Actor Liam Neeson poses before a news conference to promote his movie, ''Taken 2'' in Seoul September 17, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Kim Hong-JiLOS ANGELES | Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:06pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Liam Neeson thriller "Taken 2" won a battle

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talks at the Economic Club of Indiana in Indianapolis October 1, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Brent SmithTOKYO | Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:03pm EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Sunday said it

1 of 5. A man clicks his nails as he looks at an electronic board displaying share prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo September 20, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Yuriko NakaoTOKYO | Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:54pm EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares fell on Monday

Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:54pm EDT n">(Reuters) - Television host and actor Gary Collins died early on Saturday in Biloxi, Mississippi, of natural causes at the age of 74, according to the local coroner's office.Collins was admitted to the Biloxi Regional

1 of 6. People walk in front of a logo of Softbank Corp at its branch in Tokyo, in this file picture taken March 2, 2011. Japan's Softbank Corp said on October 12, 2012 that it is in talks with Sprint Nextel Corp about investing in the U.S. telecoms

Hakan Tale (R), listens to Joseph Sant, a lawyer at Staten Island Legal Services, as Sant explains the latest round of paper work from Chase Bank regarding a denied loan modification application for Tale's mortgage, in Staten Island, New York, December

A ''Price Reduced'' sign is displayed on a home for sale in northern Virginia suburb of Vienna, outside Washington, October 27, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Larry DowningNEW YORK | Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:57am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - For Scott Laperruque, every

The letter ''B'' of the signage on the Barclays headquarters in Canary Wharf is hoisted up the side of the building in London July 20, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Simon NewmanLONDON | Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:24pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Home owners have filed

Visitors look at Gerhard Richter's ''Abstraktes Bild (809-4) from 1994 which has an estimated value of £9 to £12 million (US$14.1-$18.8 million) at Sotheby's London October 8, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Suzanne PlunkettLONDON | Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:54am EDT

LISBON | Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:02pm EDT LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's center-right government presents its 2013 budget on Monday, which will outline the harshest measures yet under Lisbon's 78-billion-euro bailout and is likely to mark the end of the country's

LONDON | Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:55pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Scandinavian DJ group Swedish House Mafia piped Adele's Bond movie song "Skyfall" to the top of the singles chart this week, while London-based folk band Mumford And Sons nudged up one place to

Bruce Springsteen performs with the E Street Band during a concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey, September 19, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Lucas JacksonWILLIAMSBURG, Virginia | Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:55pm EDT WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican Mitt

LOS ANGELES | Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:30pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Brad Pitt has thrown his weight behind a documentary that blasts America's 40-year war on drugs as a failure, calling policies that imprison huge numbers of drug-users a "charade" in urgent

JERUSALEM | Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:18am EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A collection of yet unseen Franz Kafka writings, stashed for four decades in a Tel Aviv apartment, will be made public and transferred to Israel's national library, according to an Israeli

BEIJING | Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:37pm EDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's annual consumer price inflation ticked down to 1.9 percent in September from August's 2.0 percent, official data showed on Monday, leaving plenty of room for further policy easing to

An Air Asia Airbus A320-200 aircraft approaches its parking space at the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur March 21, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Tim ChongKUALA LUMPUR | Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:29pm EDT KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -

WELLINGTON | Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:20pm EDT WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand will go ahead with its first partial sale of a state power company early next year after rejecting the idea of special concessions for indigenous people, the prime minister

n">(Reuters) - Realogy's IPO last week was one of the biggest smashes of the year. Only Facebook Inc and Santander Mexico Financial Group were bigger.The IPO, with shares soaring 22 percent during the company's market debut, was a bet on the housing

1 of 2. Johnathan Roberts, operations manager of S.D. Standard Drilling Plc., poses for photo on an oil drilling rig being built at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore October 12, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Tim ChongSINGAPORE | Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:34pm

NEW YORK | Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:02pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge funds and other big speculators piled into the rallying gold and natural gas markets for a second week running, taking the net long money in U.S. commodities up by nearly $1 billion, trade

By Michael Erman and Tom HalsSat Oct 13, 2012 12:45pm EDT n">(Reuters) - Shareholder lawyers may have embarrassed just about every top executive in the U.S. private equity industry with allegations of a wide conspiracy to rig deal prices during last

NEW YORK | Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:47pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge funds and other big speculators piled into the rallying gold and natural gas markets for a second week running, taking the net long money in U.S. commodities up by nearly $1 billion, trade

The Google logo is seen as Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at a promotional event for the Nexus 7 tablet in Seoul September 27, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Kim Hong-JiWASHINGTON | Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:32pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The majority

1 of 4. Trader Fred Demarco works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, October 12, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermidNEW YORK | Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:12pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks wrapped up their worst week in four months, led lower

An elderly man walks with his cane amid shoppers at the Glendale Galleria shopping mall on Black Friday in Glendale, California November 28, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Fred ProuserCHICAGO | Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:18am EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Last October seniors