- Business News ( 136 feeds / 7 sources )
- Medici lawyer says Kohn didn't get Madoff payments
NEW YORK/VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian fund manager Sonja Kohn did not receive any kickbacks from Bernard Madoff to steer Bank Medici customer funds to the swindler's investment business, a Medici lawyer said on Friday.  - Teck to sell 17 percent stake to China for C$1.74 billion
TORONTO (Reuters) - Teck Resources said on Friday it will sell a 17.2 percent equity stake to state-owned China Investment Corp in a deal that will help the Canadian miner pay down its debt while expanding China's portfolio of commodity investments.  - Earnings to set tone for stocks in week ahead
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With Wall Street stuck in a range since May, the start of second-quarter earnings season next week could prove to be a decisive factor for determining how much faith investors should have in an economic recovery.  - Stanford clients sue insurance broker Willis Group
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several Mexican clients of Stanford Financial Group have sued insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd , contending it was a willing participant in a $7 billion fraud at the Texas-based investment company.  - Dollar status unlikely to be in G8 communique: G8 source
(Reuters) - The dollar's status as the top global reserve currency is unlikely to be mentioned explicitly in the final communique at next week's Group of Eight summit, a European G8 source involved in preparations for the meeting said on Friday.  - About 10 firms submit bids for AIG Taiwan unit: reports
TAIPEI (Reuters) - About 10 global and Taiwan financial firms have submitted bids to buy troubled AIG's Taiwanese insurance unit, newspapers said on Saturday, in a deal that could fetch up to over $2 billion.  - Oil brokerage PVM names rogue trader behind oil spike
LONDON (Reuters) - PVM Oil Futures Limited said on Friday Steve Perkins, a senior broker based at the firm's London office, was responsible for unauthorized trades earlier this week which landed the firm with a loss of nearly $10 million.  - China moves on Opel with BAIC bid
FRANKFURT/MUNICH (Reuters) - A Chinese automaker has offered to buy a stake in General Motors unit Opel, challenging a deal from Canadian auto parts supplier Magna, sources said on Friday.  - Oil falls below $66 after bleak U.S. jobs data
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil dropped a dollar to below $66 a barrel on Friday after unemployment data hardened views economic weakness would sap energy demand and that last month's rally was overdone.  - BT offers holidays for pay cuts
BT offers staff the chance of long holidays in return for a big pay cut in a bid to reduce costs during the economic downturn. - ... more feeds
- Education ( 44 feeds / 1 sources )
- Fears over student place shortage
Ministers must fund more university places in England, or risk forcing tens of thousands of teenagers onto the dole, an MP warns. - Check on school places cheating
Schools Secretary Ed Balls has asked for an assessment of the problem of parents cheating to get school places. - Baby P council 'limited progress'
The council in the Baby P case has made only limited progress in improving children's social care, Ofsted inspectors say. - Call for 'urgent' asbestos audit
An urgent audit of asbestos in Britain's schools is needed because people are dying, the British Safety Council has said. - Colleges' agency spend attacked
Unions representing college employees say millions of pounds is being wasted on agency staff and consultants. - Drop in modern language learning
Education inspectors are calling for schools to do more to encourage pupils to learn modern foreign languages. - Tories plan tougher teacher tests
A Conservative government would raise the entry requirements for people wanting to train as teachers in England. - Student grants and loans frozen
Student maintenance grants and loans in England will not rise next year, despite an increase in tuition fees, ministers say. - Forced marriage plea to schools
New guidelines are being published urging schools to identify signs of forced marriages ahead of the holidays. - Themed learning
International curriculum features treasure and travel - ... more feeds
- Entertainment ( 124 feeds / 5 sources )
- Michael Jackson's music had impact around the globe
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Michael Jackson went from being Gary, Ind.'s most talented kid to one of the most recognizable human beings on the planet. While his worldwide album sales were astounding, that wasn't the sole reason for his fame. His ascendancy went far beyond the cash register -- he inspired dance moves, dictated fashion trends and raised awareness for social causes around the globe.  - "Slumdog" child star moves into new Mumbai home
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A child star of the Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire" moved into his new home in an upmarket Mumbai suburb Saturday, a far cry from his family's former dwelling -- a shanty by the railway tracks.  - Massive demand for Jackson memorial tickets
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than half a million fans from around the world applied for 17,500 free tickets to Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, organizers said on Friday as a massive security operation got underway.  - Prince booked to return to Montreux jazz festival
GENEVA (Reuters) - Prince will return to the Montreux stage, closing out the famed jazz festival on July 18, with high-priced tickets expected to be snapped up quickly, organizers said on Friday.  - Potter is back: box office big bucks assured
