| Latest worldwide news
| TAKE-A-LOOK-Verizon-Vodafone deal | | | Sept 2 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications agreed on Monday to pay $130 billion to buy Vodafone out of its U.S. wireless business, signing history's third largest corporate deal to bring an end to an often fractious 14-year marriage. gt; Verizon, Vodafone agree $130 bln Wireless deal gt; NEWSMAKER-Vittorio Colao caps Vodafone revamp gt; VIEW-Vodafone,Verizon flowback may be challenge gt; FACTBOX-Top five MA deals worldwide gt; Deal a challenge for bulge bracket banks |
| Social Qs Photo Op | | | Etiquette questions regarding a photo opportunist, a mother who wants her child home for the holiday, when to say Im sorry and those Labor Day blues. |
| OTP plans to bid for stake in Takarekbank -TV | | | BUDAPEST, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Hungary's OTP Bank plans to bid for savings bank Takarekbank once the state-held stake in the bank comes up for sale, OTP's chairman and chief executive Sandor Csanyi told private television channel ATV on Monday. |
| Tseng Bouncing back to No. 1? | | | After becoming the youngest golfer to win five major championships, Yani Tseng has slipped down the rankings. Can she come back? |
| Obama welcomes '72 Miami Dolphins to the White House | | | Aug. 20 - Saying, "I decided it was high time to pay tribute to the NFL's only perfect team," President Barack Obama honored Super Bowl VII Champions, the 1972 Miami Dolphins, in an East Room ceremony. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Should this be an Olympic sport? | | | Scoobers, hammers and laying out - it's the "ultimate" flying saucer attack. And if Mark Poole is right, his sport could soon be coming to an Olympics near you. |
| Central American coffee farmers fear ruin from rust fungus | | | EL PARAISO, Honduras/PEREZ ZELEDON, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Central American coffee industry officials say the region's arabica crop is weathering an outbreak of leaf-rust fungus, but try telling that to small-hold farmers like Graciela Alvarenga. |
| Swiss stocks - Factors to watch on Sept 2 | | | ZURICH, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Swiss stocks were set to open higher on Monday, in line with other European markets, buoyed by data which showed China's manufacturing sector expanded in August at the fastest pace in more than a year. |
| Egypt's Morsy to stand trial for inciting murder | | | Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy will stand trial on charges of incitement to conduct murder and "thuggery" relating to clashes near the presidential palace in December, state-run MENA reported Sunday. |
| Could Syria strike back? | | | As the United States and its allies debate military intervention in Syria, the nation's president, Bashar al-Assad, has warned that Syria will "defend itself against any aggression." |
| Portrait of doomed love conquers British public's hearts | | | LONDON (Reuters) - "The Lady of Shalott", a painting by John William Waterhouse of a young woman lamenting unrequited love, has been chosen as the British public's favorite artwork, soon to be displayed among other masterpieces across the nation's billboards. |
| Chris Paul Elected President of NBA Players Union | | | Chris Paul has already seemingly done the impossible by turning the long-languishing Los Angeles Clippers into a force in the Western Conference. Now he's taken on another big task rebuilding the reeling NBA players' association. |
| G.D.P. Report Gives Stocks a Lift | | | Stocks on Wall Street rose on Thursday, with traders focusing on developments in Syria and stronger-than-expected economic growth in the United States. |
| Fruit fly brain map a boon to neuroscience | | | Aug. 29 - Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia have successfully mapped the circuitry in a small region of a fruit fly brain. The researchers, who work at HMMI's Janelia Farms Research Campus, say it is a small but important step toward understanding how the much larger human brain processes information. Rob Muir has more. |
| When cooking can kill | | | For nearly half of the world's population, building and maintaining a fire is a daily -- and often deadly -- chore. |
| |
Комментариев нет:
Отправить комментарий