| Latest worldwide news | 'The Fifth Estate' has worst debut of 2013 | | | Benedict Cumberbatch knows he has a rabid base of Tumblr-obsessed fans. When asked whether he was worried that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange might attack his new drama The Fifth Estate, in which he plays the infamous hacker, Cumberbatch kept his cool "The Cumberb**ches have got my back," he told EW. |
| T Magazine On Beauty | Morocco in a Bottle | | | Made with a blend of natural oils, the new body serum from the New York skin care line Kahina Giving Beauty has a scent thats intended to transport its wearer straight to Fez. |
| Two Golden Dawn supporters shot dead in Greece | | | ATHENS (Reuters) - Two members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party were killed in a drive-by shooting outside the movement's offices in Athens on Friday, raising fears of an escalation of political violence in the crisis-wracked country. |
| Pirate money promotes global criminal activity -report | | | WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pirates hijacking ships off the Horn of Africa and Somalia from 2005 to 2012 garnered well over a quarter of a billion U.S. dollars in ransom and used the money for criminal activities worldwide, according to a report released on Friday. |
| When Insurers Drop Policies Three Stories | | | Insurance companies are canceling millions of health insurance plans that fail to meet minimum standards, and a look at the stories of three people with such plans tells a complex tale. |
| Can it get any worse for Obama? | | | Dean Obeidallah says a stretch of bad news for Obama has let others dictate the narrative of his presidency. But he can still write the final scenes |
| Russia's Medvedev fires space agency chief | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the country's space agency (Roskosmos) chief Vladimir Popovkin on Thursday, three months after the latest botched satellite launch. |
| Social Qs Tipping Points | | | Advice on if and when to tip, what a child can say when adults comment on his height and how to handle interruptions when visiting friends at a retirement home. |
| Bosnia mass grave excation | | | Nov. 1 - Forensic teams excavate what could be the largest mass grave of ethnic cleansing victims in Bosnia. Rough cut (no reporter narration) |
| Fitch SFR Spin-Off Plan Exposes Vivendi Holders to Event Risk | | | (The following statement was released by the rating agency) LONDON, September 12 (Fitch) Vivendi's plan to split itself in two exposes bondholders to the risk that they will end up invested in SFR, the group's French telecom operations, rather than its better-performing media assets and Brazil's GVT, Fitch Ratings says. The credit impact on Vivendi's 'BBB' rating would depend mainly on how debt was allocated to the two separate companies in any proposed transaction. Vivendi could end 2013 |
| Astronomers discover most distant galaxy yet | | | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronomers have found the most distant galaxy yet, a discovery that pushes back scientists' view of the universe to about 700 million years after it is thought to have come into existence. |
| RBS keeps bad bank at home | | | Nov 1 - The Royal Bank of Scotland will create an internal "bad bank" to fence off its riskiest assets. It's part of a series of measures intended to speed up the sale of the government's stake and restore confidence in the lender. But, as Joanna Partridge reports, some believe the restructuring is just a "cosmetic exercise". |
| Gruesome scenes on Santiagos streets | | | Oct. 21 - Scenes from hell ooze onto the streets of Santiago as thousands of zombies embark on their annual walk through the Chilean capital. Tara Cleary reports. |
| Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years | | | NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington. |
| BlackBerry plans security feature for Android, iPhone | | | TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry will offer technology to separate and make secure both work and personal data on mobile devices powered by Google Inc's Android platform and by Apple Inc's iOS operating system, the company said on Thursday. |
| Could ad kick-start your career? | | | Millennials are suffering more than most right now. Large numbers are unemployed and despondent about the future. Author Dan Schwabel highlights how millennials can improve their economic prospects. |
| NYC to LA in under 29 hours | | | Before the transcontinental race in "Cannonball Run," the starter tells the gathered racers, "You all are certainly the most distinguished group of highway scofflaws and degenerates ever gathered together in one place." |
| Fred Vogelsteins Dogfight | | | A journalist goes behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google, and how its reshaping the way we think about technology. |
| Mayor in Hawaii vetoes measure curbing pesticides, GMO crops | | | LIHUE, Hawaii (Reuters) - The mayor of the tropical island of Kauai, Hawaii, vetoed a measure on Thursday that reins in pesticide use by agricultural companies and limits where they can plant genetically modified crops, saying the bill was "legally flawed." |
| Syria military base blasts said to be Israeli strike | | | AMMAN/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Syrian rebels and a U.S. official cited by CNN said on Thursday Israel had mounted a new attack on a Syrian military base but the Israeli government declined to confirm any strike. |
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