By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Sobriety returned to Wimbledon Tuesday after the heady brew of the night before with Center Court open to the sunny skies and women’s champion Venus Williams blasting through to the semi-finals. The 29-year-old American romped to a 5-0 lead against Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska and completed a 6-1 6-2 victory [...]
By Chris Buckley and David Stanway BEIJING (Reuters) - China has delayed indefinitely a much-criticized plan to force manufacturers to bundle Internet filtering software with personal computers sold in the country, in an abrupt retreat hours before the policy was due to start. The climbdown was reported late on Tuesday by the official Xinhua news [...]
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before the president of the family court division with his former partner. Lawyers acting for them are seeking to ban the media from attending or reporting the case on the grounds that it would violate their children’s privacy. Related Articles [...]
Reuters - U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after U.S. consumer confidence data showed a surprise drop, raising doubts about the speed of an economic recovery, and falling oil prices sank energy shares.[Read more...]
AP - A Yemeni jetliner carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came in for a landing during howling winds on the island nation of Comoros. There were conflicting reports about whether a child survived.[Read more...]
By Edward Krudy NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after U.S. consumer confidence data showed a surprise drop, raising doubts about the speed of an economic recovery, and falling oil prices sank energy shares. The Conference Board’s U.S. consumer confidence index fell in June, versus expectations of an increase, sparking investor concern [...]
By Ahmed Ali Amir MORONI (Reuters) - An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it approached in bad weather early on Tuesday, officials said. A doctor in the Comoros told Reuters a child had been plucked [...]
By Tim Cocks and Muhanad Mohammed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least 25 people on Tuesday, just after U.S. troops handed over full control of Iraq’s cities to the domestic security forces six years after the invasion. The bomb, which wounded at least 40 people, [...]
Under the plans, teachers will face checks every five years to ensure they are fit to teach under reforms outlined by the government.The renewable licence, which will be introduced first for newly-qualified teachers from next year, will be seen as a means of weeding out poor teachers. Related Articles Teen arrested [...]
AP - Foes of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor celebrated the high court’s reversal of her decision in a reverse discrimination case.[Read more...]
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