| Latest worldwide news | How success hinders innovation | | | Economist and author Noreena Hertz explains why it pays to not get stuck in your own success and make choices with your eyes wide open. |
| One word that can fix Obama's second term China | | | Obama needs to borrow a play from Richard Nixon and go to Beijing, says U.S. presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. A deal on carbon emissions with China, Brinkley says, would help turn his second term around. |
| French court upholds Sarkozy vote funding probe | | | BORDEAUX, France Sept 24 (Reuters) - A French appeals court ruled on Tuesday that an investigation could proceed into former president Nicolas Sarkozy for allegedly duping L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt into donating election campaign funds, a lawyer for her family said. |
| Rainbow laces campaign tied up in knots? | | | It was supposed to provide the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but the latest effort to fight homophobia in football is in danger of fading into monochrome. |
| Gene Therapy With a Difference | | | An experimental drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy failed in a large clinical trial recently, but the technique of counteracting mutated genes holds promise. |
| Breaking Bread Dinner With Sal Albanese | | | Sal F. Albaneses 1997 campaign for the Democratic mayoral nomination used the Dickens theme that Bill de Blasio adopted this year in defeating Mr. Albanese and seven other Democrats. |
| Billionaire Soros weds consultant in third marriage | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - George Soros, the 83-year-old billionaire investor, philanthropist and supporter of liberal political causes, married for a third time on Saturday, tying the knot with education consultant Tamiko Bolton. |
| Pakistan's minorities under threat | | | All Saints Church was designed to look like a mosque -- to symbolize unity amidst a community of many religions. Completed in 1883, it was built within the old walled city of Peshawar during a century of relative peace and harmony. |
| Italian court orders new search of Costa Concordia wreck | | | ROME (Reuters) - An Italian court on Tuesday called for a new expert examination of the Costa Concordia cruise liner to seek further evidence related to its sinking, accepting a request from the lawyers of the ship's captain and civil parties. |
| Costa Concordia What's inside? | | | The nautical blue paint spelling out "Costa Concordia" has almost all bubbled and chipped off the bow of the once luxurious cruise liner after 20 months under salt water off the Italian island of Giglio. |
| 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. |
| Meet the 'mermaid' of Barcelona | | | Human to Hero meets 23-year-old Ona Carbonell, a double Olympic medalist in synchronized swimming who loves life underwater. |
| Canada Ties Serbia in Davis Cup | | | Milos Raonic served 34 aces to outlast Janko Tipsarevic in five sets Friday and tie the Davis Cup semifinal between Canada and Serbia at 1-1 after the opening singles matches. |
| Saudi Arabia worst on women's legal issues -report | | | WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Saudi Arabia tops the list of countries for laws that limit women's economic potential, while South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa have made... |
| Rocky Transition From Farm to Town in China | | | It is one of the largest peacetime population transfers in history the removal of 2.4 million farmers from mountain areas in central Chinas Shaanxi Province to low-lying towns. |
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