New Orleans is building a new streetcar line in time to host the Super Bowl in February
NEW ORLEANS – With the Super Bowl less than three months away, New Orleans is rushing to lay streetcar tracks through one of its busiest corridors to connect by trolley the Louisiana Superdome and the French Quarter.
Egypt arrests fugitive linked to Red Sea bombings
Egyptian security officials said Monday they arrested an escaped convict who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in bombings at tourist resorts on the Red Sea that killed at least 125 people in 2004 and 2005.
Latin American women: better educated, but still underpaid
Latin American women are better educated than ever before. So why do they continue to earn far less than their male counterparts?
Italy arrests fisherman who supplied TNT for mafia bombings
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Italy on Monday arrested a fisherman for supplying more than a ton of TNT recovered from unexploded World War Two bombs to the mafia, which used them in a wave of bombings that killed 21 people two decades ago. Police arrested Cosimo D’Amato, 57, on the basis of testimony from turncoat Palermo mob boss Gaspare Spatuzza, who told investigators that he had helped collect the explosives at a port near Sicily’s capital in 1992. …
Saudi tells U.N. Iran trespassing on its territory: report
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of straying onto its territory near oil and gas fields in the Gulf and warned it was looking at how to respond, the Saudi ambassador to the United Nations said. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Saudi authorities said Iranian helicopters flew several times over a gas field at Hasba, Abdullah al-Mualimi was quoted as saying in the daily newspaper Okaz on Monday. The letter also said two Iranian navy boats intercepted a vessel belonging to state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco. …
Disaster tourists seek firsthand look at NY's storm-ravaged neighbourhoods, annoying some
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Garbage trucks, hulking military vehicles and mud-caked cars move slowly through a Staten Island waterfront neighbourhood still reeling from Superstorm Sandy’s storm surge. Then comes an outlier: a spotless SUV with three passengers peering out windows at a mangled home choked with sea grass.
Canada dollar firms, helped by Chinese data; bond market closed
TORONTO (Reuters) – The commodities-linked Canadian dollar firmed against the U.S. dollar on Monday after touching a three-month low in the previous session, tracking natural resource prices, which rose on the back of encouraging data out of China. Chinese industrial output, exports and retail sales all beat expectations in October, while inflation eased more than expected. The news gave copper prices a boost, while recent data showing China’s implied oil demand surged last month offered support for crude oil prices. …
Monday, November 12, 2012
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