|  Dow Barrels Ahead After Debt Remarks   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:23 PM PDT The president's comments on progress toward agreement on the debt ceiling gave a boost to shares, already up on earnings news.    
 
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  |  Bachmann Says Migraines Won’t Be a Problem if She’s Elected President   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:25 PM PDT Representative Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign denied a report that migraines at times left her "incapacitated," saying they would not affect her ability to serve.    
 
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  |  Minnesota Lawmakers Called to Special Session to End Impasse   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:10 PM PDT Lawmakers returned to the state Capitol for a special session intended to end a budget impasse that has shut state business since July 1.    
 
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  |  Books of The Times: The Lure of Cocaine, Once Hailed as Cure-All   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:29 PM PDT In "An Anatomy of Addiction," Howard Merkel views cocaine through the eyes of two fans, Freud and the surgeon William Halsted.    
 
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  |  Europe Debates How Aggressively to Cut Greece's Debt   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:40 PM PDT Euro-zone governments are locked in a debate over how aggressively they should reduce Greece's existing debt burden as part of a new financing package for the country, senior euro-zone officials said.   
 
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  |  Strauss-Kahn Accusers' Lawyers, Prosecutors Meet   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:29 PM PDT Lawyers for a French novelist and a New York hotel maid who have accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault met with New York prosecutors on Tuesday.   
 
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  |  Strong earthquake hits Central Asia: USGS   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:24 PM PDT ALMATY (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Central Asia's densely populated Ferghana valley, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.    
 
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  |  Ex-Chilean president's death was suicide   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:53 PM PDT Chile's Legal Medical Service confirmed Tuesday that the cause of President Salvador Allende's death in 1973 was suicide. A judge had ordered exhumation of the body as part of a human rights investigation.    
 
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  |  Google Spending Millions to Find the Next Google   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:23 PM PDT Google is playing venture capitalist in the hottest market for technology start-up companies in over a decade.    
 
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  |  Bits: Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:23 PM PDT Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, was charged with stealing millions of documents from M.I.T. and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers.    
 
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  |  Jobs at risk in home care plan   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:00 PM PDT Concerns have been raised over Wrexham council's plans to privatise adult home care services, with the loss of more than 50 jobs.   
 
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  |  Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Uzbekistan: USGS   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:56 PM PDT (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Uzbekistan, the U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday.    
 
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  |  Obama backs "Gang of Six" deficit plan   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:37 PM PDT US president gives nod to bipartisan proposal to cut government spending while raising $1.2 trillion in revenue.   
 
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  |  China says Xinjiang attack was 'terrorist'   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:54 PM PDT But an exiled Uighur group accused police of firing on peaceful protesters, leading to fighting between the two sides.   
 
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  |  Once-Celebrated Recklessness Leads to Dykstra’s Financial Fall   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:28 PM PDT Three years ago, Lenny Dykstra listed his net worth as $58 million. Now he is unable to post $500,000 bail and facing charges that include bankruptcy fraud.    
 
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  |  Famine in Somalia   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 05:35 AM PDT The UN about to declare famine after East Africa drought   
 
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  |  Bits: Arrests Likely in Hacker Group Case   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 11:44 AM PDT Federal authorities in Washington are expected to announce charges on Tuesday against about a dozen suspected members of the hacker group Anonymous, officials said.    
 
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  |  Wines of The Times: A Stepchild Lacks Identity   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 11:46 AM PDT In a tasting of recent vintages of sauvignon blanc from Northern California, the wine panel found that too many lacked freshness and vibrancy.    
 
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  |  Slain kids cast larger shadow on Mexican drug war   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:30 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Once largely spectators to the deaths of hitmen, police and innocent bystanders, children are increasingly in the firing line of Mexico's drug war.    
 
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  |  France's Hollande to be questioned over Banon case   Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:44 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential contender Francois Hollande will be questioned by police investigating a writer's accusations that ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her, legal sources said on Tuesday.    
 
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