Mayoral hopefuls Thursday debated growth, traffic, I-526 and more debates.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The families of South African striking miners shot dead by police at Lonmin's Marikana mine in 2012 have issued a court summons for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa over complicity in their deaths, the presidency said on Thursday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament held its first legislative session in more than a year on Thursday and started passing financial laws the paralysed state urgently needs to stay afloat.
LONDON (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a visit to Britain on Thursday expected to yield trade deals worth billions of dollars, but his arrival was overshadowed by protests over a perceived rise in intolerance back home.
CAPE TOWN, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Seasoned Australian coach Eddie Jones wants to bring back the flair of old to the Stormers and light up Newlands when he makes his return to Super Rugby in 2016.
TORONTO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Manulife Financial Corp , Canada's biggest insurer, reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, hurt by losses on oil and gas investments.
Liberty Media Corp. plans to reclassify its common stock into three new tracking groups, which it expects will help it raise money more precisely for each group.
LONDON (Reuters) - Drivers at ride service Uber [UBER.UL] held a small-scale protest in London on Thursday, angry over pay in a sign of a new challenge for the rapidly expanding taxi app.
A skateboarding dog, the fastest 100 metre sprint on all fours, amazing basketball trick shots and a Mini parking stunt all feature in the Guinness World Records list.
A skateboarding dog, the fastest 100 metre sprint on all fours, amazing basketball trick shots and a Mini parking stunt all feature in the Guinness World Records list.
* A Christian party walks out, regional rivalries fester (Adds laws approved, colour, context)
CHICAGO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. farm economy extended its slide in the third quarter amid slumps in grain and livestock prices, and bankers had a dour outlook for farm incomes in the fourth quarter, said a quarterly report from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
* Sales down 27 pct, forex loss 6.9 bln baht (Adds details)
* Brent, U.S. crude hit 2-1/2 mth low before U.S. inventory report
Stocks are heading lower in early trading, weighed down by weakness in mining and energy companies.
MARIANA, Brazil, Nov 12 (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday flew over a devastated part of Brazil's southeast region where two dams burst at an iron ore mine last week, killing at least seven people and swamping a vast area with mud and mine waste.
LONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas production hit a new record in August, despite the deepening slump in gas prices and a fall in the number of rigs targeting gas formations.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Striking Greeks took to the streets on Thursday to protest austerity measures, setting Alexis Tsipras' government its biggest domestic challenge since he was re-elected in September promising to cushion the impact of economic hardship.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Striking Greeks took to the streets on Thursday to protest austerity measures, setting Alexis Tsipras' government its biggest domestic challenge since he was re-elected in September promising to cushion the impact of economic hardship.
CAPE TOWN, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Seasoned Australian coach Eddie Jones wants to bring back the flair of old to the Stormers and light up Newlands when he makes his return to Super Rugby in 2016.
NEAR SINJAR TOWN, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish peshmerga forces have started clearing parts of the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar and have established positions along an Islamic State supply route between its two main strongholds in Iraq and Syria, the coalition said on Thursday.
NEAR SINJAR TOWN, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish peshmerga forces have started clearing parts of the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar and have established positions along an Islamic State supply route between its two main strongholds in Iraq and Syria, the coalition said on Thursday.
Portuguese Socialist leader Antonio Costa says he is available to take power immediately following the center-right government's collapse and promises to comply with the fiscal discipline required of countries like...
The U.S. military says it has deployed six more fighter jets at Incirlik air base in southern Turkey for operations against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
LONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A long-delayed report into the collapse of British bank HBOS in the 2007-2009 financial crisis will be published on Nov. 19, regulators said on Thursday.
