| Latest worldwide news | Publisher Houghton Mifflin announces IPO at $14-$16/share | | | Nov 1 (Reuters) - Textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co announced an initial public offering of 18.25 million shares at $14-$16 per share, raising as much as $292 million for the selling shareholders including John Paulson's hedge fund. |
| Cronut mania spreads to London | | | When the love child of the doughnut and the croissant was created by the Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York, fans queued for hours to sample the tasty hybrid snack. |
| 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) |
| Scared of heights? Don't look here! | | | It must be one of the world's most terrifying sports, but "The Duke" of high-diving says it's also one of the most rewarding. "It's kind of like how your dog feels when he sticks his head out of the window," explains nine-time world champion Orlando Duque. "He's just so happy feeling the wind. That's how we feel." |
| Why disc drives are an endangered species | | | Could the phrase "burn a disc" soon be interred in the computing graveyard, resting peacefully alongside 8-bit graphics and the chirping, buzzing hum of a dial-up modem? Some of the most influential computer makers in the world say yes. |
| Higgs boson, key to the universe, wins Nobel physics prize | | | STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets. |
| PRESS DIGEST- British Business - Nov 1 | | | Nov 1 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. |
| EU presidency proposes new weakening of EU car rules | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Lithuania, holder of the EU presidency, has made a new proposal to weaken rules on how much carbon new cars can emit from 2020, in line with demands from Germany and its luxury manufacturers, EU diplomats said. |
| Hundreds of bodies found in Bosnia mass grave | | | Investigators in Bosnia have uncovered a mass grave thought to contain several hundred bodies of victims of the conflict that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia two decades ago. |
| Airbus so an inch does make a difference | | | Oct 28 - Airbus is calling on the industry to make 18 inch aircraft seats standard after a scientific study suggests it would help passengers sleep better on long journeys. Hayley Platt asks if the measures will do anything to reverse poor sales of their larger jets. |
| Contrite White House Spurns Health Laws Critics | | | While the secretary of health and human services apologized profusely for the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama traveled to Massachusetts to offer a forceful defense of the law. |
| U.S. ramps up efforts to lure foreign investment | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday pledged an aggressive expansion of U.S. efforts to draw foreign investment by clearing away red tape and having U.S. diplomats court investors who want to break into the market. |
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