By Daniel Trotta and Kevin Gray
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Michelle Knight, freed earlier this week as the longest held of four captives in a dungeon-like Cleveland house, was discharged fro...
By Brenda Goh
LONDON (Reuters) - BAE Systems Chairman Dick Olver, who presided over a failed attempt to merge with European defence and aerospace peer EADS, survived a shareholder vote ...
BANDUNG, Indonesia (AFP) - Indonesian anti-terror police on Wednesday shot dead three men suspected of involvement in a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy after a seven-hour firefight at their hideout.
May 8, 2013, 10:12 pmBy Christina Fincher
LONDON (Reuters) - Two former Bank of England policymakers criticised on Wednesday a flagship government scheme to boost mortgages, saying it would encourage more r...
Syrian rebels say they have regained control of a strategic town linking Damascus to the restive southern city of Daraa.
May 8, 2013, 9:36 pmBy Rhys Jones
LONDON (Reuters) - Closure of the U.S. Export-Import Bank would have very serious consequences for planemaker Boeing Co and hand a competitive advantage to its rival Airbu...
Francis also warned the sisters against using their vocations for personal ambition, saying priests and sisters who do so "do more harm to the church".
May 8, 2013, 9:02 pmThe suspect in the case of three women rescued 10 years after they went missing in the US was apparently active in neighbourhood searches.
May 8, 2013, 8:57 pmBy Seda Sezer and Ebru Tuncay
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is in talks with the London Stock Exchange
By Carolyn Cohn
LONDON (Reuters) - Stuck between sluggish economies in the west and rising geopolitical risks in the Middle East, emerging European countries are struggling to attract i...
At least four people are dead after a cargo ship slammed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa.
May 8, 2013, 8:37 pmBy William James
LONDON (Reuters) - The government is still considering banning company branding on cigarette packets even though it omitted proposals from its legislative agenda laid o...
PAOAY, Philippines (AFP) - It is close to midnight and Imelda Marcos is dancing in a trademark pink butterfly gown at a small Philippine town fiesta with adoring voters who still revere her dead dictator husband.
May 8, 2013, 8:30 pmMADRID (Reuters) - Spain has ruled against extraditing a former HSBC employee who is wanted in Switzerland on charges of stealing data on tens of thousands of bank accounts that a number of European c...
May 8, 2013, 8:22 pmBy Alexei Anishchuk
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia must beef up its defences in the south and work with Central Asian allies to protect itself and ...
By Alexei Anishchuk
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia must strengthen its defences in the south and work with Central Asian allies to protect itself a...
The lead singer for heavy metal band As I Lay Dying has been arrested in California with police saying he tried to have his estranged wife killed.
May 8, 2013, 7:58 pmBEIJING (AFP) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Wednesday, where the two witnessed the signing of a series of trade and cultural deals.
May 8, 2013, 7:36 pmEight people are feared dead after a container ship lost control in the night and smashed into a control tower in Italy's busiest port in Genoa.
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