Volvo Cars North America has picked Los Angeles-based professional and technical services firm AECOM to build the carmaker’s $500 million manufacturing campus in Berkeley County, the construction firm announced Monday.
BAGSHOT, England, Oct 13 (Reuters) - South Africa's players are enjoying the quiet surroundings of Pennyhill Park in the build-up to their Rugby World Cup quarter-final against Wales on Saturday, benefitting from the millions of pounds sunk into the England rugby team's training base.
(Reuters) - Intel Corp cut revenue growth forecast for its highly profitable business of making chips for data centers as businesses reduce spending due to weak macroeconomic growth.
LONDON (Reuters) - Marlon James became the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker fiction prize on Tuesday for "A Brief History of Seven Killings", inspired by an attempt to kill reggae star Bob Marley, and said he hoped more Caribbean writers will follow.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands failed to reach the European Championship for the first time since 1984 as they lost 3-2 at home to the 10-man Czech Republic in their final qualifier on Tuesday to miss out on Euro 2016. The Dutch, third at last year's World Cup in Brazil, saw their hopes of a dramatic rescue act in the campaign evaporate as they conceded two first-half goals.
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A pilot crash-landed a small airplane on an Idaho freeway during the morning rush hour on Tuesday after he ran out of gas and forgot to switch to a back-up fuel tank, authorities said.
SYDNEY, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Australian shares were poised to fall for a third straight session on Wednesday on worries about slowing growth in China and nerves ahead of U.S. earnings season. The share price index futures fell 0.6 percent overnight to 5,161 points, sitting at a 41.9-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index. The benchmark dropped 0.6 percent on Tuesday, receding further away from a recent six-week high. Investors will watch Treasury Wines after it agreed to buy th
One of Steve Spurrier’s many talents as South Carolina’s football coach was his knack for catching opponents off guard. He managed to do the same thing with Gamecock fans Monday night when word leaked out that Spurrier was resigning after a disappointing 2-4 start to the 2015 season.
LOS ANGELES — Playboy is about to find out how many people really do read it for the articles.
* Westpac shares on trading halt; down 8 pct YTD (Recasts; adds analyst comment, industry context)
(Reuters) - Chipmaker Micron Technology Inc and hard disk drive maker Western Digital Corp are in talks with memory chip maker SanDisk Corp about a possible acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The tiny island nation of the Comoros and conflict-riven Chad both unexpectedly advanced to the second round of Africa's World Cup preliminaries with away goal triumphs in qualifying matches on Tuesday.
France is looking to sell new ships to Russia in the future despite the cancellation of a controversial deal for two Mistral-class warships this year, French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday.
A flame-throwing candidate looking to oust longtime North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey — and who accuses the administration of nepotism and cronyism — has been barred from filing lawsuits in state courts and has been convicted of soliciting a prostitute.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ordered onetime rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight and comedian Katt Williams to stand trial on charges of robbing a paparazzi photographer of her camera.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted pressure from her own conservatives on Tuesday to tighten Germany's border controls and turn away refugees arriving via Austria, participants at a meeting of lawmakers said.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted pressure from her own conservatives on Tuesday to tighten Germany's border controls and turn away refugees arriving via Austria, participants at a meeting of lawmakers said.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Blasts detonated by three suicide bombers in the northeastern Nigeria city of Maiduguri killed at least seven people on Tuesday, the Red Cross and a vigilante group member said.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Blasts detonated by three suicide bombers in the northeastern Nigeria city of Maiduguri killed at least seven people on Tuesday, the Red Cross and a vigilante group member said.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Blasts detonated by three suicide bombers in the northeastern Nigeria city of Maiduguri killed at least seven people on Tuesday, the Red Cross and a vigilante group member said.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Gunshots rang out in residential neighbourhoods of the Guinean capital Conakry on Tuesday following clashes between security forces and supporters of opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, who rejected Sunday's election, residents said.
LONDON (Reuters) - Argentina centre Marcelo Bosch will miss the Rugby World Cup quarter-final against Ireland after being handed a one-match ban, organisers said on Tuesday.
LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Argentina centre Marcelo Bosch will miss the Rugby World Cup quarter-final against Ireland after being handed a one-match ban, organisers said on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey and Croatia secured the last automatic spots at Euro 2016 in dramatic fashion on Tuesday but the Netherlands' qualifying campaign ended in failure with a home defeat by Czech Republic leaving them out of contention.
One of Japan's three remaining public bath painters keeps the century-old tradition alive, painting large Mount Fuji murals. Sharon Reich reports.