| Latest worldwide news | Clip Air brings air travel by train | | | June 19 - Swiss researchers have released futuristic designs for attachable modular aircraft that will allow passengers to board a plane at a railway station and disembark at their destination without ever setting foot in an airport. EPFL says its Clip Air project is no flight of fancy. Jim Drury reports. |
| Grapefruit-sized RadBall proposed for Fukushima clean-up | | | July 11 - The world's largest floating power station is about to set sail from Tokyo bay for deployment off Fukushima, while officials struggle to clean up radioactive waste inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station. Soon however, they may have a grapefruit-sized ball made of aluminium and tungsten to help them. Called RadBall, the device is designed to locate sources of radiation in difficult to reach places. Jim Drury has more. |
| Annual swan upping counts royal babies | | | July 16 - The Queen's Swan Marker begins the annual census of swans and their young on the River Thames, monitoring royal babies of a very different kind. Elly Park reports. |
| Despots' lairs a tourist attraction? | | | From Tito's nuclear bunker and Stalin's summer house, to Mussolini's villa and Gaddafi's cruise ship, autocrat hideouts have become tourist attractions. |
| Halliburton plea may help BP in spill liability battle | | | (Reuters) - BP Plc appeared to gain an edge in the battle over liability for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill on Friday, after Halliburton abandoned one of its arguments that tried to paint the British oil company as unconcerned about well safety. |
| At Least 24 Killed in Bus Plunge in Italy | | | Highway police in Italy told state radio that the bus slammed into the cars, which had slowed for heavy traffic, before plunging off the road and falling dozens of feet. |
| Parted by Korean War, united by hope | | | This South Korean couple has spent many of the past 60 years believing the other was dead. He was held prisoner by the North, she lived in the South. |
| Cambodia goes to the polls | | | July 28 - Voting kicks off in the Cambodian general election in which Asia's longest-serving prime minister is likely to be handed another five years in power. Sarah Charlton reports. |
| Seven shot dead in Florida hostage rampage | | | MIAMI (Reuters) - A tenant went on a shooting rampage at a Florida apartment building, killing six people before a SWAT team killed him and rescued two neighbors he was holding hostage on Saturday, police said. |
| Cat-and-mouse in Zimbabwe's election cyberwar | | | HARARE, July 26 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has blocked mass SMS bursts ahead of next week's election, hobbling a powerful source of non-official information in the tightly controlled southern African state, activists and a phone company source said on Friday. |
| Quake hits northwest China | | | Rescue teams are scrambling to reach the site of Monday morning's strong and shallow earthquake in northwestern China that has killed at least 89 people, according to state media. |
| TABLE-Foreign brokers set to sell Japanese stocks | | | TOKYO, July 29 (Reuters) - Following are orders for Japanese stocks placed through six foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Monday. Japanese Stocks SELL 18.1 million shares BUY 12.1 million shares ------------------------------------------------------ SELL 6.0 million shares |
| A Chilly Respite From War | | | The Fort Bragg Patriots are primarily made up of active-duty combat veterans who play to bond with one another and reconnect with the game they love. |
| Deaths reported in Egypt as violence escalates | | | July 27 - The Muslim Brotherhood say at least 30 people have been were killed in violence in Cairo, while a number of other deaths are reported as rival demonstrators clash. Sarah Charlton reports. |
| Private banker pay holds up in tough market | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Stiff competition for top private bankers has kept a floor under pay even as low interest rates, flaccid client trading and tougher regulation squeeze industry profit margins. |
| LVMH shares jump as Louis Vuitton calms worries | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Shares in LVMH soared on Friday after the luxury group reassured investors about margins and sales growth at its star brand Louis Vuitton and joined rival Kering in pointing to an... |
| UPDATE 1-U.N. and Syria say chemical arms talks were 'productive' | | | BEIRUT, July 27 (Reuters) - The United Nations and Syria said on Saturday that negotiations between Damascus and the U.N. chemical weapons investigator were "productive", but did not say if his team would be allowed to probe allegations that such weapons had been used in the country's civil war. |
| The Boss New Roads to Learning | | | The C.E.O. of Edgenuity, an online learning company, says she learned early in her career that students need the tools to advance at their own pace. |
| TV soaps avoid Egypt, Syria | | | Ramadan is a key time for the television soap industry. Traditionally, most TV shows are produced in Egypt and Syria. |
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