World

BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Police are confirming 2 dead, and 23 injured after explosions at the Boston Marathon  as runners crossed the finish line today.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Gold slumped anew today, racking up its worst two-day loss in 30 years, and investors dumped stocks and other commodities after weaker-than-expected Chinese data raised concerns about the global economic outlook.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Late socialist leader Hugo Chavez’s chosen successor Nicolas Maduro won Venezuela’s presidential election by a whisker but now faces opposition protests plus a host of economic and political challenges in the OPEC nation.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Tighter border security must be one goal of U.S.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberals crowned charismatic rising political star Justin Trudeau as party leader yesterday, relying more on hope and a youthful image than on experience and substance to contest seven years of Conservative rule.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Nicolas Maduro, a former bus driver who became Hugo Chavez’s protege, was declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election on Sunday but the opposition refused to accept the result and demanded a recount of all the votes.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberals crowned charismatic rising political star Justin Trudeau as party leader today, relying more on hope and a youthful image than on experience and substance to contest seven years of Conservative rule.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Tighter border security must be one goal of U.S.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday that China had agreed to help rid North Korea of its nuclear capability by peaceful means, but Beijing made no specific commitment in public to pressure its long-time ally to change its ways.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Hugo Chávez loyalists yesterday on the eve of a presidential vote celebrated across Venezuela a milestone in the late leader’s socialist revolution, irking the opposition that complained of a campaign tipped in favour of the government.

LONDON (Reuters) – Several hundred people turned up for a “party” in central London  yesterday to celebrate the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a mass protest predicted by some, failed to materialise.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, in his first major decision, yesterday set up an advisory board of cardinals from around the world to help him govern the Catholic Church and reform its troubled central administration.

JAKARTA (Reuters) – All 108 passengers and crew miraculously survived when a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway on the balmy Indonesian resort island of Bali yesterday and landed in the sea.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The retrial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was aborted today when the presiding judge withdrew from the case and referred it to another court, causing an indefinite delay that sparked anger in the courtroom.

LONDON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Gold sank almost 5 percent into bear territory yesterday as institutional investors fled bullion in favour of other safe-haven assets amid concerns about central bank sales and souring sentiment.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – A global goal for limiting climate change is slipping out of reach and governments may have to find ways to artificially suck greenhouse gases from the air if they fail to make deep cuts in rising emissions by 2030, a draft U.N.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. senators crafting an immigration bill have agreed that foreigners who crossed the U.S.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Tax dodging causes the European Union to lose around 1 trillion euros of income each year, the president of the European Council said on Friday as he announced that EU leaders would discuss the issue at a summit next month.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A little-known French sports doctor who spent 16 years studying the busts of about 300 women sent a scare through a country known for its love of lingerie this week when he suggested bras were useless.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – One of Bollywood’s most famous villains, Pran, will receive the highest award in Indian cinema to honour the actor whose career has spanned about 350 films over nearly 60 years, the government said yesterday.