| Latest worldwide news | Well Whats Your Fitness Age? | | | Scientific research and on online calculator lets you assess how well your body functions physically, relative to how well it should work, given your age. |
| 'Ender's Game' explores complexity of youth, isolation and warfare | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Based on a story written three decades ago and set in a future dystopian Earth where children are manipulated into fighting an enemy race, the film "Ender's Game" could make its young adult and family audience ponder what ails present-day society. |
| Senate Republicans Block 2 Obama Nominees | | | Voting on the nominees, one to a powerful appeals court and another to a housing lending oversight post, fell short of the 60 votes required to break the Republican filibuster. |
| Myanmar's magnificent treasures | | | After decades of a military junta rule, the south-east Asian country of Myanmar is opening up, and the government is working hard to welcome a plane loads of visitors from around the world. |
| COLUMN-Don't expect the euro's rally to last | | | Oct 31 (Reuters) - What is happening to the euro? Currencies are more important than stock market prices or bond yields for many businesses and investors, not to mention for globe-trotting families... |
| Sumatra's endangered tigers | | | As recently as 1978 more than 1,000 Sumatran tigers lived on Sumatra. But thanks to appallingly high deforestation and rampant poaching their numbers have dropped to around 400. But there's still hope for the Sumatran tiger. |
| Curious crowds disrupt Istanbul's new Europe-Asia rail service | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turks intrigued by Istanbul's new underwater rail line linking Europe and Asia are overcrowding trains by riding to and fro under the Bosphorus, forcing closure of one station and causing delays by pressing emergency stop buttons, state railways said. |
| Opposites attract in brutal 'hobby' | | | Mathias Boe is smiling, like a lot of people do when he explains that badminton is his full-time job. It may seem to many like a hobby, but the Dane has become a national hero with his playing partner Carsten Mogensen -- and their success is proof that opposites do attract. |
| The world's best city is ... | | | Not the same as last year's. Cond Nast Traveler has announced its latest Readers' Choice Awards. How many have you been to? |
| Jimenez toasts vintage ace! | | | If ever there was an appropriate prize for a hole in one, the organizers of the Portugal Masters certainly found it when fun-loving Spanish veteran Miguel Angel Jimenez struck it lucky on the eighth at the Oceanico Victoria Course on the Algarve. |
| Raikkonen no-show fuels speculation | | | ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Kimi Raikkonen's strained relationship with his Lotus Formula One team was back in the spotlight on Thursday after the Finn failed to turn up for media interviews at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. |
| Sumatra's endangered tigers | | | As recently as 1978 more than 1,000 Sumatran tigers lived on Sumatra. But thanks to appallingly high deforestation and rampant poaching their numbers have dropped to around 400. But there's still hope for the Sumatran tiger. |
| Congo army says hunting rebels deep into mountain bases | | | GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Congo's army said on Thursday it was hunting rebels deep into forests and mountains along the border with Rwanda and Uganda, the last insurgent hideouts after they were driven from towns they held during a 20-month rebellion. |
| George, Hill Lead Pacers Past Pelicans 95-90 | | | George Hill's confidence in the clutch, cultivated by a deep playoff run just last spring, was never more obvious than when he received a pass at the top of the 3-point arc inside the final minute. |
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