| Latest worldwide news | Cartoonists who risk their lives | | | In many ways, the Middle East makes a strange and perilous hotbed for caricature. For those that dare to satirize a taboo, the punishments can be harsh arrest, torture, exile, even death. |
| Tseng Bouncing back to No. 1? | | | After becoming the youngest golfer to win five major championships, Yani Tseng has slipped down the rankings. Can she come back? |
| The top films at the North American box office | | | LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Following are the top 10 movies at North American box offices for the three days starting Sept. 20, led by "Prisoners," according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters. 1 (*) Prisoners...........................$ 21.4 million 2 (1) Insidious Chapter 2................$ 14.5 million 3 (2) The Family..........................$ 7.0 million 4 (6) Instructions Not Included...........$ 5.7 million 5 (*) Battle of the Year..................$ |
| World's safest mansion? | | | From bombproof doors to tactical fog machines, check out this ultra-secure mansion in the Hollywood Hills. |
| Violin Memory strikes sour note in market debut | | | (Reuters) - Shares of flash storage provider Violin Memory , backed by Toshiba Corp , fell nearly 21 percent in their market debut, as investors remain skeptical about an intensely competitive data... |
| Young Cuban baseball pitcher believed to have left the island | | | HAVANA (Reuters) - A promising young Cuban pitcher failed to show up for training this week and was widely believed to have left the island, which would make him the latest talented prospect to seek a lucrative Major League Baseball contract in the United States. |
| Breakingviews Sacrilege at Microsoft? | | | Sept. 25 - Jeffrey Goldfarb and Breakingviews columnists suggest that it may be time for Bill Gates to part ways with the $270 billion software company he founded and still chairs. |
| Ghosts beat minions as 'Conjuring' horror flick leads box office | | | LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) - The low-budget horror flick "The Conjuring" outran the "Despicable Me" minions and a racing snail named "Turbo" to win the weekend box office contest at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday. |
| GM facing new foes including Tesla | | | Sep. 27 - General Motors' vice chairman Stephen Girsky says his company is evaluating Tesla to see if there is anything GM should be changing as new competition springs up from around the world. Conway G. Gittens reports. |
| Jury deliberating Jackson death verdict | | | Jurors began deliberations Thursday afternoon in the Michael Jackson wrongful-death trial, potentially bringing the contentious case to a close after five months of testimony and three days of closing arguments. |
| Immelt Economic efficiencies drive China ahead | | | Jan 19 - In an exclusive interview with Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt says a large and educated workforce is fueling China's strength and not simply a deflated yuan. |
| U.S., Iran in first meeting since 1979 | | | U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meet -- the first such high-level meeting since Iran's 1979 revolution. |
| Exclusive | 415 Washington Street | | | A combination of two units at the Fairfield condominium, built on the site of a former soap warehouse, yielded this 4,000-square-foot triplex. |
| Sochi 2014 Social media fail? | | | With 150 million tweets across 16 days, and 80,000 a minute when Usain Bolt won his 200 meters title, the London 2012 Olympics was crowned as the "first social media Games." |
| Singing doctor turns social media into treatment tool | | | Sept. 25 - A doctor in the UK has become a Youtube sensation while demonstrating the power of social media to help patients. Dr Tapas Mukherjee is now known as 'The Singing Doctor', with his version of 90s hit "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by the band Deep Blue Something, which he has adapted lyrically to help acute asthma patients treat their condition. Jim Drury went to meet him. |
| Tokyo man to lose home to make way for stadium again | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Kohei Jinno fans out the black and white photos of his family posing proudly in front of their central Tokyo home, a house they were forced to leave ahead of the 1964 Olympic Games to make way for construction of the main stadium. |
| Squeezed in Hong Kong | | | In a city with some of the highest living costs in the world, those at the bottom of the income ladder increasingly resort to cupboardlike living spaces, a dozen or more to an apartment. |
| First Top-Level U.S.-Iran Talk Since 1979 | | | President Obama, speaking from the White House, said that he and President Hassan Rouhani of Iran talked about the countrys nuclear program, and Mr. Obama called the discussion an important breakthrough. |
| Rabbi Linked to Kickback Scheme at Charity | | | Two people briefed on the investigation into William E. Rapfogel said that Rabbi David Cohen was one of the unnamed co-conspirators referred to in the criminal complaint. |
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