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Bankia compensation qualms signal loss … Reuters - 1 hour 6 minutes agoBy Sonya Dowsett MADRID (Reuters) - Many duped savers at Spanish lender Bankia are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favor of expensive lawsuits, More »
Netanyahu takes aim at weapons 'leakage' … Reuters - 1 hour 21 minutes agoBy Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act More »
India's weakened Congress wondering … Reuters - 1 hour 24 minutes agoBy Satarupa Bhattacharjya and Ross Colvin NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Congress party is debating holding a general election in November, six months ahead of More »
Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball … Reuters - 4 hours agoBy Karen Brooks and Steve Gorman (Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, More »
Greying China taps rural elderly to … Reuters - 6 hours agoBy Li Hui and Maxim Duncan QIANTUN, China (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager - washing his More »
Investigators examine fractured rail … Reuters - 9 hours agoBy Richard Weizel BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (Reuters) - A fractured segment of track has been found on the rail line of a Metro-North passenger train from New York More »
Special Report: The Rise and Fall of … Reuters - 11 hours agoBy Charlie Zhu and Bill Powell HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a 2010 speech before a packed ballroom of university students in Sydney, Shi Zhengrong, founder of Chinese More »
- Dozens injured as car plows through … Reuters - 12 hours ago
By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - A car driven by an elderly man who may have lost consciousness plowed through a small-town parade of hiking More »
Powerball jackpot could go higher than … Reuters - 12 hours agoBy Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Powerball jackpot Saturday night could exceed the $600 million figure being advertised, possibly rivaling the largest More »
- Republican cites IRS scandal in close … Reuters - 13 hours ago
By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia Republicans on Saturday formally nominated Ken Cuccinelli for governor in the nation's marquee 2013 More »
- U.S. state cancels subsidy for investment … Reuters - 13 hours ago
By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a More »
- Saudi Arabia has another case of new … Reuters - 13 hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last More »
- Texas joins flood of states suing BP … Reuters - 14 hours ago
By P.J. Huffstutter (Reuters) - Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of More »
- Chicago commuter headache as 'L' train … Reuters - 16 hours ago
By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago will shut down part of its "L" elevated rail system's busiest line for five months starting on Sunday, forcing More »
Investigators seek cause of New York … Reuters - 17 hours agoBy Karen Brooks (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that injured dozens of people More »
- Lundbeck says drug shows improvement … Reuters - 17 hours ago
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck and Japanese partner Takeda said on Saturday that data from clinical phase III studies with the More »
- US Airways plane makes unusual belly … Reuters - 17 hours ago
By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday More »
- Taxes on some wealthy French top 100 … Reuters - 18 hours ago
PARIS (Reuters) - More than 8,000 French households' tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, More »
- Birds of Burden: 7 Ways Humans Harness … Scientific American - Sat 11 May, 2013
Birds of Burden: 7 Ways Humans Harness Avian Abilities [Slide Show] More »
Rome protest turns up heat on new PM … Reuters - 19 hours agoROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus More »
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