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News Feed Latest worldwide news Tursunov's tour of Kuala Lumpur Open Court's Pat Cash takes Dmitry Tursunov on a sightseeing tour of Kuala Lumpur. Rituals of Rented Island A new show at the Whitney takes a look at performance arts beginnings. Cosmic Census Finds Billions of Planets That Could Be Like Earth With the help of the Kepler spacecraft, astronomers calculate the number of habitable Earth-like planets in the Goldilocks zone not too hot, not too cold. Breakthrough Performances Logan Hill looks at some of the noteworthy performances of the holiday movie season. Wordplay Blog Variety An Acrostic to Set Your Clock By An acrostic you can set your clock by. Feminism isn't a drag for Kurd men Last April, images of Kurdish men dressed in drag started making the rounds on Facebook. Mortgages Help for Some Sandy Victims A temporary change in a federal loan program for the rehab and repair of houses may provide a new option for those whose homes were damaged by last years hurricane. DealBook R.B.S. to Split Off $61 Billion in Loans Into Internal Bad Bank Ross McEwan, the banks new chief executive, pledged to win back customer trust, restore pride in the organization among employees and work to repay the government for a bailout. Art in Review Michaela Eichwald Ergriffenes Dasein Artist, Writer, Mentalist Ms. Eichwald paints effortlessly in ways at once nasty and nice, fluid and crusty, weird and astute. Footprint picks GE equipment for new Massachusetts natgas plant Nov 4 (Reuters) - U.S. privately held power plant developer Footprint Power picked General Electric Co to supply $200 million of equipment for a new 674-megawatt natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant at the Salem Harbor station in Massachusetts. CFTC files fraud lawsuit against AlphaMetrix Nov 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued AlphaMetrix LLC on Monday, accusing the liquidating Chicago-based firm of misappropriating at least $2.8 million and issuing false... Fiscal cliff All it takes is a superhero - Felix TV Reuters blogger Felix Salmon takes to kids toys to explain one of the most vexing problems facing Washington the fiscal cliff. (December 12, 2012) How Anna Chakvetadze, Rising Star at 20, Became a Retiree at 26 At age 26, a rising Russian tennis star was forced to deal with an unthinkable prospect retirement after a violent robbery and a crippling back injury. World Briefing | United Nations United Nations Proposes to Bolster Force in Somalia Four months after a deadly attack on the United Nations compound in Mogadishu, a senior United Nations official on Wednesday called for an expansion of an international security force. Retro Report Hopeful Glimmers in Long War on Cancer A Retro Report and a medical writer reflect on the grand hopes and stuttering progress of Richard Nixons war on cancer. Tropical Depression churns toward Mexico's Pacific coast MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A tropical depression took aim at the Pacific coast of Mexico on Saturday, threatening heavy rains in a broad swath of western Mexico near the same area where other storms have caused major flooding over the past couple of months. Sports Briefing | Tennis Nadal and Djokovic Advance in Paris Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic overcame big servers to reach the Paris Masters quarterfinals. ArtsBeat Lithuanian Opera Rounds Out Prototype Festival Lineup Lina Lapelytes Have a Good Day! will make its American premiere at the festival in January. Nepal's cawing 'bird brother' amazes crowds, raises awareness KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A young man with a microphone stepped onto a small stage and cawed like a crow. Minutes later, hundreds of noisy birds circled above him, perched on trees and sat on roof tops, astounding the crowd at a show called the "crow conference". Celebrating lives lost Celebrated in Mexico and around the world, Dia de los Muertos honors the lives of lost family members and friends. Paces Influence Grows as His Playing Time on Jets Defense Declines Calvin Pace, in his 11th season, has adapted to diminished playing time at outside linebacker while remaining a stabilizing force, a player Coach Rex Ryan likened to glue. Critics Notebook city.ballet., Web Series, Shows Human Side of Dancers The web series city.ballet., produced and conceived by the actress and City Ballet board member Sarah Jessica Parker, explores different facets of the company. Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies A leaked draft of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that climate change could reduce output and send prices higher in a period when global food demand is expected to soar. Ryanair shares plunge on outlook Ryanair shares plunged on Monday after it cut its earnings forecast for the second time in two months, predicting it would record net profit of up to 520m in 2013-14. UPDATE 2-U.S. Justice Dept details deal for American, US Airways fight * US Airways stock reaches highest level in nearly 6 years T Magazine Accommodations | In Providence, a Hipster Hotel in a Former Brothel Though it has a bookish name, the new lodging caters to more than the R.I.S.D. and Brown crowd. ArtsBeat Poetry Profiles Graywolf Press An interview with Jeffrey Shotts and Fiona McCrae of Graywolf, publisher of Tracy K. Smith, Tomas Transtromer and more. Benchmark's Bill Gurley on writing "Above the Crowd" Gurley explains the through process of his writing and what he hopes to achieve with it. Brazil's local Internet data storage plan runs into opposition BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A government plan to shield Brazil from alleged U.S. spying by forcing global Internet companies to store data on Brazilian users inside the country has run into mounting opposition in Congress, politicians said on Monday. BALLOT BREAKDOWN Contenders Cry,' We Want Bama!' Breaking down The Associated Press college football poll after Week 10 of the regular season. COMMODITIES-Natural gas sinks on warm weather, base metals fall NEW YORK, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Natural gas and base metals led a gentle pull-back in generally lackluster commodity markets on Monday, dragging a key index to a 16-month low for a second day. Shhh! 14 baby pandas napping Fourteen panda cubs celebrate their 100-day birthday in China's Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base with a nap. Obama campaigns for Virginia's Terry McAuliffe Nov. 3 - Tapping into voter anger over the 16-day government shutdown, President Obama turns attention to Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, days before to Virginia's upcoming governor's election. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Dinah Denmark, Alice Greene The couple met in the 1990s as volunteer hosts of music shows on a radio station in Pittsburgh. Rookies Bruising Running Helps Open Up Packers Attack Led by Eddie Lacy, the top N.F.L. rookie rusher, Green Bay now has a formidable running game to complement the passing of Aaron Rodgers. The Boss Margaret Minson When the Gamex2019;s on the Line As an athlete, Margaret Minson of Student Sponsor Partners learned how to take risks x2014; a quality that has helped her in her career. In Rodriguez Arbitration, Two Sides Play Hardball In the months since several players were linked to a Florida anti-aging clinic, Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez have engaged in a cloak-and-dagger struggle surpassing anything the sport has seen. Latest SpaceX Rocket Test Successfully Goes Sideways The latest test flight of Space Exploration Technologies Corporations Grasshopper vehicle demonstrated more pronounced steering maneuvers. Detroit emergency manager pressed on pension cuts during trial DETROIT, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Detroit retirees, unions and pension funds continued to press their case on Monday that the city did not negotiate in good faith before it filed for the largest municipal... Paul Hertz, James Rauchman Mr. Hertz is a biology professor and Mr. Rauchman is a painter.

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