| Latest worldwide news | Timelapse video shows nine years of 9/11 reconstruction | | | Sept. 11 - Marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, webcam company EarthCam has released a timelapse video showing the nine year construction of One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. The company says the video is made up of hundreds of thousands of images captured from 35 different angles by high definition cameras. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Obama to call healthcare website glitches 'unacceptable' as fix sought | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will declare the glitches in a new healthcare website "unacceptable" on Monday and outline ways for consumers to sign up for insurance while his team scrambles to fix problems that have tainted the rollout of his signature healthcare law. |
| Autonomous quadcopter takes humans out of flying equation | | | Sept. 19 - A group of Austrian students has designed a quadcopter which flies autonomously using only the computing power of a smartphone. The reasearchers say the drone could one day be used for search and rescue scenarios or fighting fires without putting humans in harm's way. Jim Drury reports. |
| U.S. energy-related carbon pollution at lowest since 1994 | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Carbon dioxide emissions from energy production in the United States fell to 5.29 billion metric tons in 2012 - its lowest level since 1994 - despite a growing economy and rising population, according to government data released on Monday. |
| Existing Home Sales Fall | | | Home resales in the United States fell in September and prices rose at their slowest pace in five months, the latest signs higher mortgage rates were taking some edge off the housing recovery. |
| Mind your language or face arrest | | | hat is the warning from London police to fans thinking of using the word "yid" at Sunday's potentially explosive Premier League derby game between Tottenham and West Ham. |
| London keeps global edge as top transport finance hub | | | LONDON (Reuters) - London remains the top financing centre for the global transport industry, although it faces stiff competition from New York and capitals in Asia Pacific as companies seek to tap more funding sources, a survey showed on Friday. |
| Quest Shutdown plays with fire | | | The IMF and World Bank's biggest shareholder, the U.S., is playing with fiscal fire, argues CNN's Richard Quest. But at least it will make the political parties more interesting. |
| Private banker pay holds up in tough market | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Stiff competition for top private bankers has kept a floor under pay even as low interest rates, flaccid client trading and tougher regulation squeeze industry profit margins. |
| Some Wary as Lobstermen Unite | | | While hundreds have embraced a new union, others have questioned whether a local organized by a machinists association could, or should, unite lobstermen. |
| Taking the perfect action shot | | | Hanging out of an open-door helicopter high above San Francisco Bay, was all part of a day's work for sports photographer Ezra Shaw, who took these remarkable images of the America's Cup. |
| Factbox 2013 World Series | | | Brief profiles of the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox, who will meet in Major League Baseball's best of seven World Series, starting on Wednesday. |
| Lebanese pilgrims in hostage swap | | | Nine Lebanese nationals who were abducted 17 months ago in Syria have been freed in exchange for the release of two Turkish Airlines pilots who were abducted two months ago in Beirut, officials said Saturday. |
| Jin Jeong Wins Perth International | | | Former top-ranked amateur Jin Jeong won the Perth International on Sunday for his first professional victory, beating England's Ross Fisher with a par on the first hole of a playoff. |
| Meet top African Journalists | | | An investigation into appalling conditions in school hostels has won two South African journalists the top prize at the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards. |
| A-Rod's Lawyers Blocked by MLB at News Conference | | | Alex Rodriguez's lawyers were blocked from holding a news conference Monday with a person they described as a "major league baseball whistleblower" when the commissioner's office obtained an order from the arbitrator hearing the case. |
| Royal baby a retail giant | | | UK retailers are riding the wave of excitement over Prince William and Kate Middletons baby all the way to the bank. Spending, from collectibles to celebratory libations, is expected to exceed $300 million. |
| Fed's Tarullo says bank funding still biggest risk | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reforming short-term funding markets in which banks finance large parts of their business, remains the biggest unfinished job for supervisors around the world, a top U.S. bank... |
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