CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued new guidelines to medical device makers developing a potentially revolutionary device for type 1 diabetes, saying they should speed its delivery to patients.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of small shopkeepers went on strike across India yesterday to protest a government decision to allow foreign retail giants like Wal-Mart Stores Inc to enter the country’s $450 billion retail market.
BRASILIA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Brazil moved aggressively to shield its economy from the euro-zone debt crisis on Thursday, taking a flurry of measures to boost consumption and investment in Latin America’s biggest country.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The World Bank is allocating $255 million for Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction over the next 12 months, including support for education, agriculture and disaster risk management, the bank said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosts a regional summit this week that puts his recovery from cancer at center stage as he begins his toughest election campaign yet.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was arrested and flown to The Hague overnight to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC since its inception in 2002.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s parliament has always been a boisterous and chaotic place that, like the country itself, still somehow worked: these days, it’s not even muddling through.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Opponents of Newmont Mining’s $4.8 billion Conga project refused to end their rallies yesterday, saying Peru must permanently cancel the proposed mine after temporarily halting work on it to avert violence.
LUSAKA, (Reuters) – Zambian police charged a former labour minister with receiving stolen property after 2.1 billion kwacha ($414,000) was found buried at his farm, in the first high-profile case in a graft crackdown under new President Michael Sata.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – When Vikram Akula came to speak at the World Economic Forum’s India Summit in New Delhi last year, it was clear that the once-thriving banker to the poor was beginning to lose his sheen.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” and the Christopher Plummer film “Beginners” shared the top prize for best feature film on Monday at the Gotham Awards, a key event for independent movies which also marks the start of the film-awards season culminating in the Oscars.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – In director David Cronenberg’s new film about Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis, “A Dangerous Method”, Keira Knightley plays Jung’s formerly hysterical patient and lover Sabina Spielrein.
(Reuters) – “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” broke the $500 million mark at worldwide box offices on Monday after its release only 12 days ago, film distributor Summit Entertainment said yesterday.
TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Iranian protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran yesterday, smashing windows, torching a car and burning the British flag in protest against new sanctions imposed by London.
(Reuters) – American Airlines, the third-largest U.S. carrier, and its parent AMR Corp filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday to cut labor costs in the face of high fuel prices and dampened travel demand.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential contender Herman Cain told aides yesterday he would reassess the viability of his struggling campaign after an Atlanta woman accused him of conducting a 13-year extramarital affair.
ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo was on a flight to the Hague-based International Criminal Court yesterday to face an arrest warrant issued by the global body, his lawyer said.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, yesterday was sentenced to four years in jail and denied probation for his conviction on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s death.
KABUL/LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan pulled out of an international conference on Afghanistan yesterday, its latest angry riposte after an attack by NATO killed 24 of its soldiers and plunged the region deeper into crisis.
LONDON, (Reuters) – BSkyB independent shareholders dealt James Murdoch a heavy blow yesterday with over 40 percent failing to back his re-election as chairman, venting their anger at his handling of a phone hacking scandal.
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