| Latest worldwide news | East Germany's secret police | | | The sometimes ludicrous disguises and complex surveillance techniques used by East Germany's Stasi secret police to psychologically brutalize the population have been revealed, more than two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain. |
| U.S. spy agencies face big layoffs in government shutdown | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 70 percent of the civilians working for U.S. spy agencies have been deemed "non-essential" employees and face temporary layoffs due to the government shutdown that began on Tuesday, three officials familiar with the matter said. |
| Phys Ed Why Runners Dont Get Knee Arthritis | | | One of the most entrenched beliefs about running is that it can ruin knees by causing arthritis. But a new study finds that distance running is unlikely to contribute to the development of arthritis. |
| What to know before visiting Spain | | | It's Western Europe's second largest country, but it's the diversity of its people and passions that holds the key to understanding Spain's eternal appeal. |
| Website maps 1.2B Facebook faces | | | Facebook has so many users -- more than a billion, or roughly the population of India -- that squeezing them all into one Web page seems almost impossible. |
| UPDATE 1-Vivendi's GVT may team up with Ergen's EchoStar in Brazil | | | NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - French media group Vivendi , hoping to offer pay-TV service to Brazilians eager to watch World Cup soccer matches and the Olympic Games coming to their country, said on Tuesday its Brazilian unit GVT had started negotiating with satellite company EchoStar Corp to set up a pay-TV venture. |
| Fitch Downgrades MONY Life on Acquisition Close | | | (The following statement was released by the rating agency) NEW YORK, October 01 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings has downgraded the Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) rating of MONY Life Ins. Co. (MONY Life) to 'A' from 'AA-' following the close of its sale to Protective Life Insurance Co. (PLICO), the primary operating subsidiary of Protective Life Corp. (PL,) effective Oct.1, 2013. This rating action has no impact on the ratings of MONY Life's former parent, AXA Financial, Inc. (AXA Financial) or it |
| Four bodies recovered from wreckage of California plane crash | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Medical examiners recovered four bodies on Tuesday from the wreckage of a small jet that crash-landed into a hangar and burst into flames at the Santa Monica airport near Los Angeles over the weekend, the coroner's office operations chief said. |
| Japanese translation glasses seen as Olympic boon for tourists | | | Oct. 1 - Japan's biggest mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo, has developed glasses that automatically translate foreign languages. It's hoped the glasses, unveiled by the company this week, will make life easier for foreigners visiting Tokyo during the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Rob Muir reports. |
| From football to golf for 'Sheva' | | | Andriy Shevchenko was one of the finest football players of his generation. He retired last year but is now making his debut on the professional golf circuit. |
| Dozens killed in building collapse | | | Authorities say they now know what may have caused a five-story building in Mumbai to collapse last week a decorator who removed a central wall and supporting beams without permission. |
| Gunmen fire on sleeping students | | | Under the cover of darkness, gunmen approached a college dormitory in a rural Nigerian town and opened fire on students who were sleeping. |
| Singing doctor turns social media into treatment tool | | | Sept. 25 - A doctor in the UK has become a Youtube sensation while demonstrating the power of social media to help patients. Dr Tapas Mukherjee is now known as 'The Singing Doctor', with his version of 90s hit "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by the band Deep Blue Something, which he has adapted lyrically to help acute asthma patients treat their condition. Jim Drury went to meet him. |
| Well Unequal Pain Relief in the Emergency Room | | | Black and Hispanic children who go to an E.R. with stomach pain are less likely than white children to receive pain medication and more likely to spend long hours in the emergency room, a new study reports. |
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