| Latest worldwide news | Gunmen fire on sleeping students | | | Under the cover of darkness, gunmen approached a college dormitory in a rural Nigerian town and opened fire on students who were sleeping. |
| Reuters Today U.S. shutdown means more QE | | | Sept. 30 - Ben Bernanke could have his hands tioed over the continued wrangling over the U.S. budget and debt ceiling, and keep QE going for much longer, says Ishaq Siddiqi of ETX Capital. |
| Well Cooking With Miso | | | Many people know and love miso soup. But this week Martha Rose Shulman goes beyond soup and explains how miso can be used for glazes, dips and dressings. |
| Israel showcases Botticelli fresco | | | Sept. 17 - The Israel Museum displays a Botticelli masterpiece, "The Annunciation of San Martino alla Scala," on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Tara Cleary reports. |
| Five texts you should never send | | | We're texting more than ever, and, like society, the texts themselves are getting worse and worse. Read on to learn just how terrible silent cell phone users are these days. |
| Hollywood couple get stopped by police | | | Hollywood couple Cherie Johnson and Dennis White say they were improperly stopped by police, put in handcuffs, and harshly questioned during a recent weekend getaway in South Carolina. They claim the incident took place because of their race. |
| Sirius considers international expansion, looking at Mexico - CEO | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirius XM Radio Inc Chief Executive Jim Meyer sees an opportunity to enter international markets with Internet-based products, a business that could provide a new revenue stream to the company, which is mainly focused on the United States. |
| Old Atrocities, Now Official, Galvanize Afghanistan | | | The details and names of nearly 5,000 people killed by the Afghan Communist government in 1978 and 1979 were unearthed by Dutch investigators and made public by the Netherlands national prosecutors office. |
| Solar charity takes aim at Africa's kerosene lamps | | | Sept. 24 - Non-profit groups aiming to replace Africa's deadly kerosene lamps with safe, solar alternatives say their campaign is gaining momentum. The award-winning Solaraid project says the dangerous lamps could be eliminated from the continent by 2020. Jim Drury has more. |
| Islamist Party in Tunisia to Step Down | | | Tunisias governing Islamist party, Ennahda, has agreed to hand over power to an independent caretaker government that will lead the country through elections. |
| Scientists discover new legless lizard species in California | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California scientists have discovered four species of legless lizards hidden in unlikely habitats among central valley oil derricks, sand dunes at the end of a Los Angeles airport runway and other arid and desolate spaces. |
| UK 'work for benefits' plans | | | Sept 30 - British finance minister George Osborne is proposing tough new welfare rules to try and win over voters grappling with depleted spending power. But the plan to make the long-term unemployed work for their benefits is proving controversial. Edward Baran reports. |
| In Collapse in Mumbai, Hopes Fade on Rescues | | | After rescuing 33 people, disaster officials said that they did not expect to find any more survivors in the rubble of a five-story building that collapsed early on Friday morning. |
| McChrystal, Reto Share Lead in Symetra Finale | | | Megan McChrystal and South Africa's Paula Reto were tied for the lead at 12 under when final-round play in the season-ending Symetra Tour Championship was suspended because of darkness. |
| Rooftop algae a growth industry in Bangkok | | | Sept. 23 - Urban algae farming is gaining a foothold in Bangkok with the rooftop of one big hotel supporting a small but flourishing algae industry. Algae is well known as a source of biofuel, but the species being cultivated on the roof of the Novotel produces Spirulina, a vitamin-rich, so-called "superfood". Tara Cleary reports. |
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