| Latest worldwide news | In Venezuela, more cocaine arrests | | | Venezuelan authorities on Wednesday announced additional arrests in connection with a massive shipment of cocaine in an Air France flight from Caracas that landed in Paris. |
| UPDATE 1-Small earthquake hits Spain near gas storage project | | | MADRID, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A small earthquake struck Spain's east coast on Tuesday, the strongest ever measured in the area, just days after the government halted work on a big offshore gas storage plant following hundreds of recent minor tremors. |
| Food stamp myths abound | | | Donna Brazile wrote a column against cutting food stamps and got an avalanche of comments. She says many of them were based on misinformation and clichs. |
| Kurdish rebels, politicians say Turkish reforms not aimed at peace | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Kurdish militants and politicians dismissed on Tuesday a set of political reforms proposed by Turkey's ruling AK Party, saying they were not meant to end a 29-year conflict with the state and that the insurgents would present their response next week. |
| NASA 'Sort it out, humans' | | | Leave it to NASA to give us some perspective -- about 9.5 billion miles worth -- on the unpopular shutdown of the U.S. government. |
| Samsung's curved smartphone | | | Samsung plans to introduce a smartphone with a curved display screen, an executive of the South Korean company said Wednesday. |
| PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - Oct 2 | | | Oct 2 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. |
| What CEOs can learn from Mourinho | | | Football coaches are high-profile leaders of the sporting world, but can they also offer valuable insights in management to aspiring business or industry executives? |
| Kobe Bryant talks to CNN | | | Kobe Bryant discusses his renewed desire to win and says his relationship with Dwight Howard was never going to work. |
| Smile still on rookie Marquez's face | | | No wonder Marc Marquez is smiling. He's closing in on the MotoGP title following another victory. Could anyone have predicted his success prior to the 2013 season? Probably not. |
| Tiger deception scares off crop-raiding elephants | | | Sept. 24 - Using a system of sensors and speakers, researchers in California are exploiting elephants' natural survival instincts to stop them encroaching on farms and villages in India. By fooling the elephants into believing there are predators nearby, the researchers say crops and lives can be saved. Ben Gruber reports. |
| Food stamp myths abound | | | Donna Brazile wrote a column against cutting food stamps and got an avalanche of comments. She says many of them were based on misinformation and clichs. |
| Shutdown could be 'shock therapy' | | | David Gergen says Washington is on the verge of doing something terribly stupid, but it's possible doing something stupid could help us avoid doing something dangerous -- going into default. |
| 10 best countries for startups | | | New Zealand tops the list as the easiest place to start a small and medium-sized enterprise, according to the World Bank's most recent report. |
| Billionaire Mark Cuban 'cheated' with insider trading-SEC lawyer | | | DALLAS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, "cheated" by selling his stake in a small Internet search company upon learning that holding on might cost him money, a government lawyer told jurors at the start of the billionaire's insider trading trial. |
| China typhoon survivors airlifted | | | Oct. 1 - Fishermen rescued from the South China Sea after a typhoon sank their boats are airlifted to hospital. Paul Chapman reports. |
| Bitcoin buzz grows among venture investors, despite risks | | | NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Venture capitalists show no sign of shying away from investing in startups related to Bitcoin even as authorities step up their scrutiny of the virtual currency and its possible connection to money laundering and other illegal activities. |
| On Fulton Street, Worries About Change | | | As trendy stores move in to the Fulton Street bazaar in Downtown Brooklyn, some worry about the potential loss of the markets distinctive stores and atmosphere. |
| Pakistan's minorities threatened | | | All Saints Church was designed to look like a mosque -- to symbolize unity amidst a community of many religions. Completed in 1883, it was built within the old walled city of Peshawar during a century of relative peace and harmony. |
| Obama prepares for government shutdown, hopes for deal | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday prepared Americans for what he called an "entirely preventable" government shutdown while urging Republicans in Congress to reach an 11th-hour deal to avoid economic harm. |
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