| Why girls' education can help eradicate poverty Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:07 PM PDT  By Pauline Rose Educating girls and young women is not only one of the biggest moral challenges of our generation, it is also a necessary investment for a peaceful and poverty-free world. Until we give girls equal access to a good quality education, the world will continue to suffer from child and maternal mortality, disease and other byproducts of poverty. This week, when world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly debate why many of the Millennium Development Goals remain out of reach, they should look no further than education disparities across the developing world. ...
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| Not running for president (yet), Hillary Clinton keeps the spotlight Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:05 PM PDT  By Gabriel Debenedetti NEW YORK (Reuters) - The question was being asked in hallway whispers and excited chatter in many languages this week at the Clinton Global Initiative conference. It's the question that follows Hillary Clinton everywhere - will she run for U.S. president in 2016? A version of the question came up during a panel discussion on investing in the future of women and Clinton was deft, saying only that "someday, I hope" to see a woman president. She stopped short of discussing her own plans, even as applause erupted. ...
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| Alitalia unlikely to be in for long haul without Air France: KLM Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:03 PM PDT  By Agnieszka Flak MILAN (Reuters) - Five years after Alitalia was rescued from bankruptcy, the options for the troubled Italian airline appear to be few: convince top shareholder Air France-KLM to support its new strategy or shut up shop. Since being taken private by a consortium of Italian investors in early 2009, Alitalia has accumulated net losses of more than 840 million euros ($1.1 billion), debt of about 1 billion euros and is fast running out of cash. ...
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| ICAP fined 54 million pounds over Libor, three former staff charged Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:56 PM PDT  By Kirstin Ridley and Clare Hutchison LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. and British authorities on Wednesday fined ICAP, the world's biggest interdealer broker, $87 million (54 million pounds) and laid criminal charges against three former employees over the Libor interest rate rigging scandal. The scandal, which has laid bare failings by regulators and bank bosses over several years, has triggered a sprawling global investigation that has already seen three banks fined a total of $2.6 billion, four other people charged, scores of institutions and traders interrogated and a spate of lawsuits launched. ...
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| Senate advances US budget bill, shutdown threat remains Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:52 PM PDT  Washington (AFP) - With the clock ticking toward a possible US government shutdown, the US Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to advance a stopgap spending bill that would avoid federal closures.
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| Ohio executes murderer with last dose of death penalty drug Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:50 PM PDT  Washington (AFP) - The US state of Ohio used the last dose of its execution drug on Wednesday to put to death a man who killed his neighbor's boyfriend and a police officer in a 1994 rampage.
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| Flawless $60-mn pink diamond up for auction in Geneva Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:44 PM PDT  Geneva (Switzerland) (AFP) - A flawless 59.60-carat pink diamond known as the "Pink Star" is up for grabs at a Sotheby's auction in November with an asking price of $60 million (49 million euros), the highest ever sought at auction for a gemstone.
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| Kenya mall massacre 'message to Westerners': Shebab chief Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:40 PM PDT  Mogadishu (AFP) - The Nairobi mall carnage in which several foreigners were killed by Islamist fighters was a "message to Westerners" who supported Kenya, Somalia's Shebab chief said in an audio message Wednesday.
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| Low-key PSG see off Valenciennes, move top Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:39 PM PDT  Paris (AFP) - Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain provisionally moved top of Ligue 1 on Wednesday after a 1-0 win away to struggling Valenciennes.
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| Kerry signs U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, says won't harm U.S. rights Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:35 PM PDT  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States signed a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty regulating the $70 billion global trade in conventional arms on Wednesday and the Obama administration sought to allay the fears of the powerful U.S. gun lobby which says the pact will violate the constitutional rights of Americans. The treaty, which relates only to cross-border trade and aims to keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers and criminals, still requires ratification by the U.S. ...
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| FBI releases chilling video of Navy Yard shooter Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:27 PM PDT  Washington (AFP) - The gunman who slaughtered 12 people last week in Washington is seen darting through a navy building like a special forces operator in a chilling video released Wednesday.
