COLUMBIA — The text came at about 6:30 p.m., roughly halfway through the selection show revealing the NCAA Tournament field. It was received by a South Carolina athletics administrator and Andy Assaley, director of operations for the Gamecocks’ men’s basketball program.
PARIS (Reuters) - Talks between Orange and Bouygues on a deal to create a dominant French telecoms operator collapsed on Friday, ending an attempt to ease a price war that has ravaged operators' margins.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Bayer Leverkusen battled back into Champions League contention on Friday with a 3-0 victory over VfL Wolfsburg, who saw their own hopes of European football next season severely dented with six matches left.
Stocks began the second quarter with a strong showing, and closed out the week higher as well. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Stocks began the second quarter with a strong showing, and closed out the week higher as well. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Stocks began the second quarter with a strong showing, and closed out the week higher as well. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Stocks began the second quarter with a strong showing, and closed out the week higher as well. Bobbi Rebell reports.
* Six of the TSX's 10 main groups down; energy off 2.6 percent
April 1 (Reuters) - The state of California sued Morgan Stanley on Friday, accusing the bank of hiding the risks of complex mortgage debt and other securities it sold, causing big losses for the state's public pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS.
April 1 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Aviva Premiership matches on Friday RESULTS Bath Rugby 10 Saracens 30 STANDINGS P W D L F A B Pts 1. Saracens 19 14 1 4 492 331 9 67 2. Exeter Chiefs 18 12 0 6 440 306 11 59 3. Wasps 18 12 0 6 475 320 10 58 4. Northampton 18 10 0 8 382 300 11 51 5. Leicester Tigers 18 11 0 7 386 366 6 50 6. Harlequins 18 8 1 9 433 449 11 45 7.
U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his global nuclear security summit in Washington with a call to nations to do more to slow the flow of foreign fighters to Islamic State. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his global nuclear security summit in Washington with a call to nations to do more to slow the flow of foreign fighters to Islamic State. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his global nuclear security summit in Washington with a call to nations to do more to slow the flow of foreign fighters to Islamic State. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his global nuclear security summit in Washington with a call to nations to do more to slow the flow of foreign fighters to Islamic State. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his global nuclear security summit in Washington with a call to nations to do more to slow the flow of foreign fighters to Islamic State. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) - Stocks on Wall Street rose on Friday after better-than-expected U.S. jobs and factory survey data, but a gloomy manufacturing report in Japan knocked other global equity markets lower and crude oil prices slumped.
BAGHDAD, April 1 (Reuters) - The nominee for the post of oil minister in Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's proposed cabinet, Nizar Saleem Numan, who is a Kurd, withdrew his candidacy on Friday apparently because he had not been formally put forward by the main Kurdish groups.
Archaeologists in Egypt await the preliminary results from scans of Tutankhamun's tomb, which may reveal two hidden rooms behind the boy king's burial chamber. Gavino Garay reports.
Archaeologists in Egypt await the preliminary results from scans of Tutankhamun's tomb, which may reveal two hidden rooms behind the boy king's burial chamber. Gavino Garay reports.
Archaeologists in Egypt await the preliminary results from scans of Tutankhamun's tomb, which may reveal two hidden rooms behind the boy king's burial chamber. Gavino Garay reports.
Archaeologists in Egypt await the preliminary results from scans of Tutankhamun's tomb, which may reveal two hidden rooms behind the boy king's burial chamber. Gavino Garay reports.
April 1 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Guinness PRO12 matches on Friday RESULTS Newport Gwent Dragons 20 Ospreys 26 Edinburgh Rugby 29 Zebre 0 Ulster 18 Connacht 10 STANDINGS P W D L F A B Pts 1. Connacht 19 13 0 6 437 363 11 63 2. Leinster 18 13 0 5 356 205 7 59 3. Scarlets 18 13 0 5 396 333 5 57 4. Ulster 19 11 0 8 365 258 11 55
(Reuters) - Some social media users raised concerns on Friday over networking forum Reddit's removal from its site of a section that told users it had never received a certain type of surveillance request from the U.S. government.
PARIS (Reuters) - Talks between Orange and Bouygues on a deal to create a dominant French telecoms operator collapsed on Friday, ending an attempt to ease a price war that has ravaged operators' margins.
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - A new U.S. government task force will look into the country's biggest ever accidental release of methane, which occurred over several months in Los Angeles, California, hoping to prevent future leaks of the potent greenhouse gas from storage wells, the Obama administration said on Friday.
