| Latest worldwide news | Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from Islamists | | | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish militants seized a Syrian border post on the frontier with Iraq early on Saturday, fighters and monitors said, after three days of clashes with an al Qaeda-linked group which had held the crossing since March. |
| How to recruit a diamond in the rough | | | Danish footballer Rasmus Ankersen had been looking forward to the new season. He was lining up for top division club FC Midtjylland, and at just 19 had been identified by coaches as having a bright future in the game. |
| Italy's Etna volcano erupts | | | Oct. 26 - Europe's most active volcano, Italy's Mount Etna, erupts, sending lava and ash into the sky. Nathan Frandino reports. |
| Cuban city struggling to recover a year after Hurricane Sandy | | | HAVANA (Reuters) - A year after Hurricane Sandy left Santiago de Cuba in shambles, the streets are clear and power, communications and water are back to normal, but residents of Cuba's second city are still struggling with the aftermath of the mighty storm. |
| Macy's joins Barneys in brewing NYC 'shop-and-frisk' scandal | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's civil rights leaders on Saturday angrily decried the city's brewing "shop-and-frisk" scandal, in which two major retailers stand accused of profiling black shoppers who say they were detained by police after buying luxury items. |
| 7-Year Low Reported in Piracy Off Somalia | | | The United Nations secretary general attributed the decline to increased international policing and information-sharing, more prosecutions and imprisonment of captured pirates, and greater security steps by commercial shippers. |
| Mountain mirrors to bring light to dark Norwegian town | | | Oct. 22 - Three giant mirrors have been erected on a mountainside in Norway, to bring much needed sunlight to residents of a small town. The town is situated at the bottom of a narrow valley where the sun doesn't shine during the long Nordic winter, but its hoped the mirrors will change all that and bring its residents out of the shade and into the light. Jim Drury reports. |
| Serving Museum Patrons Something More | | | With the opening of a multimillion-dollar restaurant, the Brooklyn Museum joins the ranks of culture centers offering high-end dining experiences to their visitors. |
| 6 killed in Russia bus explosion | | | Investigators say they think a female suicide bomber caused a blast that ripped through a passenger bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Monday afternoon, killing at least six people and injuring 32 others, Russian authorities said. |
| Zynga firms up mobile efforts, shares up 13 percent | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc said it expects a full-year profit after reporting better-than-expected third-quarter results due to cost-cutting and a renewed focus on mobile games and core franchises like "Zynga Poker" that lifted shares 13 percent. |
| Golf Capsules | | | Keegan Bradley is playing so well at the CIMB Classic that not even his beloved Boston Red Sox and the World Series can distract him. |
| Monaco's F1 transformation | | | The most famous race in Formula One -- the Monaco Grand Prix -- brings a change of pace to Monaco's Mediterranean idyll. |
| Former Suspect to Testify in Patz Case | | | Jose Antonio Ramos, a convicted child molester, is expected to take the stand in the trial of Pedro Hernandez, who has been charged in the 1979 killing of Etan Patz. |
| Pentagon wants F-35 contractor accountability as it weighs output boost | | | WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The Pentagon's chief arms buyer wants details on how Lockheed Martin Corp and other companies will be held accountable for the quality and reliability of the F-35 fighter jet as he considers whether to approve an increase in the plane's production, U.S. defense officials said on Friday. |
| McIlroy in 'good shape' | | | Rory McIlroy leaves South Korea in "good shape" after finishing joint second at the Kolon Korean Open. |
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