Health Older people feel more youthful when they also feel in controlReuters - By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) - Older adults may feel younger than their age on days when they feel most in control of their lives, a small study suggests. People who believe they can influence the outcomes and events
Khalifa Haftar White House says Trump spoke to Libyan commander Haftar on MondayReuters - Reuters EditorialFILE PHOTO: Khalifa Haftar, the military commander who dominates eastern Libya, arrives to attend an international conference on Libya at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 29, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe
Montenegro Montenegrin authorities seize drugs on navy training shipReuters - by Aleksandar VasovicPODGORICA (Reuters) - Montenegrin military police have seized around 50 kilograms of drugs on board a naval training ship, hours before it was scheduled to take students on a training cruise, the defence
Business U.S. housing starts approach two-year low; permits weakReuters - By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. homebuilding dropped to a near two-year low in March, pulled down by persistent weakness in the single-family housing segment, suggesting the housing market continued to struggle
Imran Khan Pakistan PM hints at further cabinet changes after 'batting order' shuffleReuters - By Saad SayeedISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that he would not hesitate to make more changes to his cabinet if required a day after a major reshuffle that saw the appointment
Christophe Castaner French interior minister warns of yellow-vest riots on SaturdayReuters - by Danielle RouquiéPARIS (Reuters) - The French interior minister warned on Friday that violence could flare up on the 23rd Saturday of yellow-vest protests, as authorities banned marches around the fire-gutted Notre-Dame
Ukraine Ukraine PrivatBank court ruling excludes parties related to ex-owners: central bankReuters - by Natalia ZinetsKIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian court ruling that the nationalization of the country's largest bank, PrivatBank, was illegal also said that parties related to the bank's former owners should be excluded the
South Sudan More protesters flood Sudan's sit-in to demand civilian ruleReuters - By Michael Georgy and Khalid AbdelazizKhartoum (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters demanding an end to military rule flocked to the sit-in outside Sudan's Defence Ministry on Friday, in the biggest turnout in the center of the capital since
Philippines Filipino devotees nailed to crosses to re-enact crucifixionReuters - By Ronn BautistaCUTUD, Philippines (Reuters) - Hundreds of tourists watched in shock as actors dressed as Roman soldiers hammered four-inch nails through the hands and feet of a Filipino into a wooden cross for the 33rd
Fiat Chrysler Fiat Chrysler recalls 320,000 Dart cars that could roll awayReuters - By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said Friday it is recalling more than 320,000 Dodge Dart compact cars in North America that could roll away because of a defective part that could allow
Mueller Report Democrats issue legal demand to see all of Mueller's Russia probe evidenceReuters - By Doina Chiacu and David MorganWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats on Friday took a legal step to see all of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's evidence from his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election,
Mali Mali struggles to disarm ethnic militia suspected of massacreReuters - By Aaron RossDAKAR (Reuters) - Shortly after rolling into the central Malian town of Koro to detain a leader of an ethnic militia suspected of massacring about 160 villagers, a pickup truck of army soldiers was swarmed
Jamal Khashoggi Turkey arrests suspected spies for UAE, investigating Khashoggi linkReuters - By Orhan CoskunANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has arrested two suspects who confessed to spying on Arab nationals for the United Arab Emirates, and is investigating whether the arrival in Turkey of one of them was related
Madeira Doctors assessing when Madeira bus crash survivors can fly home to GermanyReuters - By Miguel Pereira and Rafael MarchanteCANICO, Portugal (Reuters) - Doctors from Germany are working with a Portuguese medical team to evaluate when the German tourists who survived a fatal bus crash on the island of Madeira can be transferred
Environment Eni, Fincantieri, Terna and CDP team up to build wave power stationsReutersMILAN (Reuters) - Italian oil group Eni is joining forces with shipbuilder Fincantieri, power grid group Terna and state lender CDP to develop wave power stations. The agreement aims to transform a pilot
