| Latest worldwide news | Publisher Houghton Mifflin announces IPO at $14-$16/share | | | Nov 1 (Reuters) - Textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co announced an initial public offering of 18.25 million shares at $14-$16 per share, raising as much as $292 million for the selling shareholders including John Paulson's hedge fund. |
| BRIEF-Lekoil intends to raise about 62 mln stg via placing | | | Oct 31 (Reuters) - LEKOIL Ltd * Intention to raise approximately US$100 million * Net proceeds will be used to fund drilling completion and testing of the Ogo-1 well and the Ogo-1 sidetrack well * Source text for Eikon * For more news, please click here |
| Mountain mirrors to bring light to dark Norwegian town | | | Oct. 22 - Three giant mirrors have been erected on a mountainside in Norway, to bring much needed sunlight to residents of a small town. The town is situated at the bottom of a narrow valley where the sun doesn't shine during the long Nordic winter, but its hoped the mirrors will change all that and bring its residents out of the shade and into the light. Jim Drury reports. |
| When Insurers Drop Policies Three Stories | | | Insurance companies are canceling millions of health insurance plans that fail to meet minimum standards, and a look at the stories of three people with such plans tells a complex tale. |
| See the chaos inside LAX | | | New video shows chaos inside Los Angeles International Airport as passengers run for cover after a shooter opens fire. |
| CME Group chief testifies in long-awaited grain settlement trial | | | CHICAGO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - CME Group Inc Chief Executive Phupinder Gill on Friday denied that the exchange-operator changed its settlement rules to give electronic grain traders an advantage over veterans of the Chicago trading floor, who have sued the company, saying its new rules are killing their business. |
| Russia's Medvedev fires space agency chief | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the country's space agency (Roskosmos) chief Vladimir Popovkin on Thursday, three months after the latest botched satellite launch. |
| Of Fact, Fiction and Defibrillators | | | Dick Cheney writes that to prevent terrorists from sending a fatal shock to his defibrillator, he had his doctors disable the wireless capability. Could somebody really kill you that way? |
| Earthquake Shakes Remote Area of Taiwan | | | Taiwans government-backed Central News Agency said that the 6.3-magnitude tremor was felt all over the island, but that no injuries or damage had been reported. |
| Fed Extends Stimulus as Growth Stumbles | | | The Federal Reserve said it would keep its campaign of asset purchases and low interest rates intact. The central banks statement contained no surprises, and the stock market barely budged. |
| Taseko Mines to challenge findings of environment threat | | | (Reuters) - Taseko Mines Ltd said on Friday that it will challenge findings of a Canadian federal review panel, which said that the company's revised plan for a copper-gold mine in British Columbia poses significant threats to the environment. |
| Bet you didn't know this about Oz | | | "The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this." |
| Maria to be with foster family | | | A girl found in Greece and whose birth parents were traced to a Bulgarian Roma village will be cared for by a foster family when she's returned to Bulgaria the government's social services agency said. |
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