological mystery: global temperatures hadn’t increased dramatically over the Past decade, even though greenhouse gas levels did. It turns out that a temporary decline in water vapor in the Earth’s upper atmosphere has been holding global warming in check.

Police on Friday seized weapons used by two New Zealand men to slaughter more than 30 dogs owned by a neighbor in what animal welfare authorities said could be the country’s worst animal cruelty case.

J D Salinger, famous American author best known for his classic 1951 novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ died on Thursday following prolonged illness at his home in New Hampshire, England.