Kerry squeezes in more talks at end of Mideast mission

Kerry squeezes in more talks at end of Mideast mission

Kerry squeezes in more talks at end of Mideast mission

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:08 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry squeezed in final meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Sunday as he wrapped up a fifth peace-brokering visit to the region with little sign of progress.

Voyager 1 Has Almost Left The Solar System

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 10:38 PM PDT

Voyager 1 was launched in September of 1977 - and now nearly 36 years later, it's on the cusp of being the first human-made object to ever leave our solar system. Scientists at NASA believe it's currently in the last region of the solar system before entering interstellar space. The boundary line (well, less a line than a fuzzily defined region) is the edge of where charged particles carried by solar wind travel to.

Who Got Rich This Week: A New Billionaire, An Arkansas Banker And More

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 10:02 PM PDT

Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. The good news is that the major American equity indices avoided a three week losing streak this week. Despite taking a dive at the bell on Friday, the S&P 500 closed the week up nearly 1%, while the NASDAQ approached a 1.5% gain. The bad news is that price action is still being driven by the Federal Reserve's unprecedented participation in the market and the fickle opinions of investors as to what exactly that participation will look like going forward and what it even means in the first place. After Fed chairman Ben Bernanke announced last Wednesday that the central bank plans to begin tapering its asset purchases this year, markets tumbled, just as everyone knew they would. After a pair of Fed presidents told investors they overreacted, markets rose. Here are a couple of insiders who managed to strike it rich, despite all the drama:

Petrocaribe leaders agree to focus efforts on boosting trade

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 10:11 PM PDT

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Delegations from over a dozen countries that are members of the Venezuelan-led oil alliance Petrocaribe agreed on Saturday to adopt a framework for promoting trade within the block.

Obama to unveil broad African electrical power initiative

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:31 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama participates in a town hall-style meeting with young African leaders at the University of Johannesburg in SowetoBy Mark Felsenthal JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Pointing to Africa's crippling lack of electrical power, President Barack Obama is due to announce on Sunday a $7 billion initiative over five years to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa. "We see this as the next phase in our development strategy and a real focal point in the president's agenda going forward," deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters traveling with the president. Obama is midway through a three-country tour of Africa and is due to give what aides bill as his fullest description of his vision for the U.S. ...

WHO wants HIV patients treated sooner to save lives, halt spread

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:49 PM PDT

An HIV-infected patient displays medicine at a hospital in Payao provinceBy Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors could save three million more lives worldwide by 2025 if they offer AIDS drugs to people with HIV much sooner after they test positive for the virus, the World Health Organization said on Sunday. While better access to cheap generic AIDS drugs means many more people are now getting treatment, health workers, particularly in poor countries with limited health budgets, currently tend to wait until the infection has progressed. But in new guidelines aimed at controlling and eventually reducing the global AIDS epidemic, the U.N. ...

AT&T's System Can "Self-Destruct" Emails After They've Been Sent -- And Even Read

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:33 PM PDT

AT&T has a new patent that just may change the way organizational email works in the near future. Patent number 20130159436 was made available to the public this week and describes a scheme the telecom outfit has developed that would allow the sender of an email to control that message's behavior after it has been sent, such as to whom it can and can't be forwarded and can even the message's lifespane -- a message can now have an expiration date, after which time a message would be unreadable. It also includes a neat trick that corporate security managers will love: Messages can be remotely "self destructed" if they need to be.

Obama to unveil broad African electrical power initiative

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:33 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Pointing to Africa's crippling lack of electrical power, President Barack Obama is due to announce on Sunday a $7 billion initiative over five years to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa.

WHO wants HIV patients treated sooner to save lives, halt spread

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:49 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors could save three million more lives worldwide by 2025 if they offer AIDS drugs to people with HIV much sooner after they test positive for the virus, the World Health Organization said on Sunday.

New Features of the iPhone 5

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:08 PM PDT

Release Date For iPhone 5S Predicted For September 20, Followed by Low-Cost iPhone 6

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:08 PM PDT

If You're an iPhone user and you haven't upgraded to a 5 yet, odds are, you're sticking it out and waiting for the 5S. I'm in the same boat, realizing that iOS 7 will technically run on my iPhone 4, but barely. The good news is that we could be about 12 weeks away from the next iPhone.

VIDEO: Global Gay Pride: Parades in cities

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 08:45 PM PDT

Gay Pride parades and celebrations have been held in several cities all over the world, including London, Singapore and Paris.

VIDEO: Selling skateboarding to the masses

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 04:06 PM PDT

Long the sport of choice for rebellious teenager, skateboarding is growing in popularity in Dubai and has gained the unlikely support of the ruling family.

VIDEO: 'Temperatures are breaking records'

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 07:48 PM PDT

Spencer Lubitz a reporter with KNTV in Las Vegas spoke to BBC News about the effect of the extreme heat.

The Foreigners That Own Your Fave Brands

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 08:42 PM PDT

China Foreign Debt Approaches $1 Trillion

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 08:42 PM PDT

The amount of debt China owes foreign lenders -- to those who are inclined to believe what the government says -- is approaching the $1 trillion market.  It will be there, if it is not already, before the end of the year.

