| Latest worldwide news | Can racism ever be beaten? | | | Watching dozens of crazed supporters trying to set fire to a stadium makes you question your love of football. |
| Harvard hires new VP for sustainable investing | | | (Reuters) - Harvard University has hired a senior executive at its investment management arm to review how environmental, social and corporate governance aspects affect the holdings in its $30 billion endowment, the school said on Tuesday. |
| A Farewell to Maxwells, in Reminiscences | | | Todd Abramson, who estimates that he booked more than 200 gigs a year at Maxwells, the little music club in Hoboken that is closing on Wednesday, shares some memorable moments. |
| Ex-jewel thief Cannes jewelery heist is a pro job | | | Investigators were at work Tuesday looking into the weekend theft of jewels worth close to $136 million from an exhibition in the French resort city of Cannes, the prosecutor's office in nearby Grasse said. |
| Who needs monogamy? | | | Scientists are still asking Where did the tendency to form lasting relationships with just one other person come from? |
| Explain Obamacare at last | | | Dean Obeidallah says Obama's health care plan would attract broad support -- if only the public fully understood it |
| Russia loses $200 million satellites as launch ends in flames | | | ALMATY, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites worth around $200 million crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday after its engines suddenly switched off. |
| 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. |
| Carlos Slim increases stake in NY Times | | | Oct 6 (Reuters) - Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who loaned the New York Times Co $250 million, has upped his stake in the company for the third time in two months. |
| Well Australians Are Getting Fatter | | | Australia may be known for its rugged outdoor lifestyles but recent statistics suggest a different reality. Australia and its equally outdoorsy neighbor, New Zealand, are now two of the fattest countries in the developed world. |
| UPDATE 3-Sprint posts wider quarterly loss on steep costs | | | By Sinead Carew NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - Sprint Corp, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider, posted a wider quarterly loss due to hefty costs from shutting down its older Nextel network and it warned that customer defections would continue to hurt it in coming quarters. Shares in Sprint, which recently sold 78 percent of its shares to Japan's SoftBank Corp, rose 1 percent on Tuesday morning as its revenue was better than expected. But analysts worried whether Sprint can turn a |
| Federer's return to Gstaad cut short | | | Roger Federer's first appearance in Gstaad for nine years lasts just over an hour as the former World No.1 makes an untimely exit to Germany's Daniel Brands. |
| Arctic thaw could cost $60 trillion | | | A long-trapped store of methane could rapidly speed up global warming if it escapes from the thawing Siberian tundra, adding as much as $60 trillion to the expected costs of climate change, scientists reported Wednesday. |
| Azarenka continues to raise bar for herself | | | CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) - After a rough past couple of months that included a tight loss to Maria Sharapova at the French Open and an injury-enforced withdrawal from Wimbledon, world number three Victoria Azarenka enters the Southern California Open as hungry as ever. |
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