LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief Andy Coulson, found guilty last week over phone-hacking while editing a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, will stand trial for a second time over alleged illegal payments, prosecutors said on Monda... More »
BRUSSELS/ FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation remained stuck at levels last seen during the 2009 recession and lending to companies and households contracted again, data showed on Monday, further highlighting the bloc’s feeble economic state. The reports... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a pitch for India to be the world’s low-cost space technology supplier after witnessing the launch of a rocket carrying five satellites from France, Singapore, Germany and Canada on Monday. ... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Lending to households and firms in the euro zone contracted more sharply in May than a month earlier, highlighting the economic weakness in the bloc that the ECB sought to address with a bundle of measures earlier this month. Over time, t... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) – A helium balloon carrying an experimental saucer-shaped NASA spacecraft floated off a launch tower at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, on Saturday to test landing systems for future missions to Ma... More »
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi party leaders planned delicate talks that could end Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s divisive rule after a top Shi’ite cleric called for a new premier to be chosen without delay to tackle Islamist rebels threatening to tear apart the ... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Jean-Laurent Bonnafe, Chief Executive Officer at BNP Paribas, said in a message to employees that the French bank will be heavily penalised by a U.S. probe into sanctions busting which should end “very soon”, a French TV channel reported on S... More »
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co HPQ.N and attorneys representing shareholders have agreed to settle litigation over its troubled $11.1 billion acquisition of British software company Autonomy Corp, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. Under the... More »
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Sarajevo marked the centennial on Saturday of a prince’s murder that lit the fuse for World War One, offering a message of unity to a divided country and a continent buffeted by deep social and economic strife. The centerpiece of a string ... More »
BANGKOK (Reuters) – The board of Thai Airways International Pcl has appointed Air Chief Marshal Siwakiat Jayema as acting president from July 1 as the country’s military rulers reshuffle and restructure the loss-making carrier hit by months of political unrest... More »
(Reuters) – Olympic silver medallist Trey Hardee scored a runaway victory in the decathlon but headwinds slowed times for 100 meters winners Mike Rodgers and Tianna Bartoletta at the U.S. championships on Friday. Hardee piled up 8,599 points, the year’s best s... More »
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s Vice President Amado Boudou was charged on Friday with corruption in his dealings with a company that printed the country’s currency while he was economy minister in 2010. The vice president will remain free while awaiting ... More »
(Reuters) – Center Leon Draisaitl became the highest German player chosen in the National Hockey League draft when he was selected at number three by the Edmonton Oilers on Friday. Canadian Aaron Ekblad, of the Barrie Colts in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – World number one Rafael Nadal, into the third round for the first time since 2011, will be hoping for an easier ride on the Wimbledon grass after two tough rounds when he meets Mikhail Kukushkin on Saturday. He joins three other former Wimbl... More »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities detained one of the most well-known leaders of vigilante groups that have been battling drug gangs in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, a federal official said on Friday. Jose Mireles, a medical doctor who beca... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood television executive Garth Ancier filed a malicious-prosecution lawsuit on Friday against a former teenage actor who just two days earlier had dropped a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse in the late 1990s. Ancier, who has w... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. soul singer and songwriter Bobby Womack has died, his publicist said on Friday. He was 70. The cause of his death was not yet known, according to his publicist, Sonya Kolowrat at XL Recordings. Womack, who was inducted into the Roc... More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union signed an historic free-trade pact with Ukraine on Friday and warned it could impose more sanctions on Moscow unless pro-Russian rebels act to wind down the crisis in the east of the country by Monday. Shortly after retu... More »
CARACAS (Reuters) – A blackout cut power to much of Venezuela on Friday afternoon, snarling traffic in the capital Caracas and other major cities and interrupting a televised speech by the president in the country’s second nationwide electricity outage in a ye... More »
SHANNON Ireland (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi King Abdullah briefly discussed global oil supplies during a meeting on the crisis in Iraq on Friday, a senior State Department official said. During the talks, Kerry referred to recent c... More »
