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Ex-NATO chief: 15,000 troops should stay in Afghanistan The United States and its allies should immediately announce how many troops will stay on in Afghanistan after 2014.
16 August 2013
©REUTERS/NASA/British Antarctic Survey Too late to stop extreme heat waves: study Climate change will trigger harsher and more frequent heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of Earth-warming carbon dioxide we emit.
16 August 2013
Photo courtesy of topnews.in Suspects arraigned in US over global penny-stock fraud Six people appeared in US federal courts on Wednesday in connection with what American officials are calling one of the biggest international penny stock frauds ever investigated.
15 August 2013
US leads condemnation of Egypt crackdown US Secretary of State John Kerry led the widespread global condemnation of Egypt's bloody crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
15 August 2013
Debbie Rowe, ex-wife of singer Michael Jackson. ©REUTERS/FRED PROUSER Jackson doctors 'competed' to treat pop star: ex-wife Various doctors were "competing" to treat Michael Jackson, each offering stronger and stronger painkillers long before his 2009 death.
15 August 2013
Airlines vow to fight US move to block merger Lawyers for US Airways and American Airlines voiced confidence Wednesday that they can defeat the US suit to prevent their merger, but allowed that a negotiated deal was also possible.
15 August 2013
©REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Facebook boosts connections, not happiness: study People who use Facebook may feel more connected, but less happy.
15 August 2013
©REUTERS/Mike Blake Cisco to cut 4,000 jobs Information technology giant Cisco announced Wednesday that it will cut 4,000 jobs, equal to five percent of its workforce.
15 August 2013
WikiLeaks: Manning apologizes, admits he 'hurt US' US Army private Bradley Manning apologized on Wednesday for leaking secret intelligence files to WikiLeaks and admitted for the first time that he had harmed his country and others.
15 August 2013
Photo courtesy of usnews.com US universities top Chinese world rankings US universities dominate the top 20 in global annual rankings released by a Chinese organisation Thursday, with Harvard once again in top spot.
15 August 2013
Rio to lay off 1,700 at Mongolia project Mining giant Rio Tinto on Thursday said it will lay off up to 1,700 staff at its huge Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia after a more than US$5 billion expansion was halted.
15 August 2013
Brazil confronts Kerry over alleged US spying Brazil warned US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday that failure to resolve the row over Washington's electronic spying could sow mistrust between the two countries.
14 August 2013
©REUTERS/Susana Vera Online video forces change on TV industry Having turned print media upside down, the Internet now is disrupting television, forcing broadcasters to adapt to tablets and video-on-demand to hold onto views and advertisers.
14 August 2013
Judge Marianne Bowler. ©REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg Kazakhstan duo pleads not guilty to impeding Boston bombing probe Two Kazakhstan teenagers who went to the same college with accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of impeding investigators pursuing the perpetrators of the deadly finish-line attack.
14 August 2013
US sues to block US Airways-American Airlines merger The US Justice Department and several states sued Tuesday to block the $11 billion merger between American Airlines and US Airways, saying it would reduce competition and push up fares.
14 August 2013
Kerry urges Palestinians against settlements reaction US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Palestinians "not to react adversely" to Israel's announcement of new settlement building, stressing the need to return to the negotiating table.
14 August 2013
©REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann Brazil sues Samsung over poor working conditions Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Samsung alleging poor working conditions at a factory in the Amazon and is demanding more than $100 million in damages.
14 August 2013
©REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Apple lifted by report on iPhone launch Apple shares gained Monday after a report saying the California tech giant was set to announce its next iPhone at a September 10 event.
13 August 2013
Photo courtesy of cam.ac.uk California to recognize transgender pupil preferences Transgender students in California public schools will be able to choose which bathrooms to use and which sex-segregated sports to play.
13 August 2013
©REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Facebook to buy firm specializing in voice translation Facebook has agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a firm specializing in voice translation software, the two companies said Monday, without providing financial details of the transaction.
13 August 2013
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