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News Feed Latest worldwide news Fourteen killed in clashes in Central African Republic BANGUI (Reuters) - Fourteen people have been killed in violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in an isolated town in eastern Central African Republic that began last week, police and a senior Catholic official said on Sunday. 'Golden Bear' on tennis CNN's Pat Cash meets golfing great Jack Nicklaus on the sidelines of Wimbledon. Shutdown slows U.S. bilateral talks to fight offshore tax dodgers WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal government shutdown has interrupted U.S. efforts to negotiate agreements with other countries on implementing an anti-tax evasion law that is to take effect next year, tax lawyers said on Friday. Sotheby's adopts "poison pill" after Loeb raises stake Oct 4 (Reuters) - Sotheby's adopted a "poison pill" to ward off an unwanted takeover, two days after activist investor Daniel Loeb's Third Point LLC announced that it raised its stake in the... BP rallies after winning legal reprieve over Gulf spill payments LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in BP rose 1.7 percent in early trade on Thursday, the top gainer on Britain's FTSE 100 , after the energy company won a legal reprieve in a case related to settlements over... T Magazine Icelands Otherworldly Beauty Icelands wilderness is stark, severe, and perhaps unforgiving, but it offers views of vistas unlike anything else on the planet, and people possessed of uncommon friendliness. Analysis Canceled EU-U.S. talks complicate trade ambitions BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Even before the cancelation of the latest round of EU-U.S. talks, negotiations to create the world's largest free-trade deal were getting into difficulty territory. Divers Recover 83 More Bodies From Migrant Ship Wreckage The death toll, now at 194, is likely to grow following the disaster near an Italian island in the Mediterranean. Dufner claims 1st major title Jason Dufner wins 2013 PGA Championship over Jim Furyk. Patrick Snell reports. U.S. planned layoffs fall 20 pct in September Challenger NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms fell 20 percent in September, even as cuts in the healthcare sector more than doubled from the prior month, a report on Thursday... Sonar jamming moths hinder hungry bats Sept. 25 - A tiger moth native to the deserts of Arizona has developed a highly evolved sonar jamming system it uses to fend of attacks by hungry bats. The discovery, described in a paper published in the journal PLOS One, could have applications in the design of acoustic deterrents to protect bats from dangerous wind turbines. Rob Muir reports. Obama Points to Legitimate Concerns Over Redskins Name The long-simmering debate over the Washington Redskins name took a new turn when President Obama said that he would consider changing it if he owned the team. Aerial engineers seek inspiration from slo-mo hummingbirds Oct. 1 - Researchers at Stanford University are looking to one of nature's most agile creatures - the hummingbird - for design tips as they build the next generation of aerial search and rescue vehicles. Using high-speed cameras, the engineers are slowing down time to study the birds in flight. Ben Gruber reports. Evacuations ordered as Tropical Storm Karen nears U.S. coast NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Authorities issued mandatory evacuation orders for low-lying areas south of New Orleans on Friday as a weakened Tropical Storm Karen closed in on the Louisiana coast after disrupting U.S. energy output in the Gulf of Mexico. QA Gaming With Chrome, and Bypassing Windows 8 Fans of the game Minecraft may be able to get it to play on a Google Chrome notebook, and how to go directly from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 Novelties Microsatellites What Big Eyes They Have By expanding Earth imaging, low-cost satellites could help many businesses keep track of their operations. But frequent updating of those images may also raise privacy questions. Graphene is creeping into your home Just under ten years ago, the Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim stumbled across a substance that would revolutionize the way people understood matter and win him and his colleague Kostya Novoselow the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics. It was Graphene -- a one atom thin substance. The Professor of Physics at Manchester University talks to CNN about discovering the first ever 2-dimensional material. UPDATE 1-Indian customs clear remaining gold at Mumbai airport-officials MUMBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - India's customs