| Latest worldwide news | Alabama, rights groups reach settlement on immigration law | | | BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The state of Alabama and a coalition of civil rights groups reached a settlement on Tuesday that discarded several important sections of the state's immigration law, widely considered the most stringent in the country. |
| Ralph Pellecchio, James Wernz | | | A special counsel for Citigroup in Manhattan and an attending physician at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn are married by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
| Rocker Lou Reed of Velvet Underground dies at 71 | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lou Reed, the pioneering musician who fronted influential rock band The Velvet Underground in the 1960s and won mainstream acclaim with solo songs "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Perfect Day", died on Sunday aged 71. |
| Black Caviar statue unveiled | | | After an unbeaten career and a Vogue cover, Australia's most celebrated horse now has a bronze statue in her honor. |
| A Poet With Words Trapped Inside | | | Ntozake Shange, suffering from the effects of two strokes and a neurological disorder, is unable to write or type, and even voice recognition software is working against her, auto-correcting her very personal style. |
| How EU can 'deserve Nobel' | | | The migrants that died on the shores of Lampedusa in early October have yet to change the European approach to migration and refugees -- and protecting Europe against refugees rather than protecting the refugees themselves is unfortunately still the guiding principle. |
| Fed Extends Stimulus As Growth Stumbles | | | The Federal Reserve said it would keep its campaign of asset purchases and low interest rates intact. The central banks statement contained no surprises, and the stock market barely budged. |
| U.S. attorney wants DOJ to take civil action against BofA filing | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Staff of a U.S. Attorney's office recently told Bank of America Corp that they plan to recommend the U.S. Department of Justice file a civil action against the bank related to securitization of mortgages, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday. |
| What happens to goods lost at sea? | | | On a stormy January night in 1992, out in the Pacific Ocean, 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs fell from a cargo ship and were lost at sea. |
| Rebel Stronghold Falls to Congolese Army | | | In a turning point in an insurrection that has roiled the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the last major population center controlled by the M23 fell to the military. |
| Well Concussions and the Classroom | | | The American Academy of Pediatrics on Sunday released new recommendations regarding students who return to school following a concussion. |
| Rapper 50 Cent gets probation in domestic violence case | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American rapper 50 Cent on Monday struck a deal with Los Angeles prosecutors for three years' probation and 30 days of community service after allegedly kicking the mother of his child and destroying her property during a June altercation. |
| Facial recognition brings new look to shopping | | | Aug. 19 - Scrambling for credit cards or mobile phones at the checkout counter could become a thing of the past as a Finnish company readies to launch the world's first face recognition payment system. Tara Cleary reports. |
| Autonomous RoboBee no flight of fancy | | | Oct. 29 - Researchers from Harvard University say the tiny robotic bees they unveiled last year should be ready for work in the real world by 2023. Called RoboBees, the miniature drones are being developed by Harvard's School of Engineering and Wyss Institute, to assist in crop pollination and search and rescue. Ben Gruber reports. |
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