| Latest worldwide news | Bond trader turned energy boss takes on Britain's "big power" | | | LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Lambasting the country's dominant energy companies for gouging customers, the founder of a small English supplier has emerged as an unlikely hero in a row over soaring power and gas prices that could influence the 2015 election. |
| Los Angeles creates 'Cyber Intrusion Command Center' | | | LOS ANGELES, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, citing warnings by President Barack Obama and National Intelligence Director James Clapper about the threat of attacks on computer networks, on Wednesday announced the creation of the city's first "Cyber Intrusion Command Center." |
| Self-stabilising ship to keep oil rig workers on even keel | | | Oct. 28 - The world's first single hull, floating accommodation vessel that uses its own waves for stability is being prepared for launch in 2015. Designed by Norwegian company, Salt Ship Design for Hyundai Heavy Industries, the vessel will be the largest ship of its kind ever built, providing 800 oil rig workers with a stable, temporary home in rough seas. Jim Drury reports. |
| Estuaries in Puerto Rico's capital get 'mega clean up' | | | SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - A flotilla of fishing skiffs and kayaks plied through the channels and lagoons that comprise the San Juan estuary system Saturday, as volunteers dove beneath bridges and trudged through the thick mangrove forest lining its coasts. |
| Breakingviews Chrysler's $450 mln question | | | Oct 30 - Reynolds Holding and Antony Currie explain how Fiat and a union trust fund - the two owners of the Detroit automaker - are battling over a much smaller sum than overall valuations imply. |
| New Chief of the F.C.C. Is Confirmed | | | The Senate voted unanimously to confirm President Obamas two picks for the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler as chairman and Michael ORielly as a commissioner. |
| 'Vacuum cleaning' Beijing skies | | | A Dutch artist and designer has come up with a device he hopes will suck pollutants from Beijing's smog-cloaked skies, creating columns of clean air for the city's surgical-mask wearing residents. |
| '12 Years A Slave' Agonizingly magnificent | | | Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is an agonizingly magnificent movie the first great big-screen dramatization of slavery. Based on actual events, it begins in 1841 and tells the story of a free black man from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a musician named Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who walks around in a natty gray suit, secure in the courtly modesty of his life as a husband and father of two. But then he accepts an offer to go to Washington, D.C., with a pair of traveling entertainers, and when they're out at a restaurant drinking wine, we get the queasy feeling this is too good to be true. It is. Solomon isn't being hired for his talents. He's being trafficked. |
| Wealth | | | Want to buy an Irish castle? For those of means, the price is right. |
| Cirque du Soleil fined in death of acrobat at Las Vegas show | | | Oct 30 (Reuters) - Cirque du Soleil has been fined more than $25,000 for safety violations in connection with a fatal accident in which an acrobat dropped 94 feet to her death during a mid-air battle scene during the show "KA" in Las Vegas in June, Nevada officials said on Wednesday. |
| Taiwan says Hon Hai among six winners of 4G licenses | | | TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) said on Wednesday six companies would pay T$118.65 billion ($4.03 billion), more than triple the original offer price, for 12 domestic fourth-generation (4G) mobile spectrum licenses as the bidders try to seize market share in the high-margin business. |
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