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| BP tells court it did not dither in response to U.S. Gulf spill Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 07:17 PM PDT  By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - BP Plc unnecessarily delayed the capping of its Macondo well and worsened the extent of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill through dithering and indecision, according to allegations by plaintiffs' lawyers on Tuesday that the British company denied. In the second phase of a trial in New Orleans over billions of dollars in potential fines, lawyers for the plaintiffs - the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cameron casts election as battle over free markets Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:28 PM PDT  By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday will cast a national election in 2015 as a choice between his "pro-business" ruling Conservative party and what he calls its anti-business socialist rivals. In a speech to his party's annual conference in the northern English city of Manchester, Cameron will place Britain's economic recovery at the heart of his bid for re-election. ... Full Story | Top |
| Britain's Cameron casts election as battle over free markets Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:06 PM PDT  By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday will cast a national election in 2015 as a choice between his "pro-business" ruling Conservative party and what he calls its anti-business socialist rivals. In a speech to his party's annual conference in the northern English city of Manchester, Cameron will place Britain's economic recovery at the heart of his bid for re-election. ... Full Story | Top |
| Billionaire rocketeers duke it out for shuttle launch pad Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 05:29 PM PDT  By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Four decades ago, NASA's Launch Complex 39A was at the center of the Cold War race to the moon. Now the mothballed launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which dispatched Neil Armstrong and his crew on their historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, is the focus of a battle of another sort, between two billionaire techies seeking to dominate a new era of private space flight. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'The system is down': Obamacare glitches go public, reasons unclear Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:43 PM PDT  By Sharon Begley and Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blank boxes where security questions are supposed to appear. Pleas to "be patient." Error messages galore. Notices that "the system is busy right now." Web pages timing out before they load. Garbled lines of text riddled with stray question marks. Technology experts and government officials were stumped about the reasons for the computer glitches plaguing the Obama administration's launch of new health insurance exchanges. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. defends diplomats expelled from Venezuela Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:03 PM PDT  By Brian Ellsworth and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Venezuela on Tuesday defended three diplomats expelled by President Nicolas Maduro, rejecting charges they were involved in espionage and accusations Washington is trying to destabilize the OPEC nation. In the latest spat between the ideological foes, Maduro on Monday ordered out three U.S. diplomats including Kelly Keiderling, temporarily in charge of the mission. ... Full Story | Top |
| Multiple sclerosis cases hit 2.3 million worldwide Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:03 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The number of people living with multiple sclerosis around the world has increased by 10 percent in the past five years to 2.3 million, according to the most extensive survey of the disease to date. The debilitating neurological condition, which affects twice as many women as men, is found in every region of the world, although prevalence rates vary widely. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is most common in North America and Europe, at 140 and 108 cases per 100,000 respectively, while in sub-Saharan Africa the rate is just 2. ... Full Story | Top |
| Iran sanctions in U.S. Senate delayed before Geneva talks Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:42 PM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under pressure not to squeeze Iran too hard, the U.S. Senate is unlikely to impose a fresh round of sanctions on the Islamic Republic until after Tehran holds nuclear talks with world powers later this month, lawmakers and congressional aides said. The Senate Banking Committee had been due in September to look at a new package of sanctions passed in July by the House of Representatives, but now it will not do so for at least a few more weeks, an aide said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mexico's Pemex says 6 injured at Miguel Hidalgo refinery, ops normal Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 02:54 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico state oil monopoly Pemex said on Tuesday six workers were injured in an accident at its second-biggest refinery, Miguel Hidalgo, but added output was not affected. The refinery, located in the central state of Hidalgo, has a capacity of 325,000 barrels per day. Pemex gave no details on the accident, but a spokesman stressed there was no fire. (Reporting by David Alire Garcia and Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner) Full Story | Top |
| Brazil judge dismisses case against Chevron, Transocean Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 02:36 PM PDT  By Jeb Blount RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against No. 2 U.S. oil company Chevron Corp after approving a negotiated settlement, a decision that closes a nearly two-year legal battle over an oil spill in November 2011. Brazilian prosecutors sought 40 billion reais ($18 billion) in damages from Chevron and offshore drilling contractor Transocean Ltd for a 3,600-barrel leak in the Frade offshore oil field Chevron operates northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Prosecutors also filed criminal charges against the companies and 17 of their employees. ... Full Story | Top |
| Wanted by the taxman: Indonesia's $5 billion of lost coal Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 02:05 PM PDT  By Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia may be the world's top exporter of thermal coal, but that masks an embarrassing fact for a government scrambling to raise revenue - more than $5 billion worth of the fuel is mined illegally and goes untaxed each year. Export and consumption data shows Indonesia produces around 12-15 percent more coal annually than the ministry of energy and mineral resources reports. That's enough to supply Taiwan, the world's fifth-largest coal importer, for a year. ... Full Story | Top |
| TSX gains as investors shrug off U.S. shutdown Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 01:54 PM PDT  By Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index ended higher on Tuesday as investors largely shrugged off a partial shutdown of the U.S. government, buying into banks, insurers and energy companies while many of the index's biggest mining stocks fell. Some of the world's biggest gold miners slumped in line with a sharp fall in the price of bullion despite the deflationary risk of the U.S. government reducing its activities and a looming battle over raising Washington's borrowing limits. ... Full Story | Top |
| Maersk bullish on Latin America, eyes Mexico's deep water oil Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 01:45 PM PDT  By David Alire Garcia and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk sees big investment potential in Latin America, including deep water oil projects and ports in Mexico, its chief executive said on Tuesday. In an interview with Reuters, Maersk's Chief Executive Nils Andersen said the company was closely monitoring Mexico's efforts to enact a bill to open up the oil industry to more private investment submitted to Congress last month. "At the moment, we're discussing deep water drilling. We think there is a big market for that," said Andersen. ... Full Story | Top |
| Predicting violence in psychopaths is 'no more than chance' Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 01:20 PM PDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Assessment tools used to predict how likely a psychopathic prisoner is to re-offend if freed from jail are "utterly useless" and parole boards might just as well flip a coin when deciding such risks, psychiatrists said on Tuesday. Publishing a study that found risk score tools are only around 46 percent accurate on how likely psychopathic convicts are to kill, rape or assault again, they said probation officers and judges should set little or no store by such tests. ... Full Story | Top |
| New app being tested to spot California whales so ships can avoid them Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 01:15 PM PDT By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Marine biologists have begun testing a smartphone application that would allow boaters and conservationists to identify whales outside San Francisco Bay so ships can avoid striking the endangered mammals. Whale Spotter, the app developed by Conserve.IO, will be used to map the feeding grounds of the enormous creatures, which large ships too frequently strike as they migrate along the California coast. ... Full Story | Top |
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