| Latest worldwide news | World Briefing | Asia More Clashes on Kashmir Border | | | Indian and Pakistani troops fired machine guns and mortar shells across the border in Kashmir, wounding at least 12 people amid some of the most serious tensions in the region in a decade, officials said Friday. |
| Saudi Arabia Warns Online Backers of Female Drivers | | | Saudi officials stepped up warnings Friday over a planned protest that will see women get behind the wheel to challenge male-only driving rules, saying that even online support for the demonstration could be grounds for arrest. |
| Immelt says GE can succeed in China independently | | | Jan 19 - In an interview with Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt touts the conglomerate's success with joint ventures in China, but says GE has succeeded on its own. |
| U.S. offers $162 million for Sandy-struck Atlantic Coast | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five days before the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy's strike on the U.S. Northeast, the Interior Department announced $162 million in funding for research and restoration projects to help protect the Atlantic Coast from future storms. |
| 'Half of a Yellow Sun' on big screen | | | "Half of a Yellow Sun" stars Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and is one of the most eagerly awaited films to come out of Africa in recent years. |
| India expected to raise interest rates, roll back rupee support | | | MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's central bank is expected to raise policy interest rates for the second time in as many months on Tuesday to fight stubbornly high inflation, while rolling back further emergency measures put in place recently to support the slumping rupee. |
| Is the iPhone 5C a flop? | | | When Apple unveiled not one but two new iPhones last month, it was the dawning of a new strategy for the company, which for six years had championed its single iconic smartphone even as competitors rolled out an array of shapes, sizes and features. |
| Of Fact, Fiction and Cheneys Defibrillator | | | Dick Cheney writes that to prevent terrorists from sending a fatal shock to his defibrillator, he had his doctors disable the wireless capability. Could somebody really kill you that way? |
| Seoul shares seen lacking momentum ahead of Fed meeting, data | | | SEOUL, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Seoul shares are expected to tread water on Tuesday after Wall Street closed near record highs on hopes the Federal Reserve will decide this week to keep its stimulus in place, and as investors await key economic indicators and corporate earnings. "With thinning foreign inflows and a slew of indicators to be checked, there isn't much to elicit investor risk appetite today," said Kim Soon-young, an analyst at IBK Investment Securities. Although foreigners bough |
| Currents | QA A Blueprint for Misery | | | The artist Michael Elmgreen, on his design with Ingar Dragset of an apartment for a fictional failed architect at the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| Lens Blog Chronicler of War Nears 100, and Counting | | | Max Desfor, who photographed Gandhi, Hiroshima and more as well as being a Pulitzer Prize winner for his Korean War pictures and one of two living members of The Associated Press who covered World War II turns 100 next month. |
| Pistons Beat Wolves on Smith's 3-Pointer | | | Josh Smith made a 3-pointer as time expired and finished with 20 points to lift the Detroit Pistons to a 99-98 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night in both teams' exhibition finale. |
| Try the origami kayak | | | Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, is believed to date back as far as the 17th century. Traditionally done with a single sheet of paper, its elegant principles have come to influence package design, mathematics and -- more recently -- an unusual new folding kayak. |
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