| Latest worldwide news | Verizon, Vodafone agree $130 billion Wireless deal | | | LONDON/SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Verizon Communications agreed on Monday to pay $130 billion to buy Vodafone Group out of its U.S. wireless business, signing history's third largest corporate deal announcement to bring an end to an often tense 14-year marriage. |
| 3D scans turn fossils into rock stars | | | Sept. 3 - Thousands of prehistoric fossils have been rescued from dusty museum archives and made available online as highly detailed 3D models, with plans afoot to also digitally scan dinosaur fossils. Researchers and the public can now access the virtual fossils and even print a highly detailed 3D replica. Jim Drury has more. |
| Microsoft Gets Nokia Units, and Leader | | | Microsoft will acquire the handset and services business of Nokia for more than $7.1 billion in an all-cash deal, and Stephen Elop, the chief of Nokia and a former Microsoft executive, will rejoin Microsoft. |
| TABLE-Foreign brokers set to sell Japanese stocks | | | TOKYO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Following are orders for Japanese stocks placed through six foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Wednesday. Japanese Stocks SELL 15.0 million shares BUY 11.6 million shares ------------------------------------------------------ SELL 3.4 million shares |
| Motorsport Marquez streak ends | | | A dislocated shoulder suffered in the warm-up wasn't enough to stop Marc Marquez from competing at the British MotoGP but the surging rookie saw his winning streak snapped by Jorge Lorenzo in a thrilling finish. |
| Crews search for missing New Mexico firefighter | | | SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - More than 250 searchers were combing a rugged area of cliffs and hills in the Santa Fe National Forest on Tuesday looking for a firefighter missing since he went to check on a lightning-sparked wildfire last week, officials said. |
| Michigan creates office to attract auto investment | | | DETROIT, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Michigan's Economic Development Corp has created an Automotive Industry Office to help coordinate the state's auto business development initiatives and strategy and attract more investment, a top state official said Tuesday. |
| Mideast's airspace race heats up | | | Few things symbolize a country's aspirations as aptly as an airport. As ambitions grow in a handful of Middle Eastern countries, so too do the size of regional transit hubs. |
| Can a case boost your iPhone 5's WiFi? Check the Linkase | | | The Linkase for iPhone 5 boasts up to a 50 percent boost in Wi-Fi signal strength thanks to a small electromagnetic waveguide extension. Does it work? See for yourself in these mobile speedtests where Wi-Fi is usually terrible. |
| How to travel the world for free | | | You don't have to be a wealthy superyacht owner to sail into the sunset. From 20 year old backpackers to 80 year old retirees, an increasing number of people are volunteering on boats for a remarkable chance to travel the world -- all without spending a dollar. |
| "Most Wanted" app brings gamers into hunt for suspects | | | July 5 - Police in Warsaw have come up with an innovative way to enlist the public in their hunt for wanted criminal suspects, by incorporating a rogue's gallery of faces as part of a smartphone app which tests players' memory for faces. Jim Drury reports. |
| 5 lessons for Syria from Iraq | | | The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq led to nearly 10 years of occupation, nearly 5,000 deaths among the U.S. military and the few allies that joined "Operation Iraqi Freedom," a visceral sectarian-based insurgency and the meddling of neighbors all seeking to influence post-Saddam Iraq. What was intended as an act of liberation -- then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld expected the troops to be coming home in a few months -- became a quagmire. |
| Pals Suicidal boy was bullied | | | A 15-year-old Connecticut boy who shot and killed himself last week with the family shotgun had sustained years of bullying, friends said Monday. |
| NBA's LeBron James to produce U.S. cable TV comedy series | | | LOS ANGELES, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Basketball star LeBron James will serve as an executive producer on a forthcoming television comedy series about two men who rise from poverty to fame and fortune, U.S. cable network Starz said on Tuesday. |
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