2008-Jul-10 11:22
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia foiled a plot by leftist rebels to break hundreds of their captured fighters out of jail, days after Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other high-profile hostages were rescued from the guerrillas by state security forces, the government said on Thursday.


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2008-Jul-10 11:19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Policy-makers said on Thursday they were doing everything possible to restore calm to financial markets, but stressed to lawmakers that a longer-term regulatory overhaul was vital to avert future crises.


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2008-Jul-10 11:18
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations and the European Union sent experts on Thursday to the Philippines to assess the capsize of a ferry last month with large quantities of a highly toxic chemical on board, a U.N. spokeswoman said.


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2008-Jul-10 11:15
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran tested more missiles in the Gulf on Thursday, state media said, and the United States reminded Tehran that it was ready to defend its allies.


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2008-Jul-10 11:15
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran tested more missiles in the Gulf on Thursday, state media said, and the United States reminded Tehran that it was ready to defend its allies.


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2008-Jul-10 11:11
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush signed a law on Thursday overhauling rules for eavesdropping on terrorism suspects but immediately faced a civil liberties challenge calling it a threat to Americans' privacy.


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2008-Jul-10 11:10
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it would seek to push a nuclear trade deal with India past international and domestic hurdles with time running out before a deadline set by U.S. elections in November.


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2008-Jul-10 11:10
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it would seek to push a nuclear trade deal with India past international and domestic hurdles with time running out before a deadline set by U.S. elections in November.


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2008-Jul-10 11:06
DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it would start building its Prius hybrid in the United States in 2010 and suspend production of slow-selling big trucks for three months in a sharp reversal of strategy forced by slumping sales and high gas prices.


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2008-Jul-10 10:57
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain raised $22 million for his White House bid in June and had nearly $27 million in the bank at the end of the month, campaign manager Rick Davis said on Thursday.


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2008-Jul-10 10:57
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Water systems serving about 30 percent of Americans are not giving them fluoridated water, six decades after fluoridation was started as a public health measure to prevent tooth decay, officials said on Thursday.


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2008-Jul-10 10:43
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - An accused September 11 conspirator told the U.S. military war court at Guantanamo on Thursday that he should have access to classified evidence against him, arguing that if he is executed the secrets will be safer than in the hands of the FBI or CIA.


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2008-Jul-10 10:38
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are inadvertently hurting the country's highway trust fund as they buy less gasoline in the face of increasingly rising prices, the director of the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday.


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2008-Jul-10 10:26
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - Insurer Allstate Corp will have to lower their rates on California homeowner policies by 28.5 percent making an estimated $255 million in annual savings for consumers, the state's insurance commissioner said on Thursday.


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2008-Jul-10 10:18
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The American Medical Association, the largest physicians' group in the United States, apologized to black doctors on Thursday for a history of racial discrimination.


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2008-Jul-10 09:52
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Frenchman pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Thursday to charges of conspiring to transport artwork stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Nice, including a painting by French impressionist Claude Monet.


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2008-Jul-10 09:49
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan pledged on Thursday to boost ties with Iraq and urged the region to do more to help the Baghdad government rebuild after years of war.


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2008-Jul-10 09:49
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan pledged on Thursday to boost ties with Iraq and urged the region to do more to help the Baghdad government rebuild after years of war.


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2008-Jul-10 09:37
BEIJING (Reuters) - Nuclear negotiators began hammering out procedures to check North Korea's account of its nuclear programs on Thursday, with envoys describing the talks as helpful but far from conclusive.


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2008-Jul-10 09:35
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas arrested three Palestinians who fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a militant faction said, in the first such detentions since the Islamist group and Israel agreed a truce last month.


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