Obama sees no threat in China rivalry for Africa business

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 08:16 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama participates in town hall-style meeting with young African leaders at the University of Johannesburg SowetoBy Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal PRETORIA (Reuters) - The United States does not feel threatened by the growth of trade and investment in Africa by China and other emerging powers, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday. Suggestions that he has allowed China to steal a march over the United States in doing business with Africa have dogged Obama's three-nation swing through the continent, but he said the increased Chinese engagement was beneficial for all. "I don't feel threatened by it. I feel it's a good thing," Obama told a news conference during a visit to South Africa. ...

VIDEO: French right-wing to target Tour de France

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 12:35 PM PDT

A French right-wing group has vowed to target the Tour de France in order to get its policies "noticed".

Obama sees no threat in China rivalry for Africa business

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 08:16 PM PDT

PRETORIA (Reuters) - The United States does not feel threatened by the growth of trade and investment in Africa by China and other emerging powers, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday.

South Carolina Considers Lifting Cap On Solar Power

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 08:01 PM PDT

South Carolina may soon join the ranks of states that have reconsidered the wisdom of imposing restrictive caps on net metering for customer-sited solar power systems.
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Biden Contacted Ecuador on Snowden

Biden Contacted Ecuador on Snowden

Biden Contacted Ecuador on Snowden

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 12:06 PM PDT

Ecuador's president said the U.S. vice president called him and asked that the NSA leaker's asylum request be rejected.

Tensions Rise Amid Egypt Protests

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 12:10 PM PDT

Protesters in Egypt touted the millions of signatures they say they have collected calling for President Morsi to quit, as a U.S. student was identified as among those killed in demonstrations Friday.

Support for Brazil's President Plummets

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:07 AM PDT

Backing for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's administration has dropped sharply in the past month.

US and Ecuador discuss Snowden

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 12:22 PM PDT

The US vice-president talks to Ecuador's president by phone about ex-CIA analyst Edward Snowden's asylum bid as a new bugging allegation emerges.

Biden asks Ecuador to refuse Snowden asylum

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 12:30 PM PDT

US vice-president relates "cordial request" not to shelter NSA whistleblower, Ecuadorean president says.

Kittel wins opening Tour stage

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 10:40 AM PDT

Germany's Marcel Kittel wins crash-marred opening stage of the Tour de France as double champion Contador tumbles.

Bits Blog: After Fighting Mobile Trend, Intel Now Embraces It

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:40 AM PDT

Intel's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, explains how the company initially fought the mobile revolution and is now trying to catch up.
    

News Analysis: Why Healthy Eaters Fall for Fries

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:36 AM PDT

American consumers, even otherwise healthy ones, keep choosing caloric indulgences rather than healthy foods at fast-food restaurants.
    

Museum Review: A Revamped Roosevelt Library and Museum

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 06:29 PM PDT

A revamped Roosevelt library and museum is opening on Sunday in Hyde Park, N.Y.
    

Thousands march in Istanbul in solidarity with Kurds

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:55 AM PDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched to Istanbul's Taksim Square on Saturday chanting slogans against the government and police after security forces killed a Kurdish demonstrator in southeastern Turkey.

Detained Somali Islamist commander flown to Mogadishu

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:58 AM PDT

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - One of Somalia's most prominent Islamist rebel commanders, arrested by a regional administration, was flown to the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, where he agreed to hold talks with the federal government about his fate, Somali officials said.

Dozens feared dead in fighting for control of Somali port city

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:33 AM PDT

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Dozens of people were feared killed in two days of fierce fighting for control of a strategic Somali port city, according to witness and militia accounts on Saturday, despite efforts to prevent the clashes escalating into broader clan warfare.

Syrian army launches Homs offensive

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:20 AM PDT

BEIRUT — Syrian fighter jets and heavy-artillery units pounded rebel-held areas of the central city of Homs on Saturday, in what activists described as the fiercest push to take full control of the city in more than a year.

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Gatland urges Lions to be 'smarter'

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 08:01 AM PDT

Coach Warren Gatland says the Lions must be 'smarter' to beat Australia in the third Test and win the series.

Egyptian rail workers jailed over train crash that killed 50

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:14 AM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Two Egyptian railway workers were sentenced to 10 years in prison on Saturday over a train crash last year that killed 50 people, mostly children, and inflamed public anger at the country's shoddy transport network.

Iran's Rouhani seeks international dialogue

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:41 AM PDT

President-elect says country needs a cautious foreign policy and a more conciliatory tone over its nuclear programme.

Bahrain student sentenced for insulting king

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:57 AM PDT

High school pupil Ali Al Shofa sent to prison for one year for insulting Gulf island's ruler via Twitter.

U.S. asked Ecuador not to give Snowden asylum: Correa

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 12:48 PM PDT

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday the United States had asked him not to grant asylum for former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden in a "cordial" telephone conversation he held with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Boy's murder shocks Sao Paulo

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 10:55 AM PDT

Police in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, arrest four men accused of killing a five-year-old boy who "cried too much" during a robbery at his family's home.

South Sudan's vice president to visit Khartoum on Sunday

Posted: 29 Jun 2013 10:47 AM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan's vice president will visit Sudan on Sunday, both sides said on Saturday, marking the highest-level talks between the long-time African foes since Khartoum threatened to stop cross-border oil flows.
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