department has cleared more than a tonne of gold, part of which was owned by Bank of Nova Scotia, the biggest gold importing bank, at Mumbai airport after rule clarifications at a high-level meeting held last month, industry and bank officials said on Saturday. U.S. hedge funds investing heavily in Greek banks FT (Reuters) - Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson's Paulson Co and a number of other U.S. hedge funds are investing aggressively into Greece's struggling banking sector expecting it to turn a corner,... Wed be better off without American Airlines - Felix TV Loose seats. Disrupted flights. Damning headlines. Its been a terrible week for American Airlines. Reuters blogger Felix Salmon explains why flying American and other big carriers has become such a drag. (October 4, 2012) Art Review Lewis Hines Photographs, in Two Shows at I.C.P. Lewis Hine, the subject of two shows at the International Center for Photography, pursued a kind of illustrated sociology rather than photojournalism. Venezuela's toilet paper takeover When you're running low on toilet paper and getting desperate, what do you do? Recipes for Health Lasagna With Pistou and Mushrooms A lasagna dish that is a great vehicle for pesto or pistou to use up the summers stock of basil. Shutdown is sand in the gears for key USDA crop report * Thousands of crop scouts idled in middle of monthly survey T Magazine Now Screening | A Train Film to Celebrate Doug Aitkens Station to Station Tour In this clever short, which played during the just-completed art caravan, the artist Thomas Demand pulls off a visual trick that makes references to the origins of cinema. CBGB Dramatizes the Heyday of New Yorks Premier Punk Club The film CBGB attempts to recreate the days of the Bowerys premier punk rock club. But not all of the nightspots former habitus endorse it. Prominent Cuban dissident economist Oscar Espinosa Chepe dead at 72 HAVANA (Reuters) - Oscar Manuel Espinosa Chepe, a dissident Cuban economist whose work was censored by the government, died in Spain on Monday at age 72 after battling chronic liver disease and cancer, his wife announced on Facebook. Umenyiora Urges Falcons Not to Panic Atlantas Osi Umenyiora, a Giants defensive end for 11 years, knows that a slow start isnt fatal in the N.F.L. No. 23 Fresno State Beats Idaho 61-14 Derek Carr threw five touchdown passes as No. 23 Fresno State pounded Idaho 61-14 on Saturday, scoring at least 40 points for the fifth time this season. Alison Wolfs XX Factor The success of well-educated elite women often comes at other womens expense, a professor argues. Julia Potter Tops US Women's Mid-Am Qualifying Reinstated amateur Julia Potter shot a 3-over 74 on Sunday to top stroke-play qualifying in the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur. Netanyahu Plans to Meet With European Leaders on Iranian Nuclear Talks Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, hopes to influence coming negotiations over what he described as a comprehensive international struggle. Water discovered in Martian soil Scoop up some soil on Mars, heat it up, cool down the steam and ... slurp, slurp! You've got water! Memories of Facebook cloud Twitter's IPO SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Facebook Inc was preparing to go public last year, the telephones at Granite Investment Advisors rang off the hook as clients called about the social media's company's... Big Executive Moves Within Hispanic Media Fusion, the new network that is a joint venture of Disney and Univision, named a chief, and Telemundo said its president, Emilio Romano, was stepping down. Breakingviews Lend or lose out - UK banks "Help to Buy" dilemma Oct. 3 - The UK government's mortgage guarantee scheme could backfire on banks' reputations if borrowers default, but capital benefits and defending market share look like compelling reasons to sign up. Barracuda Networks files for IPO of up to $100 million (Reuters) - Barracuda Networks, a security and data protection company, filed for an initial public offering of up to $100 million, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Dawn of the super-ports? How are ports adapting to cope with the dominant new generation of giant cargo ships? Sketch Guy Beware Financial Comparisons With Others Sticking to the numbers makes more sense than worrying about who makes more money, a financial planner writes. Jury clears promoter of liability in Michael Jackson's death LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles jury cleared concert promoter AEG Live of liability on Wednesday in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Michael Jackson, in a trial that offered a...

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