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| US, biggest exporter, signs landmark UN arms treaty Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:25 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) - US President Barack Obama's administration signed a UN treaty Wednesday to track exports of firearms and other conventional weapons, offering a major boost to the pact despite opposition at home.
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| U.S. Congress turns attention to debt limit battle Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:01 PM PDT  By Thomas Ferraro and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress, already struggling to avert a government shutdown next week, turned its attention Wednesday to the other fiscal bullet it had to dodge: a federal debt default. Republican leaders in the House of Representatives notified members that a vote on raising the debt limit could come as early as Friday. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew pleaded for quick action in the deeply divided Congress on raising the $16. ...
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| Seven killed in Sudan protests over scrapped fuel subsidies Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:53 AM PDT  Khartoum (AFP) - Seven demonstrators were killed in Khartoum and its sister city Omdurman Wednesday as protests over the Sudanese government's scrapping of fuel subsidies raged for a third day, witnesses and relatives said.
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| Lawyer puts price on Jackson's death at trial climax Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:55 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The promoters of Michael Jackson's doomed last tour should pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the late pop icon's family over his 2009 death, a lawyer said in closing arguments Tuesday.
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| Watson denies any Woods rift Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:55 AM PDT  St Andrews (United Kingdom) (AFP) - United States captain, Tom Watson will seek to heal any rift with Tiger Woods ahead of next year's Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, Scotland.
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| Moyes wants to sign more top-class talent Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:51 AM PDT  Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Manchester United manager David Moyes has said he is still short of players ready to go straight into his first team and warned fans to prepare for more days like last weekend's derby defeat.
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| Mascherano out for up to two weeks Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:50 AM PDT  Madrid (AFP) - Barcelona defender Javier Mascherano will miss his side's Champions League trip to Celtic next week due to a hamstring injury.
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| Iranian leader's smooth diplomacy poses new challenge for Israel Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:33 AM PDT  By Jeffrey Heller and Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A charm offensive toward the West by Iran's new president and his nuanced approach to his predecessor's Holocaust denial have run into an Israeli wall of suspicion hardened by Tehran's nuclear pursuits. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not be fooled by Hassan Rouhani's international outreach, and the world must not be either. ...
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| ICAP fined $87 million over Libor, three former staff charged Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:32 AM PDT  By Kirstin Ridley and Clare Hutchison LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. and British authorities on Wednesday fined ICAP, the world's biggest interdealer broker, $87 million and laid criminal charges against three former employees over the Libor interest rate rigging scandal. The scandal, which has laid bare failings by regulators and bank bosses over several years, has triggered a sprawling global investigation that has already seen three banks fined a total of $2.6 billion, four other people charged, scores of institutions and traders interrogated and a spate of lawsuits launched. The U.S. ...
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| International forensic teams join Kenyan mall carnage probe Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:12 AM PDT  Nairobi (AFP) - Kenyan and foreign forensics teams scoured the wreckage of a Nairobi shopping mall Wednesday for bodies and clues after a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen left 67 dead and dozens more missing.
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| Britain challenges banker bonus cap in new clash with EU Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:06 AM PDT  By Huw Jones and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has launched a legal challenge to the European Union's cap on bankers' bonuses which London fears will hurt its financial industry. Chancellor George Osborne has long argued that Brussels has gone too far with reforms aimed at preventing a repeat of the financial crisis. But EU financial services chief Michel Barnier said the bonus cap was legal. The EU law will limit a bonus to no more than a banker's fixed salary, or twice that level with shareholder approval. ...
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| Home and stock values boost US household wealth Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:49 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. household net worth jumped $1.3 trillion in the spring, fueled by gains in home and stock values. |
| Anti-war drama troupe arrested for Belfast bullets Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:47 AM PDT BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — An anti-war theater troupe traveling from Northern Ireland to Bosnia says four of its members were arrested at a Belfast airport after security officials found bullets inside a costume. |
| Iran tries to shine light on Israeli nukes Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:47 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — With a few words in a largely conciliatory speech to the United Nations, Iran's new president took aim at an Israeli fear: that international pressure on the Iranian nuclear program could lead to scrutiny of Israel's own secretive nuclear facilities.
