| Latest worldwide news | Social alienation proves popular in Hollywood's fall lineup | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After a summer of superhero action and feel-good animated comedies, Hollywood has turned to forlorn figures to head fall-winter fare at the box office with films that explore existential dilemmas faced by isolated characters. |
| U.S. cattle prices set more records as supply shrinks | | | By Theopolis Waters CHICAGO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Slaughter cattle in Texas and Kansas set the highest price on record Wednesday when they traded at mostly $132 per hundredweight, the result of a smaller herd and rising beef prices, analysts and economists said. Cattle prices have been trending higher for several years as droughts and high feed prices have caused producers to pare herds. The $132 paid by beef packers on Wednesday compares with the previous record of $130 during the week e |
| Election blurring of church, state separation draws complaints | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Political watchdog and secularist groups are asking the U.S. government to investigate whether Catholic bishops and a Christian evangelical group headed by preacher Billy Graham should lose tax breaks for telling followers how to vote in this year's election. |
| Exclusive South Korea nearing decision to buy F-35 fighters | | | WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is nearing a decision to buy some Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets, but will likely keep its options open for a limited purchase of Boeing Co's F-15, sources familiar with the country's fighter competition said on Wednesday. |
| Intel's Dadi Perlmutter to step down in February | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp senior executive David Perlmutter, who developed technology that was key to the success of laptop personal computers, is leaving after 34 years at the chipmaker. |
| 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. |
| UK's FTSE ends 9-day winning streak as banks fall | | | LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Britain's benchmark equity index fell on Wednesday to end a 9-day winning streak, as a drop in heavyweight banking shares pushed the stock market down from 5-month highs. |
| UPDATE 4-U.S. SEC releases 'crowdfunding' rule | | | WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Entrepreneurs and start-up companies looking for investors will be able to solicit over the Internet from the general public under a new proposal issued by U.S. regulators on Wednesday. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Messi good for Brazil's World Cup organizers | | | BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Lionel Messi is the figurehead of Brazil's arch-rivals Argentina, one of the teams with the potential to spoil the home team's dream of winning the World Cup next year. |
| Banksy's 'Sirens of the Lambs' rolls through NYC | | | Oct. 12 - British graffiti artist Banksy displays his latest public art installation 'Sirens of the Lambs', a slaughterhouse truck packed with stuffed animals that squeak instead of squeal. Gavino Garay reports. |
| The Amazon's World Cup race | | | For the World Cup in 2014, the 42,618-seater Arena Amazonia will be one of the event's most striking stadiums. If it is finished on time..... |
| U.S. Officials Say Libya Approved Commando Raids | | | Libyan officials denounced the operation to capture a senior Qaeda militant, but American officials say the raid, and another to seize a suspect in the 2011 attack on a diplomatic mission, had Libyas tacit approval. |
| Higgs boson, key to the universe, wins Nobel physics prize | | | STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets. |
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