NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)suspended drilling operations at a rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday after it responded to a reported fatality, it said in a statement.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said on Friday the country's rubbish crisis had been "99 percent solved" at a government committee meeting on the issue.
IDLIB, Syria/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - As peace talks are set to get under way in Geneva next week, residents in Syria from nurses to street vendors voice little optimism over the United Nations-backed negotiations’ chance of success.
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 11 (Reuters) - Criminal charges and a request by prosecutors to jail Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are putting the former Brazilian president and leftist icon back in a role he has long relished: that of the martyr.
March 11 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Aviva Premiership matches on Friday RESULTS Harlequins 35 Bath Rugby 28 STANDINGS P W D L F A B Pts 1. Saracens 15 11 1 3 387 266 7 53 2. Exeter Chiefs 15 10 0 5 370 241 10 50 3. Leicester Tigers 15 10 0 5 321 290 5 45 4. Wasps 15 9 0 6 366 264 7 43 5. Harlequins 16 8 1 7 395 399 9 43 6. Northampton 15 8 0 7 315 246 9 41
Stocks finished the week off with a rally, driven higher by a rally in energy after the International Energy Agency said oil prices have bottomed out. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Stocks finished the week off with a rally, driven higher by a rally in energy after the International Energy Agency said oil prices have bottomed out. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Stocks finished the week off with a rally, driven higher by a rally in energy after the International Energy Agency said oil prices have bottomed out. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Stocks finished the week off with a rally, driven higher by a rally in energy after the International Energy Agency said oil prices have bottomed out. Bobbi Rebell reports.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some 20 women in Islamic hijab worried by rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States watched on a recent night as their self-defence instructor showed them how to punch a would-be attacker.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Comedian, writer, producer and musician Steve Martin can add another line to his resume: art museum curator.
WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stressed the importance of moving now to end the conflicts in Syria and Yemen during talks with top Saudi Arabian officials on Friday, a senior U.S. State Department officials said.
Los Angeles - In new faith film 'Miracles from Heaven', which is based on a true story, actress Jennifer Garner plays Christy Beam, the mother of a young girl Annabel (Kylie Rogers) who is diagnosed with an incurable and painful disease.
NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) - Investors who lost money when Jon Corzine's MF Global Holdings Ltd collapsed reached a $29.83 million settlement with five underwriters that helped the futures brokerage sell bonds in the summer of 2011, less than three months before it went bankrupt.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States will raise the issue of Iran's ballistic missile launches during U.N. Security Council consultations next week and is urging countries to cooperate on undermining Tehran's missile programme, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Friday.
(Reuters) - U.S. health regulators said a genetically engineered mosquito being used in the fight against Zika will not have a significant impact on the environment, possibly paving the way for the technique to be used in the country.
(Reuters) - U.S. health regulators said a genetically engineered mosquito being used in the fight against Zika will not have a significant impact on the environment, possibly paving the way for the technique to be used in the country.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - British-born keyboardist Keith Emerson of the 1970's progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer died this week at the age of 71, the band said on Friday.
(Reuters) - TV channel Nat Geo WILD on Friday rallied around popular "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan, who is being investigated for animal cruelty, as thousands signed a petition demanding his television show be canceled.
(Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday they have recorded 99 positive tests for the recently-banned drug at the centre of the case involving five-times grand slam tennis champion Maria Sharapova.
DHAKA, March 11 (Reuters) - Investigators suspect unknown hackers installed malware in the Bangladesh central bank's computer systems and watched, probably for weeks, for how to go about withdrawing money from its U.S. account, two bank officials briefed on the matter said on Friday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama took part in a panel of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Geneva on Friday, addressing a full auditorium about Chinese repression in his native Tibet despite Beijing having urged people to shun the event.
(Recasts with oil and gas rigs falling to record lows based on Baker Hughes data) March 11 (Reuters) - The number of rigs drilling for oil and natural gas in the United States has fallen to the lowest level since at least 1940, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday, as energy firms continued to slash activity amid the deepest energy price rout in a generation. Combined rigs in the U.S. oil and gas fields fell by nine this week to 480, overwriting a previous record low
• Mopar clubs weekly "Meet & Greets" will be 7-11 p.m. at Sonic Drive-Ins, 660 College Park Road in Goose Creek and 9101 University Blvd. in North Charleston. Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, AMC and related cars and trucks are welcome. Other meet and greets this month will be Mar. 18 and 25.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters) - Attorneys for wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan rested their $100 million privacy invasion case against the Gawker news outlet on Friday, wrapping up a lively week of testimony in a Florida lawsuit examining the posting of a sex tape in modern media.
