| Latest worldwide news | Lydon I'm not a museum piece | | | John Lydon is wondering whether he's looking old. He jokes that the camera should be smeared with Vaseline to give a flattering, soft-focus effect. "Or we could use butter!" he laughs in reference to a series of TV commercials which helped to fund his band's latest album. |
| Breaking Through Cancers Shield | | | The recent discovery that cancers can evade the immune system by wrapping themselves in a protective shield offered a bonus a way to try to thwart their growth. |
| The good, bad and exiled | | | After walking several blocks through New York's busy streets recently, I finally found Wang Juntao in the middle of Times Square, where the exiled Chinese dissident was holding a sit-down protest. |
| ECB outlines new bank stress tests | | | Oct.23 - The European Central Bank has outlined which top euro zone banks it will put through their paces next year, as part of a health check of the sector. The ECB is staking its credibility on the review. It will take place before it takes on the new role of supervising the region's top lenders and is the first step towards banking union. Joanna Partridge reports |
| Argentine scientists tap cow burps for natural gas | | | BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine scientists have found a way to transform the gas created by the bovine digestive system into fuel, an innovation that could curb greenhouse gases that cause global warming. |
| The Workout Rowing With Esther Lofgren, Olympian | | | Members of the American national rowing team follow an intense training regimen of weight lifting and aerobic training for 40 to 60 hours a week. Olympic gold medalist Esther Lofgren takes us through the rowers workout. |
| "The Commitments" hits stage with tunes, Irish lilt but no horse | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Novelist Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments" about young people starting up a soul band in the harsh times of 1980s Ireland has made it to the stage as a "jukebox" musical filled with tunes and Irish charm but shorn of most plot and political overtones. |
| Taxi drivers on nuclear talks | | | CNN's Reza Sayah talks to Iranian taxi drivers, who talk to everybody and have an understanding of the country's mood. |
| Jailed Pussy Riot member moved | | | Russian authorities said Friday they have decided to move Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a jailed member of the Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot, to a different prison. |
| Cards' Beltran Gets Long-Awaited Shot at World Series | | | Carlos Beltran has always saved his best for last. In the postseason, when the pressure of Major League Baseball (MLB) is at its most suffocating, the slugger has proven himself one of the great clutch performers. |
| Bayer Leverkusen's 'ghost' goal | | | When he digests all the evidence, referee Felix Brych -- who is also a lawyer -- will probably admit he got things wrong in a Bundesliga football game Friday. |
| Bombing's shadow lingers as Boston prepares for World Series | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - This year's World Series has special significance for Boston Red Sox players and baseball fans, coming a little more than six months after the city was rocked by twin bombs that killed three and injured 264 at the Boston Marathon. |
| Exclusive HTC scales back production lines as cash flow worsens-sources | | | TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp has halted at least one of its four main manufacturing lines, accounting for at least a fifth of total capacity, and is outsourcing production as a sales slump puts pressure on its cash flow, according to sources with direct knowledge of the situation. |
| UPDATE 1-SL Green quarterly FFO beats Wall Street forecast | | | NEW YORK, Oct 23 (Reuters) - SL Green Realty Corp, which mainly owns office buildings in Manhattan and its suburbs, on Wednesday reported better-than-expected third-quarter funds from operations, a key earnings measure, and raised its dividend and forecast for the year. |
| Ivory Coast youth leader asks government to reject ICC warrant | | | ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Charles Ble Goude, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and an ally of Ivory Coast's ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, should be tried by an Ivorian court and not sent to The Hague, the ex-youth leader's lawyers said. |
| 'Mystery' girls | | | The Roma couple from whom a 7-year-old girl was removed by Irish police said Wednesday that they have given DNA samples to authorities and hope to be reunited with their daughter soon. |
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