| Latest worldwide news | Meet the CEO feeding the world | | | Helene Gayle must be one of the few chief executives working to eradicate her own job. The first African American female boss of poverty charity CARE, talks about some of the challenges of feeding the world |
| Driverless Mercedes debuts in Frankfurt | | | Sept. 11 - Daimler has unveiled its much anticipated self-driving Mercedes Benz at the Frankfurt International car show. The luxury auto-maker is making incremental improvements to its autonomous technology and plans to have a fully-autonomous vehicle available to consumers by 2020. Rob Muir reports. |
| Breakingviews Learning to speak Chinese finance | | | Sept. 30 - Navigating China's business world is made even trickier by ambiguous lingo that can leave even the most seasoned investor perplexed. Breakingviews' John Foley offers some no-nonsense translations. |
| U.S. study says asset managers could pose systemic market risk | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some activities of asset managers could pose risks to the broader marketplace, according to a study released by the Treasury Department on Monday that boosted the likelihood the largest such firms would face tougher federal scrutiny. |
| Africa's inspiring spray can art | | | Street art has forever been a vibrant tool of personal expression manifesting in a variety of unique ways. In Africa it comes in the form of beautifully painted shop fronts, alternative methods of political campaigning and striking murals designed to inspire. |
| Two popes get dates for sainthood | | | Pope Francis is expected Monday to announce the timing for the canonization of two of his predecessors, John XXIII and John Paul II. |
| 'Breaking Bad' goes out with a bang | | | With Walter White dead, fans everywhere are mourning, celebrating, tallying up bets and discussing what just happened. Was the series finale of "Breaking Bad" satisfying? Did it tie up all loose ends? Did the character you wanted to live survive and did the ones you wanted to die get their just deserts? Is it sending you back to the beginning to binge watch it all over again? |
| Obama hopes Congress will "do the right thing" | | | Sep. 30 - In a press conference hours before a looming U.S. government shutdown, Obama calls upon Congress to pass a fiscal budget that includes "Obamacare." Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| BlackRock CEO Taper now | | | BlackRock CEO Larry Fink thinks Ben Bernanke's plan to taper Federal Reserve aid to the economy is a good one. |
| Gay players want to come out | | | Anton Hysen is a football player. He is also gay. "We can run, we can play, we can score. So what's the problem?" he says. "There's so much ignorance. Some people who are homophobic don't even know a gay person." |
| Nigeria beefs up school security after attacks sources | | | MAIDUGURI/DAMATURU, Nigeria (Reuters) - After Islamists killed 40 students in a dormitory attack, Nigerian authorities are taking measures to improve security around schools, including stepping up patrols and putting armed soldiers outside them and guarding school buses. |
| Fourth officer arrested in Mexico mass kidnapping case | | | As Mexico City authorities unravel the workings behind the mass kidnapping and killing of 13 bar-goers, some unsettling developments have surfaced. Four of those arrested in connection with the crimes are police officers. |
| Billionaire Republican donor Adelson loses libel lawsuit | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate and prominent Republican donor, has lost a $60 million libel lawsuit in which he claimed a Democratic group spread a false accusation that he had condoned prostitution in his casinos in Macau. |
| Dog eats dog as Britain's tabloids bare all | | | LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Fleet Street's finest jostled furiously at the start on Thursday of a government inquiry, trying to grab public attention with tales of shock and horror. |
| UK fraud squad fends off court challenge that endangered cases | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Serious Fraud Office on Monday beat back a court challenge that endangered cases against prominent defendants, a big relief for the country's prime financial crime-fighting agency after repeated blows to its reputation. |
| 12 Baghdad car bombs explode | | | A dozen car bombs exploded across Baghdad during rush hour Monday morning, killing 33 people, police in Baghdad said. |
| Berlusconi returns for crunch talks | | | Sept. 30 - Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi arrives back in Rome ahead of crucial talks with his party. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
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