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| Bond is back, in William Boyd's new novel 'Solo' Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:43 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — William Boyd has left James Bond stirred, if not shaken.
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| Number of French job seekers falls for the first time in 2 years Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:43 AM PDT  Paris (AFP) - The number of registered job seekers in France fell in August for the first time in more than two years, dropping by 50,000 to 3.23 million, the labour ministry announced Wednesday.
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| Icap to pay $87mn Libor fines; US charges brokers Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:42 AM PDT  London (AFP) - Regulators on Wednesday fined British broker Icap $87 million (64 million euros) for its role in the Libor rate-rigging scandal, and the United States charged three ex-brokers over the affair.
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| US new home sales rebound in August Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:40 AM PDT  Washington (AFP) - US sales of new homes bounced back in August after July's slump, though the pace remained slower than the first quarter of the year, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
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| With unemployment high, France forces stores to close early Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:37 AM PDT  By Peter Gumbel The French like to refer to the Champs Elysées in Paris as "the most beautiful avenue in the world," and 300,000 people stroll up and down it every day to see for themselves, many of them tourists looking to shop. No surprise, then, to find that retailers from Nike to LVMH are willing to pay premium rents for space on the avenue, which runs in a straight line from the Place de la Concorde up to the triumphal arch at Etoile. Just don't try to buy anything in the evening. ...
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| Obamacare's average monthly cost across U.S.: $328 Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:37 AM PDT  By Caroline Humer (Reuters) - Americans will pay an average premium of $328 monthly for a mid-tier health insurance plan when the Obamacare health exchanges open for enrollment next week, and most will qualify for government subsidies to lower that price, the federal government said on Wednesday. The figure, based on data for approved insurance plans in 48 states, is the broadest national estimate for the cost of coverage when President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law takes full effect next year. ...
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| Cruz ends talkathon, Senate heads toward vote Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea party conservative Sen. Ted Cruz ended his all-night talkathon to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law after 21 hours and 19 minutes as the Senate pushed ahead to a test vote Wednesday on a bill to avert a government shutdown.
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| US: ATF misplaced 420 million cigarettes in stings Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:29 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Government agents acting without authorization conducted dozens of undercover investigations of illegal tobacco sales, misused some of $162 million in profits from the stings and lost track of at least 420 million cigarettes, the Justice Department's inspector general said Wednesday.
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| Ghana mourns loss of poet killed in Kenya Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:25 AM PDT ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Mourners sang funeral dirges and traditional leaders poured libations Wednesday for beloved poet Kofi Awoonor as hundreds gathered at the airport where his body was brought home days after he was slain in the Kenya mall terror attack. |
| USPS seeks increase in cost of stamps, to 49 cents Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:23 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — It soon could cost 49 cents to mail a letter.
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| Berlusconi's 28-year-old girlfriend: I courted him Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:23 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — Here's one way to land a billionaire: Silvio Berlusconi's 28-year-old girlfriend says she courted the 76-year-old former premier relentlessly until he finally surrendered.
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| Iran's president tones down anti-Israel rhetoric Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:20 AM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Iranian president's first speech to world leaders toned down anti-Israel rhetoric and offered up negotiations with the U.S. and its allies over the disputed nuclear program, showing a more moderate face of the hard-line regime in Tehran.
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| 15% in US shun Internet; most intend to stay offline Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:19 AM PDT  Washington (AFP) - Despite a seemingly unstoppable move to digital lifestyles, some 15 percent of Americans don't use the Internet, and most are quite content to remain offline, a survey shows.
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| Dashboard cameras coming to US border agent trucks Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:18 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid criticism about U.S. border agents using deadly force against immigrants illegally crossing the Mexican border, the Homeland Security Department said Wednesday it will test new dashboard cameras and overhaul basic training for new agents. |
| Sen. Cruz ends talkathon against Obamacare Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:13 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has ended a marathon Senate speech opposing President Barack Obama's health care law after talking for 21 hours, 19 minutes. |
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