| Latest worldwide news | How to feed 218 million people | | | Most people might know modern India for its rising billionaire class, its Bangalore-based information technology hub and its Bollywood celebrity culture. |
| Ice melt speeding up, study finds | | | Two decades of satellite readings back up what dramatic pictures have suggested in recent years The mile-thick ice sheets that cover Greenland and most of Antarctica are melting at a faster rate in a warming world. |
| Your solstice traditions | | | If Stonehenge is anything to go by, summer celebrations have a millennia-old history. While the ancient druids may have commemorated the fertility of the season, many of us are just happy to get outdoors. |
| Cracks Emerge as Egyptians Seek Premier | | | Within hours of reports that Mohamed ElBaradei had been chosen as prime minister, Egypts powerful ultraconservative Islamist party said it would refuse to work with him. |
| Mexico reform drive at stake as regions vote | | | By Simon Gardner MEXICO CITY, July 7 (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's sweeping economic reform plans hang in the balance in local elections on Sunday with a strong opposition showing seen as crucial to preserve a cross-party pact. Nearly half of Mexico's 31 states are voting for a mix of local parliaments and municipal governments, but all eyes are on the race for governor in the state of Baja California, a stronghold of the conservative National Action party (PAN). |
| Man killed by three caged tigers in Italy | | | ROME (Reuters) - A 72-year-old man was killed by three tigers in a closed-down zoo in northern Italy after he entered the animals' cage to feed them, media reports said on Tuesday. |
| Richer than Trump or Oprah | | | Zhang Xin grew up in poverty and at the age of 14 began a laboring job in a factory. Today, she is richer than Donald Trump, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey. |
| Economy needs immigrants | | | Joe Green says as immigration vote goes to the House, remember why we need immigrants, a self-selecting group of risk-takers that define America and feed its entrepreneurial ethos |
| U.S. man in N. Korea Please help | | | The American citizen sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp, has appealed to the Korean authorities for forgiveness and asked the United States for help in securing his release in an exclusive interview from prison obtained Wednesday by CNN. |
| Fast track to driver road rage? | | | It may not be "High Noon," but the Red Bull team are facing a Shanghai showdown when their two drivers resume rivalries at this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix. |
| UConn Qualifies Academically for Postseason | | | Connecticut's men's basketball team, which was barred from the 2013 postseason because of past problems with its Academic Progress Rate, has qualified academically for next year's NCAA tournament. |
| Police barricade Istanbul's main square | | | Police barricaded Istanbul's main Taksim Square and used water cannons to disperse crowds on Saturday to prevent demonstrators from entering Gezi Park, the site of protests for more than a month. |
| Murray stars in great escape | | | Andy Murray produces a remarkable comeback victory to defeat Fernando Verdasco in five sets and seal his place in the semifinal at Wimbledon Wednesday. |
| Teresa Heinz Kerry Hospitalized in Boston | | | Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday while on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. |
| Australia job advertisements fall for 4th month in June | | | SYDNEY, July 8 (Reuters) - Australian job advertisements in newspapers and on the Internet fell for a fourth straight month in June, a potentially worrying omen for unemployment that will maintain pressure for another cut in interest rates. |
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