| Latest worldwide news | Fairfax's Watsa confident BlackBerry bid will succeed | | | TORONTO (Reuters) - Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd Chief Executive Prem Watsa said on Wednesday he is confident the consortium he leads can find the money to fund its $4.7 billion bid for smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. |
| British Green MP charged over part in fracking protest | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's only elected member of parliament from the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, was charged with public order offences on Wednesday after taking part in a protest last month against the shale gas extraction process known as fracking. |
| NASCAR pioneer Nicole | | | Nicole Lyons sets the pace for African-American woman in NASCAR. George Howell reports. |
| The threat foreign jihadists pose | | | The Westgate Mall siege in Kenya has claimed the lives of more than 60 people including the Kenyan president's nephew, at least one Canadian diplomat and American, British, French and Chinese nationals. Al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, has claimed responsibility for the siege and it has been reported that a number of the militants involved in the attack may have been foreign jihadists from Western nations. |
| Measures to beat power crunch the "new normal" for corporate Japan | | | TOKYO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Automatic doors are blocked at offices, subway escalators are disabled and much of the headquarters of Japan's biggest utility sits in semi-darkness - all evidence of how a 2-1/2-year power crunch has forced companies to re-think their energy use. |
| Giving Drug Advice Along With Music | | | Following a European trend in the wake of overdose deaths, an electronic dance music festival near Atlanta will offer advice on safer practices for the use of party drugs like Ecstasy. |
| Singapore arrests 14 for match-fixing | | | In a crackdown on football match-fixing, Singaporean authorities have arrested more than a dozen people they suspect of being members of an organized crime syndicate. |
| Chile to move ex-Pinochet agents to no-frills jail | | | SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Thursday ordered shut a prison where 10 former agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet are serving sentences for human rights violations, a move that came amid public anger over their relative comfortable conditions. |
| Artist Liu Bolin hides in plain sight at Beijing theatre | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - Liu Bolin, the Chinese artist known as "the invisible man" for using painted-on camouflage to blend into the backdrops of his photographs, has done it again by making himself and 22 others "disappear" into the red seats of a Beijing theatre. |
| The world's least honest cities | | | Four continents, 16 cities, 192 "lost" wallets. That's the basic formula for a recent sticky fingers experiment by Reader's Digest. |
| Morales Let's take U.S. to court | | | It's no secret that Bolivian President Evo Morales is not a fan of the U.S. government, and at the U.N. General Assembly he took his complaints to a wider audience, calling for action against the Obama administration. |
| Dollar, global stocks rise after U.S. jobless data | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rose and global stocks edged higher on Thursday, led by Wall Street, after weekly U.S. jobless claims data suggested an improving labor market, though investors kept an eye on the ongoing impasse in budget and debt negotiations in Washington. |
| Lawmakers cause Wall Street take-down | | | Sept. 25 - Summary SP 500 in longest sell-off this year; New homes sales growth slows; durable orders flatten; Hertz to rent Tesla Model S; Amazon unveils video-help enabled line of Kindle HD tablets. Conway G. Gittens reports. |
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