| Latest worldwide news | Apple battling U.S., states over proposed e-book limits | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc is headed for a showdown with the U.S. government and dozens of states, which on Friday urged that tough new restrictions be imposed on the company for illegally conspiring to raise e-book prices. |
| Lawmaker tightens screws on IRS with Treasury subpoena | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican lawmaker on Friday issued a subpoena to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew seeking documents related to a nearly three-month old congressional probe of the Internal Revenue Service's treatment of conservative political groups. |
| Berkshire Hathaway 2nd-quarter profit rises 46 pct | | | Aug 2 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday said second-quarter profit rose 46 percent, reflecting gains from investments and derivatives and higher earnings from non-insurance businesses. |
| Eldorado profit falls, plans less generous dividends | | | Aug 2 (Reuters) - Eldorado Gold Corp reported a small decline in second quarter profit on Friday despite a big increase in production, as the price of gold dropped, and the company revised its dividend policy. |
| CBS, Time Warner Cable fight escalates; network dark in NY, LA | | | (Reuters) - U.S. broadcaster CBS went dark for millions of Time Warner Cable subscribers on Friday in the nation's two largest markets and other cities after the cable operator and CBS Corp failed to reach an agreement over fees following weeks of contentious negotiations. |
| DOJ again balks at proposed $19.9 mln severance for AMR's Horton | | | Aug 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice is taking its third shot at nixing a proposed $19.9 million severance package for American Airlines Chief Executive Tom Horton, who will step down after American's bankrupt parent, AMR Corp , merges with US Airways. |
| Family farming to cut poverty | | | In just 12 years leading up to 2010, Vietnam cut the country's malnutrition rate in half by investing in small scale farming. |
| Grapefruit-sized RadBall proposed for Fukushima clean-up | | | July 11 - The world's largest floating power station is about to set sail from Tokyo bay for deployment off Fukushima, while officials struggle to clean up radioactive waste inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station. Soon however, they may have a grapefruit-sized ball made of aluminium and tungsten to help them. Called RadBall, the device is designed to locate sources of radiation in difficult to reach places. Jim Drury has more. |
| Sochi 2014 gayest games ever? | | | Frida Ghitis says in the light of Russia's extreme anti-gay laws, nations competing in the 2014 Olympics in Russia should make them the gayest Games ever |
| Decades-old defect caused Exxon's Arkansas oil spill regulator | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leak in Exxon Mobil Corp's nearly 70-year-old Pegasus pipeline, which spilled thousands of barrels of crude oil in a small Arkansas town in March, appears to have been caused by an original manufacturing defect, U.S. regulators said on Thursday. |
| Travel Guide Paris for Kids | | | What are the best ways to see the City of Light with children? Heres a guide to everything from museums to parks to food. |
| Northern California city sues Chevron over refinery fire | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Northern California city of Richmond on Friday sued Chevron Corp, saying the company was willfully negligent in a massive refinery fire and a smoke cloud last year that sent thousands of people to hospitals. |
| Argentina introduces more pesticide restrictions | | | BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's main agricultural province of Buenos Aires is restricting the use of pesticides near cities, a measure meant to protect citizens' health that will raise costs for farmers in the world's No. 3 soy and corn supplier. |
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