LONDON (Reuters) - Boy wizard Harry Potter is back in cinemas later this month with the sixth installment of the movie franchise, and another box office bonanza looks assured for the Warner Bros. studio.  - Stone Temple Pilots accentuate old faves
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For a reunited band bent on having a future, Stone Temple Pilots spent most of its House of Blues show Wednesday visiting the past -- the distant past.  - R&B singer Maxwell ends seven-year break
NEW YORK (Billboard) - A vanishing act has become practically de rigueur for R&B musicians of a certain caliber. Many make a mega-hit album or two, collect Grammy Awards and critical accolades -- and then disappear.  - Alice in Chains reunion "Gives Way" to album, tour
CLEVELAND (Billboard) - Alice in Chains singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney say the band's new album, their first in nearly 14 years, doesn't stray too far from the Seattle band's influential catalog.  - Unscripted TV fare balances real with "reality"
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When the Oxygen network green-lighted the reality series "Addicted to Beauty," the idea was to chronicle the day-to-day workings of a trendy California medical spa via the lives of its married co-owners, a socialite and a doctor.  - Deal chatter heats up in Hollywood
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dealmaking in Hollywood could get hot and heavy in coming months as movie studios explore ways to fight tumbling DVD sales and distribute entertainment in new formats.  - ... more feeds
- Environment ( 10 feeds / 1 sources )
- Climate body to try to bridge differences before G8
ROME (Reuters) - Officials from a 17-member body which account for the lions share of the world's carbon emissions will hold urgent talks next Tuesday to iron out differences on the eve of a July 8-10 summit of the G8.  - China mulling new air quality regulations
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is considering new air quality regulations as it looks to build on its success clearing Beijing's skies during the Olympics, environmental officials from the capital said on Friday.  - EU seen meeting renewable fuel targets with blends
HAMBURG (Reuters) - The European Union is likely to achieve its target of generating 10 percent of transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020 by blending biofuels with fossil fuels, a leading EU researcher said.  - Loss of world's seagrass beds seen accelerating
MIAMI (Reuters) - The world's seagrass meadows, a critical habitat for marine life and profit-maker for the fishing industry, are in decline due to coastal development and the losses are accelerating, according to a new study.  - Los Angeles will end use of coal-fired power
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.  - Climate change shrinks Scotland's wild sheep
LONDON (Reuters) - Wild sheep on a remote Scottish island are shrinking, and scientists blame global warming.  - More than 800 wildlife species now extinct
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday.  - EPA extends comment period on biofuel standard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it was extending the comment period on a draft rule that aims to cut greenhouse gases emitted by biofuels.  - Palestinians, Israel compromise on Dead Sea contest
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinian Authority compromised in the name of nature this week, teaming up at the last moment to back the Dead Sea in a contest to chose the world's top seven natural wonders.  - Obama's climate leadership faces test at G8 forum
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, buoyed by a domestic victory on climate policy, faces his first foreign test on the issue next week at a forum that could boost the chances of reaching a U.N. global warming pact this year.  - ... more feeds
- Health ( 210 feeds / 6 sources )
- U.S. parents think twice about sending kids to camp
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.  - Wealth, disability factors in alcohol-longevity tie
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Moderate drinkers are wealthier, more educated and less likely to be disabled than teetotalers, which explains some, but not all, of the association between moderate alcohol consumption and longer life, according to a new study.  - Social factors influence neighborhood asthma rates
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Childhood asthma is less common in neighborhoods with high economic potential and strong community vitality, new research shows.  - Bedwetting, being overweight linked to sleep apnea
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), researchers report.  - Prostate cancer screening still unproven: report
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - PSA blood tests are often used to screen men for prostate cancer, but there is still no good evidence that they cut death rates from the disease, a new review finds.  - India gay ruling boosts AIDS fight but stigma lingers
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court ruling to decriminalize gay sex will boost the fight against AIDS, but a powerful stigma against homosexuality and uneven quality of healthcare will still hamper efforts, a top AIDS worker said.  - Many parents lack confidence in changing behavior
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many parents don't have enough self-confidence to implement and enforce changes in their child's behavior that will reduce the child's risk of obesity, researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston have found.  - Fertility drug combo promising in older women
