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| Expect more U.S. charges vs Rajaratnam: prosecutors
January 5, 2010 at 9:49 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indicted Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam faces expanded charges of insider trading and allegations that he earned $36 million in illicit profits, double the amount previously alleged, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday. |
| "Explosive" at California airport found to be honey
January 5, 2010 at 9:28 pm
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| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Authorities shut down a California airport on Tuesday after a suspicious amber liquid in a passenger's bag tested positive for explosives -- only to ultimately determine that the substance was honey. |
| Obama says bomb attempt an intelligence "screw-up"
January 5, 2010 at 9:23 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner was a potentially disastrous "screw up" by the intelligence community, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday as he vowed urgent action to tighten air security. |
| U.S. pilot in botched Bay of Pigs invasion dies
January 5, 2010 at 6:33 pm
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| BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A Central Intelligence Agency pilot who flew in the failed U.S.-backed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba died of cancer on Tuesday, his family said. |
| Study figures best job in 2010 is ... actuary
January 5, 2010 at 6:11 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Being an actuary, calculating statistics to determine probability and risk, is the best job to have in 2010, while working on an oil rig as a roustabout is the worst, according to a study released on Tuesday. |
| State Department revokes attempted bomber's visa
January 5, 2010 at 5:32 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Tuesday said it had revoked the visa it had given a Nigerian man after his alleged attempt to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day with explosives hidden in his underwear. |
| Strike on CIA base tests U.S. assessment of al Qaeda
January 5, 2010 at 3:46 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Revelations that a double agent linked to al Qaeda may have carried out last week's bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan suggests the group has achieved a new level of sophistication and may not be as weakened as U.S. officials had thought. |
| Ford surges as U.S. auto sales end '09 on uptick
January 5, 2010 at 3:40 pm
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| DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co posted a 33 percent sales gain for December as U.S. auto sales ended 2009 on an upswing after a tumultuous year that saw GM and Chrysler collapse into bankruptcy and China overtake the United States as the biggest car market. |
| California airport shut down in security scare
January 5, 2010 at 3:33 pm
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| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A hazardous substance was found in a passenger's luggage at a California airport, sending two federal baggage screeners to the hospital and prompting an evacuation of the terminal on Tuesday in the latest U.S. aviation security scare. |
| Yemeni loses appeal for release from Guantanamo
January 5, 2010 at 3:13 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that a Yemeni man who cooked for Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan was lawfully detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
| Nigeria chafes at tougher U.S. air security rule
January 5, 2010 at 3:11 pm
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| ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria urged the United States on Tuesday to reconsider its decision to require tighter security for Nigerian air travelers in the wake of the botched bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner. |
| Dutch say failed plane bomber acted alone
January 5, 2010 at 1:56 pm
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| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas acted alone and probably smuggled the explosives from Nigeria, the Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday. |
| Air passengers deal with tougher U.S. security
January 5, 2010 at 12:40 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Air travelers arriving in the United States under tighter security on Tuesday said they faced repeated passport checks and could not use blankets or leave seats in the last hour of their flight, but some said they felt safer. |
| Exhausted Japan finance minister to quit: report
January 5, 2010 at 11:48 am
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| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's aged finance minister is to quit due to poor health after weeks of exhausting wrangling over the budget, the Nikkei news agency said on Tuesday, a fresh blow for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as he struggles with a frail economy and huge public debt. |
| Karzai to try again with new cabinet line-up
January 5, 2010 at 9:14 am
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| KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to present a new list of cabinet nominees to Parliament on Saturday, an official said, replacing 17 names unexpectedly rejected by lawmakers last week in a humiliating snub. |
| Israel to build more homes in East Jerusalem
January 5, 2010 at 8:44 am
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| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Jerusalem municipality has approved construction of four apartment buildings next to a Jewish seminary in East Jerusalem, officials said on Tuesday, a project Palestinians called an attempt to undermine peace moves. |
| Iran renews execution threat against protesters
January 5, 2010 at 7:06 am
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's interior minister warned opposition activists on Tuesday they risk execution as enemies of God if they continue anti-government demonstrations, and the foreign ministry said arrested foreigners face punishment. |
| U.S. embassy reopens in Yemen after threat
January 5, 2010 at 3:32 am
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| SANAA (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Yemen reopened on Tuesday, an embassy official said, a day after Yemeni forces killed two al Qaeda militants they said were behind a threat that forced U.S. and European missions to close. |
| Democrats in final push on U.S. healthcare overhaul
January 5, 2010 at 1:06 am
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A final push to deliver a sweeping U.S. healthcare overhaul to President Barack Obama begins this week as House of Representatives Democratic leaders prepare for difficult negotiations with the Senate. |
| Philippine massacre suspect pleads not guilty to murder
January 5, 2010 at 12:33 am
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| MANILA (Reuters) - The mayor of a small Philippine town, the main suspect in the November massacre of 57 people in the country's troubled south, pleaded not guilty to murder charges on Tuesday. |
| Report shows U.S. healthcare spending growth slows
January 5, 2010 at 12:26 am
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare spending rose at the lowest rate on record in 2008 due to the recession, but still reached $2.3 trillion and devoured 16.2 percent of the U.S. economy, government analysts said in a report on Tuesday. | | | 
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