| Latest worldwide news | Water "the teeth" of climate change - World Bank | | | June 19 - Growing pressure over water remains the most worrying symptom of climate change, argues the World Bank President, while a projected 2C rise in temperature by 2030 could submerge Bangkok. |
| Breaking Bad Props to Be Auctioned | | | Screenbid.com sees a market in the stuff movie and TV shows are made of, including the dull green Aztek used by the shows meth-dealing antihero, Walter White. |
| UK hacked Belgium telecom company, documents show -report | | | Sept 20 (Reuters) - Documents provided by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden show a United Kingdom intelligence effort was behind a spying breach at Belgium's biggest telecommunications company, Germany's Der Spiegel reported Friday. |
| Timelapse shows aging | | | Filmmaker Anthony Cerniello made this timelapse using shots taken of family members of various ages. |
| Court orders bus tsunami payout | | | In the first ruling of its kind in Japan, a court has ordered a kindergarten to pay almost $2 million to the parents of four of five children who were killed after staff put them on a bus that drove straight into the path of an oncoming tsunami. |
| Vets may not get speedy cancer care | | | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer are experiencing longer wait times before receiving cancer treatment in Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers across the U.S., according to a recent report. |
| White House rounding up support for Yellen to take reins at Fed | | | WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - White House officials are mustering support among Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee to back Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen, three sources said on Friday, laying the groundwork for her expected nomination to the Fed's top job. |
| Scientists discover new legless lizard species in California | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California scientists have discovered four species of legless lizards hidden in unlikely habitats among central valley oil derricks, sand dunes at the end of a Los Angeles airport runway and other arid and desolate spaces. |
| City Room The Week in Pictures for Sept. 20 | | | Watch a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include a fire on the Jersey Shore, prayers at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens, and vote counting in Brooklyn. |
| For Indiana's conservative rebels, fighting Obamacare worth risk | | | GREENFIELD, Ind., Sept 20 (Reuters) - To understand why so many conservatives in Congress are willing to risk a government shutdown in their quest to cut spending and derail "Obamacare," take a look at Indiana and the state's crop of young Republicans in the U.S. House Representatives. |
| Wall Street ends down as Fed officials weigh in | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Friday as investors puzzled over the Federal Reserve's decision to maintain its stimulus measures as they heard opposing viewpoints from top Fed officials. |
| Why Iran worries Israel more than Syria | | | This week marks the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Across Israel, families build primitive structures with branches or palm fronds as roofs. They do so to remember the biblical exodus from Egypt and 40 years of exile in the Sinai Desert. It is a celebration of survival. |
| Swiss engineers bring acoustic solution to noise pollution | | | Aug. 29 - Acoustic engineers at EPFL in Switzerland are developing a sound tracking system they say will help regulators control traffic flow and reduce road noise. The World Health Organization says road noise is a major contributor to poor health in Europe but by monitoring traffic flow, the engineers think they can help. Tara Cleary reports. |
| Search narrows for missing in Colorado flood disaster | | | DENVER (Reuters) - Disaster teams in flood-ravaged foothills of Colorado narrowed their search on Friday for 82 people still unaccounted for a week and a half after torrential rains began, and officials said some of the missing would most likely be added to the death toll. |
| 3rd-Period Power-Play Goal Lifts Ducks 2-1 | | | Hampus Lindholm had a power-play goal at 1404 of the third period, lifting the Anaheim Ducks to a 2-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche in a preseason game Wednesday night. |
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