Engine trouble forces Qantas A380 to divert to Dubai (Reuters)

Engine trouble forces Qantas A380 to divert to Dubai (Reuters)


Engine trouble forces Qantas A380 to divert to Dubai (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Reuters - An engine fault forced a Qantas Airways A380 plane bound for London to divert to Dubai on Friday, exactly a year since a mid-air engine blowout prompted the Australian airline to ground its entire fleet of A380 superjumbos for nearly a month.


14 Mexican soldiers sentenced in killing of 5 (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:58 PM PDT

AP - Mexico's military says 14 soldiers have been convicted and sentenced to prison in the fatal shooting of two women and three children whose vehicle failed to stop at an army checkpoint in 2007.


Oil above $94 amid signs of US economy improving (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:26 PM PDT

Workers fill liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders at a workshop in Karachi November 3, 2011. Pakistan's Petroleum Ministry said last week it had agreed purchase terms with putative gas supplier Turkmenistan, and would sign a contract in mid-November. An official in the ministry said Turkmenistan would supply 1.3 billion cubic feet of gas per day for 25 years. To match Analysis AFGHANISTAN-GAS/PIPELINE      REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)AP - Oil prices hovered below $94 a barrel Friday in Asia amid signs the U.S. economy may be improving.



Engine trouble forces Qantas A380 to divert to Dubai

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:25 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An engine fault forced a Qantas Airways A380 plane bound for London to divert to Dubai on Friday, exactly a year since a mid-air engine blowout prompted the Australian airline to ground its entire fleet of A380 superjumbos for nearly a month.


Malaysia Beckons For Chinese Real-Estate Tycoon

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:57 PM PDT

On the southern tip of mainland Malaysia, a vast new city called Iskandar Malaysia is taking shape. Styled as an economic zone and located across a causeway from Singapore, it was touted in 2006 as a way to revive foreign interest in Malaysia, a once-hot FDI destination.??After a slow start, and questions over the project?s ...


Palestinians will push for full UN seat only

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:47 PM PDT

Foreign minister says Palestinians will demand full UN membership, and will not accept an upgrade to observer state.


Phantom Cyber Wars are a Distraction

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:38 PM PDT

British sociologist Frank Furedi??notes that an increasingly prominent feature of postmodern society is a ?crisis of causality? that is ?a cultural mood that assumes the uncertainty of causality between action and effect? (p. 8). This crisis of causality, he argues, is at the root of our growing fears of various unseen threats and vulnerabilities. Cyber ...


Japan OKs aid for tsunami-hit nuke plant operator (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:26 PM PDT

Aileen Mioko Smith, center, executive director of pro-sustainable energy NGO group Green Action, and supporters shout anti-nuclear slogans by a yarn ball made by women in Fukushima as they stage a sit-in demonstration, opposing the government's nuclear energy policy in front of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)AP - Japan has approved a plan to provide 900 billion yen ($11.5 billion) in public funds to the operator of a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant.



Kicking the can down the road, are your investments safe?

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:53 PM PDT

Are we kicking the can down the road to only to have major disappointment in the months to come??? We are first and foremost technicians; however, in our proprietary analysis we do overlay global macro risks. Back in August we wrote an article saying nothing has changed. Here we are three months later with a ...


Missing Money? Insider Trading? MF Global Mess Is Far From Over

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:52 PM PDT

MF Global's troubles have only become more severe in the aftermath of its bankruptcy filing.


Shares rise on hopes Greece will shelve referendum (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:40 PM PDT

A man is reflected on an electronic board displaying stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo October 31, 2011. REUTERS/Issei KatoReuters - Asian shares rose more than 2 percent and the euro steadied on Friday on hopes Greece will abandon a proposed referendum on a European Union bailout, but investors remained cautious over a confidence vote scheduled for later in the Greek parliament.



Anger Builds Over MF Global Mess - And Spells Trouble

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:28 PM PDT

It's been busy in Lincoln, Nebraska, where David Fiala, president of the introducing brokerage firm FuturesOne, has been trying to help clients survive a wild week. Farmers, grain elevators, ethanol plants and feedlot operators trade futures contracts, and that trading dictates how they "operate every day, how they manage risk as a company and for ...


Greece Blinks on Euro Threat

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:03 PM PDT

Greece's leaders worked to restore political stability in the country and preserve its euro membership, killing a plan for a referendum on Greece's latest bailout that has roiled global markets and infuriated European leaders.


U.S. Tightens Drone Rules

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:52 PM PDT

The CIA has made a series of secret concessions in its drone campaign after military and diplomatic officials complained large strikes were damaging the fragile U.S. relationship with Pakistan.


