New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant
By Mari SaitoTOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that 100 metric tons of highly contaminated water had leaked out of a tank, the worst incident since last...
View ArticleWith no winner since Christmas, U.S. Powerball lottery hits $400 million
By Zachary Cook(Reuters) - Powerball ticket holders on Wednesday frantically checked their stubs to see whether they had hit the $400 million jackpot in the U.S. lottery that hasn't had a top prize...
View ArticleFour family members die in Indianapolis house fire
(Reuters) - Two children and their parents died and two other children were critically injured on Saturday in a house fire in Indianapolis, said a spokeswoman for the Indianapolis Fire...
View ArticleBrazil presidential poll tips Rousseff win; Neves support slips
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff would likely win a second, four-year term if elections scheduled for October were held today, a poll published by the Folha de S. Paulo...
View ArticleHere's What Ordinary Venezuelans Are Saying About Their Country's Major Problems
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is deeply divided between supporters of the government of President Nicolas Maduro and members of the opposition. Here is a sampling of what people on both sides of...
View ArticleBuddhist faction protests Dalai Lama as he visits U.S
By Laila KearneySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dozens of Buddhists rallied on the streets of San Francisco on Saturday protesting the Dalai Lama, who they say has persecuted followers of an ancient deity...
View ArticleSeeking cheap stocks, chaos no problem? Try Libya
By Ulf LaessingTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Investing in Libyan stocks may sound like an absurd idea at a time when the North African country is descending into chaos and armed militias seize oil ports or...
View ArticleThe New 5G Networks Will Be Faster, Smarter, And Connected To Everything
This post is sponsored by Intel.Talk of future wireless networks is swirling ahead of Mobile World Congress, enough so that it’s sucking many of us into believing that 5G networks could feed all of our...
View ArticleFive snowmobilers found safe after lost in Wyoming mountains
By Kevin Murphy(Reuters) - Five snowmobilers were found safe on Saturday after going missing Thursday in the Bighorn Mountains of north central Wyoming, officials said.The adult men were found together...
View ArticleTwo killed, 41 wounded in attack on Thai protest rally: media
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra meet on Sunday hours after an attack on an anti-government rally killed two people and wounded 41, media said,...
View ArticlePolice Dashcam Video Saves N.J. Man From False Charges Of Eluding Police,...
Videos taken from two police cruiser dash cams were the deciding factor in dropping the case against a New Jersey man facing charges of eluding police and assault, ABC 7 reports.The incident between...
View ArticleSamsung Has Two New Smart Watches Launching In April — Here's Everything They...
Samsung announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today two new models of its Gear smart watch, the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Both watches are essentially the same device, but the Neo doesn't...
View ArticleHere's What LA's Mass Transit System Could Look Like In 40 Years
The Los Angeles public transportation system is easily derided as useless and underused, an afterthought in a city dominated by cars. But the county's long range transportation plan includes ways to...
View ArticleBabe Ruth's World Series Watch Sells For $717,000
NEW YORK (AP) — Babe Ruth's watch from the 1923 World Series has sold for $717,000 at auction in New York City.Heritage Auctions says the watch was bought Saturday by a telephone bidder who is...
View ArticleSamsung to unveil first smartwatches with own Tizen platform
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co is to unveil on Sunday its first wearable smartwatch powered by its Tizen platform in its latest attempt to distance itself from Google Inc and enhance its...
View ArticleAnything You Can Do, Icahn Do Better
The pressure on companies from activist shareholders continues to growTIM COOK'S nightmare is over, but John Donahoe's has just begun. On February 10th Carl Icahn, the godfather of activist...
View ArticleIran shuts reformist paper over comments on law
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities shut a reformist newspaper on Thursday, less than a week after its launch, because it published comments critical of Islamic criminal law."Aseman" (Sky) newspaper,...
View ArticleObama to unveil manufacturing institutes in Detroit, Chicago
By Mark FelsenthalWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce two new manufacturing institutes aimed at attracting and nurturing businesses that will hire workers for highly paid jobs...
View ArticleTaliban attack kills 19 Afghan soldiers, more missing: official
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban attacked an Afghan army base in the country's eastern Kunar province early on Sunday, killing 19 soldiers and kidnapping seven, the spokesman for the provincial governor...
View ArticleOne dead, 28 sickened by carbon monoxide at New York mall
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One man died and 28 people were rushed to hospitals after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning at a mall on New York's Long Island Saturday evening, police said.A 55-year-old man...
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