| Latest worldwide news | 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. |
| Economix Blog Janet Yellens Wealth | | | Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserves vice chairwoman, held investments in 2012 worth at least $4.8 million, including a valuable stamp collection, according to financial disclosures. |
| Gus the Central Park polar bear dead at 27 | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gus, the Central Park Zoo's polar bear, has died after spending the last two years alone following the death of his mate, Ida, in 2011, zoo officials said on Wednesday. He was 27. |
| Top Trio Have Eyes on $10 Million Playoff Prize | | | The world's top three golfers tee off together on Friday as the second FedExCup playoff event, the Deutsche Bank Championship, gets under way with scores of other players still in the hunt for the $10 million jackpot. |
| A Minute With Ethan Hawke on acting, Selena Gomez and Shakespeare | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After taking time away to focus on family and stage acting, Ethan Hawke is getting back to film and stepping into the driver's seat in his latest role as a racecar driver trapped in a car and racing against time in the action-thriller "Getaway." |
| U.S. Marines see progress in F-35 testing despite challenges | | | ABOARD USS WASP, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Two F-35 fighter jets have completed dozens of test flights from the deck of this amphibious assault ship over the past three weeks, but several flights were scrapped on Wednesday for maintenance issues, just as more than a dozen journalists arrived for a demonstration. |
| Syria a problem from hell | | | Peter Bergen says President Obama has to decide what to do about a rogue regime that is warring on its people, confronting a classic problem that has bedeviled the U.S. |
| U.S. gets its own bull running festival | | | August 26 - Lining a dirt track at the Virginia Motorsports Park, thousands raced ahead, around and behind a dozen bulls stampeding down the fence-bordered course. Elly Park reports. |
| Pee-powered cell phone points to 'smart toilet' technology | | | Aug. 13 - Does the call of nature hold the answer to a new form of renewable energy? Scientists in the UK are confident that it does. With backing from both the British government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the researchers have developed a method for charging mobile phones with human urine. Matthew Stock reports. |
| Living With Cancer Is It Back? | | | The tunnel vision of cancer focuses me obsessively on myself. Perhaps all diseases bring egotism in their wake, for people in distress find it hard to think of anything else. |
| China sets course for lunar landing | | | China set a bold new course in its ambitious space program Wednesday, when it announced plans to land its first probe on the moon by the end of the year. |
| Q A | | | Proxy voting and appliance ownership are two of the topics addressed this week. |
| UPDATE 2-U.S., Switzerland forge bank settlement deal amid tax probe | | | WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it had signed an agreement with the Swiss government to allow some Swiss banks to avoid or defer prosecution stemming from a long-running probe of tax dodging by Americans using Swiss bank accounts. |
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