| Latest worldwide news | Luxury jets for the long-haul | | | It's the billionaires' equivalent of lining up all night for the new iPhone. Multinational corporations and the ultra-rich are racing to get their hands on a Gulfstream 650, the newest and most envy-inducing private jet on the market. Order one tomorrow, plunk down $65M and you'll see your plane in 2017. |
| Motherlode Blog So Much More Than Peter Rabbit | | | Ill take the rougher of the Beatrix Potter books over Peter Rabbit, the ones in which her humor is as delightful to adult readers as it is to children, books about muss and mud and dinner. |
| U.S. panel backs lung cancer screening for high-risk groups | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - After decades of debate, an influential U.S. panel has endorsed the use of low-dose CT scans to detect lung cancer in high-risk individuals, paving the way for insurance coverage of the test for as many as 10 million smokers and former smokers. |
| NBC plans Hillary Clinton miniseries, part of TV event strategy | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC plans to air a four-hour miniseries starring Diane Lane as former U.S. Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton, part of the broadcast TV network's strategy to improve its ratings by luring viewers to one-time event programming. |
| Obama's corporate tax revamp plan seen as unlikely to go far | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's bid to slash corporate taxes on its face might seem to be a concession to win Republican and business support, but it landed with a thud among those groups and has little chance of becoming law. |
| Child Prostitution Raids Rescue 105 Young People | | | Declaring child prostitution a "persistent threat" in America, the FBI said Monday that authorities had rescued 105 young people and arrested 150 alleged pimps in a three-day sweep in 76 cities. |
| Monty Python lose 'Spamalot' court battle | | | LONDON (Reuters) - The surviving members of the British comedy troupe Monty Python lost a High Court battle on Friday over tens of thousands of pounds in royalties from their hit Broadway musical "Spamalot". |
| How 'Our Nixon' came into view | | | "Our Nixon" is mostly comprised of Super 8 home movies made by three of President Nixon's closest aides H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin. |
| Navratilova vs. Cash | | | Open Court's Pat Cash takes to the court with 18-time grand slam winner Martina Navratilova. |
| Siblings of disabled kids may have problems functioning | | | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who have a sibling with a disability are more prone than other kids to having troubles with relationships, behavior, schoolwork or recreational activities, according to a new survey of parents. |
| Sprint posts wider quarterly loss on steep costs | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Corp , the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider, posted a wider quarterly loss due to hefty costs from shutting down its older Nextel network and it warned that customer defections would continue to hurt it in coming quarters. |
| A City Invokes Seizure Laws to Save Homes | | | With recent gains in home prices doing little for some blighted neighborhoods, Richmond, Calif., is about to become the first city in the nation to try a novel way to stop foreclosures. |
| Can racism ever be beaten? | | | Watching dozens of crazed supporters trying to set fire to a stadium makes you question your love of football. |
| Soros Angela Merkel was the creator of the European crisis | | | George Soros explains to Reuters' Chrystia Freeland how German Chancellor Angela Merkel's actions in 2008 could lead to the disintegration of the European Union. Consequently, a disorderly default of European sovereignties may lead to a global financial meltdown worse than 2008. He explains his analysis here. |
| U.S. deepens scrutiny of banks' roles in commodities | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street banks face the prospect of increased scrutiny of their commodity businesses as U.S. regulators and lawmakers on Tuesday pressed for a closer look at their roles in owning warehouses and in trading everything from oil to metals |
| July merger flurry signals gradual pickup in deals | | | LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - A flurry of mergers and acquisitions in Europe this month, culminating in the $35 billion mega merger between global ad agencies Omnicom and Publicis, marks a gradual pickup in deals rather than a new wave of big ticket transactions. |
| Film Five Reasons to Go Mod | | | Like the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five experimented with filmmaking, including the 1965 John Boorman film Catch Us if You Can. |
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