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.N. expert panel has concluded that a shipment of rockets and other weapons that was seized by Israel came from Iran and represents a violation of the U.N. arms embargo on Tehran, according to a confidential report obtained by Reu... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Champion Andy Murray declared he was fighting fit after steaming into the last 16 of Wimbledon with another show of force on Friday, outclassing Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2 6-3 6-2. The home favourite, attempting to defend the title h... More »
(Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N ) announced on Friday that it would recall 428,211 more vehicles in the United States, including new four-wheel drive pickups and SUVs with a software problem that could cause the vehicles to automatically switch to neutral ... More »
(Reuters) – The U.S. decision allowing minimally processed super-light oil known as condensate to be freely exported may open the door to doing the same with other types of crude too, according to industry and government sources who have reviewed the ruling. T... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Marshals Service on Friday auctioned off about 30,000 bitcoins seized during a raid on Silk Road, an Internet black-market bazaar where authorities say illegal drugs and other goods could be bought. An online auction took place ov... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, long seen as a secondary force in policing Wall Street banks, is taking the lead in what may be the most ambitious case of his career: accusing Barclays Plc (BARC.L ) of favoring its high-freque... More »
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The furor over Luis Suarez’s heavy ban for biting filled the void of the first game-free day at the World Cup in Brazil on Friday, with his Italian victim Giorgio Chiellini leading the criticism of the Uruguayan’s record punishment. The It... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Wimbledon’s grass claimed its most notable victim so far when the women’s world number two Li Na exited the tournament on Friday and the lush lawns almost did for top men’s seed Novak Djokovic, who took an agonizing tumble. Two former champi... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – It was so late and so dark at Wimbledon that even Hawkeye went to sleep. It was just too bad a grumpy Tomas Berdych could not find a way to escape the nightmare scenario as he slumped to a 7-6(5) 6-4 7-6(6) third round defeat by Marin Cilic ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street may kick off the second half of the year with an uptick in volatility, thanks to the June jobs report and plenty of other market-moving data in a short trading week. Financial markets will be closed on Friday for Independence D... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks erased early losses to close up on Friday but still finished the week lower on mixed economic data, while European equities had their first weekly drop since April on worries over Iraq and Ukraine. U.S. Treasuries yields eased ... More »
(Reuters) – Australian Oliver Goss surged into a four-way tie for the lead as Tiger Woods missed the cut after the second round of the Quicken Loans National in Maryland on Friday. Competing in only his second PGA Tour event as a professional, the 20-year-old ... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Marine Corps on Friday resumed flights of its Lockheed Martin Corp LMT.N F-35B jets that were suspended following a fire on an Air Force F-35A and prepared for the jet’s global debut in Britain next month after the discovery of ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended modestly higher on Friday, led by technology shares, though downbeat second-quarter and full-year forecasts from DuPont Co (DD.N ) kept a lid on gains. The S&P 500 technology index .SPLRCT rose 0.6 percent, bolstered by A... More »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Carlos Slim’s real estate firm, Inmobiliaria Carso, will buy AT&T Inc’s equity stake in America Movil, tightening the Mexican tycoon’s control of his flagship telecommunications firm, according to a filing with Mexico’s stock exchange o... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – You think your nose likes flowers? Well, certainly not as much as the tobacco hornworn moth. In fact, its life depends on it. These moths, whose olfactory abilities are as good as a bloodhound’s and vastly better than a human’s, can fly ... More »
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co HPQ.N and attorneys representing shareholders have agreed to settle litigation over its troubled $11.1 billion acquisition of British software company Autonomy Corp, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. Under the... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel Corp’s global sales and marketing chief, Thomas Kilroy, will cede his position upon his return from extended medical leave on July 17, taking on an advisory role instead. The world’s largest chipmaker said on Friday that Greg Pe... More »
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday blasted House Republicans who have threatened to sue him for issuing executive orders to implement policies that would have a hard time passing in the Republican-controlled chamber of Congress. “The... More »
