| Latest worldwide news | Bayern maintain 100% record | | | Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich continued their perfect start to the Bundesliga season with a 1-0 away win at Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday. |
| Breakingviews Minimum wage woes | | | Aug. 29 - With fast-food workers set to strike, a new study shows how welfare usually pays more than low-wage jobs. Jeffrey Goldfarb and Richard Beales discuss the conundrum for policymakers. |
| Devils Sign Veteran Right Wing Jagr | | | The New Jersey Devils have signed veteran right wing Jaromir Jagr in a move to help plug the scoring gap left by the recently retired Ilya Kovalchuk, the National Hockey League (NHL) team said on Tuesday. |
| UPDATE 2-Investors pull less cash from U.S.-based stock funds -Lipper | | | By Sam Forgione NEW YORK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Investors in U.S.-based funds pulled $863.1 million out of stock funds in the latest week, down from massive outflows in the prior week even as the possibility of military action against Syria unnerved markets, data from Lipper showed on Thursday. The outflows from stock funds in the week ended Aug. 28 were down from outflows of about $9.4 billion from the funds the prior week, which were the most since July 2012, data from Lipper, a Thomson |
| Breakingviews Microsofts future | | | Aug. 23 - Richard Beales and Robert Cyran discuss why CEO Steve Ballmers announcement he will retire sometime in the next year had investors cheering. |
| L'Oreal posts 7.7 pct rise in H1 operating profit | | | PARIS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - French cosmetics giant L'Oreal on Thursday posted improved margins and a nearly 8 percent rise in first-half operating profit in spite of slightly weaker demand from major markets such as the United States. |
| 8 hurt in N.J. base explosion | | | At least eight people were injured Tuesday by an explosion at a naval weapons station in New Jersey, a Navy spokesman said. |
| Assad says Syria will defend itself against aggression | | | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that Syria would defend itself against any aggression following reports that the United States and its allies were preparing military action in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack. |
| Liberty Gain Ground in Playoff Race | | | Plenette Pierson scored 18 points, and the Liberty won, 74-66, at Connecticut to move a game behind Indiana for the final playoff spot in the W.N.B.A.s Eastern Conference. |
| Women have the last laugh at Edinburgh Fringe | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Stand-up comic Bridget Christie was about to put her career on pause as she realized that at 41 and with two young kids she earned less than her babysitter. But on Saturday she won the most prestigious prize in British comedy. |
| Iraqis mourn after 86 killed | | | Aug. 29 - A spate of car bombings and other attacks kill dozens in Baghdad on one of the deadliest days the country has seen this year. Lindsey Parietti reports. |
| 'House of Cards' creator shows his hand | | | Netflix's "House of Cards" is up for nine Emmys and currently in production on its second season. Creator Beau Willimon talks about the show, Washington and power. |
| Activists infiltrate Belgian F1 race | | | Activists protesting against Arctic oil drilling infiltrate a Formula One race in Belgium Sunday, but the off-track incident does not stop Sebastian Vettel's march towards a fourth successive world title. |
| 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. |
| Bloomberg on climate change | | | For the first time in human history, more than half the world's population is living in cities, which now produce approximately 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That puts cities on the frontlines of the battle against climate change -- and more and more cities are leading the charge. |
| U.S. transfers two Guantanamo detainees to Algeria | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it had transferred two men from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the government of Algeria as part of its ongoing effort to close the controversial prison. |
| To my college-bound son | | | Don't expect life to be fair. Look people in the eye. Be your own work of art. "I hope that you will remember these unofficial commandments," a mother writes to her son as he prepares to move away from home. |
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