| Latest worldwide news | Infighting kills top Somali militant | | | A senior Somali militant who had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head has been killed in infighting among members of the al Qaeda-aligned group Al-Shabaab, a spokesman for the group said Saturday. |
| Can racism ever be beaten? | | | Watching dozens of crazed supporters trying to set fire to a stadium makes you question your love of football. |
| Brazil was target of U.S. signals spying, Globo newspaper says | | | RIO DE JANEIRO, July 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency monitored the telephone and email activity of Brazilian companies and individuals in the past decade as part of U.S. espionage activities, the Globo newspaper reported on Sunday, citing documents provided by fugitive Edward Snowden, a former NSA intelligence contractor. |
| 36 Hours in Gettysburg, Pa. | | | As crowds descend on this small town to mark the battles 150th anniversary, heres a look at what theyll find, from history to dining to wine. |
| Nikkei set to rise after U.S. jobs data buoy Wall St, dollar | | | TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average is expected to rise on Monday, likely helped by a weaker yen and upbeat U.S. jobs data that sent the dollar soaring and suggested the world's largest economy was on a solid footing. Market players said the Nikkei was likely to trade between 14,300 to 14,500 on Monday, and may attempt to scale fresh new 5-1/2-week heights. "There are so many positive factors encouraging buyers," said Toshiyuki Kanayama, senior market analyst at Monex |
| Bubba Watson on shaping shots | | | Defending Masters champion Bubba Watson talks family, Golf Boys, that playoff and shows us how he shapes those shots. |
| Internet sites join July 4 protest against surveillance | | | (Reuters) - The online community rallied on Thursday in support of live protests against the U.S. government's surveillance of internet activity, a practice recently exposed by a former contractor for the National Security Agency. |
| Meet the female Indiana Jones | | | Close your eyes and imagine this. An excavation is taking place on Mount Carmel, fabled site of the Prophet Elijah's burning alter, and archaeologists are digging deep to uncover the roots of humanity in the region. And every person on the dig is a woman. This isn't fiction, this is the history of real-life female archeologists. |
| Obama wraps up Africa tour | | | July 2 - Ending an 8-day regional tour, U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama promote development and women's health in Tanzania, along with George W. Bush and his wife Laura. Lindsey Parietti reports. |
| "Monsters University" scares zombies to lead box office | | | June 23 (Reuters) - "Monsters University," the prequel to Pixar's 2001 animated blockbuster "Monsters, Inc.," scared up $82 million in weekend ticket sales to easily outdistance the week's other new movie, the big-budget apocalyptic thriller "World War Z." |
| It's not about Paula Deen, it's about us | | | Gene Seymour says Deen's statements let us pillory her while we feel superior. How about instead facing our own unfinished business with racism, such as high incarceration rates for blacks? |
| China probes pricing at drugmakers including GSK, Merck | | | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's top economic planning agency is investigating costs and prices charged by drugmakers, including units of GlaxoSmithKline and Merck, as foreign firms come under pressure from Beijing over possible price-fixing. |
| Brazil was target of U.S. signals spying, Globo newspaper says | | | RIO DE JANEIRO, July 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency monitored the telephone and email activity of Brazilian companies and individuals in the past decade as part of U.S. espionage activities, the Globo newspaper reported on Sunday, citing documents provided by fugitive Edward Snowden, a former NSA intelligence contractor. |
| 2 bodies recovered off Coney Island | | | Police have identified two bodies found in the waters off Coney Island on Friday, believed to be the two people who went missing while riding on a personal watercraft on the Fourth of July, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. |
| U.S. defends secrecy of unique surveillance court | | | WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday urged a secret U.S. court that oversees surveillance programs to reject a request by a civil liberties group to see court opinions used to underpin a massive phone records database. |
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