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  • Italian court says Knox murder acquittal had inconsistencies

    Reuters - 1 hour 51 minutes ago

    By Catherine Hornby ROME (Reuters) - Italy's top court said on Tuesday it had ordered a retrial of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher because their acquittals contained "shortcomings, contradictions and inconsistencies." Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito were initially found guilty of killing the 21-year-old Leeds University student in 2007 during what was described as a drug-fuelled sexual assault, but both were cleared on appeal in 2011. ... More »Italian court says Knox murder acquittal had inconsistencies

  • Coronation Street summer of shocks

    Press Association - 2 hours 2 minutes ago

    Coronation Street has revealed an explosive summer line up of plots to reel in the viewers. More »Coronation Street summer of shocks

  • Chris and pup become good friends

    Press Association - 2 hours 2 minutes ago

    Neighbours star Chris Milligan has formed a special bond with his pooch pal Bossy. More »Chris and pup become good friends

  • Call The Midwife all-female crew

    Press Association - 2 hours 2 minutes ago

    Call The Midwife is to have all female directors for series three. More »Call The Midwife all-female crew

  • Apprentice hopeful 'nightmare date'

    Press Association - 2 hours 2 minutes ago

    Apprentice candidate Alex Mills plays the role of a nightmare date - as a team leader steps down for the first time in the history of the BBC One show. More »Apprentice hopeful 'nightmare date'

  • UK food producers, grocers sign up to healthy label scheme

    Reuters - 2 hours 5 minutes ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's major food manufacturers and retailers have agreed to follow the same system of nutritional labelling as part of a government initiative to tackle obesity and poor diet and ease the financial burden on health services. The UK's Department of Health said on Wednesday labels would combine both traffic light colour-coding and nutritional information on how much fat, saturated fat, salt, sugar and calories are in food products. Major retailers in the past used different systems of labelling which health campaigners said led to confusion and mixed messages. ... More »UK food producers, grocers sign up to healthy label scheme

  • Dolce and Gabbana face verdict on alleged tax evasion

    Reuters - 2 hours 7 minutes ago

    By Lisa Jucca MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court is expected to rule on Wednesday on whether legendary fashion duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana should be sent to prison for allegedly hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the tax authorities. The case, one of the few prominent tax disputes to go to court in Italy, dates back to 2004, when the pair sold their brand to Luxembourg-based holding company Gado to allegedly avoid declaring taxes on royalties of about 1 billion euros (831.4 million pounds). ... More »Dolce and Gabbana face verdict on alleged tax evasion

  • FBI digs for Jimmy Hoffa's body in Michigan field

    Reuters - 2 hours 8 minutes ago

    By Joseph Lichterman OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Michigan (Reuters) - FBI agents in suburban Detroit widened their search of an overgrown field on Tuesday for the remains of former Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared nearly 38 years ago and is thought to have been murdered by mobsters. But after two days of searching, there was no indication that any remains had been found. Agents broke for the night early Tuesday evening and were due to resume the search on Wednesday morning, officials said. ... More »FBI digs for Jimmy Hoffa's body in Michigan field

  • Trial of accused Fort Hood gunman moved to at least August

    Reuters - 2 hours 9 minutes ago

    By Don Bolding FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - The trial of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 will be delayed by at least a month and start in early August, a military judge ruled on Tuesday. Major Nidal Hasan, 42, who could face the death penalty for the shooting at the Army post, has been allowed to represent himself at the trial, which will open no earlier than August 6, the judge, Colonel Tara Osborn, ruled. ... More »Trial of accused Fort Hood gunman moved to at least August

  • Four from U.S. forces killed in attack in Afghanistan

    Reuters - 2 hours 16 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four U.S. forces were killed in an attack on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity, just as the United States prepares for talks this week with the Taliban. The official said insurgents attacked the base with some kind of indirect fire, leaving open the possibility it was hit by rockets or mortar rounds. No further details were immediately available. (Reporting by David Alexander, writing by Phil Stewart) More »Four from U.S. forces killed in attack in Afghanistan

  • Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnet

    Reuters - 2 hours 27 minutes ago

    By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general counsel with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, said in an interview on Tuesday. ... More »Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnet

  • U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack, Somali funding

    Reuters - 2 hours 49 minutes ago

    By John Shiffman and Mark Hosenball (Reuters) WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday identified two of the more than 50 classified cases in which they say National Security Agency eavesdropping helped thwart terrorist plots including a planned attack on the New York Stock Exchange. The other, a San Diego money laundering investigation tied to financing for a Somali militia, is among the 27 cases cited in a Reuters report Tuesday in which the U.S. government filed public notice that it used a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant. ... More »U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack, Somali funding

  • PM Abe says G8 welcomed Japan's economic policies

    Reuters - 2 hours 55 minutes ago

    BELFAST (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday G8 leaders expressed strong support for his "Abenomics" economic policies and heard no concerns about Japan's super easy monetary easing. "I had a chance to explain (Japan's) economic policy, and G8 leaders showed strong expectations and high appreciation," Abe told a news conference after the G8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland. Abe is hoping to jolt the economy out of its two-decade long slumber with his "Abenomics" policy mix of unprecedented monetary stimulus, extra budget spending and pro-growth policies. ... More »PM Abe says G8 welcomed Japan's economic policies

  • Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    By Jennifer Saba REUTERS (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are small business owners who have flocked to the world's No. 1 social network. Facebook executives are hoping to net even more small advertisers since 16 million local businesses, ranging from jewelry sellers to clothing stores, set up free pages on the network. ... More »Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers

  • 'Goodfella' James Burke's Home Searched

    Sky News - 3 hours ago

    Investigators with jackhammers and shovels have been digging under a New York City house once occupied by a famous gangster who is said to have buried victims in familiar places. More »'Goodfella' James Burke's Home Searched

  • Mali government, Tuaregs sign ceasefire accord

    AFP - 3 hours ago

    The Mali government and Tuareg rebels signed a ceasefire accord Tuesday paving the way for presidential elections in the troubled west African state next month. More »Mali government, Tuaregs sign ceasefire accord

  • Russia's Putin torpedoes G8 efforts to oust Assad

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    By Andrew Osborn and Maria Golovnina ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Russia's Vladimir Putin derailed Barack Obama's efforts to win backing for the downfall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at a G8 summit on Tuesday, warning the West that arms supplied to the rebels could be used for attacks on European soil. After two days of intense talks that fell far short of what Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron had been hoping for, Putin fumed against Western moves to supply weapons to rebels while defending his own supplies of arms for Assad. ... More »Russia's Putin torpedoes G8 efforts to oust Assad

  • U.S. lawmakers, businesses demand Indian trade reforms

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of more than 170 U.S. lawmakers joined with a coalition of U.S. business groups on Tuesday to demand increased U.S. pressure on India to change policies that they said threaten American exports, jobs and innovation. "Over the last year, Indian policymakers and courts have taken a series of actions designed to block imports by forcing local production of a wide range of manufactured goods," the lawmakers from the House of Representatives said in a letter to President Barack Obama. ... More »U.S. lawmakers, businesses demand Indian trade reforms

  • U.S. court lets stand Ex-Im Bank loan for Air India

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday let stand a 2011 decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines . However, the court directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for the loans. The ruling allowed both the bank and Delta, which has been engaged in a long-running spat with the Ex-Im Bank, to claim victory. ... More »U.S. court lets stand Ex-Im Bank loan for Air India

  • From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001. Twelve years later, though, Webvan is rising from the dead - in the form of an online grocery business called AmazonFresh. Four key Amazon. ... More »From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business

  • Adobe profit beats as Creative Cloud subscriptions soar

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    By Sruthi Ramakrishnan (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc, which makes the Photoshop and Acrobat software, reported a higher-than-expected adjusted quarterly profit as demand rose for Creative Cloud, the subscription-based version of its flagship software package. Shares of the company rose 4.4 percent in after-market trading. They closed at $43.36 on the Nasdaq on Tuesday. Adobe has been shifting to web-based subscription service Creative Cloud from a licensing model since last year. ... More »Adobe profit beats as Creative Cloud subscriptions soar

  • Jury selection moves to second phase in Trayvon Martin murder case

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida judge ordered 40 prospective jurors who passed an initial vetting to return to court on Wednesday to start the second and final round of questioning in the murder trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman's defense team estimates the second round will be completed in two days, with opening statements as soon as Monday, followed by witness testimony. ... More »Jury selection moves to second phase in Trayvon Martin murder case

  • Ohio residents accused of holding disabled woman in slavery

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Three Ohio residents are accused of holding an intellectually disabled woman and her daughter against their will and forcing the woman to perform physical labor for them, threatening her with snakes if she didn't comply, authorities said on Tuesday. The trio, Jordie Callahan, Jessica Hunt and Daniel Brown, conspired to beat the woman and her child and forced them to sleep in a padlocked room with a large iguana, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. ... More »Ohio residents accused of holding disabled woman in slavery

  • Dreamworks sees annual TV revenue growing to $200 million by 2015

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dreamworks Animation expects revenue from its expanding television business to reach $100 million this year and to rise to $200 million annually by 2015, Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg said on Tuesday. The television business will generate gross profit margins around 30 percent, Katzenberg told analysts one day after the company announced a TV production deal with Netflix Inc (Reporting by Lisa Richwine) More »Dreamworks sees annual TV revenue growing to $200 million by 2015

  • Montreal mayor resigns, says will fight corruption charges

    Reuters - 3 hours ago

    By David Ljunggren (Reuters) - Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned on Tuesday, a day after he was charged with fraud and corruption in the latest major Canadian municipal scandal. "I am going to put my energies into my defense and into my family," said Applebaum, who had promised to clean up Canada's second-largest city when he was named to the post in November. Declaring his innocence, he added in a statement to reporters: "This is why I am resigning as mayor of Montreal - it is the responsible thing to do. ... More »Montreal mayor resigns, says will fight corruption charges

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