| Latest worldwide news | The human cost of Iran sanctions | | | In July, Iran lost one of its most acclaimed playwrights and directors when Mahmoud Ostad-Mohammad passed away in Tehran at the age of 62. |
| Bitcoins made simple Go to an ATM | | | Start-up firm Robocoin launched the worlds first bitcoin ATM in a Vancouver coffee shop this week. Reuters correspondent Julie Gordon spoke with their CEO about how the new kiosk makes buying and selling the digital currency easier. |
| Why the global economy will not affect India | | | Nov. 14 - Tulsi Tanti, the chairman and managing director of Suzlon Energy, sits down with Chrystia Freeland to discuss the global economy and how India will not be affected like European countries have been. |
| Alyssa Cass and Sam Howard | | | The bride is a director at a public relations firm; the groom is an advertising producer for the National Football League. |
| Netiquette Saying farewell | | | So many folks manage to lose their netiquette heads when they scramble, legs flailing and akimbo, toward the denouement of events and life chapters. So here is the ultimate (get it?) digital-etiquette guide to a polite big finish. |
| Chelsea Eliminates Arsenal From League Cup | | | Csar Azpilicueta seized on a defensive blunder and Juan Mata scored a slick second goal as Chelsea dumped its London rival Arsenal out of the League Cup with a 2-0 victory. |
| '12 Years A Slave' Agonizingly magnificent | | | Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is an agonizingly magnificent movie the first great big-screen dramatization of slavery. Based on actual events, it begins in 1841 and tells the story of a free black man from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a musician named Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who walks around in a natty gray suit, secure in the courtly modesty of his life as a husband and father of two. But then he accepts an offer to go to Washington, D.C., with a pair of traveling entertainers, and when they're out at a restaurant drinking wine, we get the queasy feeling this is too good to be true. It is. Solomon isn't being hired for his talents. He's being trafficked. |
| Hundreds of bodies found in Bosnia mass grave | | | Investigators in Bosnia have uncovered a mass grave thought to contain several hundred bodies of victims of the conflict that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia two decades ago. |
| 4 dead in Pakistan blast | | | A bomb planted in a bicycle killed killed four people and wounded 20 others when it exploded in a busy area of a city in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, police said. |
| Australia's Bega wins regulator nod for WCB bid | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's competition regulator said on Thursday it would not block a bid for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Holdings Ltd by domestic rival Bega Cheese Ltd ,... |
| California city fumes over hot sauce factory | | | Oct. 30 - Irwindale, California City Manager says the fumes in the area near a Sriracha hot sauce plant are "horrible" and is taking the company to court. Gavino Garay Reports. |
| Planet hunters find Earth-like twin beyond the solar system | | | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - For the first time, scientists have found a planet beyond the solar system that not only is the same size as Earth, but has the same proportions of iron and rock, a key step in an ongoing quest to find potentially habitable sister worlds. |
| Japanese translation glasses seen as Olympic boon for tourists | | | Oct. 1 - Japan's biggest mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo, has developed glasses that automatically translate foreign languages. It's hoped the glasses, unveiled by the company this week, will make life easier for foreigners visiting Tokyo during the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Rob Muir reports. |
| Gogo says U.S. move on inflight devices 'favorable tailwind' | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. decision to allow greater use of electronic devices on flights is "another favorable tailwind" for Gogo Inc., the internet provider for 80 percent of the U.S. commercial aircraft fleet, its chief executive told Reuters on Thursday. |
| DIARY-NON SP WEEK AHEAD | | | THOMSON REUTERS, Diary of Non SP 500 Corporate earnings for U.S. companies from Nov 01, 2013. SP 500 Earnings - Monthly SP 500 Earnings - Day Ahead SP 500 Earnings - Weekly Non SP 500 - Day Ahead ConferenceCall/Webcast - Weekly ConferenceCall/Webcast - Day Meetings - Weekly Meetings - Day Ahead Economic Indicators IPO events Dividends |
| Hotel reservations So last year | | | As cell phones infiltrate our day-to-day lives, fewer people make firm plans -- or reserve hotel rooms. Companies are flocking to fill the same-day booking market, to the worry of some hotel brands. |
| Caterpillar unit is subject of U.S. criminal probe filing | | | (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors in California are investigating a unit of Caterpillar Inc for potential violations of environmental law and other alleged improper business practices, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday. |
| Football French soccer's tax spat | | | It's said nothing is certain in life except for death and taxes -- as French football is finding out to it's cost over a bitter taxation dispute. |
| Arizona sheriff to fight ruling appointing race-profiling monitor | | | PHOENIX (Reuters) - Attorneys for hard-line Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio will appeal a judge's ruling ordering the appointment of a monitor to ensure that his officers no longer use racial profiling, especially of Latinos, in their efforts to crack down on undocumented immigrants. |
| Deadly sins Good for your career? | | | Greed, envy, pride and wrath Four of the seven deadly sins and the subtext of many a cautionary tale. But could these dark, often suppressed aspects of the human psyche also offer up clues to the secret of career success? |
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