NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Wegelin & Co, the oldest Swiss private bank, said yesterday it would shut its doors permanently after more than two and a half centuries following its guilty plea to charges of helping wealthy Americans evade taxes through secret accounts.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Offshore rig contractor Transocean Ltd has agreed to pay US$1.4 billion to settle U.S.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Five Indian men were formally charged in court today with the gang rape and murder of a physiotherapy student in a case that has generated widespread anger about the government’s inability to prevent violence against women.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans face even bigger budget battles in the next two months after a hard-fought “fiscal cliff” deal narrowly averted devastating tax hikes and spending cuts.
AMMAN/GENEVA, (Reuters) – More than 60,000 people have died in Syria’s uprising and civil war, the United Nations said yesterday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.
LONDON/ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (Reuters) – The runaway oil rig that ran aground in Alaska on New Year’s Eve dragged two vessels trying to control it more than 10 miles ( 16 kilometer s) to ward shore in just over an hour before the crews cut it loose to save themselves in “near hurricane” conditions.
(Reuters) – When several Colombian men were indicted in January 2010 on money-laundering charges, the case in Brooklyn federal court drew little attention.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – American pop singer Patti Page, whose 1950 hit “Tennessee Waltz” topped the charts for months, has died in Southern California, her manager said today.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was discharged from hospital on Wednesday after being treated for a blood clot in a vein behind her right ear, and her doctors expect her to make a full recovery, a State Department spokesman said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A deal worked out by U.S. Senate leaders to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” was far from any “grand bargain” of deficit reduction measures.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffered a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear but is expected to make a full recovery, her doctors said yesterday in a statement released by the State Department.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department made a “grievous mistake” in keeping the US mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said yesterday.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Grim news grabs more headlines than good works but deeper probing will find a world of love and service hidden in the shadows, Pope Benedict said at his traditional end-of-year Mass last night.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A UN Security Council sanctions committee yesterday blacklisted two rebel groups that have been responsible for war crimes in conflict-ravaged eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations said in a statement.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – One of hundreds of attacks reported in New Delhi each year, the gang rape and murder of a medical student caught Indian authorities and political parties flat-footed, slow to see that the assault on a private bus had come to symbolise an epidemic of crime against women.
(BBC) Bangladesh have cancelled their tour of Pakistan in January because of security concerns.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The hot-button topic of “fracking” has finally made its way to Hollywood in the new movie “Promised Land,” out in U.S.
(Jamaica Observer) Blue Caprice, a movie recalling the DC sniper murders in Maryland and Virginia 10 years ago, premieres next month at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Veteran character actor Harry Carey Jr., who appeared in scores of television shows and films including nine of famed movie director John Ford’s classic Hollywood Westerns, has died at age 91, his family said on Friday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers pushed the country to the edge of the “fiscal cliff” yesterday as they struggled to reach a last-minute deal that could protect the world’s largest economy from a politically induced recession.
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