World

GENEVA, (Reuters) – A cholera epidemic is spreading  in famine-hit Somalia, with alarming numbers of cases among  people driven to the capital Mogadishu by a lack of food and  water, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

AJDABIYAH, Libya,  (Reuters) – Rebels on the eastern  front of Libya’s civil war lost 11 men in the past 24 hours  fighting to capture the strategic oil terminal and refinery at  Brega on the Mediterranean coast, hospital sources said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Mortgage and investment  schemes targeting troubled U.S. homeowners jumped in 2010 and  may increase further if the economy does not improve, the FBI  said yesterday.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian forces shot dead at least  20 protesters yesterday, activists said, as tens of thousands  demanded the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, chanting  “we will kneel only to God”.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway appointed a nine-person  commission yesterday to investigate the attacks that killed 77  people last month, including the police response that has been  criticised as slow.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – James Tabuteau has been  living in a ramshackle tent camp in Haiti’s capital since last  year’s catastrophic earthquake wrecked his home, struggling to  find enough unskilled temporary work to feed his young family.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron  risks his government’s austerity drive, particularly its plans  to cut police funding, becoming the focus of Britons’ fears  about the future after the worst looting and rioting in decades  hit English cities.

 AMMAN/HAMA, Syria – Syrian forces killed at least 19 people  in raids near the Lebanon border and in the country’s Sunni  tribal heartland, activists said, pursuing a military campaign  to crush street protests against President Bashar al-Assad.

LONDON,  (Reuters) –  With social media brutally  accelerating the news cycle and allowing rumours from riots to  bank failures to spread at lightning speed, politicians,  businesses and governments must adapt fast.

NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – A high degree of pain  does not make it any more likely that someone coming into the  emergency room with chest pains is having a heart attack,  according to a study.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry, a  staunch conservative with a Washington outsider’s resume, will  seek the 2012 Republican nomination for U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters Life!) – An Indian film over  caste discrimination against “untouchables” has been mired in  controversy with protests from caste groups forcing the  producers to cut parts of the film, highlighting deep-seated  social tensions in the rising economic power.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters Life!) – Since  director James Cameron’s “Avatar” raked in $2.8 billion at  global box offices, Hollywood has flooded theaters with wave  after wave of 3D movies, but some industry watchers wonder if  theatergoers are now drowning in it.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Aid officials warned yesterday that the famine in the Horn of Africa would escalate  significantly if October rains fail to materialize, and  cautioned U.S.

WASHINGTON/KABUL, (Reuters) – NATO-led forces killed  the Taliban militants responsible for shooting down a U.S. 

KABUL, (Reuters) – Late last Friday night, special  forces troops from the NATO-led coalition launched an operation  to capture a Taliban leader in an inaccessible valley southwest  of Kabul.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British businessman accused of  arranging for his wife to be murdered while they were on  honeymoon in Cape Town can be extradited to face trial in South  Africa, a court ruled yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David  Cameron will face pressure today to soften his austerity  plans, toughen up policing and do more to help inner-city  communities after days of riots and looting laid bare deep  social tensions in a depressed economy.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks tumbled more than  4 percent yesterday, almost wiping out gains from a relief  rally the previous day, as rumors about the health of French  banks sparked concern that the euro zone’s debt crisis could  claim new victims.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. regulators approved a  once-daily HIV pill by Gilead Sciences Inc, giving a new source  of revenue to the leading maker of HIV medicines as it faces  expiring patents.