Saturday, May 25th, 2013

World

Pension watchdog wants to relax pension scheme repair rules

By Sarah Mortimer
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's pension watchdog wants to allow companies more time to plug funding gaps in their final-salary linked schemes, a move that would give empl...
May 9, 2013, 1:26 am
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Thirty-three die as bus falls into Indian river

SHIMLA, India (AFP) - At least 33 people died Wednesday when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road into a fast-flowing river in northern India, police said.
May 9, 2013, 1:19 am

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High-flying Ferrari to protect brand by making fewer cars

By Jennifer Clark
MARANELLO, Italy (Reuters) - Ferrari will cut production by at least 4 percent in 2013 to preserve the exclusivity of its brand but still hopes to increase profits, it...
May 9, 2013, 1:12 am

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Hong Kong's secret street racing world

HONG KONG (AFP) - As night begins to give way to dawn, 40 high-performance cars pull up on an empty Hong Kong backstreet. While the city sleeps, their revving engines fill the air with a heavy smell of petrol.
May 9, 2013, 1:10 am

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US police to charge brothers after 10-year kidnap

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AFP) - US police interrogated three brothers Wednesday as grim details began to emerge about how three young Ohio women were kidnapped and held captive for 10 years in an unremarkable city home.
May 9, 2013, 12:40 am

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Germany weighs belated justice for Auschwitz guards

BERLIN (AFP) - The arrest in Germany this week of a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard on charges of complicity in mass murder reopened an emotional debate on whether a measure of justice can be too late in coming.
May 9, 2013, 12:36 am
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Spain's Rajoy balks at making deeper reforms

By Fiona Ortiz
MADRID (Reuters) - After a year of radical reforms that made Spain more competitive but also exacerbated a deep recession, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has largely lost h...
May 9, 2013, 12:35 am

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Spanish court calls top bank chairmen in Bankia probe

By Emma Pinedo
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish court has called the chairmen of the country's top three banks to testify as witnesses in an investigation into the 2011 initial public offer...
May 9, 2013, 12:24 am

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Longest held Cleveland captive now out of hospital, in seclusion

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...
May 9, 2013, 12:20 am

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BAE chairman keeps his job despite failed merger plan

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 ...
May 9, 2013, 12:20 am
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Germany marks 80 years since Nazi book burnings

BERLIN (AFP) - Eighty years ago on Friday, and only months after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, his Nazi followers burnt piles of books in what has been labelled the nation's "intellectual decapitation" -- an act of terror that foreshadowed worse to come.
May 9, 2013, 12:19 am

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Indonesian police shoot dead three bomb plot suspects

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 9, 2013, 12:12 am

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Don't be spinsters, pope tells nuns

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Francis told 800 nuns gathered at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should be spiritual "mothers" rather than "spinsters", and stressed the importance of showing obedience to the Catholic Church.
May 9, 2013, 12:06 am

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Former UK central bankers say mortgage scheme fuels debt risk

By 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...
May 9, 2013, 12:06 am

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Syrian rebels claim control of key town

Syrian rebels say they have regained control of a strategic town linking Damascus to the restive southern city of Daraa.
May 8, 2013, 11:36 pm
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Boeing warns against U.S. Ex-Im Bank closure

By 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...
May 8, 2013, 11:11 pm

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Pope to nuns: Don't be old maids

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, 11:02 pm

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Suspect helped look for US missing women

The 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, 10:57 pm

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Turkey in talks with LSE, Nasdaq on bourse partnership

By Seda Sezer and Ebru Tuncay
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is in talks with the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq about a partnership deal that could see it s...
May 8, 2013, 10:49 pm

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Israel detains Jerusalem's top Islamic cleric

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Police were questioning a top Muslim cleric on Wednesday over a "disturbance" at Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a spokesman said, as Israelis were celebrating Jerusalem Day.
May 8, 2013, 10:46 pm

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