| Latest worldwide news | Tokyo man to lose home to make way for stadium again | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Kohei Jinno fans out the black and white photos of his family posing proudly in front of their central Tokyo home, a house they were forced to leave ahead of the 1964 Olympic Games to make way for construction of the main stadium. |
| Netflix wins major Emmy award | | | Sep. 23 - Netflix's Emmy win for "House of Cards" showed the streaming video service could compete among the best. It could inspire more Hollywood talent to consider online series. Fred Katayama reports. |
| List of missing Colorado flood victims down to just one | | | DENVER, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The list of people still missing in the devastating Colorado floods dwindled to one person on Tuesday, a woman who is presumed dead, after six others once among the hundreds unaccounted for notified authorities that they were alive and well. |
| Emmy telecast wins bigger audience, but leaves critics cold | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Even as viewership for Sunday night's Primetime Emmy Awards telecast on CBS rose for the second consecutive year, critics panned the U.S. TV industry's top honors as a dull showcase that gave its winners and nominees short shrift. |
| Challenges Await Plan to Reduce Emissions | | | A proposal from the Obama administration to limit carbon emissions might be curtailed in a legal quagmire if the required technology does not meet current standards. |
| How sensors make your phone "Star Trek smart" | | | Can your current smartphone be any smarter? Sure it can, if the device knows how to better understand its surroundings with the help of internal sensors. Qualcomm's Project Gimbal does just that for app developers. Here's a peek at how Paramount is using the technology. |
| Election system needs an overhaul, but it's not that easy | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in Florida were still waiting to cast their ballots more than six hours after polls closed on Election Day, registered voters in Ohio were told they were not on voter rolls and new voter ID laws in Pennsylvania led to confusion at voting places. |
| Book ban 'Captain Underpants' tops list | | | What would you do if you went to the library in search of "The Adventures of Captain Underpants" for your child, or to re-read Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Beloved" only to find that the book had been pulled from the shelves because another patron objected to its content? |
| Renewed push at U.N. for Syria resolution followed by peace talks | | | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama appealed to the United Nations on Tuesday to back tough consequences for Syria if it refuses to give up chemical weapons and urged Russia and Iran to end their support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. |
| Cristina Camerota, Ellen Willett | | | One partner is corporate recruitment team leader and the other creates and maintains employee work schedules for a concierge service. |
| Disney to disabled Join the queue | | | Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort will no longer allow visitors with disabilities instant access to rides, starting next month, in an attempt to reduce abuse of the policy. |
| 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. |
| Paddling wild in Sweden | | | With 8,000 islands, the Swedish coastal region of Bohusln is a paradise for kayakers. Or anyone seeking high-grade solitude. |
| From township girl to opera diva | | | Pumeza Matshikiza grew up in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa, during Apartheid. Now she's an opera star who's performed at the world's biggest opera houses. |
| Jailed American Appeal to Rouhani | | | The family of former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati has a message for Iran's new president Their American son is not a spy, has never been one, and he should be released immediately from prison in Iran. |
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