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  1. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a keynote speech during the Labour Party National Policy Forum in Coventry, central England July 25, 2008. (Darren Staples/Reuters)
    Bitter blow for UK's Brown in local election loss Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 6:35 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    GLASGOW (Reuters) - Britain's ruling Labour Party lost one of its safest parliamentary seats on Friday, deepening doubts in its own ranks about Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ability to win the next election.

  2. A couple watches the sun set at Kuta beach on Bali October 3, 2005. (Luis Ascui/Reuters)
    Immature, insensitive, sex-mad? Not us, say men Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 7:22 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    SYDNEY, July 24 (Reuters Life!) - Young, single men are fed up with being typecast as immature, insensitive and sex-obsessed, with a survey finding that the majority believe in having a soul mate, aren't scared of commitment, and say real men can cry.

  3. How one vet's persistence paid off The Christian Science Monitor - Wed Jul 23, 4:00 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    It was an average-looking letter that landed in Paul Weaver's mailbox. But bearing news that his veteran's disability benefits had been stopped, it felt more like a ton of crashing bricks.

  4. Australian pilot Captain John Francis Barters (R) looks at the damage to a Qantas Airways plane after it made an emergency landing at the Manila International airport July 25, 2008. (Handout/Reuters)
    Holed Qantas plane in emergency landing at Manila Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 4:45 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    MANILA (Reuters) - A Qantas Airways plane made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after part of its undercarriage blew off, triggering a loss in cabin pressure during a flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne.

  5. Men destroy opium poppies during a poppy eradication campaign in the eastern province of Ningarhar April 9, 2007. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
    Ex U.S. official: Afghan leader shields drug trade Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 11:14 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's former point man in the fight against the heroin trade in Afghanistan has accused Afghan President Hamid Karzai of obstructing counter-narcotics efforts and protecting drug lords.

  6. Actor Christian Bale as Batman is shown in a scene from director Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" in this undated publicity photo released to Reuters July 18, 2008. REUTERS/Warner Bros. Pictures/Handout
    Superhero fans, Hollywood execs flock to Comic-Con Reuters - Wed Jul 23, 12:35 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Like wannabe Dark Knights answering the call of the "bat signal," throngs of grown men wearing tights and capes converge this week to revel in all manner of superhero lore and merchandising at the 39th annual Comic-Con Convention.

  7. An oil rig south of town extracts crude on July 21, 2008 in Taft, California.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)
    Fuel cost now driving up electric bills The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Jul 25, 4:00 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    New York - Rising energy prices are now squeezing consumers from a different direction: their utility bills.

  8. People look at the site of an explosion in Ahmadabad, India, Saturday, July 26, 2008. A series of small explosions hit the western Indian city of Ahmadabad on Saturday, a day after seven similar blasts struck another city in the south. There were no immediate reports of deaths in Saturday's explosions.(AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
    Sixteen bombs hit India's Ahmedabad, 29 killed Reuters - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.3

    AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 16 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 88, a day after another set of blasts in the country's IT hub, officials said.

  9. Maher Arar pauses during a news conference in Ottawa January 26, 2007. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
    U.S. rejects outside probe of Canadian sent to Syria Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 5:48 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday he had rejected a request from lawmakers that an outside special counsel investigate the case of a Canadian taken off a plane in New York and sent to Syria, where he says he was tortured.

  10. Housing developments lie unfinished on the outskirts of Sacramento July 22, 2008. (Max Whittaker/Reuters)
    U.S. house prices overvalued by up to 20 percent: IMF paper Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 5:52 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The downward spiral of U.S. housing prices still has a way to go and homes were overvalued by between 8 percent to 20 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to research by an International Monetary Fund economist published on Friday.

  11. A row of new Chrysler Jeep Commander SUVs are seen at a dealership in Silver Spring, Maryland, July 1, 2008. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
    Chrysler financial arm to stop leasing vehicles Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 7:33 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC said its financing arm would stop offering vehicle leases to U.S. consumers, a sharp break in strategy in response to tighter credit and the plunging resale prices for gas-guzzling trucks.

