| Latest worldwide news | Build your home from scratch | | | Imagine if it were possible to build your own home, in this day and age, for less than $35,000. Or to cut up some timber and piece your new home together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. |
| Duchess back in the public eye | | | Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, made her first public appearance Friday alongside her husband, Prince William, just over a month after she gave birth to Prince George. |
| Press Adds What if? to Five Ws in France | | | With vacationing readers less inclined to read hard news in the summer, French newspapers and magazines have left some of the news behind in favor of far more creative writing. |
| Italy's Banca Marche put under special administration | | | MILAN (Reuters) - Italian lender Banca Marche has been placed under special administration by the Bank of Italy, becoming the biggest casualty so far of an extended round of balance sheet inspections by the central bank. |
| 5 lessons for Syria from Iraq | | | The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq led to nearly 10 years of occupation, nearly 5,000 deaths among the U.S. military and the few allies that joined "Operation Iraqi Freedom," a visceral sectarian-based insurgency and the meddling of neighbors all seeking to influence post-Saddam Iraq. What was intended as an act of liberation -- then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld expected the troops to be coming home in a few months -- became a quagmire. |
| Rocky Transition From Farm to Town in China | | | It is one of the largest peacetime population transfers in history the removal of 2.4 million farmers from mountain areas in central Chinas Shaanxi Province to low-lying towns. |
| Midwife-led care linked to fewer premature births | | | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women cared for by midwives throughout pregnancy tended to have less-complicated births and were less likely to go into labor early than women getting standard medical care, according to a new review of more than a dozen studies. |
| Kenya sees lower-than-normal rains hurting farms, power output | | | NAIROBI, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Kenya is expected to receive lower-than-normal and poorly distributed rains in the last quarter of 2013 which could impact agricultural production and power supply from hydro-electric dams, the Meteorological Department said on Friday. |
| White House says looking at limited response to Syria crisis | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is looking at a response to Syrian use of chemical weapons that is "very discrete and limited" and not open-ended, the White House said on Thursday, as President Barack Obama consulted German Chancellor Angela Merkel by phone. |
| Yahoo versus Google | | | Yahoo's websites had more U.S. web traffic than Google in July. That hasn't happened in over two years. |
| Make 'revenge porn' a crime | | | Women are stalked, lives are ruined by "revenge porn," naked photos posted with contact information but no consent. Danielle Citron says it should be a crime. |
| A Top Bankers Image, Clouded | | | Zurich Insurance said it would look into whether its chief financial officer was under undue pressure before he killed himself, leading to the resignation of Josef Ackermann as chairman. |
| Is class the new race? | | | John Sutter says both President Obama and CNN readers point up that economic equality is the social justice issue of our time |
| How the U.S. will likely strike Syria | | | Bombs or missiles? The U.S. could approach its retaliation for Syria's alleged chemical warfare attack a few different ways. Here's a breakdown of the two most likely tactics. |
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