NESLANDET, Norway, (Reuters) – Norwegian teenagers at a lakeside summer camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping into the water to save themselves, when an attacker dressed as a policeman began spraying them with gunfire.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker John Boehner broke off talks with President Barack Obama yesterday on a deficit-reduction deal to prevent a devastating default and said he would try to hammer out an agreement through the Senate.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Euro zone leaders have agreed on a bold rescue package for debt-stricken Greece and will give their financial rescue fund sweeping new powers to prevent market instability spreading through the region.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Efforts to craft a broad $3 trillion deficit-reduction deal gained traction yesterday as the White House and top lawmakers scrambled to sort through competing options and stave off a devastating U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters)- Scotland Yard investigators have cryptic financial records corroborating suspicions that former News of the World editor Andy Coulson knew about illegal payments to police officers, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – The space shuttle Atlantis returned from NASA’s final shuttle mission yesterday, ending a 30-year era that opened the space frontier, exposed its dangers and established a toehold for future endeavors beyond Earth.
GEORGE TOWN, (Reuters) – Cayman Islands Premier W. McKeeva Bush is being investigated by police over “an alleged financial irregularity” in the British-ruled Caribbean territory, the governor’s office said yesterday.
BLANTYRE, (Reuters) – At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between police and demonstrators during violent nationwide protests against President Bingu wa Mutharika, the Malawian health ministry said yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Cable & Wireless Worldwide suffered a backlash from investors over executive bonuses yesterday, reflecting shareholder anger at chairman John Pluthero being given a second stint as chief executive after the group issued a string of profit warnings.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday two regions of southern Somalia had been hit by the worst famine in the area for 20 years and that 3.7 million people in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation risked starvation.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron, defending his integrity to parliament in emergency session yesterday, said he regretted hiring a journalist at the heart of a scandal that has rocked Britain’s press, police and politics.
CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed one of her simplest but potentially most transformative diplomatic priorities in India yesterday: clean cooking stoves.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, humbled by a cancer that has upended the OPEC nation’s politics, has set clemency proceedings in motion for convicted opposition activists suffering from health problems.
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinean President Alpha Conde escaped two attacks on his residence yesterday that killed at least three people and left his home riddled with bullets, in assaults which authorities linked to former senior officers in the army.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The FBI arrested at least 14 people yesterday as part of a wide-ranging investigation of the Internet vigilante hacking group Anonymous, a law enforcement source said.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Solicitor General’s office banned a former agriculture minister from public service for 16 years yesterday over a subsidy scandal, the latest involving appointees of former President Alvaro Uribe.