Business Mir card payment system looks beyond RussiaReuters - By Tatiana Voronova and Gabrielle Tétrault-FarberMOSCOW (Reuters) - After Western sanctions gutted Russia's financial system five years ago, a new bank card began appearing in the wallets of many Russians. Now the country is hoping to introduce its known
South Africa Thirteen dead in South Africa after church wall collapsesReuters - by Mfuneko ToyanaJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed in a south-eastern province of South Africa during an Easter service after a church wall collapsed on them late on Thursday following days of heavy
Sports Athletics: Radcliffe warns Semenya verdict could be death of women's sportReuters - by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru(Reuters) - British former marathon runner Paula Radcliffe believes the verdict of a legal case involving Olympic champion Caster Semenya could open the door for transgender athletes to claim an unfair
Thailand Thai king confers awards on two Australian divers for rescue of cave boysReuters - by Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat ThepgumpanatBANGKOK (Reuters) - Two Australian cave divers who were instrumental in the rescue last year of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave received on Friday a royal honor from King Maha in
Algeria Hundreds of thousands back on Algeria's streets, demanding radical reformReuters - By Lamine Chikhi and Hamid Ould AhmedALGIERS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to Algeria's streets on Friday to press demands for wholesale democratic change well beyond former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's chanting
Netherlands Dutch tulip forecast: brilliant, with a chance of touristsReuters - by Toby SterlingAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - As spring flower fields around the Netherlands burst into bloom, painting the countryside with dazzling swathes of red, white, and blue, a modern day tulip bubble may be forming:
Politics Supreme Court girds for fight over Trump census citizenship questionReuters - By Andrew ChungNEW YORK (Reuters) - Sitting on a working-class commercial strip in the shadows of an above-ground rail line, a group called Make the Road New York's busy street-level offices are easy to miss. But its
William Barr Barr releases Mueller's report - and feels the heatReuters - By Andy SullivanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General William Barr could have buried Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report deep in the recesses of the U.S. Justice Department and simply told the public that
China China says African swine fever found on Hainan islandReuters - by Dominique PattonBEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday that it had confirmed outbreaks of African swine fever in two locations in Hainan province, an island off the country's southern coast which it had hoped to keep
Olaf Scholz Scholz rules out new debt to stimulate Germany's slowing economyReuters - by Joseph NasrBERLIN (Reuters) - Finance Minister Olaf Scholz ruled out taking on new debt to stimulate Germany's slowing economy and blamed anemic growth this year on external factors like unresolved trade disputes
Egypt Explainer: Egypt votes on changing its constitutionReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt holds a three-day referendum from Saturday on constitutional amendments that could allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in office until 2030. Parliament this week overwhelmingly
Mao Zedong From Mao to Beckham, Chinese barber turns heads with his scalp sculpturesReuters - By Xihao Jiang and Martin Quin PollardSHAOXING, China (Reuters) - Wang Jianfeng is no ordinary barber. The 39-year-old from Shaoxing in eastern China specializes in sculpting images of famous faces on to the backs of his clients' heads. From
SMOG China's top steelmaking city Tangshan issues second-level smog alert from April 20Reuters - by Muyu Xu and Dominique PattonBEIJING (Reuters) - China's top steelmaking city of Tangshan in Hebei province issued a second-level pollution alert on Friday in response to a wave of smog expected to blanket the region, the local government
Narendra Modi Congress spokeswoman quits in middle of Indian election, joins BJP allyReuters - By Abhirup RoyMUMBAI (Reuters) - A spokeswoman for India's main opposition Congress party quit on Friday and joined a group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party, complaining that misbehavior toward
Business Return of the bench seat: Concept EVs show space big enough for sofasReutersFILE PHOTO: A designer presents an Audi AI:me concept car during an unveiling event in Shanghai, China April 15, 2019. REUTERS/Norihiko Shirouzu/File Photo FILE PHOTO: An Infiniti Qs Inspiration concept