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The combination of two drugs -- Femara (letrozole) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) -- could be of benefit in infertile women of advanced reproductive age undergoing intrauterine insemination, results of a study indicate.  - Sickle cell disease healthcare costs high in U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study shows that the annual cost of medical care in the US for people who suffer from sickle cell disease exceeds $1.1 billion.  - Self-help 'makes you feel worse'
Bridget Jones is not alone in turning to self-help mantras to boost her spirits, but a study warns they may have the opposite effect. - ... more feeds
- Internet ( 9 feeds / 1 sources )
- Treasure Hunt gets digital update in WiFi Venice
MILAN (Reuters) - Treasure Hunting will go fully digital on Friday night when players chase a mysterious oriental wand with special powers along the narrow streets and bridges of Venice.  - Broadband industry group say U.S. rules go too far
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government guidelines to spend $4 billion to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the United States may go beyond current laws, a broadband industry group, said on Thursday.  - MySpace suicide conviction tentatively dismissed
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed the conviction of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona.  - Internet used to help young smokers quit
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment for young adults aged 18 to 24 years.  - Web advertisers propose self-regulation principles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Online advertisers are proposing a mix of consumer education, disclosures about what information is being collected and special protections for children and sensitive information in an effort to head off tough legislation.  - Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts
TORONTO, July 2 (Reuters) - Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market.  - Jay Leno wins cybersquatting case
GENEVA (Reuters) - Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate website.  - China paper says Web filter only a matter of time
BEIJING (Reuters) - It is only a matter of time before a controversial scheme to install Internet filtering software on all computers begins in China, a state newspaper said on Thursday, after the plan was abruptly delayed this week.  - Fame, fortune for Web tutors in education-crazy South Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) - For a teacher who never sees his students and instructs only online, South Korean Woo Hyeong-cheol makes a lot of money, $4 million a year to be exact.  - ... more feeds
- Law ( 25 feeds / 1 sources )
- Express proprietor, Richard Desmond, in libel action against journalist
Richard Desmond, the owner of the Daily and Sunday Express,will become the first newspaper proprietor to take the stand in the High Court since Robert Maxwell, when he launches his libel action against the investigative journalist Tom Bower on Monday.   - Downturn yields rich pickings for Linklaters
Linklaters revealed record full-year revenue of £1.29 billion on Friday, edging past Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as Britains highest-grossing law firm. However, pre-tax profit fell by 9 per cent to £513.6 million as Linklaters absorbed millions in restructuring costs.   - Double jeopardy killer Mario Celaire gets minimum of 23 years jail
A footballer who killed his former girlfriend was given two life sentences today after becoming the first person in Britain to be convicted of a crime for which he had been previously found not guilty by a jury.   - Evidence 'not enough' as terror suspect scores win
A terror suspect must be brought back to London from internal exile in the Midlands despite convincing secret evidence that he intended to take part in terrorist-related activity, the High Court ruled today.   - Linklaters trounces rivals as UK's biggest firm
Linklaters today revealed a rise in full-year revenue, edging past rivals Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to become Britain's highest-grossing law firm.   - Family courts in crisis, says Sir Mark Potter
Britains most senior family judge called last night for urgent action over a crisis in the family courts fuelled by increasing delays in child abuse cases and lack of funds.   - Analysis: no longer the divorce capital of the world
Pre-nuptial contracts have won the clear backing of the English courts after years of suspicion and even hostility.   - Judges back pre-nuptial agreements as heiress wins battle against husband
Senior judges rewrote the divorce laws yesterday to give resounding backing to prenuptial contracts and bring England into line with the rest of Europe. One of Germanys richest women secured victory in the Court of Appeal in enforcing a prenuptial agreement with her former husband.   - Freshfields hits top spot in legal fees league
Lucrative work on the bailout of the financial sector has helped Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer overtake Clifford Chance to become Britains highest grossing law firm.  - Freshfields hits top spot in legal fees league
Lucrative work on the bailout of the financial sector has helped Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer overtake Clifford Chance to become Britains highest grossing law firm.   - ... more feeds
- Odd News ( 20 feeds / 1 sources )
- Pachyderms outdo people in cross-species chow bout
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 AP - In the fight of pachyderms vs. people — the pachyderms now have the upper trunk.
- New Zealand airline issues nude safety video
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 AP - New Zealand's national airline has adopted a cheeky way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: The cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint.
- NYPD rookie makes arrest moments after graduation
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 AP - A New York Police Department rookie just couldn't wait to get started.
