Latest worldwide news Driverless Mercedes debuts in Frankfurt | | Sept. 11 - Daimler has unveiled its much anticipated self-driving Mercedes Benz at the Frankfurt International car show. The luxury auto-maker is making incremental improvements to its autonomous technology and plans to have a fully-autonomous vehicle available to consumers by 2020. Rob Muir reports. |
Cats and Girls | | Images from a new Balthus exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Fourth officer arrested in Mexico mass kidnapping case | | As Mexico City authorities unravel the workings behind the mass kidnapping and killing of 13 bar-goers, some unsettling developments have surfaced. Four of those arrested in connection with the crimes are police officers. |
U.S. Senate likely to meet Monday on government spending bill -aide | | WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate is unlikely to hold a Sunday session and instead probably will convene as planned on Monday to consider any government funding bill passed this weekend by the House of Representatives, a Senate Democratic aide said on Saturday. |
Greek Golden Dawn leaders arrested | | The leader of Greece's extreme right wing Golden Dawn party, Nikos Michaloliakos, and a member of parliament for the party, Elias Kassidiaris, have been arrested on charges of forming a criminal gang, Athens police say. |
Giving Drug Advice Along With Music | | Following a European trend in the wake of overdose deaths, an electronic dance music festival near Atlanta will offer advice on safer practices for the use of party drugs like Ecstasy. |
Pettersen wins new fifth major | | Suzann Pettersen denied 16-year-old amateur Lydia Ko a fairtytale first major triumph as the Norwegian took the Evian Championship in France Sunday. |
New "walking shark" species identified off Indonesia | | Sept. 5 - A new species of epaulette shark has been discovered in waters off a remote Indonesian island. Officially called Hemiscyllium halmahera, the shark was first seen by divers in 2008 as it "walked" along the sea floor, but has only now been identified as a new species. Rob Muir reports. |
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. |
Vos goes solo to retain road race world title | | FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - A brutal burst of acceleration helped Dutchwoman Marianne Vos to crush her rivals yet again to retain her cycling road race world title in awe-inspiring fashion on Saturday. |
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