| Latest worldwide news | Arrest chills Swiss bankers' travel plans | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Seeing one of their select number hauled in handcuffs before a foreign court may prompt Swiss bankers to call their lawyers before they ring travel agents to book a winter... |
| The Sun That Did Not Roar | | | The Sun appears to slack off at the height of the solar cycle, the solar maximum, usually a time of roiling activity as the stars magnetic fields reverse. |
| Sex scandal engulfs NZ mayor | | | Months after sexting revelations dashed Anthony Weiner's hopes of election in New York, a mayor on the other side of the world is battling for political survival following a lurid sex scandal that has electrified the usually sleepy world of local politics. |
| Kerry, Lew to brief U.S. senators on Iran nuclear talks | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will hold a briefing on Thursday on the status of nuclear talks with Iran for members of a U.S. Senate committee considering tough new sanctions on Tehran, Senate aides said on Friday. |
| South Africa Is Not Guilty of Tampering-De Villiers | | | South African batsman AB de Villiers defended team mate Faf du Plessis on Friday after the fielder was caught ball tampering during the second test against Pakistan in Dubai and his side handed a five-run penalty. |
| EU lawmakers reject subsidies for new fishing boats | | | STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Fishermen will not get European Union subsidies to build new vessels for the bloc's already swollen fleet, EU lawmakers agreed on Wednesday, in a vote that raised hopes for an end to decades of over-fishing in Europe. |
| Rethinking the gov't shutdown cost | | | Oct. 25 - The number crunching is in full swing on the economic impact of the shutdown- and some of the results are surprising. Bobbi Rebell reports. |
| Most spectacular train stations | | | Whether they are designed by cutting-edge architects or decorated with priceless works of art, train and metro stations have become unlikely sites of some of the world's most exquisite architecture and design. |
| Halloween candy for orangutans | | | When Americans hand out Halloween candy next week they may inadvertently be contributing to the destruction of orangutan habitat thousands of miles away. |
| Dollar struggles near two-year low versus euro | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar struggled near a two-year low against the euro in early Asian trade on Friday, as strengthened expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve will maintain its asset purchases through early next year undermined the greenback. |
| Merkel win another step toward EU reforms Rehn | | | German Chancellor Angela Merkel's victory signals a "strong sense of continuity" as the EU moves forward with reforms and toward a banking union, says European Commission Vice President Olli Rehn in an interview with Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler. |
| Malala's voice stronger, not silenced | | | The attack was meant to silence the outspoken teenager who dared to defy the Taliban's ban against girls in school. Instead, it only made Malala's voice more powerful. After a school year that started with a shooting, Malala now eyes a summer of speaking at the U.N., telling her story in a new book and amplifying the issue of girls education. |
| Federer beats 'Baby Federer' to keep up Tour Finals bid | | | (Reuters) - Roger Federer ended Grigor Dimitrov's seven-match winning streak and showed the Bulgarian he has some way to go to live up to his 'Baby Federer' tag with a 6-3 7-6 (2) quarter-final victory at the Basel Open on Friday. |
| Marathon struggles to exit Libya as unrest grows | | | LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Libya has blocked efforts by U.S. company Marathon Oil to sell its stake in one of the country's top oil ventures by moving to preempt a deal, sources said, highlighting the struggle investors face in cutting exposure to Libya's unrest. |
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