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| MARKET PULSE-J.C. Penney, Lumber Liquidators, Nektar, Violin, Enduro | | | (For more market insights, including options activity, click on ; for the Day Ahead newsletter http//link.reuters.com/mex49sfor the Morning News Call newsletter http//link.reuters.com/nex49s) U.S. stocks fell at the open on Friday, with the SP 500 and Dow poised to drop for the first week in four, as concerns grew over a lack of compromise in debt and budget negotiations by congressional lawmakers in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.27 percent, the SP 500 was down 0. |
| Tiger deception scares off crop-raiding elephants | | | Sept. 24 - Using a system of sensors and speakers, researchers in California are exploiting elephants' natural survival instincts to stop them encroaching on farms and villages in India. By fooling the elephants into believing there are predators nearby, the researchers say crops and lives can be saved. Ben Gruber reports. |
| Alicia Keys Let's fight HIV together | | | Bernadette's father died from AIDS complications when she was a child. Her mother never even knew he had HIV until she and her daughter tested positive years later. |
| Bloomberg on climate change | | | For the first time in human history, more than half the world's population is living in cities, which now produce approximately 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That puts cities on the frontlines of the battle against climate change -- and more and more cities are leading the charge. |
| Fossil fish find in China fills in evolutionary picture | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - An international team of scientists in China has discovered what may be the earliest known creature with a distinct face, a 419 million-year-old fish that could be a missing link in the development of vertebrates. |
| Singing doctor turns social media into treatment tool | | | Sept. 25 - A doctor in the UK has become a Youtube sensation while demonstrating the power of social media to help patients. Dr Tapas Mukherjee is now known as 'The Singing Doctor', with his version of 90s hit "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by the band Deep Blue Something, which he has adapted lyrically to help acute asthma patients treat their condition. Jim Drury went to meet him. |
| Is golf driving the U.S. economy? | | | U.S. debt may appear to be spiraling out of control, but one sporting industry is making a major contribution to the country's economic health. |
| New York town finds 850 snakes in man's home | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities in the New York town of Shirley found 850 snakes, including two illegal 6-foot-long (2-meter) Burmese pythons, in the home and garage of an animal control officer suspected of dealing in the reptiles, local media reported. |
| Besiktas, Galatasaray ends in violence | | | A derby match between Besiktas and Galatasaray in Istanbul was abandoned on Sunday as one of Europe's most fiercely contested football rivalries descended into violence and chaos. |
| Olympics Sochi hit by flooding | | | Sochi has embarked on an Olympian effort to clear the dirt and debris from its roads after the 2014 Winter Games host was hit by severe flooding. |
| Giants Win in Possible Lincecum Farewell Outing | | | Tim Lincecum stood at his locker, sweat dripping from his sideburns beneath a gray beanie cap, trying to find the right words after possibly pitching his final game for the only team he knows. |
| Ronaldo agrees new deal | | | Cristiano Ronaldo pledged his future to Real Madrid as he signs a new five-year deal Sunday which ties him to the Spanish giants until 2018. |
| Sequester cuts in play in Washington funding battle | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As if the Capitol Hill battle over Obamacare were not messy enough, some lawmakers are hoping to add one more layer to the mix turning off the much-bemoaned, across-the-board spending cuts known as the "sequester." |
| Most powerful female politician ever? | | | Frugal, discreet and boring -- just some of the ways Angela Merkel has been described by peers. So how did the German chancellor became the most powerful woman in the world? |
| Attack on a Kenyan Mall | | | Scenes from inside the Westgate mall in Nairobi as shoppers fled the assault by Shabab militants. Note Contains graphic images. |
| Singapore arrests 14 for match-fixing | | | In a crackdown on football match-fixing, Singaporean authorities have arrested more than a dozen people they suspect of being members of an organized crime syndicate. |
| UPDATE 3-BlackBerry confirms deep loss and revenue drop | | | TORONTO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd reported a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion on Friday, in line with a warning it gave last week, just days after the smartphone maker accepted its largest shareholder's tentative $4.7 billion bid to take it private. |
| U.S. lawmakers probe banks' debit card deals with colleges | | | WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers are demanding to know whether U.S. banks paid money or gave gifts to college officials to set up student debit card programs that the legislators say are "fee laden" and inflate education costs. |
| Most powerful female politician? | | | Frugal, discreet and boring -- just some of the ways Angela Merkel has been described by peers and in the global press. As Germans head to the polls Sunday, CNN looks at how the German chancellor became the most powerful woman in the world. |
| Alonso cycle deal stalls | | | Fernando Alonso won't be saving Euskaltel Euskadi after all. But Alonso still wants a cycling team and might start one up from "scratch." |
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