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LONDON (Reuters) - The shadows being cast over the global economy darkened this month as the euro zone's private sector declined further and China's once-booming factories faltered, business surveys showed on Thursday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German business sentiment collapsed in May and the manufacturing sector shrank as turmoil in the euro zone unsettled firms, threatening to end the immunity of Europe's largest economy to the troubles surrounding it.
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WEDNESDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted against a new use of a new blood thinner, Xarelto, to cut the risk of potentially lethal clots in people with acute coronary syndrome.
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When you think of mobile gaming, you probably imagine a game of Cut the Rope or Angry Birds -- tapping, flicking, touching your device's capacitive screen. But now there's a new way to play: with your mind, using the Mindwave Mobile headset.
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CANNES, France (AP) -- Zac Efron says he felt uncomfortable filming his revealing role "The Paperboy" - and that's the way he wanted it....
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PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Police in Papua New Guinea stormed the Supreme Court in the capital and arrested the nation's top judge on sedition charges on Thursday, in response to its ruling that the prime minister held power illegally and should step down. On the day...(more)
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A work by Cuban surrealist painter Wifredo Lam sells for $4.5m at an auction in New York, a record price for one of his works.
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Seven people, including five five firefighters, are injured in a fire on a nuclear-powered submarine in the US state of Maine.
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Pentagon and CIA papers show the agencies granted privileges to director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, including access to a Navy SEAL and a CIA 'vault.' There is no indication that classified information was shared.WASHINGTON — In the months after the U.S. militarymission that killed...(more)
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Jurors complete a fourth day of deliberations in the campaign finance trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards. They will resume Thursday. GREENSBORO, N.C. — For a fourth day Wednesday, the jury in the John Edwards trial deliberated without reaching a verdict in a case focused...(more)
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#medicine Calcium supplements—previously thought to help prevent heart disease and stroke—have now been shown to almost double the risk of heart attack. Doctors are now warning that such supplements should be taken with caution, and even then only for vital medical reasons.More »
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PARIS (Reuters) - Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil-fuel combustion rose by 3.2 percent last year to a record high of 31.6 gigatonnes, the IEA said in preliminary estimates released on Thursday.