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Another runaway Toyota Prius reported

DETROIT, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall. ...  > full story

"JihadJane" accused of terror plot in Sweden

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. ...  > full story

Obama effect boosts Nobel Peace Prize nominations

OSLO, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — A record 237 people and organizations have been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, with interest boosted by last year's award to President Barack Obama, organizers said on Wednesday. ...  > full story

Iraq PM said to be ahead on eve of vote results

BAGHDAD, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Initial results from Iraq's national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. ...  > full story

Iceland opposition toughens on new "Icesave" talks

REYKJAVIK, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Iceland's opposition turned up the heat on the center-left government on Wednesday to hold out for a tough new "Icesave" debt accord with Britain and the Netherlands, after a referendum rejection of its previous deal. ...  > full story

UK proposes tougher steps on disclosing bankers' pay

LONDON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Britain will on Wednesday propose to force banks to reveal how many of their staff earn top wages, in steps that go further than previous proposals, financial services minister Paul Myners said. ...  > full story

Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan

KABUL, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout. ...  > full story

Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating

LONDON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit. ...  > full story

Economists trim 2011 U.S. growth forecast

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday. ...  > full story

Bomber's death fresh blow to Indonesia militants

CANBERRA/JAKARTA, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — A suspected mastermind of the Bali bombings was killed in a police raid in Indonesia in the latest blow to an Islamist militant movement in the world's most populous Muslim country. ...  > full story

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Ukraine's Yanukovich eyes coalition, gov't this week

KIEV, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich pushed on Wednesday for a new ruling coalition within the week to avoid snap elections and tackle a deep economic crisis. ...  > full story

Obama effect boosts Nobel Peace Prize nominations

OSLO, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — A record 237 people and organizations have been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, with interest boosted by last year's award to President Barack Obama, organizers said on Wednesday. ...  > full story

Chavez trusts God and nature in power crisis

CARACAS, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — President Hugo Chavez is confident that God and nature will pull Venezuela out of a power crisis battering both the economy and his popularity. ...  > full story

High stakes in China's big dig

SHENYANG, China, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — In a tunnel deep beneath Shenyang's busy streets, Lu Ze flicked a switch and a lone light bulb revealed a cluttered concrete floor. ...  > full story

Politics


Senator Brown snags deal for memoirs

BOSTON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Scott Brown, the Republican whose surprise victory in the Senate race in Massachusetts rocked the political landscape, has signed a deal to write his memoirs, the publisher HarperCollins said on Wednesday. ...  > full story

House to vote on pullout from Afghanistan

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war. ...  > full story

Sebelius piles pressure on insurers

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Health secretary Kathleen Sebelius will escalate pressure on health insurance companies on Wednesday, urging them to forgo short-term profits and stop fighting President Barack Obama's health reform plans. ...  > full story

Gates to discuss Iran pressure during Saudi visit

RIYADH, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to discuss efforts to put pressure on Iran, stabilize Yemen and to urge the Saudis to engage with Iraq ahead of the U.S. withdrawal. ...  > full story

Business


Wider "Volcker rule" bill unveiled in Senate

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Legislation that would write into law and widen the proposed "Volcker rule" to limit proprietary trading was unveiled in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday with the support of five Democratic senators. ...  > full story

Citigroup tests waters in preferred securities sale

NEW YORK, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Citigroup's launch of preferred securities on Wednesday is a potentially major test of market sentiment, one year after prices of bank bonds and stocks plunged to multi-year lows, analysts said. ...  > full story

Former NY pension fund exec pleads guilty: Cuomo

NEW YORK, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — New York state's former top pension investment officer pleaded guilty to a felony for helping to steer hundreds of millions of investments to a political adviser and favored firms, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday. ...  > full story

Boeing study says its tanker to create more jobs

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — A study paid for by Boeing Co found that a Boeing-built aerial tanker would create 10 times as many new U.S. jobs as the now-withdrawn plan by Northrop Grumman Corp and EADS . ...  > full story

Science


SpaceX aborts rocket engine test

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Mar. 9, 2010 (Reuters) — Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station. ...  > full story

Scientists say UK risks losing innovation edge

LONDON, Mar. 8, 2010 (Reuters) — Britain risks decades of slow economic decline unless it invests heavily in research, which at the moment is one of the country's few genuine areas of economic competitive advantage, leading scientists said on Tuesday. ...  > full story

Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

GENEVA, Mar. 8, 2010 (Reuters) — Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle collider at CERN, the research center's head said Monday. ...  > full story

Obama to push White House vision for NASA in April

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7, 2010 (Reuters) — President Barack Obama will outline his administration's vision for space agency NASA and an eventual trip to Mars during a conference in Florida in April, the White House said on Sunday. ...  > full story

Entertainment


Corey Haim dies of overdose

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, police said on Wednesday. He was 38. ...  > full story

Phantom sequel a "shadow of the original"

LONDON, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Comparisons with the original were inevitable when Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to write a sequel to his record-breaking musical "Phantom of the Opera." ...  > full story

Charlie Sheen returning to work next Tuesday

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 10, 2010 (Hollywood Reporter) — Charlie Sheen is expected to return to work on CBS' "Two and a Half Men" on Tuesday, according to his publicist. ...  > full story

John Krasinski joins "Something" romantic comedies

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 9, 2010 (Hollywood Reporter) — John Krasinski is in negotiations to join Ginnifer Goodwin in "Something Borrowed," a romantic comedy from the company behind "The Blind Side." ...  > full story

Sports


Germany's Gerdemann snatches Tirreno first stage

MILAN, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Germany's Linus Gerdemann grabbed victory in the first stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico on Wednesday, the first big stage race of the Italian season. ...  > full story

Williams tests positive for marijuana

DOHA, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — American world indoor sprint favorite Ivory Williams has withdrawn from this weekend's IAAF championships because of a positive test for marijuana, his manager said on Wednesday. ...  > full story

Classy Sagan takes stage as Contador regains confidence

AURILLAC, France, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Slovakian prodigy Peter Sagan claimed a shortened third stage of the Paris-Nice race Wednesday while Alberto Contador showed in a nervy finale he had regained confidence two days after crashing. ...  > full story

Harrington to celebrate St Patrick's Day with Obama

MIAMI, Mar. 10, 2010 (Reuters) — Two-times British Open winner Padraig Harrington will be a guest of U.S. president Barack Obama at the White House St Patrick's Day party next week, the Irish golfer told reporters on Wednesday. ...  > full story
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