(Reuters) – The Tea Party-backed candidate who has refused to concede defeat to Republican U.S. Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi’s primary runoff said his campaign has found more than 1,000 instances of ballots cast by people who were ineligible to vote. Ch... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey could become the first state in the nation to ban cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products in all public parks and beaches if Governor Chris Christie signs into law a sweeping anti-smoking bill approved by lawmakers. The bi... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Something big happened in the world of retirement benefits a year ago today: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act. The court’s recognition of marriage equality has transformed life for many same-sex couples. In the... More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In the latest shift away from the austerity of the euro zone crisis, European Union leaders signalled at a summit that they were ready to give member states extra time to consolidate their budgets as long as they pressed ahead with economi... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actor Shia LaBeouf, who starred in the “Transformer” movies and with Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was arraigned on Friday on charges of disorderly conduct and harassment at a Broadway theater. LaBeo... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – British actress Keira Knightley, known for playing tragic heroines in period dramas, strayed into new territory with her first major singing role in “Begin Again,” a feel-good film about the music industry and starting over. “Begin Again,”... More »
(Reuters) – Tencent Holdings Ltd, China’s biggest listed tech firm, will buy a 20 percent stake in online classifieds company 58.com Inc for $736 million as the company looks to boost its presence in the e-commerce business. Tencent, known for its mobile messa... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists at the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are conducting tests to see whether the procedure they followed to kill anthrax, though flawed by their own standards, may nevertheless have killed the potentially deadly path... More »
(Reuters) – Actor Shia LaBeouf, who starred in the “Transformer” movies and with Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” did not enter a plea on Friday after being charged with disorderly conduct and harassment. LaBeouf, 28, was a... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar edged lower on Friday against a basket of major currencies and looked set for a second week of losses after positive data on consumer sentiment failed to boost expectations for a rise in interest rates any time soon. The Th... More »
PILTON England (Reuters) – Kaiser Chiefs kicked off three days of music at the Glastonbury Festival on Friday, with lead singer Ricky Wilson singing “I predict a riot” to a good natured crowd made even more amenable by a halt in the rain. The British band were... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia was forced to abandon Friday’s debut launch of its first new space rocket since the Soviet era when the Angara booster cut out during a final countdown watched by President Vladimir Putin via video link from the Kremlin. Angara is see... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia suspects a virus that has killed hundreds of people there may have arrived in camels from the Horn of Africa, and could ban such imports until it knows more, the kingdom’s chief scientist told Reuters. Any ban on the camel trade... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s lower house of parliament has joined the government in cutting ties with U.S. telecoms firm Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N ), in reaction to a scandal last year over U.S. government spying and allegations firms were handing over ... More »
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s Asia unit will provide back-end support in a venture with an Indian private investment firm formed by Infosys Ltd co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy that aims to help get Indian companies online. Catamaran Ventures’s partnership with ... More »
In France surrogacy procedure is illegal. Many childless families who can’t deal with infertility using offered treatment at home lose hope to become parents. As a result such couples go to countries where surrogacy is legal and can be done according to the Eu... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, said its UK arm had been awarded a license to invest directly in China’s mainland capital markets, giving investors access to its stock and bond markets. In a statement on Friday, the company sai... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares were mostly in the red on Friday, weighed down by a weak performance on Wall Street and doubts about the strength of the U.S. economy, which pushed bonds higher. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei fell 1.5 percent and regional markets, wit... More »
(Reuters) – The ABC’s long-running morning talk show “The View” will undergo a facelift when it returns next season after comedian Sherri Shepherd said she was leaving the program and Jenny McCarthy tweeted she may also depart. The departures come a month afte... More »
(Reuters) – A new mammal discovered in the remote desert of western Africa resembles a long-nosed mouse in appearance but is more closely related genetically to elephants, a California scientist who helped identify the tiny creature said on Thursday. The new s... More »
JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters) – Alaska’s humpback whales swam a little closer on Wednesday to losing their status as an endangered species after being federally protected for more than 40 years, a U.S. agency said. Alaska in a Feb. 26 petition asked federal fisherie... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A sea creature that looked like a stack of tiny ice cream cones is providing quite a treat for scientists studying the dawn of animal life on Earth. Researchers said on Thursday they found fossils of the oldest-known animal-made reef in ... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Here is some truly shocking news: Scientists have discovered the secrets behind electric fish, using genetic studies that revealed how these exotic creatures developed an organ that can unleash a wicked jolt. Researchers on Thursday unve... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will debut its first new design of space rocket since the Soviet era on Friday in a launch from its own territory, aiming to break a reliance on the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and foreign suppliers. More than two decades in the... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA)on Thursday barred its members from owning stakes in financial services firms that receive transaction-based compensation, as part of its push to promote fee-only investment ad... More »
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A proposal to change the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, made famous in the “Rocky” movie, is not definite, architect Frank Gehry said on Thursday. Plans for a major expansion of the museum, unveiled to the media on Thursday, ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, said on Thursday she felt vindicated after being found not guilty this week of committing crimes while editing the media mogul’s British tabloids. “I am innocent of t... More »
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co is preparing to recall about 33,000 Chevrolet Cruze sedans with potentially defective air bags made by troubled Japanese supplier Takata Corp, the automaker said late Wednesday. In a crash, the driver-side air bag on the 2... More »
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An unusual parallel rally in Asian bonds and equities, powered for the last five years by cheap global funds, could give out soon with debt becoming a casualty of the increasing confidence in the outlook for global growth. Bonds are now p... More »
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s state security court on Thursday acquitted radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who was extradited from Britain last year, of charges of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. But the cleric will continue to be held because of separate... More »
VERSAILLES France (Reuters) – A French court on Thursday approved the extradition to Belgium of the French suspect in a May 24 shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead. Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, has been held in police custody on anti-te... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Stock markets in Europe and Asia looked past gains by Iraqi militants and poor first-quarter growth in the United States on Thursday, with some investors raising their forecasts for a U.S. economic bounce in coming months. A Sunni insurgency... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – US Secretary of State John Kerry, after meeting with France’s foreign minister, said on Thursday Russia should call on separatists in Ukraine to disarm within “the next hours”. “We are in full agreement that it is critical for Russia to show ... More »
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese gold processing firms have since 2012 used falsified gold transactions to borrow 94.4 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) from banks, the country’s chief auditor said. Commodities such as copper, rubber, soybeans and bullion have commonly... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York State’s attorney general has filed a securities fraud lawsuit against Barclays BARC.L, accusing the British bank of giving an unfair edge in the United States to high-frequency trading clients even as it claimed to be protecti... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines (MASM.KL ) Flight MH370 was most likely on autopilot when it crashed into the Indian Ocean further south than previously thought, Australian officials said on Thursday, as they charted the next phase of a so far fruitless s... More »
BRUSSELS/SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Western powers warned Russia on Wednesday that they could impose new sanctions if Moscow did not do more to defuse the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where a ceasefire between Russian-speaking rebels and government forces a... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar index languished near one-month lows on Thursday, still held back by surprisingly weak U.S. first-quarter GDP data, which has bolstered expectations that monetary policy will remain loose. In the European session, the focus will b... More »
VIENNA (Reuters) – More Americans are consuming marijuana as their perception of the health risks declines but more are seeking help for problems related to the drug, a U.N. report said on Thursday. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said it was still ... More »
PARIS/STUTTGART (Reuters) – Daimler (DAIGn.DE ) and Nissan (7201.T ) have finalized a joint venture deal to build future Mercedes and Infiniti compact cars in Mexico, sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday as the automakers called a news confere... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Barclays’ shares fell on Thursday, making the stock the worst-performer in percentage terms on the UK’s main equity index, after the New York Attorney General filed a securities fraud lawsuit against the bank. Barclays shares were down by 3.... More »