- Illinois cabbie uses deodorant to disarm attacker
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AP - Police in suburban Chicago say a taxi driver who didn't have Mace handy when he was attacked by a knife-wielding passenger instead disarmed the man with a can of aerosol deodorant. - Calif. students get X-rated version of class DVD
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AP - A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch. - "Great Train Robber" is refused parole
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Reuters - "Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs lost his long-running bid for early jail release on Wednesday after the British government said he should not be allowed out on parole because he was "wholly unrepentant." - Fireworks spread terror in war weary town
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 Reuters - Independence day fireworks sent terrified Congolese sprinting for cover on Tuesday in fear that war had broken out again in their eastern city.
- Russia bans all gambling and shuts casinos
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 Reuters - Russia closed down its casinos overnight as gambling was banned nationwide, a move the industry says could throw a third of a million people out of work.
- Man had boss killed to save job?
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 Reuters - Spanish police have arrested a man whom they suspect hired a contract killer to murder his boss in a desperate bid to avoid being laid off, newspaper El Pais reported on Tuesday.
- Mosquito repellent firm in dock for mosquito breeding
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 Reuters - A Sri Lankan court threatened a mosquito repellent factory manager with six months in jail for failing to destroy mosquito breeding areas on company premises to stop the spread of dengue fever, an official said Tuesday.
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- Politics ( 139 feeds / 6 sources )
- Palin resigning as Alaska governor in surprise move
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, the brash, deeply conservative governor of Alaska who crashed onto the U.S. national political scene last year as the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president, announced abruptly on Friday she was resigning as governor.  - Putin rejects Obama criticism before meeting
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's charge that he was mired in Cold War thinking, setting the scene for a stormy first meeting at a Moscow summit next week.  - CEOs use Obama visit to press Russia on rule of law
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. businessmen are expected to use a Russia-U.S. business summit on Tuesday to press Moscow to rein in corruption and improve conditions for western companies operating in the country.  - U.S. sets new Israel meeting, presses Arabs to help
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy will hold a second meeting in a week with Israel's defense minister, an Israeli official said on Friday, announcing talks on Monday likely to focus again on a dispute over settlements.  - Obama's Africa visit prompts Nigerian, Kenyan angst
LAGOS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's choice of Ghana for his first official trip to Africa next week has triggered a bout of self-questioning in Nigeria and Kenya, where many see his itinerary as a deliberate snub.  - Biden urges Iraqis to heal divisions
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has a hard road ahead if it is to heal the divisions that spurred six years of bloodshed and achieve lasting peace, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said during a trip there on Friday.  - Syria's Assad offers informal invitation to Obama
LONDON (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued an informal invitation to President Barack Obama to visit Damascus for talks, in a sign that relations between the two countries may gradually be thawing.  - Sanford cleared on use of state funds
ATLANTA (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who faces growing calls to quit over an extramarital affair, did not misuse public funds in trips he made to see his mistress, the state's top police official said on Thursday.  - Obama says will take months to turn around economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday there were signs that the "economic storm" that has made millions jobless was waning, but warned that it would still take the United States many months to recover.  - Hope for California budget deal as IOUs planned
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top California lawmakers raised hope on Thursday that an elusive budget deal could be at hand, as officials began issuing billions of dollars in "IOUs" to avoid a cash crisis on the second day of a new fiscal year without an agreement to balance the state's books.  - ... more feeds
- Science ( 94 feeds / 5 sources )
- Australia discovers 3 new large dinosaurs
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past.  - More than 800 wildlife species now extinct
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday.  - Loss of world's seagrass beds seen accelerating
MIAMI (Reuters) - The world's seagrass meadows, a critical habitat for marine life and profit-maker for the fishing industry, are in decline due to coastal development and the losses are accelerating, according to a new study.  - Vatican should learn from Galileo mess, prelate says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Catholic Church should not fear scientific progress and possibly repeat the mistake it made when it condemned astronomer Galileo in the 17th century, a Vatican official said on Thursday in a rare self-criticism.  - Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexican salamanders who can re-grow amputated legs are not pulling off quite as big a biological trick as scientists had first thought, which may help doctors trying to regenerate human limbs.  - Gene variations hinder mental illness tests: study
LONDON (Reuters) - As many as 30,000 different gene variations may underlie schizophrenia and bipolar disease, meaning any kind of quick test to predict either disease is a long way off, scientists said on Wednesday.  - Human heart master cells identified