  12. McCain Campaign Explores 'Obama Love' U.S. News & World Report - Tue Jul 22, 4:30 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    John McCain's campaign today took a page from former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's playbook and launched a Web ad that mocks what both camps have characterized as the media's swoon over presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama.

  13. A bank employee posts a notice that 1st National Bank of Nevada is in FDIC receivership on Friday, July 25, 2008, after federal regulators closed the bank in Carson City, Nev. Twenty-eight branches of 1st National Bank of Nevada and First Heritage Bank, operating in Nevada, Arizona and California, were closed Friday by federal regulators. (AP Photo/Nevada Appeal, Brad Horn)
    U.S. regulators seize two more banks, engineer sale Reuters - Sat Jul 26, 12:08 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators took over two banks on Friday and sold them to Mutual of Omaha Bank, the sixth and seventh bank failures this year as financial institutions struggle with a housing bust and credit crunch.

  14. Actor Kelsey Grammer, star of the film 'Swing Vote', poses at the film's premiere in Hollywood, California July 24, 2008. Grammer suffered a heart attack almost two months ago in Hawaii. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)
    Kelsey Grammer nearly died after heart attack Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 1:08 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television star Kelsey Grammer, best known from "Cheers" and his sitcom "Frasier," nearly died after suffering a heart attack last month, he told U.S. showbiz news program "Entertainment Tonight."

  15. Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger performs during a concert on the band's 'A Bigger Bang' European Tour in Warsaw July 25, 2007. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
    Mick Jagger defies years as he hits pension age Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 3:10 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    LONDON (Reuters) - Starting on Saturday, Mick Jagger will be entitled to a basic state pension of just under $180 a week.

  16. A city locked out of its own data network The Christian Science Monitor - Wed Jul 23, 4:00 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    Oakland, Calif. - It sounds like a plot from Hollywood: A team of techies is busily trying to crack passwords to get access to parts of San Francisco's computer network. They are doing so at the direction of city officials, who have discovered that they are locked out of parts of their new multimillion-dollar system.

  17. The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington in this June 15, 2005 file photo. (Jason Reed/Files/Reuters)
    Pentagon auditors request probe after criticism Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 6:26 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The agency that audits Pentagon contracts said on Friday it had asked for an investigation into allegations that its supervisors pressured employees to alter audits in favor of contractors.

  18. In this May 2, 2007 file photo, the Fannie Mae building in Washington is seen. Rescue legislation sailed through the House Wednesday, July 23, 2008, aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and to prevent troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from collapsing. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)
    Rising costs of financial turmoil The Christian Science Monitor - Thu Jul 24, 4:00 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    Accountants for Congress this week put a $25 billion price tag on the federal rescue of two companies that anchor US mortgage markets, but that's just the tip of a potential iceberg of taxpayer costs for America's banking mess.

  19. An official handout picture shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a visit to the Natanz uranium enrichment facilities some 300 kms, south of Tehran earlier this year. Iran now has between 5,000 and 6,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges, Ahmadinejad has said, confirming that the country has expanded its contested nuclear work.(AFP/HO/File/Ho)
    Iran has up to 6,000 uranium centrifuges: Ahmadinejad AFP - Sat Jul 26, 7:50 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    TEHRAN (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Iran has boosted the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges to up to 6,000, in an expansion of its nuclear drive that defies international calls for a freeze.

  20. Muslim cleric Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, speaks to the media after leading prayers outside the North London Central Mosque in the Finsbury Park area of London, April 11, 2003. REUTERS/Matt Dunham
    Cleric Hamza loses bid to stop extradition to U.S. Reuters - Wed Jul 23, 6:47 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    LONDON (Reuters) - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri lost a legal bid on Wednesday to block his extradition from Britain to the United States where he is accused of trying to set up an al Qaeda camp and faces other terrorism charges.

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