| Latest worldwide news | America's Cup The basics | | | How much do you know about the America's Cup? Holly Firfer gives us the basics of the oldest sailboat race in the world. |
| Reforms urged to make UN climate reports shorter, more focused | | | OSLO (Reuters) - Climate experts on a U.N. panel should focus more on shorter reports on specialist subjects such as extreme weather in a shift from sweeping overviews of the kind being prepared this week in Stockholm, many scientists and governments say. |
| Merkel still needs to focus on euro zone | | | Sept 23 - Investors liked the German election result but what's first on Merkel's to do list when it comes to the rest of the euro zone? The EU's top economic official tells Reuters what he thinks she must focus on. Sonia Legg reports |
| FBI Navy Yard shooter 'delusional' | | | Aaron Alexis, the man who went on the deadly shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, was under the "delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by electro-magnetic waves," the FBI's Valerie Parlave said Wednesday. |
| Pakistan quake | | | An earthquake in Pakistan, powerful enough to prompt the appearance of a small island off the coast, has killed more than 200 people, Pakistani officials said. |
| Team rebuilding world's first website | | | Twenty years ago, a team of researchers shared the Web with the world. Now they want to show a generation that grew up online what it was like in its earliest days. |
| Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine top Kennedy Center honors list | | | (Reuters) - Pop singer Billy Joel, Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine and jazz composer Herbie Hancock on Thursday were among the annual recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors, one of the United States' top cultural awards. |
| Woods wins 79th PGA title | | | Tiger Woods wraps up victory in the WGC-Bridgestone tournament Sunday ahead of the final major of the season later this week where he will start hot favorite. |
| Nadal on comeback triumph | | | Fresh from his stunning win in New York, Rafael Nadal describes his relief after a painful comeback from injury. |
| Watson not a fan of Cup wildcards | | | Tom Watson has had some great moments in Britain, winning five British Opens. He hopes for more magic at next year's Ryder Cup. Ahead of the series at Gleneagles, Watson said he wants to do away with captain's picks. |
| Obama, Clinton promote healthcare reform ahead of October 1 start | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama teamed up with his one-time rivals Bill and Hillary Clinton on Tuesday to highlight the benefits of U.S. healthcare reform, a week before one of the controversial law's key elements, new insurance exchanges, go live. |
| Off-balance, cliff-edge hotel | | | It's awkward, possibly ingenious; designers hope to create a building that will make Lima an international sensation. |
| Exclusive Hundreds of U.S. security clearances seen falsified | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have documented at least 350 instances of faulty background investigations done by private contractors and special agents for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in recent years, illustrating what some lawmakers call systemic weaknesses in the granting of federal security clearances. |
| Water "the teeth" of climate change - World Bank | | | June 19 - Growing pressure over water remains the most worrying symptom of climate change, argues the World Bank President, while a projected 2C rise in temperature by 2030 could submerge Bangkok. |
| Cheaper iPhone Will Cost More in China | | | While many analysts expected Apple to price the iPhone 5C at about $400, it will actually go for significantly more in China, where the company is struggling. |
| Obama unlikely to name Fed head this week source | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is unlikely to unveil his pick to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve this week, and the current Fed No. 2, Janet Yellen, remains the... |
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