| Latest worldwide news | Lisa Kudrow No 'Friends' movie | | | Lisa Kudrow is notably normal compared with the kooky roles she's known for playing. Whether it's her 10-season stint as Phoebe Buffay or the fame-starved Valerie Cherish on just one season of "The Comeback," the actress admits a fondness for delusional characters. |
| Driverless car steering course to road-readiness | | | June 11 - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are putting the finishing touches on their version of a driverless car that, they say, lays the groundwork for computers to replace humans in the driver seat within a decade. Ben Gruber went for a ride. |
| Kershaw, Dodgers Hand Bailey 4th Straight Loss | | | Clayton Kershaw pitched eight stellar innings, Hanley Ramirez hit a two-run homer off Homer Bailey and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cincinnati 2-1 on Friday night to maintain their half-game lead over Arizona in the NL West. |
| Renesas plans to close major chip plant in Japan - sources | | | TOKYO, July 27 (Reuters) - Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp plans to close a system LSI chip plant in northern Japan that makes chips for Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii game consoles and other consumer electronics, after failing to find a buyer for the facility, sources familiar with the matter said on Saturday. |
| U.S. assures Russia Snowden won't be executed or tortured | | | MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has made a formal promise to Russia not to execute or torture Edward Snowden if he is sent home to face charges of illegally disclosing government secrets, and the Kremlin said Russian and U.S. security agencies are in talks over his fate. |
| An end to rhino slaughter? | | | D-Day for rhinos is 2026, according to South African officials -- the year the majestic mammals will near extinction if current poaching rates continue. |
| RPT-Smithfield's China deal spurs heparin heart drug safety concerns | | | WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are concerned a Chinese company's planned $4.7 billion acquisition of pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc could affect the safety and availability of heparin, a blood-thinner widely used in heart surgery and kidney dialysis that is derived from pig intestines. |
| Japan team wraps up USDA meeting on GM wheat situation | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Japanese delegation is completing talks with the U.S. Department of Agriculture aimed at restarting purchases of U.S. western white wheat, which were halted after the discovery of an unapproved genetically modified strain growing in Oregon. |
| Factory activity rebounds in July Markit | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conditions in the U.S. manufacturing sector improved in July as firms enjoyed a rebound in new orders, took on new workers and increased output at the fastest clip in four... |
| Lyondell says its RIN costs may reach $200 million in 2013 | | | NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - Petrochemical company LyondellBasell, which operates a 280,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Houston refinery, said on Friday its ethanol credit obligations, or RINs, could reach $200 million in 2013, up from $30 million last year, an increase that could pressure its refinery margins. |
| Sea this Inside $200m yacht hotel | | | With land at a premium, an increasing number of developers are turning to floating hotels. Introducing Gibraltar's new $200m five-star yacht hotel. |
| Super freak to super stud? | | | How will Frankel, widely considered the finest thoroughbred every produced, perform in his new career at stud? |
| Remembering Andrew Simpson | | | On May 9, a cool breeze blew across the waters of San Francisco Bay. Gliding across the surface, two teams of world-class sailors -- Oracle Team USA and Swedish Artemis Racing -- were hard at work preparing for the upcoming America's Cup. According to reports, the wind was "a little above normal" at 25 to 35 mph, but nothing that professional sailors couldn't handle. Across the waterfront, anticipation was building ahead of the first America's Cup to be held in the U.S. since 1995. |
| The power of friendship | | | World number 2 Andy Murray focuses on his friend, ATP doubles player Ross Hutchins, who is battling cancer. |
| Police fire teargas at violent protests in Sidi Bouzid | | | TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police fired teargas late on Saturday to disperse violent protests in the southern town of Sidi Bouzid, cradle of the country's revolution and hometown of slain opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi, witnesses said. |
| Russia loses $200 million satellites as launch ends in flames | | | ALMATY, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites worth around $200 million crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday after its engines suddenly switched off. |
| Revelations by Rowling | | | J. K. Rowling, of Harry Potter fame, shared a bit of the back story of her new book, written as Robert Galbraith. |
| Motherlode Blog Princes Are for Fairy Tales | | | The message royalty sends to our children the one about meritocracy, just as much as the one about aesthetics is all the more suspect when it comes in flesh and blood, as with the newborn Prince of Cambridge. |
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