| Latest worldwide news | Wanted by the taxman Indonesia's $5 billion of lost coal | | | JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia may be the world's top exporter of thermal coal, but that masks an embarrassing fact for a government scrambling to raise revenue - more than $5 billion worth of the fuel is mined illegally and goes untaxed each year. |
| At trial, BP denies dithering during response to U.S. Gulf spill | | | NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Dithering and indecision at BP Plc delayed the capping of its Macondo well and worsened the extent of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to allegations by plaintiffs' lawyers at trial on Tuesday that the British company denied. |
| Facebook expands ad service for app developers | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is expanding an advertising service aimed at developers of smartphone and tablet apps, the social network's latest move to bolster its fast-growing mobile business. |
| 4 bodies pulled from plane wreck | | | Four people were on board a business jet that crashed into a hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office said Tuesday. |
| East Germany's secret police | | | The sometimes ludicrous disguises and complex surveillance techniques used by East Germany's Stasi secret police to psychologically brutalize the population have been revealed, more than two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain. |
| Researchers predict violent response to global warming | | | Sept. 26 - Researchers in California say climate change could spur an increase in global violence by as much as 50 percent over the next 40 years if current temperature trends continue. The UC Berkeley study links climatic shifts to historical outbreaks of violence, such as wars and riots, and says the trend is on an upward trajectory. Ben Gruber reports. |
| Countdown to global trade deadline marked by dire warnings | | | GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization has about 20 working days left to stitch together the first global trade deal in two decades, but even the faster tempo of talks under new chief Roberto Azevedo may be too little, too late. |
| U.S. Reckons With Impact of Shutdown | | | Barricades and padlocks closed access to federal facilities across the country Tuesday as the vast machinery of the federal government began shutting down for the first time in nearly two decades. |
| Carlos Slim increases stake in NY Times | | | Oct 6 (Reuters) - Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who loaned the New York Times Co $250 million, has upped his stake in the company for the third time in two months. |
| Arielle Haves, Cliff Bayer | | | The bride is a student at New York University School of Medicine. The groom is a managing director for the investment banking division of UBS. |
| U.S. House passes emergency funding bill, Boehner weighs in | | | Sep. 30 - As the U.S. government creeps closer to a shutdown, the U.S. House of Representatives approves another emergency funding bill that the Democratic-led senate is sure to reject. House Speaker John Boehner weighed in. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Breakingviews Learning to speak Chinese finance | | | Sept. 30 - Navigating China's business world is made even trickier by ambiguous lingo that can leave even the most seasoned investor perplexed. Breakingviews' John Foley offers some no-nonsense translations. |
| PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - Oct 2 | | | Oct 2 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. |
| Balloon to study Comet ISON | | | Exploring the heavens with spaceships and fancy orbiting telescopes like the Hubble is pretty routine stuff for NASA. But the space agency is going low-tech to get a good look at an eagerly anticipated comet. |
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