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| Starbucks plans instant coffee debut
February 12, 2009 at 8:24 pm
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| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp is moving into the instant coffee market as it works to shake off its reputation as a seller of pricey coffee drinks. |
| "Slumdog" turns spotlight on Mumbai's biggest slum
February 12, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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| MUMBAI (Reuters) - A slum portrayed in the award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" is at the center of a land controversy in Mumbai that has highlighted the challenges facing a booming India as it tries to modernize its cities. |
| Returning expats bring skills to rebuild Balkans
February 12, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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| BELGRADE (Reuters) - When Nina Ivancev, 38, left Serbia for Australia in 1993, she was convinced she would never return to what was then a pariah state embroiled in Balkan wars. Now she is back, and finds it more stable than richer places. |
| In recession, U.S. MBA students seek backup plan
February 12, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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| CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - For decades, investment banking was a well-worn path to affluence for business-school graduates. But as Wall Street teeters, many are scrambling to find alternate routes into a brutal job market. |
| Record price for Lincoln speech on 200th birthday
February 12, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln two days after his 1864 presidential election victory was sold for a record $3.44 million on Thursday, the 200th anniversary of his birth. |
| U.S. judges admit to jailing children for money
February 12, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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| PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Two judges pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting more than $2.6 million from a private youth detention center in Pennsylvania in return for giving hundreds of youths and teenagers long sentences. |
| African designers make fashion debut in New York
February 12, 2009 at 3:49 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - African designers showing collections for the first time in New York see the election of Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, as an opening to the huge American market. |
| Babies who gesture have bigger vocabularies: study
February 12, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Babies who use many gestures to communicate when they are 14 months-old have much larger vocabularies when they start school than those who don't, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. |
| Matchmakers find business booming on Wall Street
February 12, 2009 at 2:17 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's all doom and gloom on Wall Street but high-end matchmakers say when America's wealthiest bachelors are humbled, some start looking for love. |
| World celebrates Darwin's 200th anniversary
February 12, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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| CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) - His beetle cabinet is back in his old college rooms, his home is a national treasure and the islands that led Charles Darwin to evolutionary theory are under threat from tourism two centuries after his birth. |
| Physics lab allays Angels & Demons antimatter fear
February 12, 2009 at 12:59 pm
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| GENEVA (Reuters) - The European physics laboratory that reassured us it wouldn't destroy the Earth in a "Big Bang" experiment last year is now telling people not to fret about antimatter. |
| Barat rules out Libertines reunion "right now"
February 12, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Carl Barat has quashed rumors that his old band The Libertines are about to reform after the British band's other former frontman, Pete Doherty, hinted at a possible reunion earlier this week. |
| Many countries ignore human trafficking: UN
February 12, 2009 at 12:43 pm
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| VIENNA (Reuters) - Human trafficking for the sex trade or forced labor market appears to be getting worse because many countries are ignoring the globalized problem, the Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said on Thursday. |
| "Jazz Century" comes to Paris museum
February 12, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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| PARIS (Reuters) - A major exhibition opens in Paris next month examining "The Jazz Century" and its influence through artists ranging from the "Black Venus" Josephine Baker to the austere Dutch modernist Piet Mondriaan. |
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