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have identified the early master cells that make up the human heart and said on Wednesday they could someday be used to make patches to fix damaged hearts.  - Solar orbiter Ulysses ends mission after 18 years
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The interplanetary space probe Ulysses officially ceased operations on Tuesday after an 18-year voyage of roughly 5.5 billion miles (8.85 billion km) and nearly three complete orbits around the sun, NASA said.  - Daily sex makes for healthier sperm
LONDON (Reuters) - Having sex every day improves the quality of men's sperm and is recommended for couples trying to conceive, according to new research.  - Moon probe returns first images
The US space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft sends back its first images since reaching the Moon. - ... more feeds
- Sports ( 78 feeds / 5 sources )
- Roddick roars after Federer magic show
LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer sprinkled his magic all over Center Court on Friday before Andy Roddick bludgeoned Andy Murray into the hallowed turf to leave Britain still seeking its first post-war men's singles finalist at Wimbledon.  - Williams sisters united ahead of final battle
LONDON (Reuters) - The Williams double act put on a confident show on the eve of their Wimbledon final clash, making it clear the weight of facing each other as competitors has not put a strain on their relationship as team mates or sisters.  - Tournament host Woods grabs Congressional lead
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - Tiger Woods played the role of inhospitable host by soaring to the top of the leaderboard after the second round of the AT&T National on Friday.  - Ramirez avoids doping talk in winning return
SAN DIEGO, California (Reuters) - Manny Ramirez made a low key return to the Los Angeles Dodgers line-up after serving a 50-game ban for a doping offense on Friday, the slugger going 0-for-3 during his team's 6-3 win over the San Diego Padres.  - Student Federer passes latest examination
LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer accumulates records like other players tally up double faults and if anything the Swiss maestro gets more inspired every time he chalks up a new line in the sport's annals.  - Kings land Smyth in trade with Avalanche
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Kings have acquired veteran left wing Ryan Smyth in a trade with the Colorado Avalanche, the Kings announced on their website (http://kings.nhl.com) Friday.  - Lakers head coach Jackson commits to another season
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson will stay in charge for the 2009-10 season, he said on Friday as he ended speculation about his future.  - Blue Jackets captain Nash signs eight-year extension
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed captain Rick Nash to an eight-year contract extension, the team said Friday.  - El Salvador and Canada make winning starts in Gold Cup
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - El Salvador and Canada enjoyed victories on the first day of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the regional tournament for North and Central America and the Caribbean.  - Lance Armstrong starts Tour gamble in Monaco
MONACO (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong will begin to find out whether his gamble to return to the Tour de France is a credible one when the seven-times champion tackles a tough opener in front of Monaco's casino on Saturday.  - ... more feeds
- Technology ( 139 feeds / 7 sources )
- Treasure Hunt gets digital update in WiFi Venice
MILAN (Reuters) - Treasure Hunting will go fully digital on Friday night when players chase a mysterious oriental wand with special powers along the narrow streets and bridges of Venice.  - Broadband industry group say U.S. rules go too far
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government guidelines to spend $4 billion to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the United States may go beyond current laws, a broadband industry group, said on Thursday.  - Bluetooth "Big Brother" tracks festival-goers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices.  - NY thieves want iPhones, victims fight back
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology.  - MySpace suicide conviction tentatively dismissed
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed the conviction of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona.  - China paper says Web filter only a matter of time
BEIJING (Reuters) - It is only a matter of time before a controversial scheme to install Internet filtering software on all computers begins in China, a state newspaper said on Thursday, after the plan was abruptly delayed this week.  - Internet used to help young smokers quit
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment for young adults aged 18 to 24 years.  - Jay Leno wins cybersquatting case
GENEVA (Reuters) - Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate website.  - Web advertisers propose self-regulation principles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Online advertisers are proposing a mix of consumer education, disclosures about what information is being collected and special protections for children and sensitive information in an effort to head off tough legislation.  - Mixed results for green IT goals
A majority of tech workers in the public sector do not know about the emission reduction targets they face, says a survey. - ... more feeds
- UK News ( 61 feeds / 2 sources )
- Probe into fatal tower block fire
An investigation is under way after three adults and three children were killed by a fire in a tower block in south London. - UK investigates Iran charge claim
The British Foreign Office says it is trying to verify reports that one of its embassy employees held in Iran has been charged. - PM meets Pride team before parade
Gordon Brown welcomes equality rights campaigners to Downing Street before London's annual Pride march. - Pictures show gunman raiding shop
Pictures emerge of a gunman brandishing a gun at a jewellery shop worker on the Isle of Wight. - 'Missing' ferry passenger search
Holyhead coastguards search a wide area off north Wales after a person apparently goes missing from a Liverpool-Dublin ferry. - BT offers holidays for pay cuts