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Portugal must win big against Ghana in their final World Cup Group G match in Brasilia on Thursday and hope Germany and the United States do not draw in Recife to have any hope of progressing to the last 16. Portugal captain and World Play... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oil producers considering swapping U.S. light crude abroad for the heavier imported oil needed by refiners to work around a decades-old ban on exporting domestic crude may find the strategy harder to execute than it looks on paper. As U.... More »
(Reuters) – Bond insurer Syncora Guarantee Inc has emerged as Detroit’s chief nemesis in the city’s historic bankruptcy case and is fighting as if its financial life depends on a decent recovery on its $400 million exposure to the city. Since Detroit filed the... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama heads to Minneapolis on Thursday, the first stop in series of summer road trips where he will aim to spend a “day in the life” of an ordinary American and convince voters that the White House understands their chal... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. healthcare companies are winning higher profit forecasts, bucking a wider trend on Wall Street, as pricey new biotech drugs hit the market and insurance enrollment rises under the Affordable Care Act. Analysts’ profit expectations for... More »
TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) – The dollar languished near one-month lows against a basket of major currencies on Thursday, following a surprise downward revision to U.S. first quarter economic growth. The dollar index fell as far as 80.091 on Wednesday, a low not se... More »
(Reuters – The Dallas Mavericks have acquired center Tyson Chandler in a six-player trade with the New York Knicks, the teams said on Wednesday. Dallas have sent starting point guard Jose Calderon, center Samuel Dalembert, reserves Shane Larkin and Wayne Ellin... More »
(Reuters) – YouTube is venturing onto radio with a weekly show on satellite radio service Sirius XM that will feature the online video website’s most popular and emerging artists, the companies said on Thursday. The show called The YouTube 15 will be hosted by... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Soccer’s governing body FIFA has not yet decided whether to expel Uruguay striker Luis Suarez from the World Cup for biting an opponent with deliberations set to continue on Thursday. Uruguay FA president Wilmar Valdez told reporters... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – French Open champion Rafael Nadal will face his 2012 Wimbledon nemesis, Lukas Rosol, on Thursday, knowing he will have to up his game to avoid another second-round exit at the hands of the Czech world number 52. After a first-round defeat at... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama lampooned congressional skepticism over climate change on Wednesday, saying that lawmakers who balk at tackling air pollution are either blind to science or cowed by extremists. In a speech to the League of Conserv... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a controversy over the tax agency’s treatment of Tea Party groups sent emails in which she appears to seek an audit involving a Republican senator, according to documents r... More »
HATTIESBURG Miss. (Reuters) – Tea Party Republicans in Mississippi on Wednesday railed against an election rule that allowed Democrats, many of them black, to tilt a bitterly fought Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff to incumbent Thad Cochran. But officials... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – United States head coach Juergen Klinsmann has produced a cheeky hand-written letter for American fans who want to skip work on Thursday in order to watch his team’s World Cup game against Germany. The United States will qualify for ... More »
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Argentina’s Lionel Messi continued his World Cup dual with Neymar by scoring twice in a 3-2 win over Nigeria while Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri got in on the act with a magnificent hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Honduras on Wednesday. Nigeri... More »
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone is set to gain unconditional EU approval for its 7.2-billion-euro ($9.79 billion) bid for Spain’s largest cable operator Ono as regulators do not have competition concerns, three people familiar with the matter said on Wedn... More »
MONTEVIDEO Uruguay (Reuters) – Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica weighed into the global controversy over footballer Luis Suarez on Wednesday, saying it was unfair to judge him retrospectively for biting an Italian player when other incidents went unreviewed. “W... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, led by drugmakers, while a Supreme Court ruling lifted the shares of major broadcasters. Shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co (BMY.N ) shot up 3 percent to $49.73. The rally came a day after the drugmaker said a... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that police officers usually need a warrant before they can search the cellphone of an arrested suspect, a major decision in favor of privacy rights at a time of increasing concern over governmen... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Don’t laugh, but the discovery of the oldest known human poop is offering valuable scientific insight into the life of Neanderthals who lived in Spain some 50,000 years ago. Scientists said on Wednesday they found five samples of human f... More »
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