| Latest worldwide news | Your solstice traditions | | | If Stonehenge is anything to go by, summer celebrations have a millennia-old history. While the ancient druids may have commemorated the fertility of the season, many of us are just happy to get outdoors. |
| Inspectors prepare for Syria | | | The inspectors tasked with destroying Syria's chemical weapons have been in hostile areas before, but never when the war is still raging on the ground. |
| Well Eat Your Broccoli | | | Five ways to prepare broccoli, with cooking and without, to benefit from its many nutrients. |
| Beijing's smog artist | | | A Dutch artist and designer has come up with a device he hopes will suck pollutants from Beijing's smog-cloaked skies, creating columns of clean air for the city's surgical-mask wearing residents. |
| Allstate profit beats Street as premiums grow | | | (Reuters) - Allstate Corp , the largest publicly traded home and auto insurer in the United States, reported a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street estimates as it wrote more premiums across its businesses. |
| Longest indoor ski tunnel | | | Christina Macfarlane explores how the Swedish Cross Country team trains for the Winter Olympics in the middle of summer. |
| Doctor convicted in Michael Jackson death leaves prison | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's personal physician, convicted of manslaughter for administering a lethal dose of anesthetic to the pop singer, was released from a Los Angeles prison on Monday after serving half of his four-year sentence. |
| Suicide bomber attacks Tunisian resort town | | | TUNIS (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Tunisian tourist resort of Sousse on Wednesday, the first such assault in more than a decade in a country now battling Islamist militants boosted by chaos in neighboring Libya. |
| Your solstice traditions | | | If Stonehenge is anything to go by, summer celebrations have a millennia-old history. While the ancient druids may have commemorated the fertility of the season, many of us are just happy to get outdoors. |
| Journalists admit phone hacking | | | Three former journalists at Rupert Murdoch's defunct British tabloid News of the World have pleaded guilty to phone hacking. |
| Ask Well Glucosamine and MSM for Joint Pain? | | | Many people swear by the dietary supplements glucosamine and MSM for lessening the creaking and soreness of knees, backs, hips and other joints. But the science on their effectiveness is mixed. |
| Central America Independence Day | | | For one weekend in September more than 155 million people in six neighboring countries in one continent pull out all the stops to honor the birth of their nations. |
| Cannons found in Blackbeard's ship | | | Rrrrrchaelogists have recovered five big six pounders from t' wreck o' t' famed scurvy dog Blackbeard's ship off t' coast o' North Carolina. |
| Big storm, small screen | | | A twisted boardwalk, a glowing carousel flooded with water and a cresting river breaching its banks. Instagram reached saturation as Sandy hit, turning it into a storytelling medium for the superstorm. |
| Longest indoor ski tunnel | | | Christina Macfarlane explores how the Swedish Cross Country team trains for the Winter Olympics in the middle of summer. |
| Bond trader turned energy boss takes on Britain's "big power" | | | LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Lambasting the country's dominant energy companies for gouging customers, the founder of a small English supplier has emerged as an unlikely hero in a row over soaring power and gas prices that could influence the 2015 election. |
| World Briefing | Asia North Korea Work Seen at Missile Site | | | Commercial satellite imagery taken a few weeks ago suggests that North Korea is upgrading its main launch facility with the possible intention of handling both larger and more mobile missiles, a Washington-based research institute that monitors the country said. |
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