China Singled Out for Cyberspying

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:24 PM PDT

The U.S. accused the Chinese of being the world's "most active and persistent" perpetrators of economic spying, an unusual move designed to spur stronger U.S. and international action to combat industrial espionage.


Tunisia's Leaders Face Restive Unemployed

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:45 PM PDT

Interim Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi said Tunisia must now focus on its economy after a year of dramatic political change, and faces the challenge of creating employment for university graduates whose frustration finding work fueled the protests that ended in revolution.


China: Space Success, Issues on the Ground

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:06 PM PDT

China's first space docking this week highlights its success in space even as it struggles with other technology-intensive projects, particularly high-speed rail.


Canadian Likely FSB Chief

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:07 PM PDT

Canadian central banker Mark Carney has emerged as the front-runner to take the reins at the world's top financial regulatory body this week


Special IMF Money Considered

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:29 PM PDT

World leaders are actively considering mandating the International Monetary Fund to print more of its special currency to help solve the euro-zone crisis, according to several people familiar with the matter.


Papandreou's Rival Throws a Lifeline

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:37 PM PDT

Greece's political drama is propelling a new protagonist to the fore: fiery conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras, longtime friend—and nemesis—of the embattled prime minister.


Phone-hack victims 'up to 5,800'

Phone-hack victims 'up to 5,800'


Phone-hack victims 'up to 5,800'

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:02 PM PDT

Almost 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked by the News of the World newspaper, police now estimate.


Berlusconi faces calls to step down

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PDT

Italian premier's ex-parliamentary allies demand a "new political phase and a new government".


U.S. warns on new Gaza-bound activist flotilla

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:57 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned on Thursday that a new effort by pro-Palestinian activists to send a flotilla to challenge Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip was dangerous and urged U.S. citizens not to take part.


Malaysia Gay Festival Is Banned

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:11 PM PDT

Tannual festival had drawn fire from conservative politicians and religious leaders, and the authorities said the event "threatens national security."


Tibetan Nun Sets Herself on Fire in Sichuan Province, China

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:27 PM PDT

Qiu Xiang died Thursday after setting herself on fire in southwest Sichuan Province, becoming the 11th Tibetan to embrace a grisly protest against Chinese rule.


Oakland port opens after clashes

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:12 PM PDT

The port of Oakland reopens the morning after clashes in the centre of the city, as Occupy protesters question how Wednesday's violence flared.


Green Blog: House Panel Votes to Subpoena Solyndra Documents

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:41 AM PDT

Republicans assert that White House documents could show that it had extensive contact with a campaign donor who was also a Solyndra investor.


S Koreans protest against trade deal with US

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:56 AM PDT

Authorities detain at least 15 people after police clash with demonstrators in the capital Seoul.


Pakistan's murky cricket-fixing underworld

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Pakistan's murky underworld of bookies and betters


Libyans want jobs from "grey men" of government

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:28 PM PDT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Jobs, normality and democracy are high on the wish lists of Libyans questioned on the streets of their capital, but after months of civil war, meeting their expectations is a challenging assignment for the "grey men" now trying to run the country.


Remote UK island to get airport

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:29 AM PDT

A remote British Island where the French Emperor Napoleon was exiled is to get an airport, the International Development Secretary has announced.


The Choice: Hard Decisions for Learning Disabled

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Addressing the issues that students with learning impairments may face on the path to college.


S Koreans protest against trade deal with US

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:56 AM PDT

Authorities detain at least 15 people after police clash with demonstrators in the capital Seoul.


Major berg forming in Antarctica

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Scientists are monitoring a big rift in the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica that will eventually calve an iceberg the size of Berlin.


Extreme Poverty Is Up, Brookings Report Finds

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:25 AM PDT

The increase in the number of Americans living in extreme poverty has erased most of the gains from the 1990s, the Brookings Institution says.


'Moments of madness led to riots'

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Young people joined the summer riots in a "moment of madness" on "a day like no other when normal rules did not seem to apply", a report suggests.


Cuba Legalizes Sale of Private Property

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:13 AM PDT

Cuba announced it will allow real estate to be bought and sold for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes under President Raúl Castro.


Asia braced for Thai rice shock

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:03 AM PDT

Flood damage and government subsidies in the world's biggest rice exporter could push up prices across the continent.


Russia set to end 18-year wait to join WTO

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:21 AM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is on the verge of ending its 18-year wait to join the World Trade Organization after accepting a trade deal with Georgia, the last big obstacle to membership of a club that will seal its integration into the global economy.


TIMESCAST: TimesCast | November 3, 2011

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Greece calls off its referendum as the Group of 20 leaders meet in Cannes, France; and Herman Cain accuses his rival Rick Perry of a smear campaign.