| Latest worldwide news | A women's Tour de France? | | | Could a women's Tour de France become a reality? With75,000 people having signed an online petition and the social media campaign having captured the imagination, the quest for equality is well and truly underway. |
| Why was doomed Spanish train going so fast? | | | MADRID, July 25 (Reuters) - Why was the train going so fast? Did the driver fail to heed speed limits on a sharp curve? Did brakes fail? What about the safety system meant to force the train or the driver to slow down if going too fast? |
| Facebook wows Wall Street with mobile ads growth | | | (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's stellar results allayed fears that the company may face difficulty in making money from mobile ads and prompted several Wall Street brokerages to raise their target price on the stock. |
| Insight Science for hire - Trial over plastic exposes disclosure deficit | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - By 2012, Eastman Chemical seemed to be perfectly positioned when it came to producing plastic for drinking bottles. Concerns about a widely used chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) had become so great that Walmart stopped selling plastic baby bottles and children's sippy cups made with it and consumer groups were clamoring for regulators to ban it. Medical societies were warning that BPA's similarity to estrogens could disrupt the human hormone system and pose health risks, es |
| North Korea holds Mass Games | | | Acrobats, dancers and singers -- under normal circumstances, a festival featuring such tried and true attractions might not send you rushing to the Internet to book travel. |
| Mermaids dive for octopus | | | In a tiny Korean fishing village, "mermaids" dive for abalone and conch while their sisters cook up a breakfast few foreigners know about. |
| Driver tossed in trees | | | Several people had to be rescued from their vehicles as Phoenix was swamped by flash floods. |
| U.S. lawmakers want sanctions on any country taking in Snowden | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel voted unanimously on Thursday to seek trade or other sanctions against Russia or any other country that offers asylum to former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who has been holed up for weeks at a Moscow airport. |
| Inside SAC's Dell trade | | | The federal indictment charging "substantial" insider trading at SAC Capital Advisors details how information allegedly leaked by a Dell insider found its way to SAC's portfolio managers, who allegedly profited from it. Here's how the Department of Justice says it worked. |
| Dance Performance Art Without Longueurs | | | For their series TAB, Stephanie Browne, a visual artist, and Kay Ottinger, a dancer, focus on a facet of a show that some producers of performance art ignore the audience. |
| Ex-reporter claims hacking at Trinity Mirror paper-Sky | | | LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A former reporter on a tabloid owned by Trinity Mirror has claimed the newspaper hacked into the phones of celebrities, Sky News reported on Thursday, potentially broadening a scandal that has so far largely affected Rupert Murdoch's News Corp . |
| Wolff drives females forward | | | Susie Wolff says she will keep fighting to win a place on the Formula One grid -- but she won't rely on her sexuality to get there. |
| RPT-Australia's United Petroleum considers potential sale-sources | | | SYDNEY, July 25 (Reuters) - Australian petrol and convenience store retailer United Petroleum is exploring a potential sale or a joint venture of the business that has a value of about A$1 billion ($921 million) including debt, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. |
| Colorado town mulls issuing licenses to shoot down drones | | | DENVER (Reuters) - The farming and ranching town of Deer Trail, Colorado, which boasts that it held the world's first rodeo in 1869, is now considering starting a 21st century tradition - paying bounties to anyone who shoots down an unmanned drone. |
| North Korea holds Mass Games | | | Acrobats, dancers and singers -- under normal circumstances, a festival featuring such tried and true attractions might not send you rushing to the Internet to book travel. |
| U.S. Says Rwanda Aids Congo Rebels | | | Recent clashes between the M23 rebels and troops belonging to the Democratic Republic of Congo have heightened concern about reviving violence in the region. |
| Malala's voice stronger, not silenced | | | The attack was meant to silence the outspoken teenager who dared to defy the Taliban's ban against girls in school. Instead, it only made Malala's voice more powerful. After a school year that started with a shooting, Malala now eyes a summer of speaking at the U.N., telling her story in a new book and amplifying the issue of girls education. |
| Syrian rebels ask Kerry to send U.S. arms quickly | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of Syria's opposition told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday the country's situation was "desperate" and called for the United States to arm the rebels quickly and to push harder for a political settlement. |
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