Murdoch attacked as defends self to UK parliament
LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch, unperturbed by a foam pie attack in Britain's parliament, apologized on Tuesday for the phone hacking...
Get the full story >>"Gang of Six" plan offers lifeline to debt talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators offered an ambitious plan on Tuesday that could revive stalled debt talks and the...
Get the full story >>FBI launches searches in probe of Anonymous
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI raided six locations in New York and conducted searches in California on Tuesday as part of an investigation of...
Get the full story >>Iran says installing new nuclear centrifuges
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is installing new centrifuges to enrich uranium as part of its efforts to speed up its nuclear program, the...
Get the full story >>Only a quarter of U.S. students proficient in geography
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About a quarter of U.S. students are proficient in geography, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Get the full story >>Casey Anthony: Diver who looked for Caylee sues Casey Anthony
Another lawsuit has been filed against Casey Anthony.
Get the full story >>Heat wave scorches central United States
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A stifling heat wave in the nation's midsection intensified on Monday, closing government buildings that lacked air-...
Get the full story >>Minnesota special session to end shutdown begins
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Minnesota legislature opened a special session on Tuesday afternoon to consider a budget compromise brokered...
Get the full story >>Borders, unable to find white knight, to liquidate
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Borders Group Inc, the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain, said it has canceled an upcoming bankruptcy auction and...
Get the full story >>Israeli navy seizes Gaza-bound yacht
ASHDOD, Israel (Reuters) - The Israeli navy seized a French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists heading for the blockaded Gaza Strip on...
Get the full story >>Nelson Mandela's 93rd birthday inspires South Africa
A highway and a mile-wide valley divide the glittering retail towers and leafy suburbs of Sandton from the exuberant chaos and squalid...
Get the full story >>U.S. officials meet Gaddafi envoys, urge him to go
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. officials met with representatives of Muammar Gaddafi to deliver a message that the embattled Libyan leader...
Get the full story >>U.N. begins food aid airlift to rebel-held Somalia
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Monday it had started airlifting food aid to rebel-held parts of drought-hit Somalia and that...
Get the full story >>Weakening Tropical Storm Bret swirls over Atlantic
MIAMI (Reuters) - A weakening Tropical Storm Bret swirled on a northeastward track into the open Atlantic on Tuesday, well away from the...
Get the full story >>Eleven police killed, two beheaded in Afghan violence
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Seven Afghan policemen were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the southern city of Lashkar Gah...
Get the full story >>Casey Anthony's whereabouts: Speculation rampant
With the exception of a few frenetic moments when she was released from the Orange County Jail early Sunday, the public has not laid eyes on...
Get the full story >>Murdoch attacked as defends self to UK parliament
LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch, unperturbed by a foam pie attack in Britain's parliament, apologized on Tuesday for the phone hacking...
Get the full story >>Family of U.S. agent slain in Mexico demands to know gun source
Five months after U.S. immigration agent Jaime Zapata was shot to death by a Mexican drug cartel, his family is demanding to know whether...
Get the full story >>No more oil to spill from Montana pipeline: EPA
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The danger of more oil leaking from Exxon Mobil Corp's ruptured pipeline in Montana has ended, the Environmental...
Get the full story >>Obama vows fight with pick for consumer agency chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned the financial industry on Monday to stop fighting his administration's reforms to...
Get the full story >>Petraeus hands over command in Afghanistan, to lead CIA
KABUL (Reuters) - General David Petraeus, Washington's new intelligence chief, handed over command of U.S. and NATO-led troops in...
Get the full story >>Moody's suggests U.S. eliminate debt ceiling
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to...
Get the full story >>GM will not add products "solely" to cut UAW deal
FLINT, Michigan (Reuters) - General Motors Co will not make any product commitments "solely" to achieve a deal with the United Auto...
Get the full story >>Carmageddon: 'Mission accomplished,' says Villaraigosa as 405 Freeway reopens early
The first drivers roared up the newly reopened 405 Freeway at high noon Sunday, honking horns, kicking up roostertails of demolition dust,...
Get the full story >>Lawyer says Egypt's Mubarak in coma, TV denies
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak,hospitalised since April and due to stand trial in August, is in a coma, his lawyer...
Get the full story >>Libya rebels fighting to capture eastern oil town
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebel forces on Sunday entered the oil town of Brega and fought street battles there with forces loyal...
Get the full story >>Another German priest arrested, accused of child abuse
The news comes days after the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, one of the countries worst affected in a series of abuse scandals in...
Get the full story >>Japanese nuclear-contaminated beef "sold in and around Tokyo"
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's second-biggest retailer said on Sunday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed.
Get the full story >>China slams U.S. "interference" after Obama meets Dalai Lama
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China accused the United States on Sunday of "grossly" interfering in its internal affairs and seriously...
Get the full story >>NASA probe enters orbit around asteroid Vesta
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A robotic NASA science probe slipped into orbit around the potato-shaped asteroid Vesta on Saturday to begin a...
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