BT offers staff the chance of long holidays in return for a big pay cut in a bid to reduce costs during the economic downturn. - UK forces 'encounter few Taliban'
British forces on a major operation in Afghanistan say they have encountered little resistance from the Taliban. - Fears over student place shortage
Ministers must fund more university places in England, or risk forcing tens of thousands of teenagers onto the dole, an MP warns. - Bankruptcy in over-65s 'triples'
The number of pensioners filing for bankruptcy has increased threefold over the past five years, research shows. - Firm tells job hopefuls: txt us ur app in 160 characters
Applicants for a marketing job at a firm that provides mobile phone services are asked to send in a 160-character text message. - ... more feeds
- US News ( 64 feeds / 4 sources )
- U.S. parents think twice about sending kids to camp
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.  - Medici lawyer says Kohn didn't get Madoff payments
NEW YORK/VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian fund manager Sonja Kohn did not receive any kickbacks from Bernard Madoff to steer Bank Medici customer funds to the swindler's investment business, a Medici lawyer said on Friday.  - Massive demand for Jackson memorial tickets
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than half a million fans from around the world applied for 17,500 free tickets to Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, organizers said on Friday as a massive security operation got underway.  - Hope for California budget deal as IOUs planned
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top California lawmakers raised hope on Thursday that an elusive budget deal could be at hand, as officials began issuing billions of dollars in "IOUs" to avoid a cash crisis on the second day of a new fiscal year without an agreement to balance the state's books.  - Americans take to road but cautious after gas shock
GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - Robert Neal will take to the road this Independence Day holiday the same as millions of other Americans. But there's a difference in their road-trip ritual this Fourth of July.  - U.S. marshals seize Madoffs' $7 million NY apartment
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. marshals seized the luxury $7 million New York City penthouse apartment of imprisoned fraudster Bernard Madoff and his wife, Ruth, officials said on Thursday.  - Taco Bell replaces McDonald's as NBA sponsor
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Taco Bell has replaced McDonald's Corp as the National Basketball Association's official fast-food sponsor, the company said on Thursday.  - Gay marriage case will go to Supreme Court: attorney
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The attorney representing two same-sex couples who were denied a right to wed in California said on Thursday he expected the case to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to hear a case on the gay marriage issue.  - MySpace suicide conviction tentatively dismissed
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed the conviction of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona.  - SC serial killer conjures memory of 60s murderer
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 AP - A terrified rural South Carolina community hunkered down over the Fourth of July after the sheriff said a serial killer was on the loose, and longtime residents were reminded of a murderer who terrorized the town in the 1960s.
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- World News ( 121 feeds / 7 sources )
- North Korea defies U.S. with new missile launches
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an act of defiance toward the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.  - OAS set to suspend Honduras as it renounces charter
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Organization of American States prepared to suspend Honduras on Saturday after a caretaker government refused to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya and defiantly renounced the OAS charter in an apparent preemptive move.  - U.N.'s Ban denied Suu Kyi meeting
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he was "deeply disappointed" that military-ruled Myanmar's top general had rejected his request to meet with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.  - Hardline Iran editor calls for Mousavi to face trial
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A newspaper editor seen as close to Iran's top authority said Saturday defeated election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi and a former pro-reform president had committed "terrible crimes" which should be tried in court.  - Suicide bomber attacks foreign base in Afghan east
KABUL (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier and an Afghan were killed when a suicide bomber tried to attack a base in southeast Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, two days after a major operation against the Taliban was launched in the south.  - Heavy rain in southern China forces 150,000 to flee
BEIJING (Reuters) - Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.  - Bangladesh floods maroon thousands, landslides kill 6
DHAKA (Reuters) - Torrential rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing six people and stranding half a million in their homes in Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday.  - Sudan police search for kidnapped aid workers
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security services were searching Saturday for two kidnapped female aid workers, one Ugandan and one Irish, taken from their compound in Darfur, the women's employer said.  - Nine Chechen police killed in Russia's Ingushetia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Nine Chechen policemen sent to crush an insurgency in the neighboring Russian republic of Ingushetia were gunned down Saturday, Interfax reported, intensifying the cycle of violence now unfolding in the region.  - North Korea missile tests defy UN
North Korea test-fires seven short-range missiles in an apparent act of defiance on America's Independence Day. - ... more feeds
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